Word: ronaldo
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...RESIGNED. FLORENTINO P?REZ, 58, after almost six years as president of Real Madrid, the world's wealthiest soccer club; in Madrid. Although the Spanish team spent more than $300 million signing superstar players like David Beckham, Zin?dine Zidane and Ronaldo, it has failed to win any major championships in nearly three years and has suffered a string of defeats in recent months. "I cannot ever regret having enjoyed the soccer of the world's best players," P?rez said upon announcing his resignation...
...RONALDO RAUSEO-RICUPERO
...wife Victoria is better known as Posh Spice) with a global pop-idol appeal, nowhere more so than in Asia. To put it unkindly, while Beckham's contribution to Real Madrid's performances on the field will always be eclipsed by the likes of Zidane, Figo, Raul, Ronaldo and Roberto Carlos, he has no peer when it comes to selling the club's shirts to teenagers in Asia...
...hardly surprising that the legends of Brazilian football - Pele, Garrincha, Rivelino, Socrates, Zico all the way through to Ronaldo and Ronaldinho - are mostly strikers and attacking midfielders best remembered for their dazzling goals. German fans and international cognoscenti will certainly concur that their country's greatest ever footballer is Franz Beckenbauer, who patrolled in front of his defense in order to win the ball for his midfield. By contrast, the only Brazilian defenders who enter the pantheon of greats are those such as Junior and Roberto Carlos, remembered not for the goals they prevented but for those they scored...
...Toledo 's approval rating at less than 10%. MEANWHILE IN GERMANY ... Get Your Kit Off Two female Green Party politicians wrote to the German Football Association demanding that players not be penalized for taking off their shirts on the pitch. The pair were shocked to see Portugal 's Cristiano Ronaldo get yellow carded for baring his chest to celebrate scoring a goal against the Netherlands during Euro 2004, and launched a campaign on behalf of female fans keen to appreciate players' "athletic torsos." Purely from an aesthetic point of view, of course...