Sunday, June 18, 2006

Off the beaten track - side stories at the World Cup

Top Marksmen by Club.

Despite being a competition between countries, it's always interesting to see how players from various clubs are doing. I personally try and keep track of Arsenal's and Milan's players but I decided to do some research and see which clubs have scored the most goals so far.

Here's the list as of Day 10 - Sunday June 18 2006 - (yes Arsenal is on top!)

5 Goals:
Arsenal 5 - Ljungberg, Van Persie, Rosicky 2, Henry

4 Goals:
Chelsea 4 - Robben, Drogba, Crespo 2

3 Goals:
Liverpool 3 - Crouch, Gerrard, Xabi
Man Utd 3 - van Nistelroy, Cristiano Ronaldo, Park Ji-Sung
Athletico Madrid 3 - Torres, Maxi Rodrigues 2
Werder Bremen 3 - Frings, Klose 2

2 Goals:
Barcelona 2 - Deco, Messi
Milan 2 - Kaka, Pirlo, Gilardino
Barcelona Guyaquil - 2 - Delgado (Ecuador)
Herediano 2 - Wanchope (Costa Rica)
Everton 2 - Cahill 2
Inter 2 - Cambiasso, Adriano
Al Saad - 2 - Carlos Tenorio (Qatar)
Valencia 2 - David Villa 2
Udinese 2 - Iaquinta, Muntari
Guadlajara 2 - Bravo 2 (Mexico)
Al Hilal 2 - Al Jaber, Al Kahtani (Saudi Arabia)

1 Goal:
Real Madrid 1- Beckham
Corinthians 1- Tevez (Brazil)
PSG 1 - Pauleta
Bayern Munich 1 - Lahm
Real Madrid 1- Beckham
Argentinos Juniors 1 - Kaviedes
Borussia Moenchengladbach 1 - Neuville
Palermo 1 - Zaccardo og
Troyes 1 - Jaziri
Bolton 1 - Jaidhi
Sevilla 1 - Saviola
Toluca 1 - Zinha (Mexico)
Alaves 1 - Aloisi
Celtic 1 - Nakamura
Duisburg 1 - Jung-Hwan Ahn
Ulsan Hundai 1 - Choon-soo Lee (South Korea)
Al Ahly 1 - Kader (Kuwait)
Lyon 1 - Fred
Modena 1 - Asamoah Gyan

Some of the usual suspects are on top, especially clubs who have multinational rosters like Arsenal, Chelsea and Milan.

Very heartening to see smaller clubs from around the world like Udinese, Guadlajara, Toluca, Al Hilal, Al Saad, Barcelona Guayacan and Herediano figure higher up. the best foot ball might be played in European club football, but good football is played everywhere.

Take a moment and savour the spread of the game.

Haircut XI

Lots of interesting hairstyles at this year's tournament. My choice team of coiffeured professionals:

Ljuboja - Serbia
Aruna Kone - Ivory Coast
Cisse - France
Aziawonou - Togo
Pimpong - Ghana
Loco - Angola
Nakata - Japan
Bakari Kone - Ivory Coast
Chun Soo-Lee - Korea
Torrado - Mexico
Puyol - Spain

I'll try and have some pictures coming soon.

Name Game.

Surely the trickiest team to report on would be one featuring:

Gilles Yapi-Yapi Yapo - Ivory Coast
Daniel Gygax - Switzerland
Pascal Zuberbuhler - Switzerland
Razak Pimpong - Ghana (He also doubles as the lead singer for UB40 =)
Illiasu Shilla - Ghana
Marek Jankulovski - Czech Republic
Sohrab Bakhtiarizadeh - Iran
Yahya Golmohammadi - Iran
Khaled Boulharouz - Holland
Miroslav Szymkowiak - Poland
Haykel Gmamdia - Tunisia
Yacine Chickhaoui - Tunisia
Tsuneyasu Miyamoto - Japan
Pretty much any Ukrainian player

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