Sentences with phrase «winning goal for his country»

Alex Iwobi has thanked the Nigerian fans who witnessed his winning goal for his country on Saturday night.

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Wilshere has 28 caps for England and scored his first international goals — both crackers — in June's 3 - 2 win in Slovenia — his last appearance for either club or country.

Gaitan was the star of the show for Benfica last season as they won the domestic treble in Portugal, and last week he emulated Lionel Messi by scoring two goals for his country in a 7 - 0 rout of Hong Kong.

The 24 - year - old reacted well to pounce for his side's winning goal, and from then on he led a strong defensive display to keep out one of the most deadly front lines in the country.

2014 was truly the year of Cristiano Ronaldo who has scored and assisted an astonishing 34 goals for club and country since the start of the current season, scored his 72nd goal in the Champions League, won the Copa del Rey, Champions League, UEFA Super Cup and FIFA World Club Cup, not to mention his Balon d'Or.

The Spanish international has won a long list of honours for club and country, forming part of the highly dominant Barcelona side that won the Champions League in 2011, when he scored the opening goal in the final against Manchester United.

Fernando Torres has been ripped to shreds for his performances over the last few seasons — the man who scored the Euro 2008 - winning goal has struggled with both club and country since then — and although things were bad during his final seasons at Liverpool, they got even worse after a # 50M transfer to Chelsea, where the price tag combined with an incredible goal drought left him as the butt of jokes throughout England.

The 35 - year - old has won 112 caps for his country so far, scoring 36 goals in the process.

We showed yesterday some of the Vine / Instagram videos from fans across the country after John Brooks headed in the winning goal for...

Most Arsenal fans would expect our great French manager Arsene Wenger to be tipping France to win the Euros this summer, especially as they are the favourites, they are playing in their home country, and they have the unstoppable Olivier Giroud scoring goals for fun in the warmups!

New Zealand test cricketer Don McRae also played in goal for his country - winning one cap in 1936 in a 7 - 1 defeat to Australia.

Former Team USA coach Bruce Arena also represented his country at Lacrosse, winning the World title in 1974, a year after he won his one and only cap in goal for the States in a 2 - 0 defeat against Israel.

He has won 19 caps and scored his first goal for his country in a 3 - 0 victory against hosts Brazil in the World Cup third - place play - off in the summer.

I remember toulalan playing for his country sometime ago, played pretty well I believe he will meet the grade at emirates for expereince 25 yrs old, 1.83 m tall won league championships, champion league, regular for france, for icing on the cake attacking and defensive abilities is amazing forget barry greedy and alonso who not a naturally defensive player this should be arsene wenger goal, bringing him here, however one catch lyon will want to hold on to him, wenger can influence his french connections to bring him to where he can control and set up play

Cristiano Ronaldo, who won the FIFA Ballon d'Or in January, has enjoyed a brilliant season for both club and country; leading Real Madrid to their tenth European crown as well as the Copa del Rey apart from singlehandedly helping the team beat Sweden in the World Cup playoffs with four goals.

The Asia Cup champions needed to win by two clear goals to advance to the last four at Chile's expense and - during a combative first - half display which saw three Australians booked, including captain Tim Cahill on his 100th appearance for his country - they led at the break through James Troisi's goal.

Tosun has impressed for club and country during the last 18 months, scoring 20 goals last season to help Besiktas win the Turkish Super Lig and has continued that form in front of goal this term with 10 goals, including four in the Champions League.

The Portuguese ace has scored 44 goals in just 48 games for club and country so far this calendar year, including two in a 4 - 1 Champions League final win over Juventus in Cardiff on June 3.

All went on to play at the highest level and represented England, collectively winning 388 caps and scoring 63 goals for their country.

Five of our players won full caps for their countries last night with Conor Mitchell in goal for Northern Ireland Under - 21s; none of them finished on the losing side.

«It's not often I score any hat trick, so of course it's incredible and taking your country to the World Cup with three goals away and winning the playoff, it's going to mean a lot for my whole career, for my whole life really.

FC Barcelona In the match played against the Czech Republic on Friday, which Uruguay won 2 - 0, Suárez grabbed his 50th goal, something that only seven South Americans have achieved for their countries: Pelé (77), Batistuta (56), Romario (55), Ronaldo (67), Messi (61), Neymar (53) and now Suárez (50).

Sturridge began the season in style with a goal in Liverpool's 2 - 1 win over Southampton, but an injury during international duty has seen him out injured for the past month, an incident which this week led to a club - versus - country row over his Three Lions role.

The teenager scored his first goal for France in their 4 - 0 win over the Netherlands in World Cup qualifying on Thursday to become his country's youngest goalscorer since 1963.

The playmaker has scored six goals for his country in the summer's World Cup and won the tournament's Golden Boot award with his impressive performance.

Marcus Rashford has enjoyed an impressive start to his season — coming off the bench against Swansea in the last Premier League encounter to score the all - important opening goal and following it up with the winning goal against Slovakia for his country in midweek, in the World Cup qualifiers.

Their apparent goal and that of the Democracy Alliance was not just to help Democrats win elections but also to break with Clinton - era centrist politics, which they criticized for being too accommodating and for failing to articulate a clear progressive vision for the country.

It's rare for the cinematography prize to go to a film not nominated for best picture — not that Deakins hasn't had more shots on goal than many of his contemporaries; five of his 14 notices have come for best picture nominees, and one of them, «No Country for Old Men,» won the big prize.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.