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His performances saw him win the FIFA World Player of the Year, the 2007 Ballon d'Or, and the UEFA Club Footballer of the Year. After six years with Milan, Kaká joined Real Madrid in 2009 for a transfer fee of €67 million, [ 15 ] which was the second highest transfer fee at the time.
Kaká signed an 18-month contract with APOEL on 29 January 2014, returning to his former club after one and a half years. [16] He made his debut on 9 February, coming on as an 84th-minute substitute in a 2–1 league home victory over Apollon Limassol , [ 17 ] and scored his first goal one week later in his team's 3–1 defeat of Alki Larnaca FC .
"Say Juninho Pernambucano's name, and the first response is likely to be, "Great free kicks." He was the greatest and most versatile free-kick taker there has ever been. Through his early years at Vasco da Gama and his eight-year stint at Lyon, Juninho developed his knuckleball technique. Whether 20, 30 or 40 yards from goal, the hits were ...
In February 2011, after Corinthians were eliminated from the 2011 Copa Libertadores by the Colombian team Deportes Tolima, Ronaldo announced his retirement from football, concluding an 18-year career.
At 17, he made the decision to retire early. This former minimum-wage worker retired at 39 with a $3.5M nest egg — now he’s an American expat living on $185K/year in Dubai.
A crowd of 15,472 rose to its feet and roared when Mike Tyson entered the ring at MCI Center in Washington, D.C. on June 11, 2005. Ten months after suffering a fourth-round knockout against Danny ...
According to CNBC, the young entrepreneur wanted to get rich and enter retirement by age 35. By the time he was 32, he sold the company for $6 million, pocketing around $2 million in profit ...
The 2007 Ballon d'Or, given to the best football player in the world as judged by an international panel of sports journalists, was awarded to Kaká. [1] [2] This was the first year in which players from clubs outside the UEFA federation were eligible for nomination; this change also led to an increase in the voting pool to include journalists from outside UEFA countries.