John George Terry (born December 7, 1980 in Barking, London) is an English professional football player. Terry plays as a centre back and is the captain of both Chelsea in the English Premier League and the national football team of England. Terry is regarded as one of the best defenders in the world. He was voted best defender in the 2005 UEFA Champions League, PFA Players' Player of the Year in 2005, and was included in the FIFPro World XI for 2005 and 2006.

Marcello Lippi, Commendatore OMRI, (born April 11, 1948) is an Italian World Cup-winning football coach and former player. Since July 16, 2004, Lippi has been the coach of Italian national team and led Italy to win the FIFA World Cup 2006. He resigned from this position on 12 July 2006, after dismissing widespread calls for him to remain in the position by saying "I believe that I have achieved what I set out to achieve as the coach of the Italian team".

Luca Toni, Cavaliere Ufficiale OMRI (born May 26, 1977 in Pavullo nel Frignano, Modena) is an Italian football striker who plays for FC Bayern Munich in the German Bundesliga. Something of a late bloomer who played for almost ten clubs before finally settling, Toni was also a part of the Italian winning team in the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

Alexander Frei (born July 15, 1979 in Basel) is a Swiss footballer. He signed a 4-year contract with Borussia Dortmund on June, 29th. Dortmund paid a transfer fee of approximately 5 million euros for him. He played for Switzerland at Euro 2004 and at the FIFA World Cup 2006 in Germany. Until now he has been capped 54 times for his country (as of September 2006). Frei is only 3 goals short from being Switzerland's all time top scorer.

Arne Friedrich (born May 29, 1979 in Bad Oeynhausen) is a German professional footballer. As of June 2007, the Hertha Berlin captain has represented his country on 49 occasions, his debut coming in the 2-2 draw to Bulgaria in Sofia, on August 21, 2002. On December 21, 2004 Friedrich captained Germany to a 5-1 friendly defeat of Thailand in Bangkok. He was included in the 23-man squad in Fifa World Cup 2006, where Germany came third.

Cristian Zaccardo, Cavaliere Ufficiale OMRI, (born December 21, 1981 in Formigine, Modena) is a world cup-winning Italian footballer who plays for Serie A team US Palermo and the Italy national football team. One of the best products of the Bologna youth system, Zaccardo debuted in the first team in 2001, under the direction of coach Francesco Guidolin, immediately becoming a regular for the "rossoblu" and Italy's "Under 21" national team.

John Walker Motson OBE (born 10 July 1945, Salford, Lancashire), known as Motty, is an English football commentator. The son of a Methodist minister, 'Motty' was educated at Culford School, where much to his disdain rugby, hockey and cricket were played and football not. He was in the same year as Gary Newbon, who still holds the record for the most appearances in the school's 1st XV rugby.

Marcus Christian Allbäck, born July 5, 1973 in Göteborg, is a Swedish football striker, who currently plays for F.C. Copenhagen in Denmark.

José Andrés Guardado Hernández is a Mexican international footballer who plays as a left winger. He plays for Deportivo La Coruña in La Liga, having been signed from Atlas in the summer of 2007 fro approximately €7m. He is tipped as a rising star of the Mexican national team.

Danny Alberto Fonseca (born November 71979) is a professional Costa Rican football (soccer) player. He plays his club football for Brujas F.C. and has been selected in the squad for Costa Rica in the 2006 FIFA World Cup. As of June 9 2006 he had gained 21 full caps and claimed 2 goals. He was the first player to be booked in the FIFA World Cup 2006 during his country's 4-2 defeat to Germany

José Antonio Castro González is a Mexican football player who currently plays as a defender for Club América.

Sattar Zare (born January 28, 1982 in Shiraz, Iran) is an Iranian football player who currently plays for Bargh Shiraz and the Iran national football team. He usually plays the defender position.

Hassan Roudbarian (born July 6, 1978 in Qazvin, Iran) is an Iranian football player, currently playing for Pas Tehran in the IPL and a member of the Iranian national team. He plays in the goalkeeper position. He became well-known during Pas' 2003-04 championship season, where he was able to start most of the games, despite competing with former national goalkeeper, Nima Nakisa. He had been called up to the national team many times, during the past few seasons, …

Maryla Rodowicz is one of the most popular Polish singers. She studied at "Liceum Ziemi Kujawskiej" ("The Kujawy region college") in Włocławek and graduated from the "Akademia Wychowania Fizycznego" ("The Academy of Physical Education") in Warsaw. In her youth she participated in athletics among other things at "Kujawiak Wloclawek" She became famous in 1973 with the song "Małgośka" with lyrics by Agnieszka Osiecka.

Jesús Manuel Rodríguez, also known as El Koala, is a Spanish musician. He started in the music world in 1986, creating a punk-rock group called "Santos Putos". Later he got involved in several projects, including "Los Ducati" music group. In 2006 he released his first music disc as El Koala, titled "Rock Rústico de Lomo Ancho" ("Wide loin rustic rock"). Its first single video clip, "Opá, yo viazé un corrá", …

Otilino Tenorio was an Ecuadorian footballer who was tragically killed in a car crash. Tenorio was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador. His nickname was 'Spiderman', because when he scored a goal in a football match he would cover his head with a Spider-Man mask as he celebrated. At one point, he had a Spider-Man-like pattern shaved into his hair. He joined Club Sport Emelec of Guayaquil when he was eleven, and went on to play for the club at a professional level.

Germán Darío Lux ; nicknamed "Poroto"; is an Argentine soccer player who currently plays for Club Atlético River Plate. As goalkeeper for six soccer matches during the 2004 Summer Olympics, leading up to the gold medal triumph of his Argentine team, he did not concede a goal in six matches. He was able to watch his team score nine goals in the opening three-match group phase, four goals in the quarter-final against Costa Rica, three goals in the semi-final against Italy, …

Yussif Chibsah (born December 30, 1983) is a Ghanian football player who, as of 2006 has been playing for IFK Mariehamn. He was part of the Ghanaian 2004 Olympic football team, who exited in the first round, having finished in third place in group B. He was the captain of the Olympic football team in Athens 2004.He played in Israel for (Hapoel Nazareth).He is currently playing for Nea Salamis in Cyprus.

Graham Little (b. 12 April 1978) is a freelance Northern Irish television presenter and journalist, born in Enniskillen. Graham began his journalism career in his native County Fermanagh working for Enniskillen-based newspaper "The Impartial Reporter" as a sports reporter. Graham made the transition to broadcast journalism when he began reporting for UTV Live in September 2002. He also presented the sports news on "UTV Live" from March 2003.

José Antonio Patlán Valtierra is a Mexican Football player who is currently playing for Chivas de Guadalajara, and he plays as a Centre Back and as a Defensive Midfielder. He debuted in a match against Club Toluca in April 29, 2006, Toluca won the match 2-0. He got the chance to play in the Clausura 2006, when Chivas lost 6 of their starting players to the Mexican National Team (Oswaldo Sanchez, Gonzalo Pineda, Ramon Morales, Omar Bravo, …