Thursday, April 5, 2007

Arsenal´s Adebayor aims at the African honor

LONDON (AFP) - butted Emmanuel Adebayor of arsenal believes that it will be identified as higher footballer of Africa within three year. Adebayor, 23, were established while a principal figure for the arsenal this season and Togo international placed her sights on being the best player of Africa voted earlier rather than later. The old Monaco ahead, which adhered to the arsenal for seven million books in January 2006, with hard competition for the honor. The Ivory Coast of Chelsea hold the first role Didier Drogba is the African player running year, and his/her team-companion Michael Essien the blue ones of Ghana is regarded as one of the best young people players in the world. Samuel Eto' O of Barcelona can also claim to be better Africa, but Adebayor, amplified by its transport of 10 goals for the arsenal this season, aims high. “I become better and better,” he said the standard of evening of London. “I have the abundance of the hour to gain the African footballer of the year. I was in the second place once and third once, thus I believe that I can gain it in both or three years to come. “I learn much with the arsenal. It would be large to be one of best in the world one day. This is why I work hard. “For me the important thing is to be formed. In each play I must show that I am a good player. ”

Romario is missing with the research of the 1,000th goal

RIO OF JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - ventilators was tightened in the stage of Maracana in the hope drank of Romario of the 1,000th, but it was not its night Wednesday.

It was not Vasco, either. The da favoured Gama de Vasco lost 2-1 in modest Gama of Brasilia and was eliminated from the cup of Brazil. Romario, which has 999 goals by its account, had hoped to strike 1.000 and to join large Pele. Peel marked 1.281 goals in a career spanning two decades, and marked its 1,000th in Maracana at the age of 29. Romario, to 41, was frustrated during weeks with its research for 1.000.

“Defense was hard during a certain time and was not any different today,” it said in a televised interview. “But I will arrive there, had God. It is football. ” The concern of Renato Romario by Gaucho of trainer for his 1,000th goal affected the team game. The players were nervous and always trying to establish Romario for a projectile. Although there is a certain question about the account of the goal of Romario, much of ventilators of football also accepted it legitimates and waited ardently until it approached the important stage. The place of appointment of the match of Wednesday was changed so that Romario could try to mark at the stage of Maracana, the temple of Brazilian football where Pele marked its 1,000th goal in 1969. Romario, which combined the skilful work of legs with a speed of the sprinter with his peak, shone of the ventilators of Vasco, Flamengo, Dutch club PSV Eindhoven and FC Barcelona of Spain. Grand Johan Dutch Cruyff called a “genius of the sector of goal.

” Always, much of experts as regards football are doubtful about many goals corresponded by Romario. It counts 71 goals which it marked as a teenager and as an amateur, as well as of others in practice of the plays and the semi-official matches counters small clubs. Moreover, its control had to be updated several times because it has at the counted beginning of the goals marked in the matches which never occurred, and in the plays which finished 0-0. The mark is not identified by FIFA, the governing body of the football of the world, which says that it counts goals only in official contests.