Date: 05.02.09 Location: Carrington Weather conditions: Very cold and windy. Conditions ranged between cloudy, snowing and sunny. Temperature range 0-1C without wind chill. Well below freezing with wind chill. 0-20 mph winds throughout. Pitch conditions: Good, short grass. Players and st ...

Waiting. And waiting. And waiting. And then finally, after 419 days, 2 hours and 23 minutes, Brazil’s Ronaldo ended his epic struggle, tearing free from the shackles of injury and rising high to head home his first goal for Corinthians. Watch the goal and see what redemption looks ...

The original Mercurial caused the kind of stir a shark makes in a fish pond. And with its standard-bearer R9 still ruling the world four years later, the new Mercurial Vapor was the most highly anticipated boot ever to emerge from the Nike Lab – in time for the showpiece event of 2002. ...

When our designers at Nike HQ first decided to pour their energy into developing the lightest boot in the world, there was only ever going to be one candidate to wear it. Brazil’s Ronaldo – the original ‘Phenomenon’. Winner of consecutive World Player of the Year awar ...

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has listed him among the game's best players. European football clubs chose him as the recipient of the Ballon d'Or. And now, at only 23 years old, with a 42-goal season under his belt that helped make United champions of England and Europe, Crist ...