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FERNANDO ALONSO

Spanish Formula One racing driver Fernando Alonso made a dream start at the Italian glamor formula one team ‘Ferrari’. He won ‘Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix’ trophy for Ferrari. His teammate Brazilian Felipe Massa finished in second and ‘2008 World Champion’ Britain’s Lewis Hamilton finished in third place.  By winning this trophy, he became the fourth man to win on his debut for Ferrari. Fernando Alonso is a two-time World Champion of formula one racing and currently racing for Ferrari team. Alonso is considered as one of the best racing drivers of all time.

BIOGRAPHY

Fernando Alonso was born on 29th July, 1981 in Oviedo, northern Spain as the son of Jose Luis Alonso. In his childhood, Alonso participated in karting competitions by the support of his father. He won ‘Junior World Cup’, ‘Spanish Karting Championships’ and other two Spanish karting championships between 1993 and 1996. In 1998, his extraordinary talent was recognized and gave a seat in the ‘Euro Open MoviStar’ by Nissan series, and he won the championship in 1999. In 2000, he shifted into ‘Formula 3000, and he won the ‘Belgian Grand Prix’. He started his Formula One career with ‘Minardi’ in 2001 and gained attention from the faster teams like Sauber with his wonderful performance. He moved to ‘Renault’ in 2002, and he gained his first win only after 13 races. At that time, he holds the record for the youngest driver to win a Formula One Grand Prix. The year 2005 was the turning point for Fernando, because he gained the ‘ Brazilian Grand Prix  Championship’, and he become the youngest ever champion at 24 years and 59 days. He preserved his title in 2006, and he became the youngest double World Champion in Formula One history. After that, he moved into ‘McLaren’ and after the one year, he returned to Renault F1 Team. In 2000, he moved into ‘Ferrari’ partnered with Felipe Massa. Now he made a dream debut for Ferrar team by winning the ‘Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix’ trophy. Alonso currently lives in Oxford, England,  with his wife Spanish pop singer Raquel del Rosario. In addition to the formula one racing, she showed interests in other sports, like cycling, football and tennis.

HOCKEY WORLD CUP, 2010 WINNER-AUSTRALIA

Australia proved that they are the number one team in hockey by winning the ‘World Cup, 2010′. They defeated two-time defending champion Germany with the score 2-1 in the final of the ‘World Cup’ hockey on Saturday. Thus the Australians overshadowed the dream of Germany to become the first team in history to bag a hat-trick of World Cup title. This victory was Australia’s first victory after their 24- year world cup victory. Australia’s first world cup victory was in the year 1986 against England. In addition, Australia was beaten by Germany in the previous two World Cup finals in 2002 and 2006.

ABOUT AUSTRALIAN HOCKEY TEAM

Australian hockey team is the most successful team in the world. This team won any medal in the last five Summer Olympics and won a gold medal in 2004 Olympics. They are the winner of ‘Champions Trophy’ for ten times and in last December, they won their 10th Champions Trophy by beating Olympic champions Germany in the final. They won their first World Cup title in 1986 by defeating England in the final. Now they gained their second World Cup title by beating two-time defending champion and Olympic champion Germany in the final. Australia started this World Cup campaign with a loss against England. After that, they never looked back, and they won the victory against India with the score 5-3, against South Africa with record score 12-0, against Spain with 2-0, against Pakistan with 2-1 in the qualifying round matches. In the semi final, Australia defeated Netherlands with the score 2-1. At last, they won their second World Cup title by defeating Germany in the final with the score 2-1. Former Australian player Ric Charlesworth is the current coach of the Australian team and now he holds a unique record of winning the World Cup as a player and a coach, because he was the captain of the 1986 Cup squad.

Australian squad : Des Abbott, George Bazeley, Graeme Begbie, Kiel Brown, Nathan Burgers, Matthew Butturini, Liam De Young, Luke Doerner, Jamie Dwyer, Kieran Govers, Rob Hammond, Fergus Kavanagh, Mark Knowles, Eddie Ockenden, Simon Orchard, Grant Schubert, Matthew Swann, Glenn Turner.