Vedran Ćorluka reviews2009

England ended day two 147 behind with eight wickets still in hand but the players couldn't even take to the field today due to raiottenham snapped up this Croatian international in the summer of 2008 after the tall and versatile defender was deemed surplus to requirements at Manchester City. He saw off competition from the likes of Alan Hutton and Pascal Chimbonda and at White Hart Lane and has become one of the mainstays of the back four.Off the conveyor belt of talent that is Dinamo Zagreb, Corluka can play at centre-back or right-back, even playing as a right wing-back. A few eyebrows were raised when former England manager Sven Goran Eriksson paid £8 million to take the relative unknown defender Eastlands in 2007 but he proved to be a quality performer, usually in the right-back roleHaving played for Croatia's Under-21 side, he was given his full international debut in a friendly with Italy in August 2006, going on to play in the rest of his country's matches throughout 2006/7. He was part of the Croatia side which sent England tumbling out of Euro 2008 and played in every single match at the tournament before the Vatreni lost to Turkey on penalties in the quarter-finals.Spurs manager Harry Redknapp is expected to have five senior centre-backs ruled out for thclub's first ever Champions League game at White Hart LanRedknapp confirmed on Saturday that William Gallas would be sidelined for three weeks after damaging a thigh muscle in training last Friday, while Ledley King is also a doubt with a groin injury.Gallas and King join Michael Dawson (knee and ankle) and Younes Kaboul (calf) on the sidelines, while Jonathan Woodgate has been out for nearly a year with a groin probleTom Huddlestone could be asked to drop back if the injury crisis were to worsen, but Redknapp has allowed defender Steven Caulker to join Bristol City on a season-long loan, although the 18-year-old has played only one first-team match for Spurs Tuesday's defeat against Arsenal.

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Johan Djourou believes it is man, not in the shoes of Kolo Toure at Arsenal. It’s just under five years since the Swiss defender made his debut and, slowly but surely, the path to regular first-team football has clearedSol Campbell, Pascal Cygan and now Toure have left the Club while Philippe Senderos appears to have slipped behind Djourou in the pecking order. Rumours persist that Arsène Wenger may add to his defensive options before the end of August but Djourou – a regular throughout pre-season – wants a chance to stake his claim at the heart of the Arsenal back fourNo arguments from me on this point, I am an Arsenal fan by birth but the team spirit is what makes me love the club, we’ve always had it and I think the team spirit within the current squad has really been flourishing this season. Bendtner and Denilson’s joyful celebrations of the goals at Bolton are a good example. It’s great to see and I hope it continues.
Not that contracts seem to mean a huge deal in football these days, but it is encouraging to see the promising young defender pledge his future to the club. Djourou has shown him self to be an excellent prospect, I would expect him to get quite a few games this year – Especially as the partnership between Gallas and Toure doesn’t exactly look rock-solid. Infact you could say that the Arsenal back-line might work better with Djourou in there in place of Toure.Aside from the Djourou news, Wenger has had a little pop both at the big spenders and the doubters of the club :When you are not on the transfer market you are a little bit ignored at the start of the season because the attention is focused on the big signings, most of the time, big signings mean you are favourites.We have gone a different way. We are trying to build a young side with a cohesive way to play the game with a culture of football we likeWe were close last year so there is no reason why we should not be in there again this seasonToday we had Denilson 20, Fabregas 21, Bendtner 20, Walcott 19, Song 20. When those players fight for the title one year you can hope they will be better the next year.
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Takayuki Morimoto top6

The Blue Samurai really handed it to a depleted Scotland side in an unsurprising fashion. Scotland came out with mainly untested players with several finding their first footing on the pitch for the senior national side. Japan also played the debut of a couple members: center back Daiki Iwamasa of J. League side Kashima Antlers, and of course the much anticipated first showing of Catania Calcio striker Takayuki Morimoto (below). Both played well, but Morimoto, who entered the match in the 56th minute proved to be the game changer. Morimoto did not score either of the two goals, but one could argue that bothThe Blue Samurai really handed it to a depleted Scotland side in an unsurprising fashion. Scotland came out with mainly untested players with several finding their first footing on the pitch for the senior national side. Japan also played the debut of a couple members: center back Daiki Iwamasa of J. League side Kashima Antlers, and of course the much anticipated first showing of Catania Calcio striker Takayuki Morimoto (below). Both played well, but Morimoto, who entered the match in the 56th minute proved to be the game changer. Morimoto did not score either of the two goals, but one could argue that bothe "Japanese Ronaldo," or "Sushi Bomber 2.0;" call him what you will, but I prefer to think of him as "The Future." He's Takayuki Morimoto, the 21 year old center forward for Calcio Catania. Fans of the J. League will know Morimoto well. He made his professional debut with Tokyo Verdy when he was only 15. He was awarded the Rookie of the Year Award, and made his claim to fame as the youngest ever to score in the J. League. His J. League stint was cut short when in 2006 he was sent on loan to Catania, and became one of the rare ... Read Full StorAll over Japan, millions of people are shedding tears over their tatami mats. No, the tuna (maguro) population has not become extinct. Thank goodness, I mean could you imagine? But Calcio Catania striker Takayuki Morimoto has pulled out of this weekend's friendly against the Netherlands and the Sept. 9 match against Ghana. Morimoto has been billed by this blogger as "The Future," and was set to make his senior squad debut. It is my opinion, and that of other many other football fans, that Morimoto far exceeds any other Japanese striking talent. If football prowess were based on distance from my house, Morimoto
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Parma FC UC Sampdoria Serie best

Samp will put everything in stake in order to win the battle that might give them the fourth place in the Serie A – meaning the last ticket to the Champions League, and they are really in a great form at the moment.Dispirited, disappointed, and sad, the Rossoneri will go to Genoa when they know that only a miracle would see them lifting the Serie A title at the end of the season, after several of bad results, combined with very bad form.Cassano is the best of Sampdoria. The 27-year-old has scored 9 goals this term, right, seven goals less than Giampaolo Pazzini has – the top goalscorer of Samp, but he’s now in a great form, showing all he’s gotThe dream is very much clear – a final space in the Champions League and the Blucerchiati will play to get the goal that can turn their dream into reality. Against such a shaky Milan defense, Samp shouldn’t have problemsThe fifth sitters have 54 points, and they are always in superb performance in front of their own crowd – they have not been beaten at home this term, as beating 10 times at Stadio Luigi Ferraris and drawing six timesNEWS: Castellazzi and Pozzi are out. Gastaldello is suspended. too, except for the last five minutes, when Milan put everything in stake and tried to wonKlaas-Jan Huntelaar & Ronaldinho functioned as wingers, but the Dutch & the Brazilian players could do nothing as ‘Dinho’s latest bad form has continued. However, Borriello was there to save some lost honor.Milan are out of the Scudetto race and if such thing could get an official approval than it would get now. Only a series of unrealistic results would see them in the first sit of the Serie A at the end of the season.Leonardo’s men are third with 66 points, four behind Inter and five behind leaders Roma. il Diavolo are fine away – eight wins, five draws and three lossesBeating Sampdoria away wouldn’t be easy at all, and the shaky form Milan performed of late, especially in defense, will probably cost them a lot in this match.NEWS: Onyewu, Nesta, Favalli, Beckham and Pato are injured. Pirlo is suspended. UC Sampdoria and Stefano Morrone of Parma FC compete for the ball during the Serie A match between UC Sampdoria and FC Parma at Stadio Luigi Ferraris on October 4, 2009 in Gen
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M S Dhoni new top

An Article published in “Wisden Cricketer”, Feb 2009 Edition, UK.There is this remarkable photograph of a police jeep. You cannot see all of it. You can see the roof and the windshield but the rest is buried in people. Some 2,000 of them have surrounded the vehicle. They have clambered on to the balconies of adjoining buildings. Seen black-and-white in the newspaper, the photo – the futile bereted policemen with lathis, the hundreds of black-haired heads in animation – has the feel of a riot.In fact, it was that Mahendra Singh Dhoni, sensation of India, had been at a salon for a haircut in his hometown of Ranchi in Jharkhand. Word spread. There was a girls’ college nearby. After four hours he had to be extricated by the police.
ahendra Singh (MS) Dhoni pronunciation (born July 7, 1981 in Ranchi, Jharkhand) is an Indian cricketer. He is an aggressive right-handed batsman and wicketkeeper. He is currently ranked number four in the official ICC cricket rankings for batsmen in Limited over internationals.He was picked to play for the Indian cricket team in December 2004 and has been a regular member of the Indian one-day international team since then. His success in the limited overs format has also secured him a Test spot, and he is rapidly becoming one of the most famous & marketable icons in India, noted for his shoulder length hair.Dhoni (affectionately known as Mahi), made his debut for Jharkhand in the 1999-2000 season as an eighteen year old. He started off his career with modest performances at the local level. He was noticed by the national team selectors in 2004 after his performances in first class tournaments such as the Deodhar Trophy and the Duleep Trophy. Dhoni was selected to represent India ‘A’ on a tour of Kenya and hisperformances were good enough to win him selection in the Indian national team, making his one-day international debut against Bangladesh in Chittagong in December of that year.Dhoni’s best performance for India thus far was an unbeaten score of off balls against Sri Lanka at Jaipur on October 2005, equalling the second best score by an Indian in ODIs. It was also the highest innings recorded by a wicket-keeper, and the highest number of sixes in an innings for a wicketkeeper with ten all-rounders Sanath Jayasuriya and Shahid Afridi have hit . He also broke Saeed Anwar’s record of most runs scored off boundaries by scoring a total of 120 runs off 4s and 6s eclipsing the previous record of 118. [1] This has broken the record for the highest individual score for a team batting second. This has also established the newIndian record of number of sixes in a match, overtaking previous record holders, Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly (both hit seven 6′s in a match). Earlier, in 2005 he scored 148 against Pakistan in Vishakapatnam, in his fifth one-dayinternational; the score came off only 123 deliverieAt the end of the year Dhoni was rewarded a BCCI contract, starting with a B-grade contractDhoni’s current batting average in ODIs is just over 50 (as of April 2006), the highest by any Indian player with more than 20 innings. With a career ODI batting strike rate of more than 100 he remains the only batsman with the unique double of a 50+ average scored at more
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Michael Bradley best 6

Michael Bradley of USA battles with Ramires of Brazil during the FIFA Confederations Cup match between USA and Brasil at Loftus Versfeld Stadium on June 18, 2009 in Pretoria, South Africa.USA midfielder Michael Bradley is on the verge of signing with English club Everton, according to The New Football Pools. The site claims that Aston Villa are also interested in the American yellow carMichael Bradley has agreed to terms with Borussia Moenchengladbach after the German club agreed to a transfer with Dutch club Heerenveen on Saturday, New York-based agent Ron Waxman confirmed with SBI this morning. Bradley and Moenchengladbach agreed to terms on Sunday morning. The amount of the transfer has not been disclosed.Bradley had been linked to a variety of European clubs, including Hamburg, Middlesbrough, Newcastle and AS Monaco, but Monchengladbach swooped in with a late move for the 21-year-old central midfielder.Bradley leaves Heerenveen after two seasons following a $100,000 transfer from the New York Red Bulls following the 2005 MLS season. According to sources with knowledge of that transfer, MLS is due to receive twenty percent of the fee Heerenveen received from Moenchengladbah. That also means the Red Bulls are due to receive a portion of that -promoted Bundesliga squad that features Canadian striker Rob Friend, who was Bradley's teammate at Heerenveen during the
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jelena dokic PICS

To suggest Dokic might even be favourite to reach the quarter-finals of a grand slam even for the first time since the 2002 French Open seems preposterous given her limited preparation and troubled times. But, after back-to-back victories over 17th seed Anna Chakvetadze and 11th seed Wozniacki, few bookmakers will risk the repatriated Australian again.
Particularly given the way she bludgeoned the highly-rated 18-year-old Wozniacki, a performance reminiscent of Dokic's great teenage triumphs. Back against the wall after losing the first set, and seemingly set to be dismissed by a younger, fitter opponent, she employed both the big shot-making and tough temperament that had seen her shock the world when she beat top seed Martina Hingis at Wimbledon as a 15-year-old qualifier in 1999 - the type of unerring tennis the world had been deprived by the breakdown that followed Dokic's estrangement from her controversial father Damir.Now, perversely, Dokic believes the meltdown that followed her teenage triumphs might be helping her return to the top. "I got on tour so early and having those few years off … I was really struggling with things," she said. "But I can now say I think I really matured and it might help me on the court to have those couple of years [of turmoil]."
While Dokic has spoken with unusual candour here about her father's role in her sad decline, after last night's victory she felt obliged to apologise for the times when she had not helped her own cause. "Sorry for being a pain," she said to a crowd who made it clear they did not feel she owed them anything more that the entertainment she had provided. "No," she continued. "I really made things difficult at times."The 26-year-old told the Sydney Morning Herald she was “pretty lucky to be here” after a tumultuous family life that saw her abandon Australia and then return after splitting with her father, a former boxer and Belgrade taxi driver.“I’ve been through a lot worse than anyone on the tour,” Dokic said. “When you go through stuff like that, playing a tennis match is a pretty easy thing to do.”Dokic, who is estranged from her father, represented Australia in the 2000 Sydney Olympics. She left her adopted country the following year to return to Serbia with Damir.Three years ago she was accepted back in Australia, and in January reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Open after being granted a wild-card entry.Dokic, a semi-finalist at Wimbledon in 2000, held the world no 4 ranking two years later.She was at no 31 in the most recent rankings.
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