Namibian Rudi van Vuuren is Only a Participant in the World Cup Both of Cricket & Rugby.

There are many sportsmen in the world who had participated in many games and sports.Even many of them had participated in the international matches of more than one field such as football, cricket, rugby, hokey, tennis, boxing, baseball and basketball etc. But there is no player in the world without Namibian Rudi van Vuuren who had participated in the world cup in than one field. Namibian Rudi van Vuuren is the only person who has played the Rugby Union world cup and Cricket world cup. Rudi van Vuuren participated in the Rugby Union world cup and Cricket world cup in the same year 2003. His cricket ODI debut became on Feb 16, 2003 against Pakistan at De Beers Diamond Oval, Kimberley in the world cup-2003. Rudi has played 5 ODI till now. This right handed hard-hitting batsman’s scores is only 26 runs. Vuuren is also a right-arm fast-medium opening bowler of his country. He has taken 8 wickets in 5 ODI matches. He showed his real bowling charisma against England by taking 5 wickets for 43 runs. Contrary, Vuuren was also in the squad of Rugby world cup of Namibia in 1999. But Vuuren did not get any chance for playing. Afterwards playing door of Rugby World Cup in 2003 was opened for Rudi van Vuuren.This Windhoek Wanderers’s fly-half’s first Rugby International debut was become against Zimbabwe on June15, 1997. Rudi van Vuuren showed his real performance in the Rugby world cup-2003 by making a successful partnership with Corne Powell. Rudi van Vuuren serves his country not only as a Cricket or Rugby player but also as a professional doctor of medicine. Namibia is small country but on the field of games & sports they are very familiar country in the world particularly for some sportsman like as Rudi van Vuuren.

Diego Forlán is Selected for the Golden Ball by FIFA.

FIFA declared the Golden Ball Award contenders for the 2010 World Cup in a press meeting on Friday. FIFA's Technical Study Group elected the contenders and the winner from contenders has selected by representatives of the media. To get 23.4% vote Forlán has become the winner of the Golden Ball Award. 31 years old Forlán has won the Golden Ball Award after closing the World Cup trophy with overwhelming performance. Only for Diego Forlán's overpowering performance, Uruguay has played semi-final. He scored 5 goals same as Holland's Wesley Sneijder and Spain's David Villa.There are also some young players who have played very well in the World Cup. For example, 20 years-old, Thomas Muller has won the Golden Boot for the peak scorer of the World Cup. Moreover, 23 years-old, Messi and German rising young player Ozil have played very well. There were also some players who had sky-scraping hope for the team but they could not pretty distribute for their country. For example, Rooney, Kaka didn’t play well. Rooney didn’t any a goal and rarely appeared ominous to the opposition as his World Cup wrecked with a snivel. His substandard performance replicated the performance of his team. While before the play newspapers and magazines of England was full of his high admiration. Uruguay was two times world cup winner in 1930 & 1950.After then, they played last semi-final in the World Cup in 1970. After it Uruguay didn’t performed as like prior. But after many years they have played semi-final. If luck should have favor, ever they could have played final. Nevertheless they have no sorrow to drop by Germany because of being perfect team after many years. The whole nation is very happy for this overwhelming performance in the World Cup. The center of this ecstasy is Diego Forlán Who has become the best player in this World Cup. This striker has performed overpowering performance for his team in the World Cup. After 80 years, Diego Forlán has achieved this glorious Award as a Uruguay player. José Nasazzi achieved the Golden Boot in the World Cup-1930. Before Diego Forlán, any Uruguay player can’t win Golden Boll still now.

India Made a Great mistake to Withdraw the World Cup-1950.

Cricket is favorite game in India but foot ball is also enjoyable game to them. So, When World Cup foot ball is started, and then the whole India becomes fulfill with the pleasure of the World Cup. The roofs of buildings of most capital cities in India is covered or fulfilled with the flags of many countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Germany, France, Spain and America etc. The most people of India think that when will play India in the World Cup? But India was once qualified for the World Cup-1950. Then, India was in the Qualification Group-10 consist of Burma, the Philippines and Indonesia. But other three countries all withdrew the tournament. So India qualified for the World Cup spontaneously. In the final round of World Cup-1950, India was involved in the Group-3 with Sweden, Italy and Paraguay. But unfortunately, FIFA did not permit them to perform in the tournament barefoot as FIFA made it obligatory in 1950 to wear foot ball boots. That time India used to play barefoot. So, AIFF thought that such a change would have obstructed the team’s present performance. As a result, India withdrew from the World Cup tournament. Association of Indian Football federation (AIFF) also presented many causes for withdrawing the tournament. AIFF said that we have no sufficient practice time for selection the team. Besides, AIFF also faced a large amount of travel cost for a long sea journey. The world football leading body was decided to provide a key part for the flights & that flight would have been Delhi through Amsterdam toward Rio de Janeiro. In spite of such a bountifulness of FIFA, India withdrew the World Cup-1950 from playing because they were not permitted to play barefoot. The captain of Indian of that time; Sailen Manna said, "We had no good idea about World Cup at that time. Then Olympic game was bigger than the World Cup to us.” India withdrew the World Cup-1950 to play as they were not acceptable to play barefoot. But hey completed Olympics-1952 barefoot. The 1950s to 1960s was a golden age of India. In that time, India won gold medals in the Asian Games twice times. Even, India became one of the founder members of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) in 1954. They also qualified for the Olympics till 1960. After then; the Indian football team has never been able to qualify for the Olympics and the World Cup. So, don’t understand the value of World Cup, India made a great mistake to withdraw the world cup at that time.

Iker Casillas finished the World Cup-2010 Successfully.

The 29 years old Iker Casillas Fernández has become the best goalkeeper of the World Cup-2010.The FIFA Technical Study Group also announced Iker Casillas the winner of Golden Glove. Although Iker Casillas start the world Cup by making fault against Switzerland and consequent Spanish defeat in the Group H introduction, many charged gorgeous sports reporter Sara Carbonero s pitch side attendance for disturbing Casillas. The Spanish Goal keeper and captain was liable for his team's upset first-round defeat in the World Cup at the hands of poor Switzerland But Casillas finished the world Cup by overwhelming performance and leading the team successfully. He won the World Cup not only as a captain but also a Goal keeper. Iker Casillas wrote his name in the history who won the World Cup as a Goalkeeper and Captain. The first goalkeeper as a captain, Italian Gianpiero Combi won trophy of the World Cup in 1934 when Italy was the host country of the World Cup. After 48 years another Italian goalkeeper, Dino Zoff won the World Cup-1982 as a Captain. After that 48 years later Spanish goalkeeper Iker Casillas won the World Cup as a Captain, who also triumphed the Golden Glove award as the best goalkeeper of the World Cup. Iker Casillas has carried out an important role as a Goalkeeper and Captain in the World Cup. Even if Casillas didn’t save the penalty against Paraguay in the quarter-final match, Spain could not have reached the semi-final. Real Madrid goalkeeper also saved several world-class shot. In the final match, Casillas denied two dangerous shot of Dutch striker Arjen Robben. After beating the Netherlands in extra time in the final match, Carbonero discussed Casillas, but the exchange quickly turned into a festivity as the couple start to kiss one another in front of the camera. Scroll down to see the smooch. As a result, Spain won the glorious World Cup under Iker Casillas’s brilliant captaincy. Although Spain arranged the World Cup in 1982 gorgeously. But they are rejected by playing the Group Matches. The greatest success of Spain was the gainer of 4th place in the World Cup-1950 before winning the World Cup-2010. Even, they didn’t raise semifinal after 1950.But they have overcome all failures in the World Cup-2010. Moreover, it has been possible because of brilliant captaincy of Iker Casillas. Spain not only won the World Cup but also won the Fair Play Trophy in this World Cup. They won the Fair Play Trophy twice time endlessly. Spain also won the Fair Play Trophy in the World Cup-2006 in Germany. So, Spain also wrote his name beside Brazil and England. Brazil and England also won the Fair Play Trophy twice time. Actually, Fair Play Trophy is awarded for gifting beautiful play. Beautiful play means going less fowl, getting less yellow card etc. In a word, don’t injustices attack the opposite teams. Without final match, the yellow card of Spain was only 3. They have gotten 5 yellow cards in the final match. The whole World Cup was fulfilled in the tone of Spain’s victory. So, Spain won the World Cup with the Fair Play Trophy under the excellent captaincy of Iker Casillas. So, Iker Casillas finished the World Cup-2010 successfully.

Thomas Mueller Wrote His Name Beside Gerd Mueller.

The 20-year-old German rising forward Thomas Mueller terminated his successful World Cup-2010 after winning the Golden Boot and Young Player of the Tournament awards. That’s name was Adidas Golden Boot for last 30 years. The World Cup of Mexico in 1970, the another German foot ball player, Gerd Muller won the Golden Shoes. Gerd Muller was the highest scorer in the World Cup for 30 years. Gerd Muller scored 14 goals in the two World Cups. Brazilian Rolando broke his record after playing 3 World Cups. Thomas Mueller has written his name beside that icon, Gerd Mueller as a winner of Golden Shoes winner. Thomas Mueller won the Golden Shoes as a third Germany foot baller. Present foot ball fan generation either have forgotten the name of Gerd Mueller but having the similarity of the name with Thomas Mueller, present generation can be familiar with Gard Mueller. The younger player, Thomas Mueller started his international first appearance on March 3 in current year in a 1-0 home defeat by Argentina. Thomas Mueller made his domestic debut for Bayern against Hamburg SV in the Bundesliga on August 15, 2008. It is the first World Cup of his career that he has started lucratively. Thomas Mueller scored 5 goals in this World cup. His first goal came in their opening game against Australia. Thomas Mueller scored two goals against England in an unbelievable display of offensive football. His 4th goal came against Argentina after a few minute from starting play. Thomas Mueller made his fifth goal against Uruguay in the 3^rd place play match. The naturally given to the top goal scorer of this year’s World Cup. But the four contenders’ scores were equal in this World Cup.-2010. They are Thomas Mueller (Germany), David Villa (Spain), Wesley Sneijder (Netherlands) and Diego Forlan (Uruguay). But, Thomas Mueller,lofty passing, short & attacking play has taken his this glorious Golden Shoes and Best Young Player award.