Tag: sports personalities

Iker Casillas Fernández is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Portuguese club Porto and the Spain national team as a goalkeeper. Casillas began his youth career with Real Madrid in 1990.

Víctor Valdés Arribas ( born 14 January 1982) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for English club Middlesbrough.

Fiery Swedish soccer player Zlatan Ibrahimovic became one of Europe's top strikers while starring for eight consecutive title-winning clubs.

Soccer forward Robin van Persie helped the Netherlands reach the 2010 FIFA World Cup final and became his country's leading international scorer in 2013.

(Brazil, footballer) Winner of three World Cups with Brazil. Pele was the greatest footballer of the century. He scored 1281 goals in 1363 games. Since retirement Pele has become a global ambassador for sport and is a well known advocate of overcoming poverty.

Brian Charles Lara, TC, OCC, AM is a former Trinidadian international cricket player. He is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest cricketers of all-time.

Sania Mirza began playing tennis at the age of six, turning professional in 2003. She was trained by her father. Mirza won 10 singles and 13 doubles titles as a junior player.

(Switzerland, tennis) Has won 17 single Grand Slam titles. Held no.1 world ranking for 302 weeks overall. Many consider him to be the greatest tennis player of all time.

Filipino World Champion boxer. Pacquiao rose from humble beginnings to one of the greatest boxers – winning ten titles in eight different divisions.

US, athletics Nine time Olympic gold medallist, Carl Lewis won gold over three Olympics and was the great star of 1980s track and field.