Retired Footballer/Coach/Manager/

Currently Director of Manchester United

This guy needs no introduction. As Manchester United fan its an honor to write about one of the best managers in the history of football. He made Manchester United the biggest club of the world. Winning trophies was a routine for this guy and he surely knew how to please the fans as well. Sir Alex Ferguson build a fan base so large for Manchester United that no other club is even around and wont be in at least next 5-10 years to come. Chewing gum on the sideline, monitoring his team, filling them with such an inspiration and fighting spirit that Manchester United were capable of overcoming deficits in even tense matches and completing comebacks. Sir Alexander Chapman Ferguson is a former Scottish football manager and player who managed Manchester United From 1986 to 2013. His time at the club is regarded as one of the most successful time as he won 49 trophies with the club. He is listed as No. 1 Managers of all time by ESPN -

Managerial Career

Sir Alex Ferguson is longest serving manager of Manchester United. He overtook Sir Matt Busby’s record on 19th December 2010, after completing more than 26 and a half years as the club’s manager. He won numerous awards and holds many records including winning Manager of the year most times in the British football history. In 2008 after winning the Champions League and conquering Europe, Ferguson became only the third British Manager to win the European Cup more than once. He was knighted in 1999 for his services to the game of football  and also has the Freedom of the city of Aberdeen. On May 8th 2013 Ferguson announced his retirement as the Manager of Manchester United and replaced by David Moyes.

Earnings

According to Football Managers rich list of 2013, Sir Alex Ferguson earned almost 34 million pounds and topped the list. Many were of the opinion that ferguson was going to spend his retirement walking the dog and tending his azaleas, but i would say THINK AGAIN ! He is Sir Alex Ferguson, according to sources the former Manchester United Manager has got himself a nice little steady earning as the club’s ambassador.  He will be paid around 2 million pounds for about 20 appearances a year, or we can put it another way, about 110,000 pounds each time he presses the flesh. This is in addition to the basic pension of 110.5 pounds a week and i guess he will be able to make a high class living out of this in UK. In my opinion Ferguson created more value for the team he led than any other head coach in the history of football i can think of. By the estimation he is responsible for about 400 million dollars or about 11% of the publicly traded English football teams current enterprise value of about 3.5 billion dollars. Ferguson was able to accomplish this astonishing feat by winning continuously on the pitch and leading with class, which enabled Manchester United to build one of the most valuable brands in sports. The strong band impression in turn has fueled revenue growth superior to other club rivals.

Net Worth

Macclesfield house

Ferguson owns a plush mansion in the small town of Macclesfield in England.

Chevrolet Volt

He owned a Chevrolet Volt even before the sponsorship jersey deal of Manchester United with the General Motors was done.

Chevrolet Volt

Since the deal he owns another Chevrolet Volt and it has been provided by General Motors. It simply means that he dint have to buy it and every other Manchester United first team player was gifted with a Chevrolet car of their choice as a part of the sponsorship deal.

Relationships and Personal Life

Ferguson currently lives in Wilmslow, Cheshire with his wife cathy Ferguson. They got married in 1966 and have three sons together Mark, twins Darren and Jason. In 1998 he was named in the list of the biggest private financial donors to the Labour Party. Ferguson in 2009 received an Honorary doctorate in business administration from the Manchester Metropolitan University, it was actually the second degree which he got from the same university first being a masters in 1998.

Controversies

David Beckham and draw fixing

In 2003, Ferguson was involved in a dressing room argument with then Manchester United Player David Beckham. it resulted in an injury to Beckham, alleged to have been caused by Ferguson kicking a football boot in frustration which hit the player in face below eye brows. In another controversy where he claimed that the 2003 Champions league draw was fixed in favour of Spanish and Italian teams.

Recalling of loaned players

After the sacking of his son Darren by Preston north End, Ferguson Immediately recalled his loaned players Ritchie De laet, Joshua King and Matty James under new managerial system. He later explained that it was players’ own request not to return to Preston after the change of manager.

Quotes

““You are not going to be happy if you lose to a goal in the last minute.””

““Winning one trophy is good, I tell you. No matter what trophy it might be, you’ve got to take it.””

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CRISTIANO- “THE MOST GIFTED PLAYER”

Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro illustrious as, Cristiano Ronaldo, was born on 5^th February 1985 in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. He is a cute-younger baby of, Maria Dolores Dos Santos Aveiro and his late father Jose Dinis Aveiro. Cristiano derives his name from former US President Ronald Reagen, who was also his father’s favorite actor. The early life of Ronaldo had not been lavish and extravagant like other superstars. He lived in a tin-roofed ramshackle home, engulfed in the arms of ocean. Impecunious Ronaldo was not born under a lucky star, as his father died in 2005 out of kidney failure due to excessive addiction to alcohol. Destitution, ordeals and tribulations are few that well described Ronaldo’s life. After the death of her husband, Maria had the entire responsibility of family and toiled away as a cook and cleaner.

SOCCER- I DRINK, EAT AND BREATHE

Ronaldo got acquainted with soccer at the age of 10 through his father’s occupation, who worked as an equipment manager in the Boy’s club. Cristiano was so much obsessed and engrossed in the game that he used to lie about his homework and even come late to home. His first club, Andorinha, where he played as an amateur, served a great source of inspiration to this little kid for he was teased for his Madeiran accent and badly treated by his teammates. Ronaldo got his first breakthrough when two preeminent, local professional local clubs, CS Maritimo and CD Nacional, wanted to sign this phenomenon kid. The emergent player won several titles along with the offer from Sporting Lisbon. Moving to Lisbon was difficult as it lead him away from his family and friends but his dazzling footwork and goal-scoring abilities made him one of the most exciting teenage soccer players in the world. He played his first game in the Portuguese Super League, at just an age of 17.

Ronaldo’s charisma and sensational goal-scoring dexterity enthralled Alex Ferguson, manager of Manchester United who bought him for flabbergasting amount of $ 20 million from Sporting Lisbon. Cristiano brought innumerable victories to both, Manchester United and Portugal and had scored the opening goal for Manchester in their 2004 FA Cup triumph thus helping Portugal advance to the finals at Euro 2004. Ronaldo being a two-footed player rules the playground. This had enabled Ronaldo and his left winger Ryan Giggs to switch wings occasionally allowing Manchester United to further confuse their opponents. It was 2009 when Manchester had accepted $ 132 million from Spain’s Real Madrid soccer team for Manchester first choice penalty-taker. This tricky, technically proficient and unpredictable winger strikes powerful shots from outside the box. During his first season at Real Madrid, Ronaldo outperformed all of the players and scored incredible count of 26 goals. This powerful striker with uniquely “pin ball free-kicks” style is the most expensive player in the football history. His dashing looks and charismatic personality have fetched numerous recognition and awards that could matter to any man. This dynamic and inflammatory player is a flawless marketing face of mega-brands such as Nike, Armani, and Coke that fetches him millions for his partnership with the brands. Cristiano’s long list of 25 million facebook fans, which is more than twice as many as any other athlete, enables this Real Madrid star to successfully expand his brand through social media.

SUCCESS TRAIL WITH LITTLE HUMPS AND BUMPS

Ronaldo played his debit game for Madrid and won by 1-0 in opposition to Shamrock rovers on 21^st July 2009; he donned jersey of number 9 presented to him by a Madrid legend, Alfredo Di Stefano. He brought 4-2 penalty triumph to Madrid over LDU Quito. The unstoppable also got a score of 3-2 win from a penalty against Deportivo La Coruna. He got his first goal in Champions League after getting free kicks score with 5-2 over Zurich with victory and after scoring against Villarreal he turned into first player to make four in all the matches of La Liga. Due to ankle injury, Ronaldo could not make up to Champions League against Milan but made his debut win 1-0 with El Clasico against Barcelona, after recovery.  Ronaldo got the first ever hat-trick for Real Madrid in opposition to Mallorca on 5^th May 2010. The real victory was about break all records when the Ronaldo and Gonzalo made 53 goals in a league. He played about 149 matches for Real Madrid with 150^th goal being the last that made him highest 10^th goal scorer.

Euro 2008 had been brilliant too as Ronaldo scored a total of 8 goals and in the same year he was chosen as a captain of the team after the appointment of new coach Carlos Queiroz. In 2010 World Cup, Ronaldo bagged, “Man of the Match” title in Portugal. In the tournament of UEFA 2012 Euro, Ronaldo struck 7 successful and powerful shots against Bosnia and Group B consisting of Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and Portugal received the title of “Group of Death”. In the quarterfinal match of Czech Republic, Ronaldo got praised for excellent performance and became the best scored player in second time participation in UEFA 2012 Euro.

LINK UPS

The irrepressible no. 7 jersey player, apart from on field goals has great score of girlfriends too, while he was playing for Manchester United. Starting on from Irina Shaykhlislamova, who was a model, was his first girlfriend. Jordana Jardel had spread the rumor that she was in relationship with Ronaldo, simply to get fame. When Ronaldo moved to Real Madrid, he got to meet Kim Kardashian on his LA trip. The rumor could not last long as nothing was approved of their so-called relationship. Watching football match, having food stuff and returning back home together with Ronaldo, made Paris Hilton too, a subject of tittle-tattle. Daniele Aguiar, Nuria Bermudez, Merche Romero, Karina Bacchi, Niki Ghazian, Tyese Cunningham & Gemma Storey and Luana Belletti were the next few on the list, whose link ups with Ronaldo had neither been denied nor approved by Ronaldo.  

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES BY RONALDO

“I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from”.

“When you’re surrounded by flowers, you breathe better”.

“I have never tried to hide the fact that it is my intention to be the best”.

“My free-kick secret? I just look at the net and say ‘take the kick, Cristiano’”.

“If we can’t help our family who are we going to help”

THE NATTY, SNAZZY, VOGUISH AND MILLIONAIRE RONALDO

This stellar performer not only takes breath-taking goals but also uses modish bracelets, handbags, sunglasses, unique foot wear, extravagant belts and several other attractive stuff to captivate the attention of many paparazzi towards his dressing style and everything related to him. Cristiano Ronaldo has a net worth of $ 1o billion and owns not just one, two, three or 10 cars but a total of 15 in number along with two big real estates and spell bounding and enticing wardrobe. Ronaldo has an incredible collection of cars of all kinds of brands you could think or might not even think of, that includes, Bentley Continental GTC worth $ 195,000, Ferrari 599 GTB of $ 310,000, net worth of Audi R8 and Audi RS6 is $ 230,000, Ferrari F430, Ferrari GTO of $ 385,000, Maserati GranCabrio worth $ 140,000, Porsche Cayenne Turbo worth $ 70,000, Mercedes Benz C220, Bugatti Veyron, Aston Martin DB9, Rolls Royce Phantom Drophead, Lamborghini Aventador and Koenigsegg CCX. Cristiano also owns lavish house in Madrid worth more than $ 7.2 million along with a grand mansion, Alderley Edge in U.K worth $ 6 million. According to 2010 estimation, Ronaldo’s salary, bonuses, off-field earning was around $ 36 million with 2013 being the highest having a total of $ 44 million. Ronaldo also proponents several social cause and non-profit organizations such as UN Development Program, Red Cross, Charity for Tsunami and for hometown Madeira.

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David Robert Joseph Beckham, known by the name David Beckham is a sensational soccer player and one among the richest and well known soccer player in the world. He is among the richest soccer player who started his career in football at the age of 17. He played for Manchester United and he is regarded as the iron man of soccer. He was the first British soccer player who won league titles in 4 countries. He has devoted 20 years of his life to this game. He ended up his glittering career by taking a retirement from the field in May 2013.

Early Life

The astounding soccer player, David Beckham was born on 2^nd May in the year 1957 in Leytonstone in England. As a child, he was always interested in football and played soccer in Ridgeway Park when he was a child. His dream was to be a footballer since his childhood days which he has surely fulfilled. He inherited his love for Manchester United from his parents who were great supporters of the team. He played for Tottenham Hotspur, which was his first football club. He then played for Brimsdown Rover’s youth team and on 8^th July in the year 1991 he signed a contract for Youth Training Scheme.

Marriage to the Spice Girl

His already popular status reached to a new height when he started seeing Victoria Adams in the year 1997. Victoria Beckham was born on 17^th April 1974 and she is a renowned businesswoman, singer and an actress. She is among the top 10 single singers in the U.K. and is dubbed as Posh Spice by Top of the Pops in July 1996 issue. David Beckham and Victoria were dubbed as Posh and Beckham in the media. After staying together for almost two years the couple decided to take their relationship to a next step when David proposed Victoria on one knee and got married in the year 1999. The couple is blessed with four children: Brooklyn, Cruz, Romeo and Harper. Victoria Beckham is weighed up among the 100 successful women in the U.K. their marriage was in the limelight due to the celebrity and money status both of them held.

The stats of his career

Being an ace star in the football field, David Beckham has bagged many awards for himself. The graph of his career raises with every match he played. Here are some of the most important achievements and awards of him:

• In the year 1996 he was awarded as the Carling Premiership Player of the month and in the same year he was also awarded as the Panasonic player of the year.
• In 1997 he grabbed two awards, which were: PFA Young Player of the year and Sir Matt Busby Award 1999 UEFA Best Midfielder
• In the year 200 he was given the World Footballer of the year and National Football Awards Player of the Year.
• He won the BBC sports personality and British Sportsman of the year award, Western Union Most Valuable Player, World Footballer of the Year, European Footballer of the year in the year 2001
• In the year 2003 he got Order of the British Empire Honour, Named in Uefa.com’s Team of The Year 2003
• He has played 534 Top-Flight League games in five countries and for nineteen seasons.
• In his senior career, he has won nineteen Major Trophies.

Different Clubs he played for:

David Beckham has played for seven different clubs in his football career. He started his career with Manchester United, for which he played from 1993 to 2003. In the year 1994- 1995 he joined Preston North End (loan). In the year 2003 he joined Real Madrid and played for this club for next four years till the year 2007. For the next five years, i.e. from 2007 to 2012 he played for Los Angeles Galaxy. In the year 2009 and 2010 he played for Milan (loan). He played his last game for Paris Saint- Germaine in the year 2013.

HE KNOWS THAT NO ONE BECOMES POORER BY GIVING!!

Apart from being a family man and a renowned soccer player David Beckham spends a large amount of his time as well his money for charity. He has many philanthropic interests and he is the founding member of “Malaria no more”. He also supports the charity which serves the injured people from Iraq and Afghanistan known by the name Help for Heroes. The other charities he supports are MLS works, Elton John AIDS Foundation, UNICEF, and AIDS No More. The Victoria and David Beckham Charitable Trust owned by him focus on helping children who need wheelchairs. The list does not end here, there are many more charity trusts supported by him like CHOC Children’s, FC Harlem, Red Cross, WildAid and many more.

HIS ASSETS AND ESTATES

His love for tattoos and cars is not hidden from the world. Apart from them, David Beckham has many estates in his name which are Beckhingam Palace, Domaine Saint-Vincent, Spanish villa, Beverly Hills Home, Dubai Mansion, Palm Island, Vineyard in Napa, South London Home, and a Parisian hotel suite

MORE ABOUT HIM…

David Beckham is a very devoted family man and has tattooed the names of his four children and his wife on his body as a sign of love. He may be too busy with his game and other business, but he puts his family on top and they are always his priority. David Beckham has a soft heart and he even cried when he was first recruited in Manchester United.

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