Leônidas da Silva: The Rubber Man, The Black Diamond, Magia Negra – Brazil’s first World Cup star. Leonidas is one in a long, long line of great Brazilian strikers, boasting a goal record to rival virtually any forward to ever play the game and with a medal collection that showed off his dominance of Brazil’s two […]
This year’s Ballon d’Or ceremony will more than likely mark 10 years of a Ronaldo-Messi shared monopoly of football’s most coveted individual award. During that decade, their dominance has rarely been threatened. In fact, only once, in 2010, did the pair not take up the two top spots. Regardless of your views on the validity […]
Pele, Garrincha, Jairzinho, Romario, Ronaldo, Rivaldo, Ronaldinho, and now Neymar – there is a very incomplete yet staggeringly talented list of attacking forwards who have helped lead Brazil to great things. It’s a list that no other nation on Earth can come even close to matching for talent or success, each one (Neymar aside) not […]
In the mid-2000s, we were blessed with a wealth of talents and the battle for the Ballon d’Or wasn’t the head-to-head battle between two giants it is now. However, there was still one man who was considered to be head and shoulders above the rest. Brazilian ace Ronaldinho captured the hearts of the world during […]
A footballing genius, gifted beyond belief and blighted by injury; Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima, better known as simply Ronaldo, was perhaps the greatest No.9 of all-time. Whilst notoriously overweight in his later years, Ronaldo was once the most dominant athlete in football; boasting a combination of blistering pace, unparalleled strength and breath-taking technical ability. Pre-injury R9 was essentially the ‘perfect’ footballer. However, […]
There are two outrageously expensive things in life. The first of these is footballers; the second is drugs. Imagine combining the two together, then. You normally end up with a tabloid frenzy and serious legal action but we’re not that boring over here at CLICKON, so we’ve found a much better way of doing it. […]
Perma-relegation-battlers, Swansea City, are reportedly making an audacious bid for Bayern Munich’s Renato Sanches. Yep, you read that right. Plucky Swansea, even without their sole redeeming feature, Gylfi Sigurdsson, are making a bid for Portugal’s ‘future Ronaldo’. How the mighty have fallen. Can’t he do better than that? Remember the Euros? Remember the ridiculous hype […]
Twitter can be a pretty strange place; the footballing world is no exception. On Twitter we can opt to be one of two things. The first of these is – shockingly – ourselves. Not that anyone picks that one. The second is to create an image of ourselves as bigger, better and smarter. The accounts […]
Ajax reached the pinnacle of the European game in 1995, Louis van Gaal’s exciting young side defeating Juventus in the final 1-0 thanks to a Patrick Kluivert goal. Dutch football has sank since then – teams simply haven’t been able to hold onto their players since the Bosman ruling of that year. Instead the Eredivisie […]
Fabio Cannavaro may well have just won the Ballon d’Or in 2006, but no matter what the votes said, the Brazilians were still the poster boys of modern football, and their swashbuckling, all-out-attack football was the ideology. And Nike knew this; the most iconic sporting brand of the time – and probably still to this […]
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