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Cristiano Ronaldo promises to give out a whooping sum of money if Madrid wins UCL tonight.

Recall that he made a similar pledge several months back while vying for Ballon D’Or. The Portuguese has promised to give out his £750,000 bonus if Real Madrid wins Champions League. The Spanish club will face their rival, Atletico Madrid in woat Estadio da Luz in Lisbon tonight.
A friend of the current Ballon d’Or award winner told The Sun, “Cristiano was chatting with the physios and said that winning the Champions League was more important to him than money.
One of the guys responded, saying: ‘Well then, if we win the Champions League, you could share your prize with us!’
“Cristiano agreed, saying: ‘OK, if we win the Champions League I’ll use the money to offer a car to each one of you, and one to each member of the technical team’.
Source: mirror.co.uk
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Luis Suarez tops Bloomberg's list of most influential footballers. See top 20

Liverpool’s Luis Suarez has topped Bloomberg Sports list of most influential players. The Uruguayan who scored 31 goals and assisted 12 in 33 Premier League matches piped out the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Zlatan Ibrahimovic in the rankings.

Bloomberg’s criteria include: Effectiveness and efficiency when performing specific attacking tasks, including goals, shots, creativity etc.

Top 20 most influential players

(1) Luis Suarez (Liverpool)

(2) Lionel Messi (Barcelona)

(3) Zlatan Ibrahimovic (PSG)

(4) Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid)

(5) Kevin Strootman (Roma)

(6) Diego Costa (Athletico Madrid)

(7) Mehdi Benatia (Roma)

(8) Robert Lewandowski (Borussia Dortmund)

(9) Tiago (Athletico Madrid)

(10) David Silva (Manchester City)

(11) Franck Ribery (Bayern Munich)

(12) Marco Reus (Borussia Dortmund)

(13) Miranda (Athletico Madrid)

(14) Yaya Toure (Manchester city)

(15) Carlos Tevez (Juventus)

(16) Leandro Castan (Roma)

(17) Martin Demichelis (Manchester City)

(18) Diego Godin (Athletico Madrid)

(19) Gervinho (Roma)

(20) Thiago Silva Club- (PSG)

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Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi, Neymar, Usain Bolt, others make 50 most marketable athletes in the world 2014 list

The list was compiled by SportsPro magazine, criteria includes their marketing potential over the next three years based on value for money, age, home market, charisma, willingness to be marketed and crossover appeal.Topping the list is 29 year Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton.
50 most marketable athletes in the world 2014
(1) Lewis Hamilton – motorsport, Great Britain
(2) Virat Kohli – cricket, India
(3) Robert Griffin III – NFL, USA
(4) Cristiano Ronaldo – football, Portugal
(5) Grigor Dimitrov – tennis, Bulgaria
(6) Usain Bolt – athletics, Jamaica
(7) Neymar – football, Brazil
(8) Missy Franklin – swimming, USA
(9) Blake Griffin – NBA, USA
(10) Sloane Stephens – tennis, USA
(11) Lionel Messi- football, Argentina
(12) Adam Scott- golf, Australia
(13) Eugenie Bouchard- tennis, Canada,
(14) Alex Morgan- soccer, US
(15) Novak Djokovic- tennis, Serbia
(16) Marc Marquez- motorsport, Spain,
(17) Mike Trout- baseball, US
(18) Ronda Rousey- MMA, US
(19) Jordan Spieth- golf, US
(20) Alan Oliveira- para-athletics
Brazil,
(21) Andy Murray- tennis, Scotland
(22) Saul Alvarez, 23, Mexico, boxing
(23) Mikaela Shiffrin- skiing, US
(24) Rory McIlroy- golf, Northern Ireland
(25) Austin Dillon- motorsport, US
(26) Stephen Curry- basketball, US
(27) Sebastian Vettel- motorsport, Germany
(28) Katarina Johnson-Thompson- athletics, England
(29) Anthony Davis- basketball, US, basketball
(30) Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain- soccer, England
(31) Victoria Azarenka- tennis, Belarus
(32) Steven Stamkos- Canada, ice hockey, Canada,
(33) Johnny Manziel- football, America
(34) Mami Sato- para-athletics, Japan
(35) Kevin Pietersen- cricket, England
(36) Brittney Griner- basketball, US
(37) James Harden- basketball, US
(38) Fabiana Claudino- volleyball, Brazil
(39) Taylor Phinney- cycling, US
(40) Daniil Kyvat- motorsport, Russia
(41) Sonny Bill Williams- rugby, New Zealand
(42) Sir Ben Ainslie- sailing, England
(43) Gabriel Medina- surfing, Brazil
(44) Julian Green- soccer, US
(45) Masahiro Tanaka- baseball, Japan
(46) Carmelo Anthony- basketball, US
(47) Youxue Mo- athletics, China, athletics
(48) Caroline Wozniacki- tennis, Denmark
(49) Martin Fourcade- biathlon, France
(50) Simona de Silvestro- motorsport, Switzerland
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Barcelona's Lionel Messi agrees new contract, to become world's best paid footballer.

Barcelona star, Lionel Messi has signed a new contract that would make him the best paid footballer in the world. He will only overtake his Real Madrid nemesis, Cristiano Ronaldo by a very small fraction. While Ronaldo’s salary is put at €20 million per year, Messi will earn

€20.5 million. Despite the new package, Ronaldo will earn more from image rights.

Below is a statement on the club’s site

“FC Barcelona has reached an agreement to adjust the terms in the contract binding Leo Messi to the club as a professional first team player. The revised and updated contract will be signed over the next few days.”

This will also end the rumours making rounds for the past few weeks linking him with one club or the other. In actual fact, over 15 clubs reportedly approached him this season. The Argentine is 8 goals away from becoming the highest goalscorer in the history of the Spanish first division. The new contract will expire in 2019.

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Time's 100 Most Influential People in the world 2014: 2 Nigerians make the cut

Business mogul, Aliko Dangote and Nigeria’s Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala are the two Nigerians who made Times 100 Most Influential People in the world 2014 list. Topping the list is multiple award-winning American singer/songwriter, Beyonce. Other big names include Barack Obama, Angela Merkel, Serena Williams, Hilary Clinton, Pope Francis, Cristiano Ronaldo to mention a few.
A piece on Aliko Dangote written by the richest man in the world, Bill Gates states, “Aliko is Africa’s richest man, and his business activities drive economic growth across the continent. That’s impressive, but I know him best as a leader constantly in search of ways to bridge the gap between private business and public health.”
Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s profile was written by Bono, lead singer of U2 rock band. “I first met economist Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala when she was campaigning for Nigerian debt relief. We’d been fighting our way through capitals around the world trying to get Cold War–era debts canceled for the poorest, most heavily indebted countries. During her first term as Finance Minister of Nigeria, Ngozi arrived at her desk to find a weighty $30 billion owed. With oil prices on the rise, she stopped having to plead with her creditors and bought a massive chunk of her own debt so she could cancel it herself. As if to make a point. She became a legend in that moment”.
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Copa del Rey: C Ronaldo spotted consoling Messi after Barca defeat

Lol! Doesn’t even look a tot like Ronaldo. Someone sent the picture to me last night and was wondering what sort of giant was beside Messi. Is it my eyes or Ronaldo looks taller. Anyways the current world best was spotted consoling his rival after barca’sCopa del rey defeat lastnight. Well, indirect mockery or “straight from the heart”? The most important thing is Madrid won.lol

According to hereisthecity.com, Jose Mourinho has been at the centre of a broken relationship between the world best players. He reportedly told Real Madrid to portray the role of ‘The Bad Guys’ because “friendships with Barcelona do not exist”. This doesn’t make them friends though!

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Former Arsenal player and Cristiano Ronaldo's childhood friend joins fighters waging war in Syria.

It is almost hard to believe a footballer can quit his career especially when age has not caught up with him and become a fighter. Well, he’s doing it for a cause. According to mirror.co.uk, Abu Issa Al-Andalusi, former Arsenal star who also grew up with Real madrid playmaker, Cristiano Ronaldo hung his boots two years ago and joined Jihadi fighters waging war in Syria.
He is filmed wearing a mask, wielding a gun in a video n AK47 and enjoining Muslims to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) – an al-Qaeda off-shoot group behind murders and beheadings. The ex Gunners footballer was quoted thus
“It’s very important for you to protect your children from these animals, from these dirty people; Allah says they are the worst of creatures. We are in need of all kinds of help in fighting the enemy. We have conquered many cities and we are now implementing the sharia. We have areas where the kaffirs (non-Muslims) are paying us the tax.”
He continued, “If you have family in these western countries what is going to happen probably. You don’t have control over your children. Maybe in some of countries it’s a must for you to put your children in the kaffir schools. Who is going to teach your children? It’s going to maybe be a gay, maybe a drug dealer, maybe a paedophile”.
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Manchester United player becomes world's fastest footballer. (See top ten list)

FIFA has released it’s list of the fastest footballers in the world. A Manchester United player came tops! Not Wayne Rooney, Van Persie, Evra or other big names in the Red Devils’ squad. Its Antonio Valencia. I’m sure no one was really looking towards his direction.

FIFA determined this based on the highest recorded speed of a player in a game whilst in possession of the ball. With a speed of 35.1 km/h, Valencia beat the likes of Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney, Franck Ribery and co.

TOP TEN WORLD’S FASTEST FOOTBALLERS

(1.) Antonio Valencia – 35.1 km/h

(2.) Gareth Bale – 34.7 km/h

(3.) Aaron Lennon – 33.8 km/h

(4.) Cristiano Ronaldo – 33.6 km/h

(5.) Theo Walcott – 32.7 km/h

(6.) Lionel Messi – 32.5 km/h

(7.) Wayne Rooney – 31.2 km/h

(8.) Franck Ribery – 30.7 km/h

(9.) Arjen Robben – 30.4 km/h

(10.) Alexis Sanchez – 30.1 km/h

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2014 World Cup: Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney, and Neymar star in new campaign (Photo)

As a prelude to the tournament, Nike has shot and unveiled its first campaign for the 2014 World Cup. The ad which was unveiled on April 1st, 2014 stars Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal, Neymar of Brazil and Wayne Rooney of England. Titled “Risk Everything”, the 3-minute video highlights what each of the soccer stars have to prove at the sporting event.

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