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NICKLAS BENDTNER

With the help of Danish football player Nicklas Bendtner’s hat-trick goals against ‘FC Porto’, Arsenal entered in the quarter final of the Champions Leagu. Arsenal gained 5-0 victory over FC Petero in the second round of the Champions Leagu. Nicklas Bendtner is the center-forward striker of the English football club ‘Arsenal’ and the ‘Denmark national team’. He is considered as the sharpest shooters of the football.

BIOGRAPHY

Nicklas Bendtner was born on 16th January, 1988 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He started to playing football in his homeland clubs like ‘B.93′ and ‘Kjøbenhavns Boldklub’ (KB). He scored four goals in six Danish national youth team matches. At the age of 16, he joined in the English club ‘Arsenal’ in 2004 and his first match was against Sunderland in ‘2005 League Cup match’. He spent a year on loan at ‘Birmingham City’ football club in 2006 and returned to Arsenal team during 2007–08 Premier League season. In that season, he gained goals against ‘Paris Saint Germain’ and ‘Newcastle United’, and he scored his debut ‘UEFA Champions League’ goal against ‘SK Slavia Praha’. In addition, Arsenal gained many victories with the help of his goals during that season. In 2008–09 season, Bendtner scored four goals in the Arsenal’s 10–2 victory against ‘Burgenland XI’, and he gained his first Premier League goal against ‘Bolton Wanderers’. The year 2009 is good for him, because in that year, he scored total 14 goals for Arsenal. Now in 2010, Bendtner gained his first hat-trick for Arsenal against Porto in the second round of the Champions League. Bendtner is also a player of ‘Denmark national team’. He started his international career by gaining three goals for the ‘Denmark under-16 national team in 2004. He played for ‘Danish senior national team’ at the age of 18 in 2006. He gained one goal in his debut game against Poland. In the ‘2010 World Cup qualifiers’, he showed a wonderful performance by gaining three goals. With the help of his performance, Denmark qualified for the ‘2010 World Cup’, and he was named as ‘Danish Player of the Year’ and his goal against Portugal won the ‘Goal of the Year award’.

WAYNE ROONEY

With the help of English football striker Wayne Rooney’s goal, Manchester United entered in the League Cup final. In the semi final, Manchester United gained 4-3 victory over Manchester City on Wednesday. Wayne Rooney is the player of the English Premier League club Manchester United since 2004.

BIOGRAPHY

The versatile football striker Wayne Rooney was born on 24th of October, 1985 in Liverpool, England as the son of Thomas Wayne and Jeanette Marie Rooney. He started his football career with ‘Everton’ Football Club at the age of ten. He gained everyone’s attention in 2002 with a stunning match-winning goal against ‘Arsenal’,  which made him the then youngest scorer in the history of the Premiership. In that year BBC Sports selected him as the ‘Young Personality of the Year 2002′. He quickly became part of Everton club and gained many goals. In 2004, he left Everton at the age of 18 and joined in ‘Manchester United’ club at the price of £25.6 million. He won the Premier League three times, the 2007–08 UEFA Champions League and also the League Cup for ‘Manchester United’. In addition, he was named as the ‘Young Player of the Year’ in 2005 and 2006, as well as the ‘Fans’ player of the Year’ in 2006 in the Premiership. Rooney’s international career started with England national team in 2003 at the age 17. His first tournament was ‘Euro 2004′ in which he became the youngest scorer in competition history on 17 June 2004. Although England was knocked out in the last eight of European Championships, but Rooney gained everybody’s attention with his sensational performance. In ‘2006 World Cup’, Rooney played for England, but he failed to score any goal and England was defeated by Portugal in the quarter final of that world cup. An incident involving Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo at the ‘2006 World Cup’ earned him some negative reactions from fans and press alike. By the demand of Portugal’s player Cristiano Ronaldo, Rooney got a red card in the quarter final match against Portugal for stamping the Portugal player Ricardo Carvalho. In addition to the football, he has some commercial interests. He has endorsement deals with Nike, Nokia, Ford, Asda, and Coca-Cola. Rooney is married to Coleen Rooney, and they have a son Kai Wayne Rooney.    .