Lance Edward Armstrong, born on September 18, 1971 that is a professional Road racing cyclist. The best achievements are that he won  seven times the Tour of France. After having survived testicular cancer, he founder and chairman of the Lance Armstrong foundation for cancer research and support.

In October 1996, the aged , Armstrong was diagnose  as having developed stage three testicular cancer. Armstrong announced on September 9 that would return after  talking my children. The Lance Armstrong sponsors are RADIOSHACK. I admire because he doesn’t  give aout.

Nick names:  The boss, Juan pelota, The Texan.

Weight: 71 Kg 

Heigh t: 1.77 m.

ZINADINE ZIDANE

Zinadine Yazid Zidane nació en Marsella, Francia el 23 el 23 de Junio de 1972. Sus padres Ismaile y Malikal eran del pueblo de Aguemone, en la Cabalia, Argelia, quienes emigraron a Paris y luego a Marsella en 1953, un año antes de que comenzara la guerra de Argelia. Fue el más joven de cinco hijos: Djamel, Farid, Nourredine y Lila, que crecieron en La Castellane, un complejo de viviendas patrocinado por el gobierno, en los suburbios del norte de la ciudad (el Quartier Nord). Desde muy pequeño sintió afición por el bádminton. A los seis años empezó a practicar el judo. Pocos años después acudía al estadio de Marsella, y se volvió admirador del futbolista uruguayo Enzo Francescoli. 

Edson Arantes do Nascimento "Pele"

Was borned in Três Corações, Brasil, on October 21 first 1940. Son of  Flumiense footballer Dondinho and Dona Celeste Arantes. He was the oldest of two siblings.

He is the most famous and best soccer player in the world. When he started playing soccer, he was rejected by most of the soccer clubs in his country, until “Los Santos “ accepted him.

On 21 February 1966, Pelé married Rosemeri dos Reis Cholbi. He has two daughters Kelly Cristina (13 January 1967) who married Dr. Arthur DeLuca, and Jennifer (1978), as well as a son Edson ("Edinho" – little Edson, 27 August 1970). The couple divorced in 1982.

His first match in the World Cup was against the USSR in 1958, He was the youngest player of that tournament, and at the time the youngest ever to play in the World Cup. He also competed in world cups in 1962, 1966 and 1970.

Lance Armstrong

Lance Armstrong was born on September 18, 1971 in Texas. His mother is Linda Mooneyham and Eddie Charles Gunderson. At the age of 12 he began his sporting career as a swimmer at the city Plano swim club. He abandoned swimming competition after seeing a poster for a junior thriatlon called the iron kids thriatlon, which he entered and won at the age of 13. The best stage of the thriatlon for him was the cycling part. The bicycle becomed his greates talent after winning the Amateur U.S race championship in 1991. Representing U.S in the summer olympics he finished 14th. This performance earned him his first proffesional contract with motorola. On october 2, 1996, then aged 25, Armstrong was diagnosed as having developed stage three testicular cancer. The cancer spread to his lungs, abdomen and brain. His cancer went into complete remission, and by January 1998 he was already engaged in serious training for racing. Before his cancer treatment, Armstrong had won two Tour de France stages. In 1993, he won the 8th stage and in 1995 he took 18 in honor of teammate Fabio Casartelli. Armstrong announced announced on september 9, 2008 that he would return to pro cycling.

Diego Maradona

Family
Maradona was born in Lanús, but raised in Villa Fiorito, a shantytown on the southern outskirts of Buenos Aires, to a poor family that had moved from Corrientes Province. He was the first son after three daughters. He has two younger brothers, Hugo and Eduardo, both of whom were also professional football players.

First experience of sport
At age 10, Maradona was spotted by a talent scout while he was playing in his neighborhood club Estrella Roja. He became a staple of Los Cebollitas, the junior team of Buenos Aires's Argentinos Juniors. As a 12-year-old ball boy, he amused spectators by showing his wizardry with the ball during the halftime intermissions of first division games.

Early succeses
On 20 October 1976, Maradona made his professional debut with Argentinos Juniors, ten days before his sixteenth birthday. He played there between 1976 and 1981, scoring 115 goals in 167 appearances before his £1m transfer to Boca Juniors. Having joined the Boca squad midway through the 1981 season, Maradona played through 1982 earning his first league championship medal. Whilst playing for Argentinos Juniors, English club Sheffield United put in an offer of £180,000 for his services but the bid was rejected.
After the 1982 World Cup, in June, Maradona was transferred to Barcelona in Spain for a then world record £5m.  In 1983, under coach César Luis Menotti, Barcelona and Maradona won the Copa del Rey, beating Real Madrid, and the Spanish Super Cup, beating Athletic de Bilbao. However, Maradona had a difficult tenure in Barcelona. First a bout with hepatitis, then a broken ankle caused by an ill-timed tackle by Athletic's Andoni Goikoetxea threatened with jeopardizing Maradona's career, but after treatment and therapy it was possible for him to soon be back on the pitch. At Barcelona, Maradona got into frequent disputes with the team's directors, especially club president  Josep Lluís Núñez, culminating with a demand to be transferred out of Camp Nou in 1984. He was transferred to Napoli in Italy's Serie A for another record fee, £6.9m.

Greatest Achievements

Started in 21 consecutive matches for Argentina in four World Cups these are 1982, 1986, 1990, and 1994. He appeared 16 times as captain of the national team, a World Cup-record. Scored 8 goals and made 8 assists in 21 World Cup appearances, including 5 goals and 5 assists in 1986Tied for highest goal-scorer from Argentina in World Cup finals.

I admire him because..

I admire him because I think he is a good player and played in a lot of world cups.

Diego Maradona

Family
Maradona was born in, but raised in Villa Fiorito, a shantytown on the southern outskirts of Buenos Aires, to a poor family that had moved from Corrientes Province. He was the first son after three daughters. He has two younger brothers, Hugo and Eduardo, both of whom were also professional football players.
First experience of sport
At age 10, Maradona was spotted by a talent scout while he was playing in his neighborhood club Estrella Roja. He became a staple of Los Cebollitas, the junior team of Buenos Aires's Argentinos Juniors. As a 12-year-old ball boy, he amused spectators by showing his wizardry with the ball during the halftime intermissions of first division games.
Early succeses
On 20 October 1976, Maradona made his professional debut with Argentinos Juniors, ten days before his sixteenth birthday. He played there between 1976 and 1981, scoring 115 goals in 167 appearances before his £1m transfer to Boca Juniors. Having joined the Boca squad midway through the 1981 season, Maradona played through 1982 earning his first league championship medal. Whilst playing for Argentinos Juniors, English club Sheffield United put in an offer of £180,000 for his services but the bid was rejected.
After the 1982 World Cup, in June, Maradona was transferred to Barcelona in Spain for a then world record £5m.  In 1983, under coach César Luis Menotti, Barcelona and Maradona won the Copa del Rey, beating Real Madrid, and the Spanish Super Cup, beating Athletic de Bilbao. However, Maradona had a difficult tenure in Barcelona. First a bout with hepatitis, then a broken ankle caused by an ill-timed tackle by Athletic's Andoni Goikoetxea threatened with jeopardizing Maradona's career, but after treatment and therapy it was possible for him to soon be back on the pitch. At Barcelona, Maradona got into frequent disputes with the team's directors, especially club president  Josep Lluís Núñez, culminating with a demand to be transferred out of Camp Nou in 1984. He was transferred to Napoli in Italy's Serie A for another record fee, £6.9m.
Greatest Achievements

Started in 21 consecutive matches for Argentina in four World Cups these are 1982, 1986, 1990, and 1994. He appeared 16 times as captain of the national team, a World Cup-record. Scored 8 goals and made 8 assists in 21 World Cup appearances, including 5 goals and 5 assists in 1986Tied for highest goal-scorer from Argentina in World Cup finals.

I admire him because..

I admire him because I think he is a good player and played in a lot of world cups.

Jack Huczek

Jack Huczek is a retired American professional racquetball player borned on January 13, 1983. 

Huczek made his first IRT appearance at 17 years old in 2000, and won his first IRT event at age 19. Only five players have won a men's pro tour tournament at a younger age. That win was in Huczek's first season on the tour full time, and helped him finish 5th in the 2001-02 season end rankings. 

As good as his pro career has been, Huczek's record has been better playing internationally on Team USA. In nine appearances, he won seven gold medals in singles as well as a silver and bronze. The last gold medal came at the 2009 World Games.

Huczek's record at the IRF World Junior Championships will likely never been broken or even equaled. He won 11 consecutive World Junior titles beginning with the Boys 8 and under World Junior title in 1992, and continuing with two in each successive age division until 2002.

I like him because he is the greatest racquetball player that have exists and I like the fast he run and hit the ball.

leonel andres messi 

is an Argentine footballer who plays in La Liga for FC Barcelona and captains the Argentina national team, mainly as a forward.Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina, 24 de junio de 1987,Messi began playing football at a young age and his skill and potential was soon realized by Barcelona. He left Rosario-based Newell's Old Boys's youth team in 2000 and moved with his family to Europe, as Barcelona offered treatment for his growth hormone deficiency. Making his debut in the 2004–05 season, he broke his team record for the youngest footballer to score a league goal. Messi has won five La Liga titles, three Champions League titles, scoring in two of those finals, against Manchester United in both 2009 and 2011. He was not on the pitch as Barcelona defeated Arsenal in 2006, but received a winners' medal from the tournament.

Messi was the top scorer of the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship with six goals, including two in the final game. Shortly thereafter, he became an established member of Argentina's senior international team. In 2006, he became the youngest Argentine to play in the FIFA World Cup and he won a runners-up medal at the Copa América tournament the following year. In 2008, in Beijing, he won his first international honour, an Olympic gold medal, with the Argentina Olympic football team. At international level Messi scored 19 goals in 66 games.when he was14 ears old he have a problem becouse his doctors say him that he was to small for hes age so he becam to have a special traitment.Messi was born in Rosario, Santa Fe, to parents Jorge Horacio Messi, a factory steel worker, and Celia María Cuccittini, a part-time cleaner. His paternal family originates from the Italian city of Ancona, from which his ancestor, Angelo Messi, emigrated to Argentina in 1883. He has two older brothers named Rodrigo and Matías as well as a sister named María Sol.At the age of five, Messi started playing football for Grandoli, a local club coached by his father Jorge.In 1995, Messi switched to Newell's Old Boys who were based in his home city Rosario. At the age of 11, he was diagnosed with a growth hormone deficiency.The traditional River Plate showed interest in Messi's progress, but did not have enough money to pay for treatment for his condition which cost $900 a month. Carles Rexach, the sporting director of FCBarcelona, had been made aware of his talent as Messi had relatives in Lleida, Catalonia, and Messi and his father were able to arrange a trial. Rexach, with no other paper at hand, offered Messi a contract written on a paper napkin. Barcelona offered to pay for Messi's medical bills if he was willing to move to Spain. Messi and his father moved to Barcelona where Messi enrolled in the club's youth academy.

Pele  

Name: Edson Arantes do.Born 21 October 1940 in Brazil."I admire him because is the best player of soccer of all times, and I love soccer and Brazil Team .And is a person that gives example to everyone. 

 " Was the greatest soccer player in the history of the game. With a career total of 1, 280 games, he may have been the world's most popular athlete.

Edson Arantes Do Nascimento Pele, who took the name Pele, was born October 23, 1940, in Tres Coracoes, Brazil, the son of a soccer player. His father's coaching paid off, for when he was 11 he played for his first soccer team, that of the town of Bauru, Brazil. He moved up in competition with outstanding play, and when he was 15 he was playing for the team from the village of Santos. He soon received broader exposure when he was loaned to the Vasco da Gama team in Rio di Janeiro.

In 1958 he went to Stockholm, Sweden to compete in the World Cup championship. His play there helped his country win its first title. He returned to Santos, and his team went on to win six Brazilian titles. In 1962 he again played on the World Cup team, but an injury forced him to sit out the contest.

Soccer is a low scoring game, but on November 19, 1969, before a crowd of 100, 000 in Rio di Janeiro, Pele scored his 1, 000th goal. He was not only a high scorer, but a master of ball handling as well. It seemed that the ball was somehow attached to his feet as he moved down the field.

Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson is a retired boxer. Mike Tyson was born in brooklyn, New York City on June 30, of 1966.

family:
He has a brother, Rodney, who is five years older than he. His sister, Denise, died of a heart attack at age 25 in 1991. Tyson's father, Jimmy Kirkpatrick, abandoned his family when Tyson was 2, leaving his mother, Lorna Smith Tyson, to care for them on her own. The family lived in Bedford-Stuyvesant until their financial burdens necessitated a move to Brownsville when Tyson was 10 years old.Tyson's mother died six years later, leaving 16-year-old Tyson in the care of boxing manager and trainer Cus D'Amato, who would become his legal guardian.

Education:
Although Mike Tyson dropped out of high school as a junior and never graduated.

First experience at sport:
According to an interview in details his first fight was with a bigger youth who had pulled the head off one of Tyson's pigeons. Tyson was arrested a lot of times when he was a child. When he has 13 years old he had been arrested 38 times.

Early succeses:
Tyson competed at the 1981 and 1982 Junior Olympic Games, and won the gold medal twice: in 1981 against Joe Cortez and in 1982 against Kelton Brown, whose corner threw in the towel within the first round. He holds the Junior Olympic quickest knockout record with 8 seconds. In addition he won every bout at the Junior Olympic Games by knockout.

Greatest achievments:
Tyson is a former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world and holds the record as the youngest boxer to win the WBC, WBA and IBF heavyweight titles, he was 20 years, 4 months and 22 days old. he's boxing record is 44 wins and 6 loses.

I admire Mike Tyson because he was a really good player and he won a lot of fights.

Randy Couture

Randy Duanne Couture born in  june 22  1963 is a retired American mixed martial artista. In the styles boxing and greco roman wrestling .

He was born in Everret Washington. HeBECAME Three times champion of the división Heavyweight and two on the Light Heavy WeightCouture is the first fighter to hold two UFC championship titles in two different divisions (heavyweight and light heavyweight). Couture has competed in a record 15 title fights. He holds the most title reigns in the UFC with five. His last fight with Lyoto Machida marked his 24th fight in the UFC, the third most amount of fights in the UFC (Tito Ortiz is first with 26 and Matt Hughes is second with 25). Couture is one of the first members of the UFC Hall of Fame.

Couture was an Olympic wrestling alternate and has lived in Corvallis, Oregon, throughout much of his career, where he served as an assistant wrestling coach and a strength and conditioning coach for Oregon State University.[3] He established Team Quest with Matt Lindland and Dan Henderson, a training camp for fighters, based out of Gresham, Oregon, and headed by coach Robert Folis. In 2005, Couture moved to Las Vegas, where he opened his own extensive chain of gyms under the name Xtreme Couture. He currently trains at his Las Vegas-based gym. Couture partnered with Bas Rutten in the opening of Legends Gym in Hollywood, California.

Couture is generally recognized as a clinch and ground-and-pound fighter who uses his wrestling ability to execute take downs, establish top position and successively strike the opponent on the bottom. Couture has displayed a variety of skills in Boxing, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu; submitting three opponents using different chokeholds. Couture is the only athlete in UFC history to win a championship after becoming a Hall of Fame member and is the oldest title holder ever (in the UFC and MMA). Along with Chuck Liddell, Couture is widely credited for bringing mixed martial arts into the mainstream of American sports and pop culture.

Erik Abidal Soccer Player

 

Erik Abidal Soccer Player  


Éric Sylvain Bilal Abidal (Lyon, France, September 11, 1979) is a French footballerwho plays left-back position, but can be adapted to the central station. Currently plays for FC Barcelona in the Spanish league.

Éric Abidal
Club: FC Barcelona
Date of birth: 11/09/1979
Place has born : Lyon (France)
Height and weight: 1.86 m/75 kg
Position: Defense
Links: Web of FC Barcelona
History: AS Monaco (2000-2002)
Lille OSC (2002-2004)
Olympique Lyon (2004-2007)
FC Barcelona (2007 - ...)

erik abidal and her   daughter. 

He is married to Hayet Kebir, a Frenchwoman of Algerian origin, and converted toIslam. They have three daughters. He is an expert in decorating and DIY, and is oneof the owners of a restaurant for fine French cuisine Lyon.5.      Eric Abidal joined Barça in 2007/08 season to replace Dutch international Giovanni van Bronckhorst. This was their first national football outside France.                                                                                                       he debuted in 2000 in the ranks of AS Monaco, with whom he played 22 league games over two seasons. Upon completion was transferred to Lille, which adopted the nickname "The Kenyan" because of its strength and endurance. Abidal also remain two years at the club, but this time he played 62 games league.Participated in FIFA World Cup 2006 finals in Germany,    On January 17, 2007 marks the first goal of his career. It was in the Lyon's 1-0 winagainst Le Mans F. C. in the semifinals of the League Cup Franci. Finally, and after playing about 100 games with the team Lyon and win 3 consecutive Ligue 1, the June 28, 2007 signed for Spanish club, F. C. Barcelonaafter reaching an agreement for 14 million euros, and was presented with the number 22. Eric made ​​his debut for the Catalan club during spring training held inScotland and Asia. He was named Europe's best left back in 2007 when he was appointed in FIFA Dream Team.
In season 2008/2009 Barcelona made ​​the perfect season winning all the titlesplayed, Spanish League, Copa del Rey, Spain Super Cup, Champions League,European Super Cup and Club World.
The following season the French began lefty starter in the side, but an injury made ​​him lose part of the season, taking his place the Brazilian Maxwell. He returned inthe last league match against Real Valladolid, where the game F. C. Barcelona wonLa Liga. That day, Eric was a great game.
The 2010/2011 season starts winning the Supercopa of Spain, and alternate theleft-back with central post-handed, taking over in recent years in the French but never before in the FC Barcelona. On January 5 marks his first gol a Barca shirt in a Copa del Rey match against Athletic goal that gives the pass to his team to the quarter-final.
I ADMIRE HIM BEACAUSE HI PLAYS IN BARCELONA, BECAUSE HE PLAY DEFENCE AND HI CAN PLAY IN BOTH POSITIONS. ( LEFT SIDE AND CENTRALL). AND BECAUSE  IT IS STUCK YOUR CLUB AND HE SAYS "It's my second family (FC Barcelona), I see more people from the club that my family"                                                                                                                                                       

Muhammad Ali


 Is an American former professional boxer, philanthropis and social activist. Considered a cultural icon, Ali was both idolized and vilified. He change his name from Cassius Clay to Muhammad after he joind the Nation of Islam. He was born on January 17, 1942. He is from Louisville,Kentuckey.He is 6ft 3in (1.91cm) tall. 
 After his Olympic triumph, Clay returned to Louisville to begin his professional career. There, on October 29, 1960, he won his first professional fight, a six-round decision over Tunney Hunsaker, who was the police chief of Fayetteville, West Virginia. From 1960 to 1963, the young fighter amassed a record of 19–0, with 15 knockouts. He defeated boxers such as Tony Esperti, Jim Robinson, Donnie Fleeman, Alonzo Johnson, George Logan, Willi Besmanoff, Lamar Clark (who had won his previous 40 bouts by knockout), Doug Jones and Henry Cooper.

His first title fight and aftermath 

  At the pre-fight weigh-in, Clay's pulse rate was around 120, more than double his norm of 54. Liston, among others, misread this as nervousness. In the opening rounds, Clay's speed kept him away from Liston's powerful head and body shots, as he used his height advantage to beat Liston to the punch with his own lightning-quick jab.

By the third round, Clay was ahead on points and had opened a cut under Liston's eye. Liston regained some ground in the fourth, as Clay was blinded by a substance in his eyes. It is unconfirmed whether this was something used to close Liston's cuts, or deliberately applied to Liston's gloves;however, Bert Sugar has claimed that "in two of his previous fights, Liston's opponents had complained about their eyes 'burning,'" suggesting the possibility that the Liston corner deliberately attempted to cheat.

 n the rematch with Liston, which was held in May 1965 in Lewiston, Maine, Ali (who had by then publicly converted to Islam and changed his name) won by knockout in the first round as a result of what came to be called the "phantom punch." Many believe that Liston, possibly as a result of threats from Nation of Islam extremists, or in an attempt to "throw" the fight to pay off debts, waited to be counted out (see Muhammad Ali versus Sonny Liston). Others, however, discount both scenarios and insist that it was a quick, chopping Ali punch to the side of the head that legitimately felled Liston. Ali was declared the winner after 1 minute and 52 seconds.

Fight of the Century 

 In 1970, while his case was still on appeal, Ali was allowed to fight again. On August 12, 1970, with the help of Leroy R. Johnson, a Georgia State Senator, he was granted a license to box by the City of Atlanta Athletic Commission. In Atlanta on October 26, 1970, he stopped Jerry Quarry on a cut after three rounds. Shortly after the Quarry fight, the New York State Supreme Court ruled that Ali had been unjustly denied a boxing license. Once again able to fight in New York, he fought Oscar Bonavena at Madison Square Garden in December 1970. After a tough 14 rounds, Ali stopped Bonavena in the 15th, paving the way for a title fight against Joe Frazier, who was himself undefeated.

Personal Life

Muhammad Ali has been married four times and has seven daughters and two sons. Ali met his first wife, cocktail waitress Sonji Roi, approximately one month before they married on August 14, 1964.

On August 17, 1967, Ali married Belinda Boyd. After the wedding, she, like Ali, converted to Islam and more recently to Sufism, changed her name to Khalilah Ali, though she was still called Belinda by old friends and family. They had four children: Maryum (b. 1968), Jamillah and Rasheda (b. 1970), and Muhammad Ali Jr. (b. 1972).

In 1975, Ali began an affair with Veronica Porsche, an actress and model. By the summer of 1977, Ali's second marriage was over and he had married Veronica. At the time of their marriage, they had a baby girl, Hana, and Veronica was pregnant with their second child. Their second daughter, Laila, was born in December 1977. By 1986, Ali and Veronica were divorced.

On November 19, 1986, Ali married Yolanda Ali. They had been friends since 1964 in Louisville. They have one son, Asaad Amin, who they adopted when Amin was five.

Ali was a resident of Cherry Hill, New Jersey in the early 1970s. Ali has two other daughters, Miya and Khaliah, from extramarital relationships.

Ranking  

Ali is generally considered to be one of the greatest heavyweights of all time by boxing commentators and historians. Ring Magazine, a prominent boxing magazine, named him number 1 in a 1998 ranking of greatest heavyweights from all eras.

Ali was named the second greatest fighter in boxing history by ESPN.com behind only welterweight and middleweight great Sugar Ray Robinson. In December 2007, ESPN listed Ali second in its choice of the greatest heavyweights of all time, behind Joe Louis.