The 21st World Cup in football is taking place in Russia. So far, it has served up both masterpieces and slip-ups. The latter are particularly quickly noticed by Internet users, so it is not unusual for eight-year-olds to find themselves in these memes.
The FIFA World Cup is not just an opportunity for players to shine in all their glory. Designers of sports shoes also want to show themselves in the best light, and they can go down in history with their beautiful football boots.
Every four years we witness an event that makes many people look forward to the summer not for vacationing at the sea, but for watching football matches. Yes, you guessed it, we are talking about the soccer world cup.
Here are 10 of the hottest footballers at this year's FIFA World Cup who are not only impressive on the pitch but also impress with their looks. Now you know who to root for.
Barcelona footballer Lionel Messi set a new milestone in the last league match. In the 92nd minute, he scored the 500th goal for FC Barcelona. I couldn't have picked a better competitor and a better moment for this. He scored it against his biggest rival, Real from Madrid, who is otherwise a regular client of the prodigy from Argentina, and this at his Santiago Bernabeu stadium, and to top it off, in the dying moments of the match, which also sank the white ballet and kept Barcelona in the race for the title of Spanish champion. With this incredible achievement, it is right to pay tribute to this miracle on the green with a video of all his 500 goals in the Blaugrana jersey.
The battle of the greens between Ronaldo and Messi continues. The football magazine France Football has published a list of the highest earners in the 2016/17 season, where the two best footballers of the last decade reign supreme. We will publish below who pocketed more, as well as which coach made the most of his personal account.
Japanese soccer player Kazuyoshi Miura is a true phenomenon. He is football's Noriaki Kasai or Ole Einar Bjørndalen, who at the age of 50 can compete with colleagues more than half his age on the green. More. Recently, this world's oldest professional soccer player broke his own age-old scoring record. He scored a goal at the age of 50 years and 14 days! At such an old age, no one has managed to do this. Watch the historic goal.
Who would have thought that a single single tweet could be worth so much money! Cristiano Ronaldo earns more for one 'tweet' than you will with a regular salary for the next 20 years combined! The research was carried out by the Opendorse agency, which calculated how much athletes' tweets are worth. From the height of the amount it spins!
A scorpion goal is a very special type of goal that only the greatest masters of football can do. Among them is Henrikh Mkhitaryan, who plays for Jose Mourinho's team. The Manchester United midfielder scored one of the best, if not the best, goal in football history against a Sunderland side managed by former Red Devils manager David Moyes at Old Trafford. You simply have to see this masterpiece.
My chewing gum can be a soccer ball, thought Felix Passlack, an 18-year-old soccer player from Borussia Dortmund, who showed his magnificent soccer talent with the example of chewing gum.
Yellow and red cards are the constant stars of football, and in the Italian Serie B (the second quality class), referees will now also keep a green card in their pocket. Vincenzo striker Christian Galano was the first in history to receive a card, which the referee shows to a football player for fair play.
Euro 2016 was served with quite a few penalties, which also decided quite a few matches. At these, quite a few national team players submitted a candidacy for the worst penalty taken of all time. The last time this happened was in the quarter-final match between Germany and Italy, where, after the execution of the 11-meter penalty, our western neighbors drew a short shot, among whom Simone Zaza, who tried to confuse the goalkeeper by jumping before the shot, but was confused earlier sent himself and the ball into the audience instead of into the net. Of course, this is not an isolated case, there have been quite a few unfortunate attempts to take penalties in the history of football, and we have searched out the most desperate attempts of famous football players, which showed that they too are only human. These are the worst penalties of all time.