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Betting on football is today one of the main activities for football fans. Football betting has become an easy way to earn some money, have fun and enjoy the game with a twist. Easily, football betting could become an activity of all parties in the majority of football fans.Football betting is not for everyone. You need to take risks, sometimes Smalls and sometimes great to win a bet on football betting. The risks are always present and likely helps to know what type and quantity of the risks of your bet is in. That is the feeling of football betting. Knowing the game is an important step. To understand the game and the rules imposed in the game. Football betting also requires you to watch football many matches and take notes on the results of the previous games. player’s injury and the special circumstances also affect the probability of the outcome of a future game.

Something very useful in the football betting selections are. These are special comments and predictions that experts in football handicappers make regular calls to inform bettors likely events and outcomes. Internet has promoted the distribution of this football betting picks and there are websites that would place them even for free.Football betting sport remains the main activity of almost all sports and takes most of the bets of all sporting events. This is because football betting is very intense! Take risks and watch a game with his confidence in a team and really feeling the ups and downs is what a true football fan in question.

Most sports bettors are aware that there is no better bet football online betting. This is so for many reasons, but perhaps most important because football betting can be a game of skill if approached the right way. In short, do your homework, and online football betting can be a winning proposition.For example, take the 2005 NFL season of professional football and the Indianapolis Colts. The handicap football has had a field day with the Colts. Imagine starting the season $ 100 and pressing your bet on the Colts. At the end of the season, that $ 100 could have been worth many, many times. The Indianapolis Colts were the best bet online on football for most of last season.

The reason that many sports bettors are more likely to bet on football really comes down to handicap the odds and the supply lines in games. With some dedicated research, one can bet on football and become quite good at it. The secret is to never become too greedy and always keep the attention on what research shows and what the odds are saying.Very often, players who bet on football are disappointed when they first start placing their bets during the preseason. In fact, before the season can be a good time to watch football, but a horrible time to bet on football. This is due not only to the volatility of the players that sit in the season, but also the coaches, who often rotate players in and out of games to study the performance of new players.

Literally the last man standing in the team in a game of football, the goalkeeper has a seminal position in any football match. He is the last limit of defense in a team against the opponent team, and if he fails, all fails. The skill set of a goalkeeper is simply wide, from timing, to coordination of body, superb reflexes, communication, and perfection in timing and angles.

Let us look at the following list of top ten goalkeepers in football. Like all lists in this blog that involve a controversial matter, there is no specific order. Feel free to take your grievances, if any, to the “comments” section.

1. Julio Cesar de Espindola

Julio Cesar de Espindola is from Brazil, and plays as goalkeeper in the Internazionale MIlano of the Itaian Serie A. He is the first choice as goalkeeper for the national team Brazil, ad has won the international cap fifty three times. The IFFHS felicitated Julio Cesar as the best goalkeeper, as well as Serie A Goalkeeper of 2009.

2. Iker Casillas

Iker Casillas is a Spanish goalkeeper playing for Spanish La Liga and Real Madrid. He is one of the best goalkeepers from Europe. He is also the first capped Goalkeeper ever. He is the captain for both the national team of Spain as well as Real Madrid. It was he that led the team for the first European Championship in 44 years. The FIFA world Cup victory was also led by him.

3. Gianluigi “Gigi” Buffon

Gianluigi was declared one of the top footballers of our time. The Italian national team and Juventus of Serie A rightly consider him a hallmark. He has been known for attaining the Serie A Goalkeeper Record for a total of eight times. He was also named captain of the Italian team for Euro 2008.

4. Edwin van der Sar

Edwin van der Sar is a former Dutch footballer that had a long and successful career. He is the most capped footballer in the national team of Netherlands. He won the UEFA Champions League twice, both with Ajaz and Manchester United in 1995 and 2008. he was given the Best European Goalkeeper award in 1995.

5. Igor Akinfeev

Igor Akinfeev played for CSKA Moscow from Russia. His creditable performance in Euro 2008 earned him quite a few fans.

6. Petr Cech

Petr Cech wears the goalkeeper’s gloves for Czech Republic and Chelsea. He was at the receiving end of the Best Goalkeeper award consecutively from 2004 to 2008.

7. Victor Valdes

Victor Valdes plays for FC Barcelona and the Spanish National team. He is the most successful goalkeeper in the history of Barcelona. Valdes had a number of titles under his belt, such as four La Liga titles, Copa Del Rey Title and others.

8. Hugo LLoris

Hugo Lloris is a French Association Player and plays for the Olmpique Lyonnais as Goalkeeper. He won the Ligue 1 Goalkeeper of the Year twice. He was a tour de force when France qualified for the 2010 FIFA world cup. He captained the team as well.

9. Shay Given

Shay Given is an Irish footballer that plays for Manchester City. He has played for Ireland more than any other footballer. He played for New Castle in UEFA Cup and the Champions League.

10. Maarten Stekelenburg

Maarten Stekelenburg was Dutch Goalkeeper playing for Ajax and the Netherlands national team. He replaced Edwin der Sar as goalkeeper in 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Top 10 stadiums in the world

You will see that only 2 out of the top 10 are in Europe. I’m sure that when reading the title you would have thought the rest of the world doesn’t have 100k or over stadiums. Or at least, not that many.1. Rungrado May Day Stadium 150,000 Pyongyang, North Korea, clearly a communist monument. Home ground of the national football team. Opened on the 1st May 1989 (for a communist celebration of the labors day) hence the name.

2. Salt Lake Stadium 120,000 Calcutta, India, you would expect a country with population over the billion to have big stadiums, India has a big one, China doesn’t. Home ground of East Bengal Club, Mohun Bagan Athletic Club and Mohammedan Sporting. Opened in 1984.

3. Azteca 105,000 Mexico City, Mexico. The place where the World cup final Brazil 4-1 Italy took place in 1970. Home ground of Club America. Opened in 1966 but renovated in 1985

4. Bukit Jalil National Stadium 100,000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Opened in 1998 for the Commonwealth games.

5. Melbourne Cricket Ground 100,000 Melbourne, Australia. Opened in 1854, of course not exactly in today’s form. Mostly used for cricket and Australian football but also the home ground of the national football team. I have to wonder, is it sold out when they play Fiji, Togo and all the other teams from the Pacific area for the world cup qualifications?

6. Camp Nou 98,772 Barcelona, Spain. Opened 1957 and home ground for FC Barcelona, not much to add about it really, it’s pretty well known around the world.

7. Maracana 96,000 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Another famous stadium, renovated in 2007 and home ground of Fluminense and Flamengo, it’s estimated that in 1950 a match between Brazil and Uruaguy gathered an incredible 210,000 people.

8. Wembley 90,000 London, England. Opened in 2007 to replace the old Wembley (a real legend in the world of football stadiums) for the national side. The only question I have regarding this stadium is what the hell was so expensive?

1 billion euros???!?!?! That’s 3 times the price of the Allianz Arena from Munich!

9. Azadi Stadium 90,000 Tehran, Iran, built in 1971, home ground for Persepolis F.C. , Esteghlal F.C. and the Iranian national football team

10. Estadio Monumental Isidro Romero Carbo 89,930 Guayaquil, Ecuador. Built in 1987 and renovated in 1994. That really makes me think about the quality of the construction if they had to renovate it after only 7 year… Home ground of Barcelona SC