Messi, Ronaldo, Neuer shortlisted for FIFA Ballon d’Or

 Enyeama, Musa among five nominees for CAF Awards

CRISTIANO Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Manuel Neuer make up the final shortlist for the 2014 FIFA Ballon d’Or award.

  The 23-man shortlist was reduced by experts from the FIFA Football Committee and France Football on 30th, November 2014.
 Ronaldo, the 2013 winner, remains on course to retain the title after a sparkling year in which he celebrated Champions League success with Real Madrid.

  Four-time winner, Messi, continues his duel with the Portugal captain, with the duo almost exclusively battling for football’s biggest individual accolade for the last six years.

  Bayern Munich shot-stopper, Neuer, is looking to crash the party and become the first goalkeeper to win the award since Lev Yashin in 1963 after his integral role in Germany’s World
Cup success and another sublime league-winning season with the Bavarian giants.

  Carlo Ancelotti, Diego Simeone and Joachim Low make up the three-man shortlist for the coach of the year award after their respective Champions League, La Liga and World Cup triumphs.

  Ireland’s Stephanie Roche, James Rodriguez and Robin van Persie have seen their brilliant efforts nominated for the Puskas Award for the best goal of 2014.

  For the CAF African Footballer of the Year Awards, Nigeria’s Vincent Enyeama and Ahmed Musa, are among the five shortlisted for the trophy currently held by Cote d’Ivoire’s Yaya Toure.
 The other players in the five-man short list are Toure, Asamoah Gyan of Ghana and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang from Gabon.

 Enyeama and Musa enjoyed a fine run at the World Cup in Brazil, but Manchester City star, Toure, has won the prestigious award for the past three years.

  There are also two Nigerian stars for the women’s version of the award – Asisat Oshoala and Desire Oparanozie. They will battle Annette Ngo Ndom of Cameroun,
 Portia Modise of South Africa and Zenatha Coleman of Namibia for Woman Player of the Year.

The Youth Player of the Year has Oshoala and Uchechi Sunday from Nigeria, Fabrice Ondoa of Cameroun and Kader Bidimbou of Congo Brazzaville as nominees.

 In the African Player of the Year (Based in Africa) category, the five shortlisted players are the duo of Akram Djahnit   and El Hedi Belamieri of Algeria and ES Setif, Firmin Mubel Ndombe of Congo and AS Vita,
 Fakhereddine Ben Youssef of Tunisia and CS Sfaxien and late Senso Meyiwa of South Africa and Orlando Pirates.

  For Most promising Talent Award, the shortlisted players are Clinton N’jie of Cameroon and Olympic Lyon, Mubele Ndombe of Congo DR and AS VIta, Vincent Aboubakar of Cameroon and FC Porto and Yacini Brahimi of Algeria and also FC Porto

 Florent Mbenge, Kherireddine Madoui of Algeria, Rigo Gervais of Cote D’Ivoire, Stephen Keshi of Nigeria and Vahid Halilhdzich of Bosnia and Algeria were nominated for Coach of the Year.

  Other nominees are the trio of Nigeria, Algeria and Libya listed for National Team of the Year, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Nigeria and Nigeria U-20 for Women’s National Team of the Year and Club of the Year with Al-Ahly of Egypt, AS Vita of Congo,
 ES Setif of Algeria and Sewe Sports of Cote d’Ivoire as nominees.

  The winners will be decided by votes from the head coaches and technical directors of the national associations affiliated to CAF.

 The Glo-CAF Awards Gala night will take place on Thursday January 8, 2015 in Lagos, Nigeria.

The Footballer Rhyming The Waka-Waka Star- Pique and Shakira

It has been speculated that there’s something between Gerard Pique and Shakira more than friendship and have staged dozens of headlines recently, especially since the Colombian announced a break with Antonio de la Rua, her representative and partner since the year 2000.

Top sexy Colombian singer Shakira announced a split with her boyfriend after they had been together for the past 11 years. According to many Spanish newspapers, the story of Shakira and Antonio De la Rua was terminated because of the special closeness between the singer and the FC Barcelona player Gerard Pique.

Suspicions arouse from the fact that the two had met several times during the last summer, when they were seen together in an exclusive hotel in Ibiza. Also, this break-up came almost at the same time as the central FC Barcelona ended his relationship with the interior Nuria Tomás.

Gerard Pique, on his return from Switzerland, where he was at the prize ceremony for the FIFA Ballon d'Or, denied the relationship with Shakira. Upon questioning whether it was possible because of the rupture between Shakira and boyfriend Antonio de la Rua, the Barcelona star said, "Shakira and I are just friends, nothing more."

According to news reports, not long after working in a Music Video World Cup 2010 Anthem "Waka Waka”, inSouth Africa, the local media captured both passionately on a walk at the beach.

The singer also claimed that she visited the family of his sister living in this city on a regular basis already. The news seemed to be silently lost but the breakup with her boyfriend Antonio De la Rua was like oil to fire, and the news was back to the head-lines.

This was not the first time the two have been rumoured together but Shakira had dismissed the claims a few months ago also saying, "Pique and I together? What is true is that it is a 'waka-rumour!"

Among the football fans, there is a "concern" because an alleged affair certainly could affect the sports performance as happened to Barca center back Rafa Marquez, when he began his romance with model Jaydy Mitchell.

KARIM BENZEMA WITH GIRLFRIEND SARAH ON SUMMER HOLIDAY

Apparently Karim Benzema is now back with his former girlfriend, who happens to be his cousin , Sarah.  As usual, sea and the beach are the most favorite spot for summer holiday, where they can return home with a nice tan.

CESC FABREGAS SHOPPING TIME WITH DANIELA SEMAAN AND HER KID AT SARDINIA

Cesc Fabregas has to accept that by dating Daniela Semaan, it means he’s now becoming a father of Daniela’s 2 kids as well. (Hmm….25 yrs old with a teenage daughter seems a bit too much, maybe ?)

On summer holiday, the couple went to Sardinia along with Daniela’s kids. They were spotted spending time shopping in a mall. And while “mom” shopped, Fabregas was playing dad with Dani’s teenage daughter.

CRISTIANO RONALDO AND BENZEMA AT PLAZA MERANO ITALY

After the visit to Thailand, Cristiano Ronaldo and girlfriend Irina flew to Italy where they stayed at Plaza Merano, South Tyrol for a few days. During the stay, Irina was having a series of body and beauty treatment at Henry Chenot Espace.Besides Ronaldo, another striker that also went there was Karim Benzema. The two met in the hotel, since they stayed in the same place.

Too bad the hotel gives a guarantee privacy for the guests, so it’s impossible to get their pictures.

Shakira and Gererd Pique Sex Tape Rumour

We already heard about Shakira’s pregnant news and that she will (probably) have a baby boy at January next year. But recently, bigger news spread in Spanish and South American about the “Hips dont lie” singer. It has been reported that the Spanish and South American stores are having Shakira and Gerard Pique sex tape on sale.

Shakira’s spoke persons quickly denied the tape existence, but according to Spanish magazine, Pique’s agent has being offered to buy the tape.

The magazine wrote about the video, which has duration of 15 minutes, and filmed with a cellphone. The images are not too focus, and it was known to be filmed by one of Shakira’s employee who catched them at the “love boat” moment.

It has been said that the employees was using the video for blackmailing the Colombian singer.

This is not the first sex tape rumor for Shakira, since she has been in a subject while she still with her former beaus, Antonia de la Rua and Alejandro Sans.

RYAN Giggs sparked a bitter family bust-up by trying to seduce his alleged lover’s mum, it was claimed last night

RYAN GIGGS, THE EMBATTLED MANCHESTER UNITED STAR, HAD A TWO-YEAR AFFAIR WITH A THIRD WOMAN, IT HAS BEEN REPORTED, AMID CLAIMS FROM HIS FAMILY THAT HE IS A "SEX ADDICT". THE 37 YEAR-OLD, BRITAIN’S 20TH-RICHEST SPORTSMAN, IS IN DESPERATE NEED OF HELP AFTER “BETRAYING” FAMILY AMID INCREASINGLY TAWDRY HEADLINES ABOUT HIS PRIVATE LIFE.THE MARRIED, FATHER-OF-TWO HAS BEEN THE SUBJECT OF INTENSE SPECULATION IN RECENT WEEKS AFTER CLAIMS OF EXTRAMARITAL AFFAIRS WITH TWO DIFFERENT WOMEN, INCLUDING HIS SISTER-IN-LAW, AND HIS USE OF THE CONTROVERSIAL PRIVACY INJUNCTION.ON WEDNESDAY IT WAS FURTHER CLAIMED THE WINGER HAD TWO YEAR AFFAIR WITH A THIRD UNNAMED WOMAN, WHICH OCCURRED DURING HIS ENGAGEMENT AND BIRTH OF HIS FIRST BORN CHILD.THE THIRD ALLEGED WOMAN GIGGS IS ACCUSED OF HAVING AN AFFAIR WITH IS SAID TO HAVE FIRST PARTICIPATED IN A ONE-NIGHT STAND WITH THE FOOTBALLER AFTER MEETING AT THE LIVING ROOM BAR, IN MANCHESTER, BEFORE CONTINUING THE TRYSTS FOR A FURTHER TWO YEARS.“THIS WAS NO ONE-NIGHT STAND,’ A SOURCE CLOSE TO THE WOMAN, WHO IS SAID TO BE had a lasting relationship which went on for two years. It only came to an end when he phoned her on his wedding day to say it was all over.” Giggs, and his wife, Stacey, 32, were said to have fled to an undisclosed Mediterranean holiday hideaway in a desperate bid to repair their marriage. Despite his alleged infidelity, it has been reported that Giggs’ wife is standing by her husband. It remains unclear if she was aware of the latest claims. At the weekend, Giggs’ injunction, taken out earlier this year, came under renewed scrutiny after allegations emerged that the married father of two, conducted an extramarital affair with his sister-in-law, Natasha Giggs. Mrs Giggs, 28, is married to the former Welsh international's younger brother, Rhodri. A Sunday newspaper claimed that she met the footballer in a nightclub in March 2003, before she married his brother, and that the affair had continued until April this year. She announced the alleged affair through Mr Clifford, the publicist, after learning of Giggs' relationship with Imogen Thomas, a former Big Brother reality television star. He had not told his wife, Stacey about that affair. But his aunt Joanna Wilson, 49, of Cardiff, accused him of preying on woman, by using his star status as a high-profile footballer. “I can’t believe the mess Ryan’s made of his life. He’s a predator," she told the Daily Star. “I’m disgusted by his behaviour. “One thing’s for sure, he can’t keep his trousers up and he needs help for it.” Mrs Wilson, who is the sister of Ryan and his Rhodri’s father, Danny Wilson, a 55 year-old former rugby star, added: “He might have a sex addiction. Who knows? “Why do I think he did it? Just because he could. Because he’s Ryan Giggs and there will always be foolish women who throw themselves at him. “He had the perfect family but he still wasn’t satisfied.” Giggs, who earns more than £80,000 a week, and his brother were reported to have had a furious telephone row over claims that the soccer star had an affair with his sister-in-law. Mrs Wilson added: “He’s betrayed his beautiful wife and his beautiful children. I’m sorry to say it about my nephew but he’s a ruined man. “Everyone thought he was Mr Nice Guy, but not now. They can see how cold he is the way he’s treated his wife and brother. “It’s beyond belief what he’s done. It’s the ultimate betrayal. The whole family is gutted for Rhodri.” She told the newspaper that his brother will “never forgive” him despite becoming so close. “Their mother is totally devastated. Her family has been torn apart,” she added. “If Stacey has any self-respect she will show him the door and take him to the cleaners. “All our thoughts are (also) with Rhodri. (Ryan) has made his bed and he’s going to lie in it alone, for the time being anyway.” The further claims of another affair came a day after marketing experts claimed he could become Britain’s version of Tiger Woods.Giggs was awarded an OBE in 2007 and is one of the Premier League's most successful footballers. Woods divorced from his wife, Elin Nordegren, after it emerged he had slept with several women, which also battered his clean-cut image and caused some sponsors to abandon him. But while Woods’ career is still expected to continue, marketing experts warned Giggs’ £34 million fortune was under threat as he was in the twilight of his career. Meanwhile In an interview with a Russian newspaper in spring 2003, Andrei Kanchelskis said Giggs had reported that he was struggling to "change his bachelor’s life". “I go out with three girls but just can’t choose which one is the best”,’ the Russian said Giggs went public with his relationship with Stacey in January 2003 when she was expecting their first child. An eight-year affair with his future sister-in-law is said to have begun that March. Marketing experts said firms would now be hesitant to become involved with him after building his reputation over a glittering career as being a happily married family man. He is sponsored by Reebok, reportedly for £20m, Swiss watch firms Patek Philippe, Cyma, car manufacturer Citroen and phone company Saudi Telecom. Giggs is set to sue social networking site Twitter after users leaked his identity of being behind one of the injunctions. His identity only become came out after John Hemming, a Liberal Democrat MP, named him in Parliament, and his words could be reported under the rules of Parliamentary privilege. The courts have refused appeals to lift the injunction, despite the footballer's identity circulating on the internet.