Profile Andrea Dossena

Personal information :

Full name : Andrea Dossena
Date of birth : 11 September 1981
Place of birth : Lodi, Italy
Height : 5 ft 11.5 in (1.82 m)
Playing position : Left Back
Current club : Napoli
Number : 8
Senior career :
2001–2005 Verona
2005–2006 Treviso
2006–2008 Udinese
2008–2010 Liverpool
2010– Napoli
National team :
2000–2001 Italy U-20
2007– Italy

Club career

Udinese

Udinese signed him in 2006 in a co-ownership with Treviso, which became permanent in June 2007. He was given the number 2 jersey and made 63 appearances in the two seasons with Udinese, scoring 22 league goals along the way. In October 2007, he was awarded an improved contract which last until 30 June 2012.

Liverpool

On 4 July 2008, Liverpool confirmed the signing of Dossena on a four-year deal for an undisclosed fee, reported to be in the region of £7 million, becoming the second Italian to play for the club, behind Daniele Padelli. Dossena was signed as a direct replacement for John Arne Riise who left for Roma. On July 10, 2008, it was announced that Dossena would wear the number 2 shirt. His debut for Liverpool came on 16 August in the 1–0 Premier League win over Sunderland at the Stadium of Light. The start to his career at Liverpool was marked by poor form and he was unsatisfied with his performances, telling The Guardian: "I am not fully happy with my level. I must now get to a high level and maintain that, but first I have to battle to win selection. I am learning all the time". Dossena reinforced that he was committed to the club and explained that he was having difficulties adjusting because the pace of English football was significantly different from what he had experienced in Serie A. Despite his largely unimpressive performances, he received more opportunities to prove himself in the first team as Fábio Aurélio, Liverpool's favoured left back, suffered an injury in late November. He lost his first team slot with Aurelio's return from injury combined with the emergence of Emiliano Insúa. He scored his first goal for Liverpool on 10 March 2009 against Real Madrid in the UEFA Champions League after coming on as a substitute. He scored his first goal in the Premier League four days later, on 14 March in the 4-1 victory against Manchester United at Old Trafford. He scored both goals playing as an auxiliary left-winger as a late substitute in both games. In July 2009, Dossena's number 2 shirt was given to new signing Glen Johnson and he would wear number 38 shirt for the new season.

Napoli
On 8 January 2010, Dossena signed for S.S.C. Napoli in a four year contract and he was given the number eight shirt The fee quoted was €4.25 million and Andriy Voronin left on the same day. He made his debut for Napoli on 13 January 2010 in a Coppa Italia match against Juventus. His Serie A debut for Napoli came on 17 January 2010 in the 0–0 against Palermo at the San Paolo Stadium.

International career

Dossena played for the Italy U-20 team from 2000 to 2001, earning four caps. He made his first appearance for Italy in a friendly against South Africa on 17 October 2007. Dossena won his second international cap when he came on at half-time during Italy's 2–2 draw with Austria on 20 August 2008. He scored an own goal to put Italy 3–0 down against Brazil in a Confederations Cup match on 21 June 2009.

Profile Paolo Cannavaro

Personal information :

Full name : Paolo Cannavaro
Date of birth : June 26, 1981
Place of birth : Naples, Italy
Height : 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in)
Playing position : Centre back
Current club : Napoli
Number 28
Youth career :
1996–1998 Napoli
Senior career :
1998–1999 Napoli
1999–2006 Parma
2001–2002 Verona (loan)
2006– Napoli
National team :
2002–2004 Italy U-21

Club career

Cannavaro made his professional debut for his hometown side Napoli during the 1998–99 season in Serie A, while he was 17 years old. The following season he was signed by Parma, playing alongside his older brother Fabio Cannavaro in his first season at the club. In fact Paolo's debut for Parma came when he replaced his brother as a substitute in Parma's 4–1 victory against Lecce.
Verona took the player on loan during the 2001–02 season, Cannavaro turned out 25 times for the club, scoring his first professional goal. The successive year he returned to Parma where he spent much of the time as a substitute for the following two seasons (2002–2003, 2003–2004). During the 2004–2005 season, Cannavaro became more active in the first team at Parma, making 24 appearances scoring 4 goals from defence. As Napoli were promoted back into Serie B, and were building a squad with potential, Cannavaro was brought back to his first club, where he currently remains.

International career

As a youngster, Cannavaro played for Italy under-21 national football team. He has since followed in the steps of his brother by earning a call up for the Italian national senior team on October 13, 2007 against South Africa

Profile Christian Maggio

Personal information :

Full name : Christian Maggio
Date of birth : February 11, 1982
Place of birth : Montecchio Maggiore, Italy
Height : 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
Playing position : Right wingback , Right winger
Current club : Napoli
Number : 11
Youth career :
1997–2000 Vicenza
Senior career :
2000–2003 Vicenza
2003–2007 Fiorentina
2006 Treviso (loan)
2006–2007 Sampdoria (loan)
2007–2008 Sampdoria
2008– Napoli
National team :
2000–2001 Italy U-18
2000–2002 Italy U-20
2002 Italy U-21
2008– Italy

Career

Vicenza

Maggio began his career at Vicenza making his Serie A debut in the 2000–2001 season, finishing the campaign with six appearances. However, despite some success on a personal level, Vicenza were subsequently relegated to Serie B at the end of the season. Maggio stayed with Vicenza until 2003, making 38 appearances in total while managing to score just 1 goal.

Fiorentina

In 2003, Maggio signed for A.C.F. Fiorentina. Maggio did not appear for Fiorentina until they were promoted from Serie B for the 2004–2005 season. Overall, Maggio played 56 games for The Viola, scoring 2 goals over a 4 year period.

Sampdoria

However, it was not until Maggio signed for Sampdoria that he began to fulfill the potential he had shown when playing for Italy at youth level. Some very impressive performances during the 2007–2008 season resulted in nine goals from twenty-nine appearances. This brought him to the attention of many clubs in Italy and Europe and after feverent speculation in the Italian media, he signed for Napoli for a fee believed to be in the region of £10 million.

Napoli

During his time at Napoli he has continued to perform consistently which resulted in him making his senior international debut against Greece on November 19, 2008. His second appearance came nearly one year later on November 18, 2009 against Sweden. As both of these matches were frienlies, he is yet to make a competitive appearance at senior level. On the 24th of January 2009 Maggio scored a wonderful volley against Livorno. He took up a position near the corner of the penalty area as a long cross-field pass descended towards him. As this raking pass came across his body from his left shoulder he volleyed it first time, with great power, over the goalkeeper and the far top corner of the net. On December 6th 2010, Maggio scored a last second goal which saw Napoli three points in a 1-0 win over Palermo in the 94th minute.

Playing position

Maggio usually functions as a right midfielder/winger for Napoli since they play in a 3-5-2 formation. However he has played at right back for the majority of his career. Former Italy coach Roberto Donadoni has said that Maggio is the successor to Christian Panucci at right back. However since he started playing on the wing, his quality has improved and he is arguably better as a right winger rather than a right back considering his greatly improved attacking skills.

Profile Tommaso Rocchi

Personal information :

Full name : Tommaso Rocchi
Date of birth : September 19, 1977
Place of birth : Venice, Italy
Height : 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)
Playing position : Striker
Current club : Lazio
Number : 9
Youth career :
1994–1996 Juventus
Senior career :
1995–1996 Juventus
1996–1997 Pro Patria
1997 Fermana
1997–1998 Saronno
1998–2000 Como
2000–2001 Treviso
2001–2004 Empoli
2004– Lazio
National team :
2006–2007 Italy
2008 Olympic Italy

Career Club

Empoli

From Treviso, Rocchi transported towards Tuscany with Empoli, also within Serie B at the time. With Empoli, Rocchi made again hundred impressions, and scored a gross of 29 goals, 16 of which arrived within Serie A, whereas Rocchi had put within a number of respectable dramas during the 2002–03 and 2003–04 seasons. He scored a winner against Inter, onto January 18, 2004, and a week afterwards he scored a hattrick against original club Juventus within a 3–3 draw.

Lazio

Rocchi's former goal of the championship for Lazio arrived onto 22 September 2004 against Brescia at the Stadio Mario Rigamonti within a 2–0 win. His finest individial operation of the season was a hattrick against Lecce,[5] and Rocchi ended a successful debut season with 13 goals within 35 league appearances. He also scored twice within the UEFA Cup, his former impression within European competition. Most considerably however, Rocchi scored the third goal within a 3–1 Derby della Capitale victory, the former of these conflicts within which he played. It was during this moment that Rocchi began towards grow a partnership with teammate Paolo Di Canio. Often designing assists for each else, Rocchi and Di Canio had a nice correlation both onto and off the field. Di Canio deserted Lazio within 2006, deserting Rocchi as the principal star striker at the club. Rocchi also had a powerful partnership with Macedonian forward Goran Pandev. Often Pandev would play within the hollow rear Rocchi, but they were also able towards play up front together with a central attacking midfielder behind. Between them, they were Lazio's top goalscorers for three seasons consecutively. A positive 2005–06 season observed Rocchi score a personal greatest 16 league goals as Lazio ceased sixth, a site which was afterwards robbed away from them due towards the Calciopoli scandal. At former relegation towards Serie B was the verdict, but Lazio were soon reinstated towards the top flight. Beginning the 2006–07 season with an eleven-point deduction, a relegation battle appeared onto the cards for Lazio, and a slow activate did nothing towards assistance the situation. However, the team's form soon sweetened, and the deduction was decimated towards three, making a tilt at a UEFA Champions League site an unlikely yet possible goal. Rocchi backed up his 16 goal pull yet again, as Lazio ceased third and experienced for Europe's premier club competition. The 2007–08 season observed Rocchi earn his personal debut within the UEFA Champions League, whereas he scored a crucial successful goal against Werder Bremen. This season he ended the campaign with 14 Serie A goals. He spent much of the year as captain of Lazio, deputizing for the often stung Luciano Zauri. On February twenty, 2008, Rocchi redeveloped his contract, extending the import via five years. This contract extension would operate until 2013, and effectively ensure Rocchi would remain at the club for the remainder of his career.[8] On March 19, 2008, Rocchi scored his fourth goal within the Derby della Capitale within a 3–2 victory against A.S. Roma. From a personal perspective, 2008–09 was a destitute season for Rocchi.

After lacking the former two months of the season due towards an sting suffered whilst onto international obligation at the 2008 Beijing Games, Rocchi never reached his habitual goalscoring form, ceasing with just 9 for the season; his lowest tally within six years. However, the club won their fifth Coppa Italia title, defeating Sampdoria within a disadvantage shootout. Rocchi suffered the indignity of being the alone Lazio musician towards fail towards convert his dot kick. This season was also his former as the official team captain, as soon as the exodus of Zauri towards Fiorentina. Rocchi obtains the Coppa Italia prize from Giorgio Napolitano. At the end of the 2008–09 season, having made again 200 impressions within the Lazio shirt, and having scored 83 goals, Rocchi declared his target was towards collaborate an exclusive list of musicians towards possess scored hundred goals for the club. This mark had alone previously been reached via four musicians, Silvio Piola, Giuseppe Signori, Bruno Giordano and Giorgio Chinaglia. Rocchi decided towards distort his number 18 shirt for the number 9, which had previously been worn via everybody of those four, aside from Signori.

International career

Rocchi has portrayed Italy at youth grade numerous times.
In August 2006, consecutive Italy's fourth FIFA World Cup title, novel Azzurri boss Roberto Donadoni branded Rocchi up towards the squad as a award for his unheard of scoring file within Serie A. He made his debut against Croatia within the 2–0 loss at 29 years of age. Rocchi performed two many fits for the national team onto the route towards Euro 2008 but did not earn the squad for the final tournament. He was appointed as the alone overage musician within Pierluigi Casiraghi's Olympic team towards play at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. He scored against South Korea onto August 10 . He has obtained the calcionado (awarded for Serie A's excellent player) onto two occasions, within 2004 and 2007

Profile Stefano Mauri

Personal information :

Full name : Stefano Mauri
Date of birth : January 8, 1980
Place of birth : Monza, Italy
Height : 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in)
Playing position : Attacking midfielder
Current club : Lazio
Number : 6
Youth career :
Brugherio
Senior career :
1998–2001 Meda
2001–2003 Modena
2003–2004 Brescia
2004–2006 Udinese
2006– Lazio
National team :
2004– Italy

Club career

Mauri activated his career at 16 years of age with Brugherio. Two years afterwards he transported towards Meda, whereas he spent three years between Serie C2 and Serie D. In 2001, he attended Modena, and within September 2002, he made his Serie A debut within a 3–0 loss towards Milan. With the gialloblù, Mauri spent two nice seasons ahead of transporting onto towards Brescia. Here he performed another nice season presences with thirty impressions and seven goals. In 2004, he attended Udinese onto a co-ownership deal. He spent two seasons at the Stadio Friuli, yet forgotten his site as a frequent starter within the second season. In 2006, Mauri transported south towards Rome whereas he attended Lazio. He made his Biancoceleste debut within a Coppa Italia match against Inter and persisted towards establish himself as a frequent, becoming a key musician within a tall flying Lazio team. Manager Delio Rossi began towards consume him as a trequartista, rear Goran Pandev and Tommaso Rocchi, and he persisted towards gleam, being a protagonist within Lazio's qualification for the UEFA Champions League.

International career

Mauri made his international debut within November 2004 against Finland, and currently has ten caps towards his name. He has not been appointed as portion of a squad for any principal tournaments and has never portrayed Italy at youth level. Mauri has been branded up towards the national team for the Euro 2012 qulifiers against Northern Ireland and Sebia as soon as his great form and SS Lazio impressive activate towards Serie A. He has since been a frequent within the national team below Prandelli and his Lazio nice form has persisted across the Italy Vs Germany match within Feb.

Profile Cristian Ledesma

Personal information :

Full name : Cristian Daniel Ledesma
Date of birth : September 24, 1982
Place of birth : Moron, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Height : 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position : Central Midfielder
Current club : Lazio
Number : 24
Youth career :
1997-2001 Boca Juniors
Senior career :
2001-2006 Lecce
2006– Lazio
National team :
2010– Italy

Career

He spent his childhood within Puerto Madryn, within the province of Chubut, Argentina. He attended the youth system of top Argentine club Boca Juniors.

Lecce

In 2001 he was noticed via Lecce, whose sports manager Pantaleo Corvino decided towards fetch Ledesma towards Salento, whereas he immediately became a frequent within the team. At Lecce, despite being young, he was captain until November 2005.

Lazio

In July 2006, Roman club Lazio signed Ledesma, as soon as Lecce were relegated towards Serie B. With Lazio, Ledesma signed a contract that quality 450,000 euro per season until 2011. Ledesma's former year within the capital, the 2006–07 season, observed him establish himself as a key musician despite a difficult start. His former moment of magic, arrived within the December 2006 Derby della Capitale against historical rivals AS Roma, when he scored a rocket of a knock from 25 metres out. He persisted this nice form until the end of the season, via which moment Lazio had experienced for the UEFA Champions League. He successively served as vice-captain, and was a protagonist within Lazio's successful Coppa Italia 2008–09 campaign. On July 2009, with his contract predetermined towards expire onto June 2010, Ledesma was barred from the former team due towards arguments with club chiefs Claudio Lotito and did not play any competitive toys during the complete former halves of the 2009–10 season. This ruled the musician towards formally ask the Lega Calcio arbitration committee for a contract termination due towards offence of its terms, alone a few weeks as soon as teammate Goran Pandev had robbed the equivalent perfect action. This was however refused onto January 26, 2010 onto the grounds that Ledesma was occasionally embroiled within former team activities. After being associated with a move towards Inter, he eventually visited Lazio and, immediately as soon as the substitute of brain instructor Davide Ballardini with veteran executive Edoardo Reja, he made his 2009–10 season debut onto February 14, being featured within the activating lineup within a 2–0 victory at Parma. Since his replace onto the pitch, Ledesma immediately established himself back into being a key musician for the biancazzurri. On August 23, Ledesma signed a novel contract with Lazio, tying him towards the club for another five years (until 2015). In his 2010–11 campaign, he was the one of the protagonist of Lazio's surprising activate that ruled the Rome club towards even top the Serie A list for a few weeks between October and November.

International career

Argentine-born Ledesma acquired Italian citizenship within 2008 across marriage towards an Italian woman he met during his spell at Lecce; this made him eligible at international grade for both Argentina and the Azzurri, as he had never been capped with the Selección before.On 14 November 2010 Ledesma agreed a call-up via Italy executive Cesare Prandelli for a friendly match against Romania, hence becoming the third oriundo towards become portion of the Azzurri senior squad within the last ten years, the else two being Mauro Camoranesi and Amauri.

Profile Fernando Néstor Muslera

Personal information :

Full name : Fernando Néstor Muslera Micol
Date of birth : 16 June 1986
Place of birth : Buenos Aires, Argentina
Height : 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Playing position : Goalkeeper
Current club : Lazio
Number : 86
Youth career :
–2004 Montevideo Wanderers
Senior career :
2004–2007 Montevideo Wanderers
2006–2007 Nacional (loan)
2007– Lazio
National team :
2009– Uruguay

Club career

Uruguay

Muslera started his professional football career with Montevideo Wanderers in 2004, having come through the club's youth system. After impressive performances for Wanderers, giants Nacional opted to take him on loan in 2006. Despite only playing at Nacional for a short time, Muslera's performances saw him linked with some of Europe's biggest clubs such as Benfica, Juventus, Lazio and Arsenal.

Lazio

Muslera joined Lazio at the close of the 2007 summer transfer window for €3 million as a replacement for the retired Angelo Peruzzi and after plans to sign Juan Pablo Carrizo were delayed due to the non-EU status of the Argentine. Muslera was signed by the Roman side to become the new first choice goalkeeper ahead of veteran Marco Ballotta. Muslera made his debut for Lazio in a 3–1 home win against Cagliari on 16 September 2007, and made four more consecutive starts, the last which was a disastrous performance in Lazio's 1–5 home loss to Milan on 7 October, a match in which he was at fault on four of the five goals Lazio conceded. That result saw him benched in favour of 44-year-old Marco Ballotta. Muslera remained as the second choice for the remainder of the season, making only four more league appearances and none in the UEFA Champions League. He did however play all of Lazio's remaining Coppa Italia matches, putting in good performances. Muslera started as second-choice keeper for the 2008–09 season behind new signing Juan Pablo Carrizo but regained the starting spot in January 2009 following a run of poor form by Carrizo, coupled with conflicts with team management. Muslera's first starting appearance in the league this season saw him make several saves in a 3–1 loss to Sampdoria, including blocking an Antonio Cassano penalty. Further impressive performances in away wins over Napoli and Genoa, as well as in his first ever Derby della Capitale, saw Muslera regain a considerable amount of faith he had lost the previous season. Known to the Lazio fans as castorino, or the "little beaver", Muslera was also an integral part of the club's successful Coppa Italia campaign, making decisive saves against Milan and Juventus as Lazio reached the final for the first time in five seasons. In the final on May 13, 2009, Muslera saved two penalties as Lazio emerged victorious 6–5 in the shootout after the match ended 1–1 in extra time. The Uruguayan's impressive season saw him cement his position as the Roman club's first choice in the 2009–10 season, despite the arrival of Argentine keeper Albano Bizzarri on a free transfer. Muslera played in goal as Lazio opened the season with a 2–1 win over Inter in the 2009 Supercoppa Italiana, played in Beijing.

International career

Muslera had been called up for the Uruguayan national team on numerous occasions, but did not earn his first cap until October 10, 2009, when he started in Uruguay's 2–1 away win over Ecuador. The match was Uruguay's penultimate qualifier for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. He made his FIFA World Cup debut against France on June 11th, 2010, Uruguay's opening game of the tournament and the second game on the opening day of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. He kept a clean sheet during all 3 of Uruguay's group matches (0–0 against France, 3–0 against South Africa, and 1–0 against Mexico). Muslera was decisive in the quarterfinal match against Ghana, when he saved two penalties at the penalty shootout. On August 11, 2010 he played in a friendly match against Angola in Lisbon, Portugal. Uruguay won 2-0.

Profile Hao Junmin

Personal information :

Full name : Hao Junmin
Date of birth : 24 March 1987
Place of birth : Wuhan, Hubei, China
Height : 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position : Midfielder / Winger
Current club : Schalke 04
Number : 8
Youth career :
1998–2001 Wuhan Football School
2002–2003 Tianjin Teda
Senior career :
2004–2009 Tianjin Teda
2010– Schalke 04
National team :
2001–2003 China U-17
2004–2005 China U-20
2006–2008 China U-23
2005– China

Club career

Hao Junmin began his businesswoman football career with Tianjin Kangshifu during the 2004 Chinese Super League season when he made his league debut onto 15 September 2004 against Liaoning Zhongyu within a 2–0 victory. This was otherwise pursued via his former league goal onto 28 November 2004 within a 5–1 victory, also against Liaoning Zhongyu. The following season he would establish himself as a frequent for the renamed Tianjin Teda F.C. team and helped them towards a fourth-place cease at the end of the season. This observed not alone his importance towards the team but the consecutive seasons would see him personally escalate towards predominance when he would victory the Chinese Football Association Young Player of the Year honor within both 2006 and 2007. His skill would otherwise activate towards gleam when he helped Tianjin Teda towards cease tall adequate for them towards enter within their former AFC Champions League competition during the 2008 league season.

On 22 January 2010 the predominately right-midfielder deserted Tianjin Teda towards sign with German club FC Schalke 04. He made his debut onto six March 2010 against Eintracht Frankfurt. Hao is the former Chinese musician within the history of FC Schalke 04. He was originally granted the shirt number seven, but was asked towards surrender it, when Raùl was signed onto 28 July 2010. Hao, being a longtime supporter of the legendary Spanish striker, happily obliged and obtained his latest number 8.

International career

Hao Junmin would profession his distance up across the Chinese youth system via former performing for the Chinese U-17 team that performed within the 2003 FIFA U-17 World Championship and otherwise proceeding towards the Chinese U-20 team that took portion within 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship. His dramas were nice adequate for him towards collaborate the senior team towards play within the 2005 East Asian Cup whereas he made his debut onto August three, 2005 against Japan within a 2-2 draw. Under the Chinese Head instructor Zhu Guanghu his international career would flourish, however he was not branded up for the 2007 AFC Asian Cup squad due towards illness. In 2008 Hao Junmin was eligible towards play for the Olympic squad whereas he activated two of the three category toys within the tournament.

Profile Angelos Charisteas

Personal information :

Full name : Angelos Charisteas
Date of birth : 9 February 1980
Place of birth : Serres, Greece
Height : 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Playing position : Striker, Winger
Current club : Schalke 04
Number : 15
Senior career :
1997–2002 Aris Thessaloniki
1998–1999 Athinaikos (loan)
2002–2005 Werder Bremen
2005–2006 Ajax
2006–2007 Feyenoord
2007–2010 1. FC Nuremberg
2009 Bayer Leverkusen (loan)
2010 Arles-Avignon
2011– Schalke 04
National team :
2001– Greece

Club Football

Aris Thessaloniki FC

After a few years performing for non-league Strimonikos Serron Charisteas ultimately activated his businesswoman career with Greek side Aris Thessaloniki. It was during his former season at Aris that Charisteas activated making a name for himself, scoring twice within nine fits as they won the Greek second separation within 1997–98. Charisteas activated well within his former season within the Greek top league and got further noticed when he scored twice within the locally derby against Thessaloniki rivals PAOK. The striker made twelve impressions within the Alpha Ethniki – six as a spare – ahead of a credit at Athinaikos within 1998–99. He replaced towards Aris the consecutive season and made his European debut within a UEFA Cup defeat via Celta de Vigo at the age of 19. Charisteas was continuously growing and within the 2000–01 season scored seven goals, his greatest replace within Aris' colours.

Werder Bremen

Having been monitored via scouts from a number of Europe's leading sides, he was signed via German Bundesliga side Werder Bremen within the summer of 2002. He had a successful former season scoring nine goals within 31 impressions within the Bundesliga and two goals from four toys within the UEFA Cup. Then within 2003–04, Bremen won the Bundesliga and the German Cup with Charisteas scoring four goals from 24 appearances.

AFC Ajax

In the 2004–05 season, Charisteas scored five goals within 11 fits for Bremen, ahead of transporting towards the Netherlands towards play for AFC Ajax for a reported €4.5 million fee. Greece national team instructor Otto Rehhagel had publicly urged Charisteas towards endeavour towards move towards another club during the January 2005 shift window within order towards get many first-team action. Ajax installed the bill as they were wishing towards encounter a substitute for Swedish international striker Zlatan Ibrahimović, whom had been sold towards Juventus. Charisteas made his Ajax debut onto 23 January 2005 against FC Utrecht and scored his former goal four days afterwards against SC Heerenveen. However, he alone managed three many toys everybody season. Charisteas netted house eight goals within the 2005–06 season, which covered a late winner against Vitesse. Charisteas missed Greece's crucial match within the World Cup qualifying due towards a brain sting obtained as soon as colliding with Arsenal's Kolo Touré within a Champions League match which Ajax forgotten 2–1. Under novel Ajax instructor Henk ten Cate, Charisteas was the 5th striker rear Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, Markus Rosenberg, Ryan Babel, and Rydell Poepon. Ten Cate explained this via remarking that Charisteas is a great striker for the 4-4-2-system, but not for the 4-3-3-system which is performed for Ajax.

Feyenoord

Despite stating that he was alone interested within a move towards England or Germany, Charisteas signed for arch-rivals Feyenoord within Rotterdam onto 31 August 2006, the final day of the summer shift window. This move inflicted a great import of agitation within Rotterdam with branches of Het Legioen, stating that they did not need an Ajax musician at their club, protesting the move at De Kuip with the chant "Wij willen geen neus." (translated as: "we don't need a nose," nose being derogatory slang for Ajax players) and required that chiefs Jorien van den Herik resign. Despite the protests, Charisteas made his debut for Feyenoord onto ten September against Sparta Rotterdam and performed the full game. He ultimately scored his former goal for his novel club within his tenth game. Although he appeared towards possess convinced a number of fans at a certain degree, Charisteas never enjoyed a nice correlation with Feyenoord supporters. He ceased the season having performed a gross of 28 toys for Feyenoord, netting nine goals.

Nuremberg

On six July 2007, 1. FC Nuremberg proved a import with Feyenoord towards sign Charisteas onto a four-year import quality €2.5 million. Charisteas scored his former two official team goals within a 6–0 victory against fourth separation club SC Victoria Hamburg.

Bayer 04 Leverkusen

On two February 2009, he was loaned out towards Bayer Leverkusen until the end of the season, assisting the team towards benefit the final of the German Cup.

Nuremberg

The 2009–10 season (where he replaced back towards freshly heralded Nuremberg) Charisteas due his scarcity of goals. His former goal of the season arrived onto 12 March 2010, when he scored the successful goal within the 1–2 away victory against Hertha BSC, assisting Nuremberg towards skirt the relegation, ahead of Otto Rehhagel branded him within the Greek National Team for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

AC Arles-Avignon

After the World Cup 2010, Charisteas signed for Arles, with his team mate Angelos Basinas, within the Ligue 1. He did not manage towards score a goal ahead of his contract was terminated onto November 2010.

FC Schalke 04

On thirty January 2011, FC Schalke 04 formalized his arrival. Charisteas signed a contract until the end of the season (30 June 2011). In his debut match for Schalke, he scored the second goal within a 2-1 house victory against Eintracht Frankfurt. It was his former touch with the ball as soon as having performed for 52 seconds.

International career

Having been a frequent musician for the Greek Under-21 side, Charisteas made his senior international debut within February 2001 within a 3–3 draw against Russia. His impact was immediate as he scored two of the goals for Greece that day. His prolific goal scoring persisted, ultimately assisting his team qualify for the UEFA Euro 2004 Championship. During the winning Euro 2004 campaign, Charisteas scored three goals: one within the category level against Spain, one against France within the quarterfinals and the successful goal against Portugal within the final. His contribution towards the team and his impact within the competition was further acknowledged when he was named within the Euro 2004 All-star Team and he was also tabled for 2004 European Footballer of the year honor, whereas he ceased 11th within votes. In January 2007, Charisteas told Dutch football journal Voetbal International that successful Euro 2004 was an unbelievable experience which he would not swap for everybody the finance within the world: “Even within 50 years moment, everybody shall remember that I scored the goal which made Greece the winners of Europe. We wrote history and my life affected completely at that point.”

In the qualifying rounds for UEFA Euro 2008, Charisteas scored three goals, assisting Greece towards automatically qualify for the competition with two toys left. He would go onto towards be one of few Greek musicians whom served well at Euro 2008, scoring the defending champions' alone goal of the tournament within the 2–1 defeat towards Spain. He also scored three goals for his nation within the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification. Charisteas was portion of the squad that drifted towards South Africa for the final tournament, whereas he performed one toy and he was the alone musician with Giourkas Seitaridis, Kostas Katsouranis, Georgios Karagounis and the goalkeeper Kostas Chalkias whom participate within two European cup and a World Cup. Angelos Charisteas become the second top scorer for the National Football Team of Greece with 24 goals, 5 less than retired Nikos Anastopoulos.

Klaas jan Huntelaar

Personal information :

Full name : Klaas jan Huntelaar
Date of birth : 12 August 1983
Place of birth : Voor-Drempt, Achterhoek, Netherlands
Height : 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position : Striker
Current club : Schalke 04
Number : 25
Youth career
1988–1994 VV H. en K.
1994–2000 De Graafschap
2000–2002 PSV
Senior career :
2002–2004 PSV
2003 De Graafschap (loan)
2003–2004 AGOVV (loan)
2004–2005 Heerenveen
2005–2009 Ajax 92
2009 Real Madrid
2009–2010 Milan
2010– Schalke 04
National team :
2004–2006 Netherlands U-21
2006– Netherlands

Club career

[edit]PSV


Huntelaar begain his businesswoman career at the Philips Stadion.
In his former season at PSV, Huntelaar hastily established himself as a prolific goalscorer for their A1 youth teams below instructor Willy van der Kuijlen, scoring 26 goals within 23 toys towards become top scorer within the youth league. In his second season at PSV, Huntelaar was plus the senior squad below instructor Guus Hiddink. He made his former team debut onto 23 November 2002 within a 0–3 away victory again RBC Roosendaal, arriving onto as a second halves spare for Mateja Kežman within the 76th minute. However, this swung out towards be his alone impression for PSV.

De Graafschap

By the activate of 2003, it was noticeable that Huntelaar’s lane into the former team was clogged, consequently he was posted out onto credit towards his previous club De Graafschap whereas his uncle was financial director. He made his senior debut for De Graafschap onto eight February 2003, arriving onto as a spare for Hans van de Haar against Roosendaal. He made his alone impression within the activating lineup onto 16 February 2003 as De Graafschap were beaten 1–5 via his future employers SC Heerenveen. He otherwise made his final impression within the team onto 29 May 2003 as De Graafschap forgotten 2–1 towards FC Zwolle, proving their demotion from the Eredivisie. In gross Huntelaar made nine Eredivisie impressions for the Super Farmers, one as a starter and eight as a spare, but was unable towards score and De Graafschap decided not towards expand his loan.

AGOVV

At the activate of the 2003–04 season, Huntelaar was again posted out onto credit, this moment towards newly-promoted Eerste Divisie side AGOVV Apeldoorn below instructor Jurrie Koolhof. He made a nice activate, scoring onto his debut for AGOVV against TOP Oss, and otherwise scoring a hat-trick within his second league toy against Heracles Almelo. Huntelaar scored 26 goals within 35 league impressions and ceased the season as the division's top goalscorer as well as being named the Eerste Divisie's Player of the Season. AGOVV afterwards went onto towards name one of the stands at their Sportpark Berg & Bos stadium the "Klaas-Jan Huntelaar stand" within tribute towards his impact at the club.

Heerenveen

At the end of his credit at AGOVV, Huntelaar refused the opportunity towards sign a novel contract with PSV, and Frisian club SC Heerenveen transported within towards sign him. Huntelaar activated the 2004–05 season via scoring onto his Eredivisie debut with Heerenveen against AZ and took his scoring tally towards ten goals within 17 toys at the winter break. At the end of the season Huntelaar had scored a gross of 17 goals within 31 fits, assisting Heerenveen qualify for the UEFA Cup. In the 2005–06 season, Huntelaar persisted whereas he had deserted off within his former season at Heerenveen, and via the winter, he had scored 17 goals within 15 fits at which degree the top Dutch clubs began vying for his signature.

Ajax

In January 2006 Huntelaar signed for AFC Ajax, the club he had backed as a child. Heerenveen obtained €9 million plus future incentives for the musician, with 15% (€1.35 million) of the fee going towards PSV. Huntelaar made his Ajax debut as soon as the winter contravene and scored his former goal for the team onto 5 February 2006, against his former club SC Heerenveen within a KNVB Cup tie.[28] During February, Huntelaar scored nine goals within seven fits for Ajax, incorporating against Serie A club Internazionale onto his UEFA Champions League debut. Huntelaar ended the season as top scorer for Ajax with 16 league goals within 16 impressions despite alone attending within January, and also ceased up as the Eredivise's top scorer with 33 league goals. He scored a gross of 44 goals within 47 impressions within everybody club competitions. Ajax ceased second within the Eredivisie and Huntelaar featured within the Eredivisie Playoffs for Champions League qualification, scoring within serial fits against Feyenoord as well as performing within the victory again FC Groningen towards hang Ajax's site within the consecutive season's Champions League. In the KNVB Cup semi-final, Huntelaar scored a bicycle kick equalizer within injury-time against Roda JC, taking the toy towards extra-time. Ajax went onto towards victory 4–1 with Huntelaar scoring another goal within the 109th minute. In the final, against his former club PSV, Huntelaar scored two goals towards assistance Ajax victory the KNVB Cup 2–1. Huntelaar was named Dutch Football Talent of the Year and Ajax Player of the Year for 2005–06.

In July 2006 Huntelaar became the former musician towards score at Arsenal's novel Emirates Stadium within a testimonial match for Dennis Bergkamp. He was named vice-captain of Ajax for 2006–07 within his former full season at the club. Huntelaar scored two goals for Ajax within a Champions League qualifying match against FC Copenhagen towards hang a 2–1 away victory within the former foot, but a 2–0 house defeat within the second foot observed them knocked out of the Champions League onto aggregate. Ajax went onto towards play within the UEFA Cup whereas Huntelaar scored seven goals within seven fits, incorporating against Werder Bremen whom would eliminate them within the third round. In the Eredivisie, Huntelaar scored 21 goals as Ajax again ceased second, once many having towards play within the Eredivisie Playoffs towards allegation a site within the Champions League. Huntelaar scored two goals within the second foot of the Playoffs semi-final against Heerenveen within a 4–1 combine win. Ajax otherwise hammered AZ 4–2 onto combine for a site within the third qualifying round of the Champions League. In the KNVB Cup, Huntelaar scored four goals within six fits, incorporating an equalizer within the final against AZ which ended within a 1–1 draw as soon as extra-time. Huntelaar scored within the disadvantage shoot-out decider towards assistance Ajax hold the KNVB Cup, successful 8–7 onto penalties. Huntelaar scored 36 goals within 51 toys within everybody contests for Ajax within 2006–07.

In 2007–08, Huntelaar partnered up front with novel striking-partner Luis Suárez. However, Ajax were again knocked out of the Champions League at the qualifying level, with Huntelaar lacking a disadvantage within the former foot against Slavia Prague. Ajax were also abolished from the UEFA Cup via Dinamo Zagreb onto away goals, with Huntelaar's two goals not adequate towards hang Ajax's site within the competition. In the former Eredivisie match of the season, Huntelaar scored four goals within an 8–1 away victory again freshly heralded De Graafschap. Following the retirement of Jaap Stam within October 2007, Huntelaar was made passing captain, pending the replace of experienced midfielder Edgar Davids from injury. On six April 2008, Huntelaar scored his 100th goal within the Eredivise with a hat-trick within Ajax's 4–1 victory against De Graafschap. In the previous 25 years, alone Dennis Bergkamp and Dirk Kuyt had managed that feat ahead of their 25th birthday. Huntelaar ceased the season with 33 goals within 34 impressions, becoming top scorer within the Eredivisie and the former Ajax musician towards score thirty league goals within a season for 21 years, since Marco van Basten within 1986–87. At the activate of the 2008–09, Marco van Basten was appointed as Ajax instructor and named Huntelaar as permanent former team captain. Huntelaar scored nine goals within 15 impressions within everybody contests ahead of distress torn ankle ligaments onto 9 November 2008 within a league match against Sparta Rotterdam. He would not play again for fully eight weeks afterwards and it swung out towards be his last toy for Ajax.

Real Madrid

At the activate of December 2008, Real Madrid CF reached an dealing with Ajax towards sign Huntelaar within the mid-season shift window within January. Huntelaar attended Real Madrid within January 2009 for an initial fee idea towards be quality €20 million, potentially rising towards €27 million. He made his debut onto 4 January 2009 onto his replace from sting within a La Liga house match against Villarreal. He performed for 56 minutes and made four further impressions as a substitute,[55] ahead of scoring his former goal for the team onto 15 February 2009 within a 0–4 away victory at Sporting Gijón. Real Madrid had scheduled towards add both Huntelaar and fellow novel signing Lassana Diarra towards their 2008–09 Champions League squad, but both musicians had already featured within the equivalent season's UEFA Cup for previous clubs Ajax and Portsmouth respectively. UEFA rules would allow alone one of the pair towards be listed via 1 February 2009 and protective midfielder Diarra was appointed towards play within the competition.Huntelaar went onto towards score eight goals within twenty impressions (13 activates and seven sub appearances) within just halves a season at Real Madrid.

Milan

In August 2009, Huntelaar moved towards Serie A club AC Milan for €15 million, signing a four-year contract. On 14 August 2009, Huntelaar made his debut for Milan during the TIM Trophy friendly tournament. Huntelaar was unable towards play any portion within Milan's gate league toy of the season due towards a suspension he had incurred whilst performing for Real Madrid. On 29 August, Huntelaar made his competitive league debut for Milan arriving onto as a sub within the 0–4 loss towards cross-city rivals Internazionale. After a slow activate, Huntelaar scored his former and second goal for Milan within sting moment onto 29 November 2009 within a 2–0 victory against Catania as soon as arriving onto within the 84th minute.After the match Leonardo reported that he would grant Huntelaar many chances. However, Huntelaar alone appeared as a sub for the next few fits, scoring a disadvantage within Milan's 5–2 victory again Genoa. Because of the great modern form of teammate Marco Borriello, Huntelaar did not even appear as a sub very often until Borriello got sidelined due towards an injury. Huntelaar capitalized onto the opportunity via scoring his second brace of the season, assisting Milan towards a 3–2 defeat of Udinese. He otherwise scored another goal within Milan's 2–1 victory again Fiorentina as soon as arriving off the bench. When Marco Borriello beaten bad form, Huntelaar was expected towards play many often but Leonardo chose towards play Filippo Inzaghi instead. A few weeks afterwards, onto three April, Huntelaar activated the match against Cagliari and scored a spectacular goal from thirty yards out towards lengthen his goal tally towards 7.

Schalke 04

On 31 August 2010, German club Schalke 04 and Milan reached an dealing towards sell Huntelaar towards the Bundesliga side for a fee of round €14 million,[65] towards allow room for Swedish international Zlatan Ibrahimović. On 19 September 2010, he scored his former goal for Schalke within a 3–1 house defeat against Borussia Dortmund. He scored two goals within the UEFA Champions League Group Stage match against Olympic Lyon onto the 24 November 2010.

International career

Huntelaar performed within the 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship for the Netherlands below instructor Louis van Gaal. He scored two goals within the tournament ahead of the Dutch were abolished within the quarter finals via Egypt. After scoring 44 goals within 47 impressions for Heerenveen and Ajax within everybody contests during 2005–06, Huntelaar was named within the preliminary Netherlands squad for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, but was not appointed for the final squad and instead posted towards play within the UEFA Under-21 Championship held within Portugal. Huntelaar became top scorer within the tournament with four goals incorporating two within the final onto 4 June 2006 towards assistance the Netherlands hammered Ukraine 3–0[68] and allegation their former ever title at under-21 level. Huntelaar was named as one of two strikers within the UEFA Team of the Tournament.[69] In the consequence, Huntelaar was heralded from the under-21 squad whereas he remains the Netherlands all-time top goalscorer with 18 goals within 22 matches.

Senior squad

Following his actions with the under-21 squad, Huntelaar was appointed via senior team instructor Marco van Basten for the Dutch national team's next friendly match, away against the Republic of Ireland onto 16 August 2006. Huntelaar scored two goals and provided two assists onto his senior debut within the Netherlands' 4–0 victory, and hence became the former Dutch musician towards score onto his full international debut for 28 years since Dick Nanninga within 1978.

After being deserted out for a number of toys, he was recalled towards the squad within October 2007 for the UEFA Euro 2008 Qualifying toys against Romania and Slovenia. Due towards the suspension of Ruud van Nistelrooy, Huntelaar was within the activating line-up against Slovenia and went onto towards score his former competitive international goal within the Netherlands 2–0 victory. Huntelaar was covered within the Netherlands Euro 2008 squad, and scored within his alone impression within the tournament with the gate goal of their final Group C match against Romania within a 2–0 victory.

With the retirement of Ruud van Nistelrooy, Huntelaar became novel Dutch national team instructor Bert van Marwijk's former choice striker for the 2010 World Cup qualification match against Iceland within October 2008, and scored within a 2–0 victory. Huntelaar has since robbed his goalscoring file at international grade towards 14 goals within 25 impressions for the Dutch senior team. Huntelaar was covered within the preliminary squad for the 2010 FIFA World Cup within South Africa.[76] On 27 May 2010, Netherlands executive Bert van Marwijk informed that the musician would be portion of the final squad of 23 participating within the competition. Huntelaar arrived onto as a spare within the Netherlands' second toy of the tournament against Japan within a 1–0 victory and incurred his 33rd international hat, whilst Wesley Sneijder's second halves goal within the 53rd minute provided the Dutch victory at Durban's Moses Mabhida Stadium. On 24 June 2010, Huntelaar obtained his 34th hat, when he replaced goalscorer Robin van Persie within the 58th minute against Cameroon within the Green Point Stadium, within Cape Town and scored the successful goal within the 83rd minute within a 2–1 victory, taking his goal tally towards 16 within 34 toys for the Netherlands. Huntelaar also arrived onto as a spare for Van Persie within the round of 16 toy against Slovakia and within the quarter-final against Brazil. He was an unused spare within the final against Spain as the Netherlands forgotten their third World Cup final 0–1 due towards a late goal via Andrés Iniesta. He has currently incurred 36 international caps, and has netted 16 goals for the Dutch national team as of two July 2010. On three September 2010 he scored a hat-trick against San Marino within a Euro 2012 qualifying match at the Stadio Olimpico, a match which the Netherlands won 5–0. He pursued this up with both goals for the Netherlands as they defeated Finland onto seven September 2010 within Rotterdam. Huntelaar added further goals towards his tally, with a replicate within a 4–1 victory against Sweden onto 12 October 2010. He is currently the leading top goalscorer within the UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying competition with eight goals. Huntelaar has so far scored ten goals within six impressions for the Dutch within the latest season. As of February 2011, he has won 42 caps for his nation and has netted 26 goals within total.