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Manchester United star, Cristiano Ronaldo, may be miss Champions League game versus Spanish club Real Villarreal at Tuesday (Nov. 25).
The Portugal's player had a leg injuury when United draw 0-0 with Aston Villa, Saturday night.
"His leg is in a mess. He is doubtful for Tuesday," said Alex Ferguson, United's manager.
Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro was born at 5 February 1985 in Funchal, Madeira (Portugal), to Maria Dolores dos Santos Aveiro and José Dinis Aveiro.
He plays primarily as a right winger. But he has also been used both in a central attacking role and as a second striker.
Ronaldo has undergo ankle surgery at the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam on 7 July. He returned play for United on 17 September in Champions League with Villarreal as a substitute.
He scored his 100th and 101st goals in all competitions for Manchester United in a 5–0 win over Stoke City on 15 November 2008, both from free kicks.
Read Cristiano Ronaldo profile at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristiano_Ronaldo
Real Madrid's striker Gonzalo Higuain will miss Champions League match against Belarussian, BATE Borisov at Tuesday, after suffering a sprained ankle.
Higuain sprained his left ankle in Satuday's match against Recreativo Huelva, the club said in a statement Sunday.
The Argentine forward will undergo physiotherapy aimed at achieving a rapid recovery.
Higuain is top scorer in the Primera Liga this season with nine goals. Real is already miss several key players for the match, notably Dutch striker Ruud van Nistelrooy, who is out until the end of the season following a kneee operation.
Real Madrid is second in its Champions League group H, four points behind Italian club Juventus, which has already qualified for the quarter-finals.
Gonzalo Gerardo Higuaín was born at December 10, 1987 in Brest, Finistère, France. His father, professional Argentine footballer Jorge "El Pipa" Higuaín, was playing for Brest, at that time in the French Ligue 1.
Higuain having left France at the age of 10 months. Even though he does not speak French, he holds a French passport, because his father was naturalized French. But he successfully applied for the Argentine nationality in January 2007.
Read profile of Gonzalo Higuain:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzalo_Higua%C3%ADn
WILLIAM GALLAS has 10 million reasons to say sorry to his Arsenal team-mates.
The French ace is on a megabucks deal which will see him earn £10m between now and 2011. But that could go up in smoke unless he apologises for publicly criticising his Emirates team-mates. If he does, the door is open for the 31-year-old defender to make a sensational return in tomorrow’s Champions League clash against Ukraine side Dynamo Kiev.
If he does not, he will probably have to ship out. Gallas was monstered by boss Arsene Wenger AND stripped of the captaincy for betraying dressing-room secrets, as SunSport reported on Friday.
He was also left back home in London as Arsenal crashed 3-0 at Manchester City on Saturday.
Wenger insists Gallas must grovel in the dressing room before he plays for the Gunners again.
But that is not out of the question. Gallas knows his career in the Premier League will be over if he refuses to back down.
He is earning £80,000 a week on a contract that runs until 2011. That equates to £10m. So an apology is likely to be forthcoming.
Boss Wenger will certainly hope Gallas sees the light. Kolo Toure, Bacary Sagna and Emmanuel Eboue are all ruled out of tomorrow’s Euro game, and the Gunners cannot rely on the defence that crumbled so easily at Eastlands.
Gavin Hoyte suffered a Premier League debut to forget as he was given the runaround by Robinho and looked grateful to be withdrawn from the action with half an hour still remaining.
Johan Djourou and Mikael Silvestre looked far from convincing as a central defensive pairing and even Gael Clichy had a nightmare at left-back.
Wenger refused to discuss the issue and snapped: “The most important thing is to keep strong, united and focused. We mustn’t panic.”
Florent Malouda has backed pal Gallas to bounce back from his Arsenal crisis. But he warned his mate: You must stand up and face the consequences. Chelsea ace Malouda said: “I’m still supporting William.
“But he has to be responsible for what he said," Malouda said. "Of course I hope he stays. For me you don’t have to ask this question because he is still a good player, and you have to think what he brings to English football."
“It’s not fair, I think, to forget everything just because he said one thing.”
Source: The Sun
Juventus and Italian national team's keeper Gianluigi Buffon will not join England's club Manchester City.
“We know nothing about this news," said Silvano Martina, the agent of Buffon.
Reports in Italian and England paper said, Manchester City are preparing to make a world record 50 million pound (59m euros) bid to sign for the 30-year-old.
“I haven’t heard anything and, to be honest, the clubs haven’t come forward," Martina said. “Usually the interested clubs will contact either Juventus or the agents but I have not heard from anyone."
The wealthy new Arab owners have targeted the Italian World Cup winner as their next major capture.
If they pull it off the deal would surpass the world record 48m pounds Real Madrid paid Juventus for Zinedine Zidane in 2001.
According to The Times, a delegation from Man City travelled to Turin this month to discuss a possible transfer although it is not thought thy spoke to the player or club directly.
Gianluigi "Gigi" Buffon, was born January 28, 1978 in Carrara. In 2003, he received the UEFA Most Valuable Player and Best Goalkeeper awards, and was named by Pelé as one of the top 125 greatest living footballers in March 2004.
Read Gianluigi Buffon profile at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianluigi_Buffon
England's club Arsenal, are favourites to buy Ajax striker Klaas Jan Huntelaar. The club will compete with the biggest clubs in Europe, including Chelsea and Real Madrid, but MU would appear to be the biggest rivals to Arsenal in the chase to sign the striker.
Report says Arsenal has ready to agree terms worth around £20 million with Ajax in the coming months.
Huntelaar has struck personal terms with the Gunners with the view to a move to London at the end of this season.
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar was born at August 12, 1983 in Voor-Drempt. Before play for Ajax, he played for PSV Eindhoven dan SC Heerenveen. He joined Ajax after a £6.5million move from SC Heerenveen, but his form has been so good this year the Amsterdam giants are now struggling to hold onto him. He topped the Eredivisie scoring charts last season after bagging 33 goals.
The Ajax striker has recognized he want to play at Premier League.
"I must recognize, I am very interested to play at Premier League," he said.
Marco van Basten, Ajax coach, has confessed difficult to retain Huntelaar. "He is a brilliant striker, and has a sharp goal-scoring instinct. I hope will see he play with us again, but it is difficult to stop him moving."*
Barça forward Samuel Eto'o is setting new personal and European standards for goal scoring.
His four strikes against Valladolid have extended the Cameroon player’s fantastic start to the season.
Eto’o has scored 13 times in 10 League fixtures, giving him an average of 1.3 goals per game at a strike rate of one every 58.5 minutes. These are his best figures ever for this stage of the season.
In 2005/06, for instance, Eto'o was top scorer in Spain with 26 strikes in 34 matches to average 0.76 per game. However, he ‘only’ found the net 9 times in Barça’s first 10 fixtures.
No other striker has scored as many goals as Eto'o in Europe’s top leagues, and only two even come close. AZ Alkmaar’s Mounir El Hamdaoui has notched 13 in 10 like Eto'o, but unlike the Cameroonian has no European goals as Alkmaar haven’t qualified for any of the competitions.
The other player close behind Eto'o is Hoffenheim striker Vedad Ibisevic with 13 goals in the Bundesliga. However, his side has played 12 games, two more than Barça.
Samuel Eto'o Fils was born at March 10, 1981 in Douala, Cameroon. He played to Real Mallorca before joined Barcelona.
Eto'o also contributed six goals during Barcelona's run to the 2005-06 Champions League title.
Source: fcbarcelona.com and other
