|
|
| Ukraine will invite UEFA chief
Michel Platini to tour a new stadium to see for himself the
ex-Soviet state's progress in preparing to co-host the Euro 2012
finals, President Viktor Yushchenko said on Tuesday.
|
|
| Former Soviet international midfielder Alexei Mikhailichenko was on Friday appointed as Ukraine's new national head coach. |
|
| Following is a list of winners of
the Ballon d'Or award:
1956 - Stanley Matthews (England)
1957 - Alfredo di Stefano (Spain)
1958 - Raymond Kopa (France)
1959 - Alfredo di Stefano (Spain)
1960 - Luis Suarez (Spain)
1961 - Omar Sivori (Italy)
1962 - Josef Masopust (Czechoslovakia)
1963 - Lev Yashin (Soviet Union)
1964 - Denis Law (Scotland)
1965 - Eusebio (Portugal)
1966 - Bobby Charlton (England)
1967 - Florian Albert (Hungary)
1968 - George Best (Northern Ireland)
1969 - Gianni Rivera (Italy)
1970 - Gerd Mueller (West Germany)
1971 - Johan Cruyff (Netherlands)
1972 - Franz Beckenbauer (Germany)
1973 - Johan Cruyff (Netherlands)
1974 - Johan Cruyff (Netherlands)
1975 - Oleg Blokhin (Soviet Union)
1976 - Franz Beckenbauer (West Germany)
1977 - Allan Simonsen (Denmark)
1978 - Kevin Keegan (England)
1979 - Kevin Keegan (England)
1980 - Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (West Germany)
1981 - Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (West Germany)
1982 - Paolo Rossi (Italy)
1983 - Michel Platini (France)
1984 - Michel Platini (France)
1985 - Michel Platini (France)
1986 - Igor Belanov (Soviet Union)
1987 - Ruud Gullit (Netherlands)
1988 - Marco van Basten (Netherlands)
1989 - Marco van Basten (Netherlands)
1990 - Lothar Matthaeus (Germany)
1991 - Jean-Pierre Papin (France)
1992 - Marco van Basten (Netherlands)
1993 - Roberto Baggio (Italy)
1994 - Hristo Stoichkov (Bulgaria)
1995 - George Weah (Liberia)
1996 - Matthias Sammer (Germany)
1997 - Ronaldo (Brazil)
1998 - Zinedine Zidane (France)
1999 - Rivaldo (Brazil)
2000 - Luis Figo (Portugal)
2001 - Michael Owen (England)
2002 - Ronaldo (Brazil)
2003 - Pavel Nedved (Czech Republic)
2004 - Andriy Shevchenko (Ukraine)
2005 - Ronaldinho (Brazil)
2006 - Fabio Cannavaro (Italy)
2007 - Kaka (Brazil)
(Compiled by Patrick Vignal; Editing by Justin Palmer)
|
|
| Leonid Slutsky has been made
coach of Russian premier league side Krylya Sovietov Samara
three weeks after being fired by a rival club, Samara said on
Tuesday.
|
|
| Former Soviet and Ukrainian international defender Oleg Luzhny was appointed interim manager of Ukraine's champions Dynamo Kiev after Josef Szabo was hospitalised with a heart attack, the club announced on Monday. |
|
| Bollywood movie "Goal" has tied up with Manchester United Football Club in the hope of scoring a major hit when it is released at the end of the month. |
|
| Spain's players know they need
to learn from past mistakes and not take a win for granted at
home to Latvia in Wednesday's Euro 2008 qualifier in Oviedo.
|
|
| Brandi Chastain remembers exactly where she was during the Miracle on Ice. As an 11-year-old watching the U.S. hockey team shock the Soviet Union during the 1980 Olympics, Chastain realized she, too, wanted to play sports on the grandest of international stages. That was her first inkling of the power of an image, a gesture to fire up a stranger's imagination. |
|
| Ukraine's president has accused
the ex-Soviet state's government of failing to take seriously
the huge tasks of preparing for the 2012 European soccer
championships, to be staged jointly with Poland.
|
|
| A new US women's professional soccer league hoping to spark real-life dreams like those in the movie "Bend It Like Beckham" will launch in 2009 and not in 2008 as first planned, organizers said on Tuesday. |
