Andres Guardado
Deportivo La Coruna seasons In July 2007 he was transferred from Atlas to Deportivo La Coruna in a contract of $7 million Euro, a record for a Mexican player. He played at Depor in the 2007-2010 seasons and scored 10 goals. His first La Liga goal meant victory (1-0) in the September 2007 match with Betis. The club number is 18 which he keeps it also for the national. He suffered tearing knee ligaments in January 2009.http://www.footballdatabase.com/index.php?page=player&Id=7000&b=true&pn=Jos%C3%A9_Andr%C3%A9s_Guardado_Hern%C3%A1ndezhttp://www.goal.com/en/news/1663/mexico/2010/03/03/1816070/injury-not-major-setback-for-mexicos-andres-guardado In March 2010 it was reported that Premiership teams Tottenham and Aston Villa are looking to buy the player. Guardado admits that the offers are attractive.http://www.tribalfootball.com/aston-villa-rival-tottenham-depor-star-guardado-690681
2010 World Cup For the Qualifiers, he played in 16 games for which scored three times. One important goal was in the Mexico-Costa Rica match 3-0 in September 2009. http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/statisticsandrecords/players/player=251352/index.html Mexico plays in the Group A in the South Africa World Cup. Mexico and France are favorites in a group that also includes the home country and Uruguay.
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Alan Shearer
Alan Shearer was a goal-scorer. He played 441 games in the English Premier League and scored a Premiership-record 260 goals. For Newcastle United, Shearer scored 206 goals in 404 appearances for the club. That total makes him Newcastle's top all-time goalscorer. http://www.nufc.co.uk/page/Club/History/RecordsAdditionally, Shearer scored 30 goals internationally, including two in the 1998 France FIFA World Cup.http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/edition=1013/results/index.html
Professionally, Shearer began his career in 1988 playing for Southampton. Several years later, he made a move to Blackburn to play for the Rovers. Four seasons later, in 1996, Shearer joined his hometown Newcastle United. He played for Newcastle until 2006, when a knee injury forced him to retire at the age of 36. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/n/newcastle_united/4929358.stm
In his 18-year career, Shearer played for only one team that won a major trophy, the 1994-95 Blackburn Rovers who won the Premiership title. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/n/newcastle_united/4929358.stm
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Michael Essien
Essien was again bitten by the injury bug in 2008/09. He ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament in a World Cup qualifier against Libya in September 2008 and missed six months of action.
When he returned, he appeared in ten EPL games for Chelsea, tallying once. He also took part in two FA Cup contests, and five Euro Cup games, scoring twice.
After returning in March 2009, he helped secure Ghana's place in the World Cup with stellar play that has been his trademark for several years.
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Pele
Despite being the youngest of Brazil's players (indeed, the youngest in history at that time) in Sweden, where the event was held, Pele's impact in his first World Cup was unsurpassed. After missing some early games with injury, Pele scored six goals in four matches, the second highest total of the tournament. The only game in which he didn't score was the first-round matchup against the Soviet Union, during which he did bang a shot off of the post. His hat-trick in the semifinals brought Brazil back from a deficit to slip by France. His two goals in the 5-2 victory over Sweden in the final included one often considered one of the best in the history of the World Cup. The remaining goal came in the quarterfinal matchup against Wales, which was the only score of the contest.
Following the victory against Sweden in the final, Pele passed out and had to be revived by doctors. He was honored as the best young player of the tournament, and was to be the most important member of the Brazilian national team for most of the next 12 years.
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David Silva
- 2005 - 2006: 31 games started, 34 appearances, 4 goals, 4 assists
- 2006 - 2007: 41 games started, 50 appearances, 8 goals 7 assists
- 2007 - 2008: 45 games started, 48 appearances, 8 goals, 3 assists
- 2008 - 2009: 38 games started, 43 appearances, 6 goals, 10 assists
- 2009 - 2010: 39 games started, 43 appearances, 13 goals, 9 assists
- 2010 - 2011: 1 game started (season in progress)
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/players/stats?id=43815&cc=5901
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Dennis Bergkamp
Dennis Bergkamp retired from active play in July 2006. His farewell testimonial match was the first game played at Arsenal’s new Emirates Stadium, and featured past and present Arsenal and Ajax stars including Thierry Henry, Patrick Vieira, Johan Cruyff and Marco Van Basten.http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/5203954.stmhttp://www.arsenal.com/match/report/0708bergkand-testimonial-arsenal-2-1-ajax-report
Since his retirement from active play, Bergkamp has returned to his Dutch roots and is now the youth coach at Ajax.
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Ricardo Carvalho
Carvalho spent the 2008/09 season with Chelsea, and by his own admissions, it was frustrating and his "worst season ever."http://www.chelseafc.com/page/PlayerProfileDetail/0,,10268~28118,00.html
He played in just eleven English Premier League games on the season, totaling one goal and one assist. He sustained a knee injury in September 2008 against Manchester United that cost him a month of action. Then after returning, he played just three more contests before injuring his hamstring, sidelining him again.http://www.chelseafc.com/page/PlayerProfileDetail/0,,10268~28118,00.html
He returned several more times from nagging injuries, but failed to play up to the high level that fans of the club were used to seeing from him on the pitch.
