Ronaldo Scooped FifPro World Footballer of the Year Award

Cristiano Ronaldo has been named FifPro World Footballer of the Year. It is the first in what is expected to be a host of individual honours for the 23-year-old, who scored 42 goals for Manchester United on their way to Champions League and Premier League title glory last term.

Ronaldo had suggested last week he could do no more than he did to be crowned the best player on the planet and peers from over 40 countries are in agreement.

"To be recognised by my fellow professional players worldwide coming from over 50,000 players is amazing," the Portugal winger said.

"I would like to thank my teammates and coaches and everyone involved at Man United and the national team, as well as my family and friends for their support," Ronaldo said. "Thank you also to FIFPro for this award and for your work in protecting the interests and welfare of players around the world."

It is anticipated Ronaldo will also scoop the Ballon D'Or and the FIFA World Player of the Year award, with the Portugal international - who has also been named in FifPro's world team of the year - keen to remain at Old Trafford for another couple of seasons at least.

''I insist that I am a Manchester United player and now I think that next year I will continue here,'' Ronaldo told Marca.

The portugal and Manchester United talisman gave his speech in quite a modest and humble way, perhaps he's now learned that his character was deemed to be arrogant thats why the change in his tone now. Which is a good thing, being arrogant might limits his growth and right now he can go on to take world soccer with his mesmerizing skills again. Hopefully Cristiano Ronaldo is not just a single season legend but there're more to come from him and keep on winning with the Red Devil man!

Pride of the IceMan

First allow me to take the pride for able to start this very blog with my first post writting on this legendary footballer named Dennis Bergkamp, aka The IceMan.

Dennis Bergkamp signed for Arsenal for in June 1995 for £7.5million after two disappointing seasons with Inter Milan in the Serie A. The Dutchman hit his best form after the arrival of Arsene Wenger in 1996 and was voted as the PFA Player of the Year for the 1997/98 season when Arsenal won the league and cup double. Bergkamp’s best attributes were always his impeccable control and intelligence when on the ball. He would rarely waste a touch and was just as able to set up a teammate for a goal with a brilliant pass or flick as he was to finish chances for himself. He has the most finest touch on the ball, who can deny me this?

The quality of the goals that Bergkamp scored is something to cherish not only for the gunner fans, but to most of the football slave. This is best illustrated in a 3-3 draw with Leicester City where Bergkamp scored a hat-trick of such brilliance that his three goals took up all three spots in the Premier League Goal of the Month award – the first and only time a single player has achieved this, credit to you Dennis! There was also a monumental goal he scored against Newcastle where he bamboozled his marker to score the Goal of the Season in 2002- you would give up anything just to see that goal, breath-taking. Goals became less frequent as his career progressed, but his contribution on and off the pitch was as influencial as ever. But until his retirement at the end of the 2005/06 season Bergkamp remained a valuable member of Wenger’s team.

Dennis Bergkamp will always be remembered as a great team player and one of the most influential Arsenal players in the club’s history. Thierry Henry has previously called him the “perfect” strike partner because of his unselfishness and ability to read the game. This unselfishness is illustrated by the fact that as well as scoring 121 goals for Arsenal he has also provided 166 assists for the club. This makes him the ideal partner for Henry in the Arsenal Team of the Decade. 166 assists, i am sure every forward in the world would feel great and benefit much with such a wonderful selfless strike partner.

Moment to Remember: The 2-0 victory that Arsenal recorded away to Newcastle in the 2001-2002 Premiership season will forever be remembered for Bergkamp’s amazing piece of skill in opening the scoring for the Gunners. There is conjecture over whether his touch was intentional but in flicking the ball past Newcastle defender Nicos Dabizas and slotting past Shay Given he is credited with scoring one of the best goals in the history of the game.

Dennis Bergkamp claimed that he uses the technique of visualization and imagination to score this goal. It simply means that before he had the ball at his feet, he already began to imagine what he'd do when the ball was passed to him, and he just faithfully execute

what he had held in his mental picture to score that very best goal.
About the “Arsenal Team of the Decade”

Dennis Bergkamp has a very dedicated contribution to his team. As a person who fear taking flights, he would cross contry borders by car or other means just to be available for his team while on UEFA duty, this is the kind of attitude and professionalism we would not see in any other footballer. Dennis Bergkamp, you are the man. Watching you playing football is just like watching Zidane playing football, but you would have something extra, you've the consistancy, you've the unpredictable touches and finishing.

Perhaps the only dark spot you laid on ur career would be when you tried to kick the ball at Laurent Robert during a Newcastle-Arsenal showdown, causing the ref to thought Robert was trying to block you from taking the freekick intentionally and earned him the harsh red card. But nevertheless, your contributions and your magical displays have well made you the best and finest footballer ever lived to play this game.

Tribute to you, Dennis Bergkamp, may you continue to do well in life!