Today has given the world several famous people who closely connected their lives with football:
Ruslan RotanRuslan Rotan (1981) - former midfielder of Dynamo, Dnipro, Slavia Prague and the Ukrainian national team. He was born in Poltava, in the family of a football player. Ruslan's father played for local Vorskla for a long time, and it is natural that Rotan's parents knew from childhood what their son would do. At the professional level Ruslan started to play for Dnipro. In the career of the midfielder was not quite successfully completed voyage to Kyiv Dynamo, for which Ruslan played from 2005 to 2008. In the national team of Ukraine he played 100 matches, scored 8 goals. Until recently he was the head coach of the youth national team of Ukraine. Now he is the coach of Alexandria.
Edwin van der Sar (1970) - legendary Dutch goalkeeper. Edwin played for such clubs as Ajax, Juventus, Fulham and Manchester United. The goalkeeper won 27 club trophies during his career, was awarded with various prizes, as well as twice in a row became the bronze medallist of the European Championships (in 2000 and in 2004). As a member of the Dutch national team he played 130 matches, missed 89 matches.
Philippe Cocu (1970) is a legendary Dutch footballer who played as a midfielder. Cocu spent his best years in the domestic PSV, which now heads, and in the Catalan Barcelona. It should be noted that Cocu played against Dynamo Kyiv in the most memorable for the Spanish club Champions League matches. During his career he played almost 600 matches (598) in various national championships, in which he scored 121 goals, which is quite good, as for a centre midfielder. As well as van der Sar became twice bronze medallist of European championships in a row. It is worth noting that at Euro 2004 Koku was captain of his national team.
Robert Pires (1973) - former French footballer. He was born in the French city of Reims, where he began his first football steps, playing in the youth team of the local club. But the first professional team of Pires was the domestic "Metz", for which Robert played for six years. After "Metz" midfielder briefly played for "Olympique" from Marseille, after which Pires moved to, perhaps, his main club in his playing career - London Arsenal. After Robert played in Spanish Villarreal, as well as English Aston Villa. The Frenchman finished his career in the Indian club "Goa". It is worth noting that Pires achieved great success in the French national team, winning the World Cup and European Championship once each, as well as twice winning the Confederations Cup.
