Elano
Name: Elano
Age: 26
Current Club: Manchester City
All Previous Clubs: Santos, Shakhtar Donetsk
# Goals Last Season: 5
Position Played: Playmaker
Nationality: Brazilian
International Caps: 27
Description: He started his professional footballer career at Santos in 2001 where he played with other great players like Robinho, Diego and Alex. Robinho moved to Real, Diego to Weder, Alex to Fenerbahce and Elano moved to Shakhtar Donetsk in 2005. He gained a reputation of talented scoring midfielder and he managed to gain a first-team place in Shakhtar Donetsk’s team that plays in Champions League almost each year. In 2007 there were several changes and new sign-ups at Manchester City and Elano was bought from Shakhtar for £8 million. In his first match here he managed to assist one goal and next month he scored his first goal in a victory against Newcastle. At international level he made his first appearance for Brazil in January 2004 but his first goals for the team came in a breathtaking friendly match against their old-time rivals, Argentine, played at Emirates Stadium, in London. Elano managed to score the first 2 goals in a 3-0 victory and that gained him a lot of popularity in Brazil and from them a lot of clubs were interested in buying him, but Manchester City got it.
Manchester City Vs Arsenal Highlights : EPL Highlights
Manchester City Vs Arsenal Highlights:
Man City go into this game after a bad run of form, after usch a great start to the season Sven’s men will want to get something from Arsenal, However im sure Arsenal have other plans with rivals Man Utd with a difficult tie today they will be looking to put more pressure on them and go top of the Premier League. Emanuel Adebayor has been in amazing form as of late will he provide some goals for Arsenal? Or will the little Brazillian (Elano) turn the game on its head and put Man City back into winning ways? Well find out below where you can watch the highlights of the Man City Vs Arsenal Game.
City Of Manchester Stadium
Manchester City
Name: City of Manchester Stadium
Nickname: COMS, Eastlands, The Blue Camp
When Built: 1999
Capacity: 47,726
Record Attendance: 47,321 – December 30, 2007 – Manchester City vs Liverpool
Address: Rowsley Street, Manchester M11 3FF
Description: The club is a continuous oval bowl, with three tiers at the sides and two tiers at each end. Initially, all stands were named by compass direction, but they’ve changed name soon after. The west stand was renamed Colin Bell Stand after the former player, the Sound Stand was renamed Key 103 Stand, the North Stand is where the family stand is designed and the East Stand is unofficially named Kippex. Since it looks like nou camp bowl but it’s blue, the stadium’s called the Blue Camp.
Brief History: The stadium was initially designed for Manchester’s bid to host the 2000 summer Olympics but it was used only in 2002 for the Commonwealth Games. After these games, the stadium was converted for use as a football ground, and became the home of Manchester City FC who moved here from the Maine Road in 2003, signing a 250 year lease with Manchester City Council. City of Manchester Stadium became the 5th biggest stadium from Premier League and the 10th largest stadium in the United Kingdom. In 2006 it was announced that the stadium will host this year’s UEFA Cup final.
Sheffield United Vs Manchester City (FA Cup Highlights)
Another FA Cup, Another Shocking result! Sheffield UTD dump Man City out of the FA Cup, The Blades took the lead through 2 goals in the first half, however halftime substitue Daniel Sturridge come on and he did not dissapoint with an early goal, however this proved to be insignificant as Manchester City just couldnt find the equaliser.
Sven Goran Eriksson
Name: Sven-Goran Eriksson
Age: 59
Nationality: Swedish
Current Club: Manchester City
Brief Playing history: His playing career was unremarkable. He started playing in 1966 as a right back for Torsby IF, changed his team 5 years later, and in 1975 he finished his footballer career at KB Karlkoga, after playing 9 years only in Sweden
Brief Management history: His manager career is very long and full of successes. He started coaching in 1977 at Degerfors IF and managed to win promotion with them. This success took him to sign with IFK Goteborg. Here, from his first season he won the Cup and in 1982 he won a tremble: Swedish league, Swedish Cup and UEFA Cup. After this major success a lot of clubs from Europe wanted him but he signed with Benfica where he made almost same performances: He won Portughese League, the Cup from Portugal and almost won the UEFA cup but his team finished only as runners-up. In 1984 he left Portugal for Italy, where he coached AS Roma and Fiorentina. He only won a cup with AS Roma and returned to Benfica to win again 2 championships and taking them to European Cup finals. In 1992, he went back to Italy where he managed to win another Cup with Sampdoria and in 1997 he moved to Lazio were he had a lot of successes. In 2001 he was appointed as England’s coach but he didn’t won any major trophee with England and from 2006 he signed with Manchester City.
Previous Clubs Played for:
1966-1971 – Torsby IF
1971-1973 – SK Sifhalla
1973-1975 – KB Karlskoga
Previous Clubs Managed:
1977-1978 – Degerfors IF
1979-1982 – IFK Goteborg
1982-1984 – SL Benfica
1984-1987 – AS Roma
1987-1989 – Fiorentina
1989-1992 – SL Benfica
1992-1997 – UC Sampdoria
1997-2001 – SS Lazio
2001-2006 – England
2006-present – Manchester City
Manchester City - Man City FC
Manchester City Football Club
Nicknames: The Citizens, The Blues, City
Founded: 1880 as St. Mark’s
Stadium: City of Manchester Stadium
Capacity: 47,726
Owner: Thaksin Shinawatra
Chairman: Thaksin Shinawatra
Manager: Sven-Göran Eriksson
After the were founded as St Mark’s, in 1880, they took the name Ardwick AFC in 1887 and finally, in 1894 they named themselved Manchester City FC. During time, they managed to win League Championship twice, FA Cup four times, the League Cup twice and the European Cup Winners Cup once.
The best period from the club’s history in between 1960 and 1970, when they’ve won several trophies. Since 1976 they are still waiting to win another major trophy. One of the worst periods for Manchester City when they were relegated twice in three years, getting into the third tier of Brittish football. The biggest rivals they have are their neighbours from Manchester, United, with whom they play every year in Manchester Derby.
They passed over this bad period and they’re back in Premier League fighting for top places and positions that would qualify them in Europeam competitions. In the summer of 2007 the major shareholders decided to sell their shares to Thaksin Shinawatra, former Thailand prime minister. In the same year the team invested almost 38 million pounds in new players and the former coach of England’s International team will try to lead Manchester City to another successful perio
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