Uruguayan Footballers
Diego Forlán
Forlán won the Golden Ball at the 2010 World Cup for his impassioned and game-winning play for the Uruguayan national team. He finished the tournament with give goals scored and nearly helped his team win third place when he sent a free kick rattling off the cross bar in a crushing 3-2 loss to Germany.
At club level, the prolific striker has scored 73 goals in 119 games for Atlético Madrid since 2007. Forlán found the back of the net 62 times between 2001 and 2004 and has won the European Golden Shoe twice.
Luis Suárez
Uruguayan forward Luis Suárez recently became a new Premier League It Boy after a costly and high profile transfer from Ajax to Liverpool. Though how well he will perform in the EPL remains to be seen, Suárez 49 goals in 48 appearances in 2009-10.
During the 2010-11 World Cup Suárez was instrumental in helping his team reach the semi finals by blocking a Ghanaian goal with his hand. Striker Asamoah Gyan missed a penalty shot for Ghana and Uruguay wont the shoot out that ended the game.
Argentine Footballers
Leo Messi
It’s hard to know what to write about Lionel Messi. The fact that he has notched 40 goals and 20 assists in 35 games this season for Barcelona? The fact that the entire Argentine national team has been rearranged to accommodate his playing style? The fact that he has won over 50 personal honors, from the Ballon d'Or to La Liga Player of the Year, and is only 23 years old?
Or maybe we should stress the fact that his surname comprises the five letters of Messiah, which he certainly is to the footballing world, and to Barca fans in particular. He is an otherwordly player, one of top five in football in 2011. He may even prove to be every bit as good as fellow Argentine Diego Maradona.
Carlos Tevez
Carlos Tevez doesn’t quite have the numbers that Messi does, but he plays with an even more ferocious spark that his countryman. The two of them linked up on the national team in a 2010 World Cup match against Mexico, during which Tevez scored a brace with an assist from Messi.
As of this writing, Tevez has 18 goals and 5 assists in league play, the highest combined total of any player in the league (United’s Portuguese phenomenon Nani is nipping at his heels with nine goals and 13 assists).
Though Tevez doesn’t display the same prodigious touch as Messi does day in and day out, he is far more instrumental to the success of his team than is Leo. Without Tevez, City would surely be far further down the table than where it currently sits, in third place.
Brazilian Footballers
kaka
Before the Messi/Ronaldo polemic, as Diego Maradona would be wont to call it, Kaká was considered by many to be the best footballer in the world. The Brazilian dynamo displayed the creativity of Zinedine Zidane and the smooth, beautiful play of classic Brazilian footballers.
Unfortunately, the rise of Messi and Ronaldo has coincided with injury for Kaká, resulting in the drastic devaluation of his stock. Still, he displayed shades of brilliance in the 2010 World Cup and at club level with Real Madrid during the 2010-11 season.
And nothing can take away the 31 personal honors Kaká has received in his career.
Diego Forlán
At club level, the prolific striker has scored 73 goals in 119 games for Atlético Madrid since 2007. Forlán found the back of the net 62 times between 2001 and 2004 and has won the European Golden Shoe twice.
Luis Suárez
During the 2010-11 World Cup Suárez was instrumental in helping his team reach the semi finals by blocking a Ghanaian goal with his hand. Striker Asamoah Gyan missed a penalty shot for Ghana and Uruguay wont the shoot out that ended the game.
Argentine Footballers
Leo Messi
Or maybe we should stress the fact that his surname comprises the five letters of Messiah, which he certainly is to the footballing world, and to Barca fans in particular. He is an otherwordly player, one of top five in football in 2011. He may even prove to be every bit as good as fellow Argentine Diego Maradona.
Carlos Tevez
As of this writing, Tevez has 18 goals and 5 assists in league play, the highest combined total of any player in the league (United’s Portuguese phenomenon Nani is nipping at his heels with nine goals and 13 assists).
Though Tevez doesn’t display the same prodigious touch as Messi does day in and day out, he is far more instrumental to the success of his team than is Leo. Without Tevez, City would surely be far further down the table than where it currently sits, in third place.
Brazilian Footballers
kaka
Unfortunately, the rise of Messi and Ronaldo has coincided with injury for Kaká, resulting in the drastic devaluation of his stock. Still, he displayed shades of brilliance in the 2010 World Cup and at club level with Real Madrid during the 2010-11 season.
And nothing can take away the 31 personal honors Kaká has received in his career.
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