Manuel Neuer and David Da Gea are currently regarded as the best goal keepers in the world. Manuel Neuer has already achieved so much with both Bayern Munich and his national side while Da Gea has all the ability to go on for atleast another 10-12 years at the top level football. How do they compared to some of the greatest goal keepers to have ever graced the beautiful game ? Here is a definite list of top 10 greatest keepers of all times.
Iker Casillas has won everything there to be won for a footballer. He made his debut for Real Madrid at the tender age of 17 and never looked back. 5 La Liga titles, 3 Champions League, 4 Copa Del Rey makes him one of the most decorated player in spanish domestic football.
At the international level he guided Spain to 2010 world cup win and two back to back European championship titles in 2008 and 2012. No goalkeeper in history of football has achieved so much what Casillas has done in his career. He might be nearing to lose his national team place to David Da Gea but he will go down as the greatest goalkeeper of all times.
If it was not for Casillas, Gigi Buffon will be the greatest keeper in the last 20 years. He has so many records to his name since starting his career at the highest level with Parma. Juventus paid a world record fee of £32.5 million for a goalkeeper in 2001 to buy Buffon and since than he has been a rock for Juventus in goal.
Buffon guided Italy to World Cup 2006 triumph with the final win over France on penalties. He just turned 36 and still showing no sign of slowing down. 2014-15 was one of his best seasons with Juvenuts where they won the League, Italian cup and reach the final of the Champions League against Barcelona where Buffon was excellent.
Started his career with FC Schalke back in 2006 and ws immediately regarded as the next great keeper for Germany and successor to Oliver Kahn. He made 156 appearences for Schalke before moving to Bayern Munich in 2011. Manuel Neuer has won everything there is to be won with Bayern Munich.
Since joining Bayern Munich he has not only won titles but have improved so much in all aspect of the game specially his superb sweeping and distribution skills. After finishing 2010 world cup and euro 2012 as best keeper of the tournament he guided Germany to their fourth world cup win in 2014. He is still in the peak of his career at the age of 29 and we can safely assume atleast another 5-6 years at the top of his game and he might go down as the greatest keeper of all times when he hang up his gloves.
Dino Zoff was regarded the best ever before the likes of Casillas and Buffon came onto the scene. He played for number of Italian sides (Udinese, Napoli, Montova) but his longest and most successful stint was with Juventus where he won 6 league titles, 2 Italian cup and UEFA Cup.
Dino Zoff played for Italy from 1968 to 1983 and earned 112 caps. Highlight of his career was when he guided Italy to 1982 world cup win as captain and won the best keeper of the tournament award becoming the oldest player to win the world cup at the age of 40. He also won 1968’s European championship with Italy.
Lev Yashin was so good that the “best goalkeeper in world cup award” (Yashin Trophy) is named after him. He was a one club man and only played for Dynamo Moscow from 1950 to 1970 and won all the domestic honors with Moscow. He represented Soviet Union national team and won 78 caps and played in three world cups. International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS) regard him the best keeper of 20th century.
This might be a controversial inclusion as Gordon Banks lacks the winning medals of other great keepers in the list. But boy was he good if we just compare them purely on agility, reflexes and shot-stopping skills. His save of Pele’s close range header back in 1970 world cup is still regarded as the greatest save of all times.
High point of his career was with national team England when he guided them to world cup win in 1966 where he only gave away two goals in whole competition.
Probably the greatest one-on-one stopper Kahn had a massive presence in goal for both Bayern Munich and Germany. He become the only keeper in history of football to win “golden ball” Best player of the tournament award in 2002 world cup. Although he failed to keep Brazil away from winning the world cup final but Germany won’t be in the final if it was not for Kahn single handed performances.
He won multiple league and cup titles with Bayern Munich and highlight his Bayern career was that 2001 champions league final win over Valencia. He is widely regarded as the greatest keeper to have not win the World Cup or European championships.
One of the greatest player and certainly the best keeper for Germany post war era, Sepp Maier played for Bayern Munich and Germany national team from 1962 to 1979. He guided Germany to world cup and european championship titles while as Bayern Munich keeper won 3 european titles and 3 bundesliga titles making him one of the most successful keeper to have come from Germany.
Barthez was technically not the best keeper but he had a major impact on France’s dominant era where they won FIFA World Cup 1998 and UEFA Euro 2000. Barthez represented number of clubs in France most notably Marsielle and Monaco. He also had a four year spell with Manchester United.
Mixed Martial Arts has come along way as a sport in last couple of decades with UFC setting the standard in MMA. It was not long ago when MMA was barely heard of, MMA was pretty much illegal in many countries but since UFC started to gain momentum it became a money making mechine for the fighters and for UFC itself. Some of the greatest MMA fighters has headlined UFC PPV events over the last 10 years.
We are just 1 week away from one of the most anticipated UFC 194 fight between Conor McGregor vs Jose Aldo on 12 december 2015. It is widely predicted that this will be the fight which will break “UFC 100” long standing 1.6 million ppv sales record or atleast come close to it. So considering we are just a week away from massive fight here is the highest grossing UFC fight cards of all times.
NO#1. UFC 100 (Highest Grossing UFC PPV Fight Card):Total PPV Buys: 1,600,000
Gate Receipts: $5.12 million
Total Revenue: $82 million
Brock Lesnar has headlined 4 of the top 6 highest grossing UFC fight cards of all times. The biggest so far in terms of PPV buys was historic “UFC 100” card back in July 2009 where Brock Lesnar fought Frank Mir and Georges St-Pierre defeated Thiago Alves. A total of 1.6 million ppv were sold bringing in $82 million in revenue.
More than 10,000 people attended the night at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas and the gate receipts were disclosed at $5,12 million. Which took the total revenue from this fight card to a massive $82 million. Since than UFC has failed to hit that mark although they came close on couple of occasions.
Here is the list of top 10 Highest grossing UFC PPV events. The numbers stated below are officialy disclosed by UFC and navada fighting commission.
| UFC | MAIN-EVENT | PPV SOLD | GROSS REVENUE | |
| 1 | UFC 100 (July 2009) | Lesnar vs Mir | 1,600,000 | $82 Million |
| 2 | UFC 116 (July 2010) | Lesnar vs Carwin | 1,116,000 | $55 million |
| 3 | UFC 158 (March 2013) | St-Pierre vs Diaz | 1,110,000 | $48 million+ |
| 4 | UFC 168 (December 2013) | Weidman vs Silva 2 | 1,110,000 | $53 million+ |
| 5 | UFC 66 (December 2006) | Liddell vs Ortiz II | 1,050,000 | $53 million+ |
| 6 | UFC 121 (October 2010) | Lesnar vs Velasquez | 1,050,000 | $45 million+ |
| 7 | UFC 91 (November 2008) | Lesnar vs Couture | 1,010,000 | $47 million+ |
| 8 | UFC 92 (December 2008) | Griffin-Evans & Silva-Rampage | 1,000,000 | |
| 9 | UFC 148 (July 2012) | Silva vs Sonnen II | 1,000,000 | |
| 10 | UFC 94 (January 2009) | St-Pierre vs Penn 2 | 920,000 |
Maria Yuryevna Sharapova is a Russian professional tennis player, who is ranked world No. 4 by the Women's Tennis Association. A United States resident since 1994, Sharapova has competed on the WTA tour since 2001.
Born: April 19, 1987
(age 28), Nyagan, Russia
Height: 1.88 m
Weight: 59 kg
Nationality: Russian
Grand slams won (singles): 5
Women FIFA World Cup 2015 edition will be taking place in Canada in the summer this year and with just month and half to go the build is taking off slowly but surely. This will be one of the biggest women competition in sports with FIFA Promising a full fledged broadcasting programe enabling all the countries to show matches from the world cup live on free to air channels. Women football would do alot more with extended exposure promised in Canada this summer. Female footballers are already headlining the news ahead of 2015 world cup with constant appearances in world renowned sports magazines. covers and what not. Today we take a look at some of the hottest female footballers heading to world cup. We will try to at-least mention one from each country participating in this years mega event.
Jonelle Filigno (Canada)
One of the hottest women footballer which caught my eye during 2015 women world cup was Canadian Jonelle Filigno, she is a pretty good player and got a hot body which she is not afraid to show.
ANOUK HOOGENDIJK (Netherlands)
Anouk Hoodgendijk is a dutch national team player and she also represent Ajax women club in her native country. She is one of the hottest female footballers around. Already have 100 caps for Holland and will be leading the dutch national team who is playing their very first Women World Cup.
LAUREN SESSELMANN (Canada)
A 31 year old veteran of for Canadian national football team but might miss out from the 2015 World Cup squad. She has played around 40 international for canada.
JULIA SIMIC (Germany)
25 year old Simic recently signed for Wolfsburn after making more than 100 appearances for Bayern Munich women team in Germany while she might make her international dubut for German in the upcoming 2015 world cup.
TONI DUGGAN (England)
A fairly new comer to women footballer, Toni Duggan is a Manchester City women team forward and represent english national team as well.
ALEX MORGAN (USA)
Morgan is fast becoming the face of Women football, she has been part of USA women team setup for best part of last 5 years and now captain of the country she has earned 85 caps for United States women team. She is widely regarded as the hottest female footballer.
Adriana Leon (Canada)
Canadian women team player Adiana Leon plays as attacking midfield or as a winger and has 5 goals to her name in around 30 odd international appearances
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NAYELI RANGEL (Mexico)
A new girl on the international scene, she is just 23 year old and will be expecting to play some part for Mexican national team in 2015 world cup. She plays for her native club in Mexico called Sky Blue FC.
Alexia Putellas (Spain)
Putellas was part of Spains squad which crashed out of 2015 world cup group stages, she is a bright light in spains lineup and transfered to Barcelona last year.
Ellyse Perry (Australia)
Now here you have a multi talented girls with looks to match, Ellyse Perry has represented Australian national football and cricket teams.
JESSICA LANDSTROM (Sweden)
30 year old has been playing for Sweden on the international scene since 2007 world cup and will be key player for Sweden in this years world cup.
ERIKA DOS SANTOS (Brazil)
Erika is a brazilian through and through, mostly she plays as a defender but at times she can be used as a forward upfront and have quick feet. One of the hottest footballers from Brazil.
CORINE FRANCO (France)
Olympic Lyon women team captain, Corine Cécile Franco is french women team legend having played nearly 90 internationals and will captain French team in 2015 world cup.
SYDNEY LEROUX (USA)
SELINA WAGNER (Germany)
HOPE SOLO (USA)
LAURE BOULLEAU (France)
LAURI BYRNE (USA)
Louisa Neciba (France)
NATALIE VINTI (Mexico)
KAYLYN KYLE (Canada)
