Name: Kenwyne Jones

Club: Sunderland Football Club.

Position: striker

Age: 24 years

Birth Place: Point Fortin in Trinidad & Tobago

Height: 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)

Appearances: 171 caps

Joined Club: 2007

Previous Clubs: Joe Public, W Connection, Southampton, Sheffield Wednesday, Stoke City, Sunderland.

International Team: Trinidad & Tobago National Football Team

Player Information: Kenwyne Joel Jones is a Trinidadian football player who was born on the 5th of October in 1984. He is a professional football striker playing currently for the Trinidad & Tobago national football team as well as one of the top clubs in the country, the Sunderland Football Club. Jones started his football career with the FC Joe Public in the year 2002. The same year he made a move into the W Connection football club, where he had a very short spell till the year 2004. In 2003, Jones was called to play in the national squad for the match against Finland, and he was positioned as a utility player. In the year 2004, he joined the giants Southampton football club, and became one of their main strikers very soon. He got loaned out to the Stoke City and Sheffield Wednesday clubs in the 2004/05 football season.

At the Southampton football club, Jones has had a total of 71 appearances with 19 goals scored till date. Kenwyne has also played for the national football side and has made caps at the U – 17, the U – 20 and the U – 23 teams for the Olympics.

Name: Jason Samuel

Club: Swansea City Football Club

Position: striker

Age: 29 years

Birth Place: Morvant in Trinidad & Tobago

Height: 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)

Appearances: 219 caps

Joined Club: 2007

Previous Clubs: San Juan Jabloteh, Defence Force, Dundee United, St. Johnstone, Swansea City.

International Team: Trinidad & Tobago National Football Team

Player Information: Jason Kevin Scotland is a Trinidad & Tobago football player who was born on February 18th in 1979. He is a professional striker who plays currently for the Trinidad & Tobago national football team as well as one of the Welsh football clubs, the Swansea City football club. In the year 1996, Jason Scotland joined the San Juan Jabloteh football club where he remained till the year 1998. From then till 2001 he did not play for any club. In 2001 he joined the Defence Force football club and continued there till 2003, when he appeared for a trial for Dundee United, a Scottish football team. He along with another player from Trinidad Devon Mitchell joined the Dundee United club in May of 2003. Scotland’s first score for his United club was in a match against Livingston in  2004, when he helped his club win the game 3 – 2. Scotland scored 3 goals more in that season, and 5 more during the league games, out of a total 21 matches played.

Name : Bas Savage                      

Club : Tranmere Rovers

Position : Forward

Age : 26

Birth Place : London

Height : 6’3’

Appearances : 32(5)

Joined Club : July 2008

Previous Clubs : Reading, Bristol City, Gillingham, Brighton, Millwall

International Team

Player Information:-

Though Savage started his career at Reading, his move to Brighton was the turning point in his life. Soon after he joined as a professional player a nasty injury kept him out of the game for almost a year. Playing as a utility midfielder, it was hard for him to find a place in the team.

Good performance on field was noticed and offers came from various quarters. Savage signed a short term contract with Bristol City and soon scored his first League goal. He was a favourite with City fans giving a taste of the cult status he acquired later. It was his unique style of playing that endeared him to the fans.

After another move and a short stint with Gillingham Savage joined Brighton and life was never the same again for him. His four goals in his first eight appearances were the best in his career. His moonwalk goal celebrations were picked up and broadcasted by Soccer AM, made him a star overnight. His goal celebration was given a further boost by none other than Michael Jackson.

Savage joined Tranmere Rovers and scored a goal on his debut against Swindon Town.

Adulation came his way and every one of his victory was a moonwalk celebration.

 After that, Mokoena usually appeared as a second-half substitute for Blackburn. This defensive quality of Mokoena helped to protect the team's lead. On 11th March 2007 he hit his first goal for Blackburn Rovers, against Manchester City in an FA Cup.

Mokoena was appointed as the captain of the team for African nations Cup, held in Ghana, in January 2008. Mokoena has a great amount of experience and due to his impressive form and amazing performance in all three matches played, he became an attractive target in the eyes of selectors of all the strong teams like Schalke of Germany and the all time famous English county Manchester united.

This man has now become the most capped player of South African team, since June 2008 by overtaking Shaun Bartlett. Looking at his skills in particular, Aaron is surely not one of those who believe in impressing his fans by simply scoring a couple of goals in a match, but rather delivering consistent performances in all the matches!

Though he is not an aggressive player and spends most of his time in the match in the defensive line-up, he still manages to sneak past the opponent’s defensive squad and find the nets when his team badly needs it. As far as his domestic career is concerned, Aaron Mokoena is eyeing a spot in Manchester United and few more English Premier League counties, and it is believed that he will be joining one of the English counties in the upcoming season.

NAME: Aaron Mokoena

CLUB: Blackburn Rovers

POSITION: Defender / Midfielder

AGE: 28

BIRTH PLACE: Johannesburg, South Africa

HEIGHT: 6 ft 1 inch

APPEARANCES: 90

JOINED CLUB: January 8, 2005

PREVIOUS CLUBS: Ajax, GBA, Racing Genk

INTERNATIONAL TEAM: South Africa

PLAYER INFORMATION:

Aaron Mokoena is a South African professional footballer, currently playing for English side Blackburn Rovers. His full name is Aaron Mokoena and amongst his fans, he is famous as Mokoena. He was born on November 25, 1980 in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is primarily a rock-solid defensive mid-fielder, who is also capable of scoring goals for his side occasionally.

In January 2005, after signing for K.R.C Genk Mokoena, he soon got fame for his excellent performance and playing skills. He got several nick names like “The Axe” and many others. He was also honoured and known as the “Youngest football player ever” who has ever represented the South African team at the top level. Mokoena had also qualified for the Summer Olympic, 2000.

Mokoena debuted with Blackburn on 8 January 2005 in FA cup, against Cardiff City. He entered as a substitute for Barry Ferguson that was like a master break for him and after that he entered as a starter for the whole season. For a total of 22 times, he appeared as a starter, but the team manager felt like introducing him in the second half of the match for his defensive 4-5-1 chain making quality of a three-man midfielder that turned out to be really effective.

The year 1990 was the golden time for Khumalo. It was the peak point of his performance when his team won five Knockout trophies including 3 South African League championship titles. He was also voted as best South African footballer in 1992. Khumalo played totally 380 leagues and cups and scored 74 goals. Khumalo was appointed as a member of South African squad in FIFA 1992, against Cameroon. In this match, with the help of penalty stroke of Khumalo, South Africa won the match. In his entire international football career, he played 50 times for South Africa and scored 9 goals and bagged the 13th spot amongst the most capped South African Footballers.

In 2004, Khumalo retired from the professional soccer. He had a great affection towards the game since the very first day, and even after retirement he couldn’t stay away from soccer for a long time and decided to work as a coach. He is now working as the coach of Kaizer Chief Side, since 2003. Khumalo had a target to become an administrator for helping the upcoming players in mastering the tactics of game of soccer. Later he became commentator and became national coach of junior under-17 team of South Africa. Later on, as the performance level of the junior side improved substantially under his coaching, he was promoted as the coach for the national senior squad.

NAME: Theophilus Khumalo

CLUB: Kaizer Chiefs FC

AGE: 41

BIRTH PLACE: Soweto, South Africa

JOINED CLUB: 2002

PREVIOUS CLUBS: Kaizer Chiefs, Ferro Carril Oeste, Columbus Crew

INTERNATIONAL TEAM: South Africa

USED TO PLAY FOR: Kaizer Chiefs

LEAGUE TITLES: N/A

CUPS: N/A

PLAYER INFORMATION:

Theophilus “Doctor” Khumalo was born on 26 June 1967 in a township of South Africa named Soweto. Khumalo was a famous midfielder for the team Kaizer Chief and South Africa during his playing career. He is now retired from the game as a player, and sharing his experience, by acting as the coach of the national team.

In 1986, Khumalo started his career in professional soccer and played for the junior side of Kaizer Chiefs. After playing in junior team, he got some experience that helped him in climbing up and sooner he was short listed in senior team of Kaizer Chiefs. Khumalo’s dream was to become a top player for Kaizer and therefore he did not join any other team of South African domestic league. He played from other teams for a short period, as he joined an Argentinean club for six months in 1995 and then the Columbus Crew of Major League Soccer in the year 1996.

Name: Alberto Junior Rodriguez Valdelomar
Club: He currently plays for the club SC Braga
Position: defender
Age: Rodriguez was born on March 31st 1984 and is 24 years old.
Birth Place: He was born in Lima, in Peru. 
Height: 1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)

Appearances: He has played 155 games for the Sporting Cristals club and 27 games for the club SC Braga. He has also represented Peru National Football team 43 times. His total caps amounts to 125.

Joined club: Rodriguez became part of the SC Braga football club in the year 2007.
Previous clubs: Sporting Cristal from 2002 to 2006; SC Braga from 2007 till date.
International Team: Rodriguez is a part of the Peru National Football Team.

Player Information: Alberto Rodriguez is a football player from Peru who currently plays for the national squad as well as the SC Braga football club. He started his football professional career with the Deportivo Wanka football club, but did not play there for long. In 2002, he joined the Sporting Cristal club, playing with them for five seasons between till 2006. He played in 155 matches at the club and scored 8 goals. In December of 2006, he made a deal with the Sporting Club de Braga, a Portuguese Liga club, for a 5 year term. His very first match at the Liga was against the UD Leiria club in February of 2007.

Name of Footballer: Pavel Viktorovich Pogrebnyak
Date of Birth: 8 November 1983
Place of Birth: Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Playing Position: Striker
Number: 29
Current Club: VfB Stuttgart

Some people are just born with those talented genes, but not all of them strive hard to hone those talents.

This is why football fans admire Pavel Pogrebnyak, a Russian international football player, who proves that his flair for football takes more than just talent, but the determination to be on top of his game.

Pavel was born on November 8, 1983 in Moscow. Amazingly, he started playing football when he was 6 years old. He played for Spartak Moscow. His tracks show that he became a member of the reserved team and only after one year, he got in the main squad. His 8 goals in 23 appearances showed his potential in making it big in football.

In 2003, he played for Baltika Kaliningrad where he contributed 15 goals in his 40 matches. He transferred to FC Khimki and also played for Shinnik Yaroslav. His records boast of the outstanding goals he made for the teams he joined in.

His major break in the field was when he played for Tom Tomsk. He became one of the crowd’s favourite as he made a superb record of 13 goals in his 23 appearances.

Name: Ikechukwu Uche.
Club: Getafe CF.
Position: Striker.
Age:25.
Birth Place: Aba, Nigeria.
Height: 1.71 m (5 ft 7 ½ in)
Appearances: 210.
Joined Club: 2007.
Previous Clubs: Amanze United.

2000 to 2001 in Iwuanyanwo Nationale (Youth club)
2001 to 2003 in Racing Ferrol (Senior club)
2003 to 2007 in Recreativo Huelva.

International Team: Nigeria.

Player Information:
Ikechukwu Uche is a Nigerian football player, who plays the position of striker in the team he was born in a place called Aba, situated in Nigeria. He is currently playing for the club called Getafe Cf, of Spain’s First Division. He is the younger brother of Kalu Uche, who is in the same National Football team of Nigeria, but is playing currently for a different club called as UD Almeria. His name Ikechukwu is a word taken from Igbo, and it means, “Power of God”. Ike started his career in football by playing with the Amanze United, and then with the Iwuanyanwu Nationale clubs. He then moved on to Racing de Ferrol in the Spanish 2nd division, when he was just 17 years old. He made appearances in 24 games in the second season that ended in the Galician squad being relegated. In 2003, he was taken in for a fee of $300,000, by the Recreativo de Huelva.