Friday, November 11, 2011

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Personal information
Full name	Giovani Alex Dos Santos Ramírez
Date of birth	11 May 1989 (age 19)
Place of birth	Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 8+¹⁄₂ in)^[1]
Playing position	Attacking Midfielder, Second Striker
Club information
Current club	Tottenham Hotspur
Number	17
Youth clubs
2001 2002–2006	Monterrey Barcelona
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2007–2008 2008–	Barcelona Tottenham Hotspur	28 (3) 6 (0)
National team²
2005 2007– 2007–	Mexico U-17 Mexico U-20 Mexico	8 (0) 6 (3) 9 (0)

Giovani Alex Dos Santos Ramírez is a Mexican footballer who plays for Tottenham Hotspur and the Mexican national team. Dos Santos was a member of the Mexican National U-17 team that won the 2005 U-17 World Cup held in Peru.
Dos Santos is the son of a Brazilian football player Gerardo dos Santos, better known as “Zizinho”, who played for the Mexican soccer clubs América and León in the late 1980s
On 10 June 2008, dos Santos passed a medical and agreed terms to complete his move to Tottenham Hotspur from Barcelona. The transfer fee is initially £4.7 million, with the potential to rise to £8.6 million depending on appearances. The deal also includes a sell-on clause of 20% within dos Santos’ first two years at Spurs, and 10% thereafter.
The young Mexican was on target twice as Tottenham beat local Spanish side Tavernes in an 8-0 thumping on their 2008-09 pre-season tour. These were his first goals for Tottenham. Gio has also impressed in Tottenham’s other pre-season games having major influences in 5-1 wins over Leyton Orient and Norwich City. He also scored the second goal in the 3-0 win over Borussia Dortmund to help spurs to make it two wins out of two and take home the Feyenoord Jubileum Tournament trophy.

Source : Wikipedia

Balotelli

Mario Balotelli

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Mario Balotelli

Unfortunately, following a series of spates with coaching staff and a pompous opinion of himself, the young Italian has already shown tendencies that have got a number of people in the country concerned the Nerazzurri youngster could be more trouble than he is worth - not that the young Italian of Ghanaian-extract is a unique case. Historically, Italian football can claim to be more blessed than most in it’s ability to produce eccentric, yet brilliant frontmen - think Ravenelli, Di Canio, Vieri and, of course, Antonio Cassano, just to name a hatful.

Having made his debut in the Italian professional game at the tender age of 15 for Lumezzane in Serie C1, Balotelli quickly drew the attention of the leading clubs with his obvious gift and €340,000 saw him join the Nerazurri in 2007. It was from here that the raw and still immature talent was nurtured until his debut for Inter in December 2007. This quick ascension to the top flight would be commendable whatever club team a hungry seventeen-year-old managed to force his way into but in the case of Super Mario he went that step further.

The team that Balotelli would break his way into was the reigning champions Inter, which boasted a stable of strikers including the likes of world-beaters in Adriano, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Hernan Crespo. Usually young talent tends to be daunted by players of this ilk and a modicum of bravado would be understandable when you have managed to come to the world’s attention at such a tender age. However, Balotelli pushed the dial from ‘confidence’ to ‘conceited’ almost from the get-go.

source footballitaliano.co.uk