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Ronaldo to make 100th appearance for Portugal

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Cristiano Ronaldo recieved a shoulder injury in the El Clasico last week but he is said to have recovered and will be available for international duty.

Portugal host Northern Ireland later today and if CR plays, it will be his 100th international cap in the national football team. It will also make him the second youngest European of all time to make 100 appearances for his country; behind Germany’s Lukas Podolski.

With 14 goals in 11 Real Madrid fixtures this season, people say that he is in the form of his life but his overall record for the Galacticos is just as good: 160 goals in 155 matches played.

With his current club, he has won a La Liga and Supercopa double last season and a Copa del Rey in 2011. He was, however, crowned the Ballon d’Or and the FIFA World Player of the Year in 2008 – he was at Manchester United at the time.

On the international level, Cristiano’s career has been eluded by silverware. Even his goalscoring record is much less prolific – from over a goal a game at club level to just 37 goals in 99 games at the internatonal level.

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Messi is the best in the world says Ronaldo

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Nope, it’s not a sudden dose of modesty for Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo. Instead it’s his ever-expanding Brazilian namesake who has bestowed the honour upon Barcelona’s Lionel Messi.

In an interview with CNN World Sport, the two-time World Cup winner – who played for both Real and Barca – overlooked national rivalries to say he thought Messi was the better player.

Ronaldo said: “Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo without a doubt are the best players today. I give a preference to Messi, because he’s a player who fascinates us more, who shows more creativity. Even though he’s from Argentina, which has a big rivalry with Brazil! But he’s a player I admire a lot.

“In fact, both of them. But I think Messi is a little above Cristiano Ronaldo.”

In case you were wondering, he was handed a safe Brazilian option of Neymar but turned it down.

He said: “I think Neymar still has a phase to complete. To play in Europe and triumph playing in Europe.”

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ESPN get it wrong!

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The USA national team would struggle to match Spain at the minute. Hell, any team in the world would struggle to match Spain at the minute.

So imagine the surprise of broadcaster ESPN to find that the southern state of Georgia were giving the World and European champions a run for their money.

They proudly displayed the stars and stripes next to Georgia’s name, even after Spain took a 1-0 lead.

Alas, it wasn’t the home state of Ray Charles and Hulk Hogan taking on Xavi and co but the former Soviet state, some 6,000 miles away.

Tbilisi mistake to make.

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Dunfermline players mock homeless woman

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Dunfermline duo Ryan Thomson and Paul Willis are facing the wrath of their own fans, never mind anybody else, after seemingly posing for a photograph mocking a homeless woman.

The picture was reportedly taken in Edinburgh earlier this month and shows the players pointing and laughing and pulling silly faces in front of the woman.

The woman can be seen sitting next to her dog and a suitcase of belongings, while seemingly ignoring the footballers.

The Sun reports that Dunfermline forums were flooded with angry comments after the photo appeared online:

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Ten-year-old Scottish girl signed by AC Milan scouts

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AC Milan are struggling for players this summer. After two months of the transfer window they have already lost Alessandro Nesta, Mark Van Bommel, Gennaro Gattuso, Clarence Seedorf, Thiago Silva and Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

But more shocking even than the news they are chasing Nicklas Bendtner is that their scouts have signed a ten-year-old Scottish girl after seeing her play on holiday. Aisha Saini was on holiday with her family in La Manga when her dad entered her for a football tournament to keep her busy.

Little did they know that the tournament had been organised by AC Milan’s scouts, who were so impressed by Aisha that she has been signed up to their annual academy tournament, the only girl to receive such an invite.

That’s a fairly decent Show and Tell upon getting back to school.

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