Showing posts with label Montenegro. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Montenegro. Show all posts

Monday, August 8, 2011

Tom Cleverley is One of five Manchester United Players in the England Equad

Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere and Manchester United's Michael Carrick have both withdrawn and the cleverley, 21 came on as a substitute during United's 3-2 Community Shield victory over Manchester City on the Sunday.

He has spent most of his United career out on loan, first at Leicester then at Watford and last season at Wigan and Cleverley played for England at Under-20 level before making his Under-21 debut against Macedonia in a 2009 and the United and England team mate Ashley Young believes the midfielder has a promising future ahead of him.

ENGLAND EURO 2012 QUALIFIERS 2 September Bulgaria away, 6 September Wales home and the 7 October Montenegro away.

International career for a Cleverley was called up to a Noel Blake's England Under-20 team for the first time on 12 March 2009 and following a dislocated shoulder suffered while on the loan at Leicester City a few days later and he was forced to withdraw from the squad and was replaced by the Manchester City midfielder Adam Clayton.

Manchester United first team Paul Scholes' retirement before the 2011–12 season left an opening in Manchester United's central midfield and theCleverley has been identified by the manager Sir Alex Ferguson as a potential homegrown replacement for Scholes and he was praised by Ferguson after playing and the full 90 minutes in a 2–1 victory over Barcelona in the preseason friendly match.

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Northern Ireland defender Stephen Craigan Steps down from international duty.

Northern Ireland defender Stephen Craigan quits for a Centre-half steps down after eight years.

The 34-year-old Motherwell captain made his debut against Finland in 2003 and last played for his country in the Euro 2012 qualifier against Slovenia in March and the Craigan captained Northern Ireland five times and the earned 54 caps during his international career playing in famous triumphs over Spain in 2005 and England in 2006.

The centre back said it has been a wonderful journey and I have loved every minute playing for my country and it has been a great privilege playing in front of the Green and White Army who have been amazing during my time with the team and I would like to thank everyone for their support and wish (manager) Nigel (Worthington) and the team all the very best in the up and coming Euro 2012 qualifiers."

International career for a Stephen Craigan is Motherwell's record cap holder having received for the 54 caps for Northern Ireland and he played in their 1/0 victory against England in September 2005 and the 3/2 win over Spain a year later and he captained his country on their end of season tour in the 2010 against Turkey and Chile and continued as captain against Montenegro on 11 August 2010.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Corinthians make £35m bid for Man City's Carlos Tevez at Old Trafford

Manchester City have received a £35m bid from Brazilian side Corinthians for Carlos Tevez but the offer is likely to be rejected by the Eastlands hierarchy and the Corinthians hope to bring the 27-year-old back to the club where he enjoyed success from 2004-2006 and made their move after Tevez revealed he wanted to leave City to be reunited with his family.

City are considering the 40m Euro offer, but early indications are that Corinthians will need to a increase their bid if they are to the persuade the Eastlands outfit to a sell the striker and who captained them to their first major trophy in 35 years when they won the FA Cup in May and the BBC Sport understands that City will step up their pursuit of Atletico Madrid's Sergio Aguero once Tevez's future has been settled after opening dialogue with the La Liga side about the Argentina striker.

International career for a he is first came into prominence with Argentina while playing in the FIFA U-17 World Championship and the 2004 Olympic Games, he won the gold medal and scored eight goals (including the winner in the final) in six matches to be the top scorer of the competition.

He was the world's second-highest goalscorer of 2004 in overall international competition with sixteen goals, one fewer than Iran forward Ali Daei and he was called up for the 2006 FIFA World Cup finals, and scored his only goal of the tournament in Argentina's 6–0 group stage thrashing of Serbia and Montenegro on 16 June.
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