alex

Alex

Personal information
Full name	Alex Rodrigo Dias da Costa
Date of birth	17 June 1982 (age 30)
Place of birth	Niterói, Brazil
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)[1]
Playing position	Centre back
Club information
Current club	Paris Saint-Germain
Number	13
Youth career
2000	Juventus-SP
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2001–2004	Santos	57	(12)
2004–2012	Chelsea	87	(7)
2004–2007	→ PSV (loan)	84	(11)
2012–	Paris Saint-Germain	15	(2)
National team‡
2004	Brazil U23	8	(2)
2003–2012	Brazil	18	(0)

paulo ferreira

Paulo Ferreira

Ferreira playing for Chelsea
Personal information
Full name	Paulo Renato Rebocho Ferreira
Date of birth	18 January 1979 (age 33)
Place of birth	Cascais, Portugal
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)[1]
Playing position	Defender
Club information
Current club	Chelsea
Number	19
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1998–2000	Estoril-Praia	37	(2)
2000–2002	Vitória de Setúbal	68	(2)
2002–2004	Porto	62	(1)
2004–	Chelsea	136	(0)
National team‡
1998–2003	Portugual U21	27	(0)
2002–2010	Portugal	61	(0)

obi mikel

John Obi Mikel

Informasi pribadi
Nama lengkap	John Michael Nchekwube Obinna
Tanggal lahir	22 April 1987 (umur 25)
Tempat lahir	Jos, Nigeria
Tinggi	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)[1]
Posisi bermain	Gelandang
Informasi klub
Klub saat ini	Chelsea
Nomor	12
Karier junior
2002–2003	Plateau United
2004–2005	Ajax Cape Town
Karier senior*
Tahun	Tim	Tampil	(Gol)
2005–2006	Lyn	6	(1)
2006–	Chelsea	162	(0)

torres

Fernando Torres

Torres playing for Chelsea in the 2012 UEFA Champions League Final
Personal information
Full name	Fernando José Torres Sanz[1]
Date of birth	20 March 1984 (age 28)[2]
Place of birth	Fuenlabrada, Spain
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)[3]
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Chelsea
Number	9
Youth career
1995–2001	Atlético Madrid
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2001–2007	Atlético Madrid	214	(82)
2007–2011	Liverpool	102	(65)
2011–	Chelsea	49	(9)
National team‡
2000	Spain U15	1	(0)
2001	Spain U16	9	(11)
2001	Spain U17	4	(1)
2002	Spain U18	1	(1)
2002	Spain U19	5	(6)
2002–2003	Spain U21	10	(3)
2003–	Spain	100	(31)

daniel sturridge

Daniel Sturridge

Sturridge playing for Chelsea in 2012
Personal information
Full name	Daniel Andre Sturridge[1]
Date of birth	1 September 1989 (age 23)
Place of birth	Birmingham, England
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)[2]
Playing position	Striker / Winger
Club information
Current club	Chelsea
Number	23
Youth career
	Aston Villa
?–2003	Coventry City
2003–2006	Manchester City
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2006–2009	Manchester City	21	(5)
2009–	Chelsea	54	(12)
2011	→ Bolton Wanderers (loan)	12	(8)
National team‡
2004–2005	England U16	5	(6)
2005–2006	England U17	9	(7)
2007	England U18	1	(2)
2008	England U19	3	(1)
2009	England U20	1	(1)
2009–2011	England U21	15	(4)
2011–	England	2	(0)
2012	Great Britain	5	(2)

juan mata

Juan Mata

Mata playing for Chelsea in 2011
Personal information
Full name	Juan Manuel Mata García
Date of birth	28 April 1988 (age 24)
Place of birth	Ocón de Villafranca, Spain
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[1][2]
Playing position	Attacking midfielder
Club information
Current club	Chelsea
Number	10
Youth career
1998–2003	Real Oviedo
2003–2006	Real Madrid
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2006–2007	Real Madrid B	39	(10)
2007–2011	Valencia	129	(34)
2011–	Chelsea	37	(6)
National team‡
2004	Spain U16	3	(2)
2004	Spain U17	2	(1)
2006–2007	Spain U19	13	(12)
2007	Spain U20	5	(3)
2007–2011	Spain U21	20	(5)
2012	Spain U23	4	(0)
2009–	Spain	19	(6)

ramires

Ramires

Personal information
Full name	Ramires Santos do Nascimento
Date of birth	24 March 1987 (age 25)
Place of birth	Barra do Piraí, Brazil
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) [1]
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Chelsea
Number	7
Youth career
-2005	Royal Sport Club[2]
2005–2006	Joinville
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2006–2007	Joinville	14	(3)
2007–2009	Cruzeiro	61	(12)
2009–2010	Benfica	26	(4)
2010–	Chelsea	61	(10)
National team‡
2008	Brazil U23	9	(0)
2009–	Brazil	30	(3)

davi luiz

David Luiz

Luiz celebrates the Champions League title with Chelsea in 2012
Personal information
Full name	David Luiz Moreira Marinho
Date of birth	22 April 1987 (age 25)
Place of birth	Diadema, Brazil
Height	1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)[1]
Playing position	Defender
Club information
Current club	Chelsea
Number	4
Youth career
1999–2001	São Paulo
2001–2005	Vitória
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2006–2007	Vitória	26	(1)
2007	→ Benfica (loan)	10	(0)
2007–2011	Benfica	72	(4)
2011–	Chelsea	34	(4)
National team‡
2007	Brazil U20	2	(0)
2010–	Brazil	14	(0)

John Terry

John Terry

Terry with England at Euro 2012
Personal information
Full name	John George Terry
Date of birth	7 December 1980 (age 31)
Place of birth	Barking, London, England
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 1 1⁄2 in)[1][2]
Playing position	Centre back
Club information
Current club	Chelsea
Number	26
Youth career
	Senrab
1991–1995	West Ham United
1995–1998	Chelsea
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1998–	Chelsea	375	(28)
2000	→ Nottingham Forest (loan)	6	(0)
National team‡
2000–2002	England U21	9	(1)
2003–	England	78	(6)

roman abrahamovis

Roman Abramovich

Roman Abramovich
Roman Abramovich in 2007.
Governor of Chukotka
In office 17 January 2001 – 3 July 2008
Preceded by	Alexander Nazarov Modric
Succeeded by	Roman Kopin[1]
Personal details
Born	Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich 24 October 1966 (age 45) Saratov, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Russian
Spouse(s)	Olga Yurevna Lysova (m. 1987–1990) Irina Vyacheslavovna Malandina (m. 1991–2007)
Domestic partner	Daria “Dasha” Zhukova
Children	Seven (5 with Malandina; 2 with Zhukova)
Residence	Moscow, Russia
Occupation	Businessman (Oil industry and Owner of Chelsea Football Club), Politician
Net worth	US$ 19.6 billion (September 2012)[2]

Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich (Russian: Рома́н Арка́дьевич Абрамо́вич, pronounced [rəˈman ərˈkadʲjɪvʲɪtɕ əbrɐˈmovʲɪtɕ]; born 24 October 1966) is a Russian business tycoon and the main owner of the private investment company Millhouse LLC.
He is known outside Russia as the owner of Chelsea Football Club, an English Premier League football team, and for his wider involvement in European football.
Abramovich is currently the 9th richest person in Russia and the 68th richest person in the world, according to the 2012 Forbes list, with an estimated fortune of US$19.6 billion. After the case with former and business partner Boris Berezovsky, Abramovich won the court case worth US$6.5 billion.

Early life and education

Abramovich's parents both died before he was four, and he was thereafter raised by his Jewish family in Ukhta, later moving to Moscow.^[3][4]

Business career

Roman Abramovich started his multi-billion-dollar business during his army service where he sold stolen gasoline to some of the commissioned officers of his unit.^[5] After a brief stint in the Soviet Army, he married his first wife, Olga. He first worked as a street-trader and then as a mechanic at a local factory.^[6] At the peak of perestroika, Abramovich sold imported rubber ducks from his Moscow apartment. Some sources suggest that these ducks were imported illegally, but no evidence of this exists.^[3]
A 2,000-ruble wedding present from Olga's parents (about £1,000 or US$2,000 at that time^[7]) was invested by Abramovich in smuggling of black market goods or contraband^[7] to sell in Moscow in or around December 1987.^[8] Abramovich soon doubled, then tripled, the investment, his confidence growing with each success in this smuggling business.^[9] Soon he progressed to making plastic toys (including plastic sailors^[10]) and started up an automobile parts cooperative. He attended the Gubkin Institute of Oil and Gas in Moscow (where he sold retreaded car tires as a sideline^[11]), then traded commodities for Runicom, a Swiss trading company.^[12]
In 1988, as Perestroika opened up opportunities for entrepreneurs in the Soviet Union, Abramovich got a chance to legitimize his underworld business.^[13] He and Olga set up a company making dolls. "It brought success almost immediately," says Olga.^[8] Due to his business acumen, within a few years his wealth spread from oil conglomerates to pig farms and he also started investing in other businesses.^[14] Abramovich set up and liquidated at least 20 companies during the early 1990s, in sectors as diverse as tire retreading and bodyguard recruitment.^[15][16]
From 1992 to 1995, Abramovich founded five companies that conducted resale, produced consumer goods, and acted as intermediaries, eventually specializing in the trading of oil and oil products. However, in 1992, he was arrested and sent to prison^[17] in a case of theft of government property: AVEKS-Komi sent a train containing 55 cisterns of diesel fuel, worth 3.8 million roubles, from the Ukhta Oil Refinery; Abramovich met the train in Moscow and resent the shipment to the Kaliningrad military base under a fake agreement, but the fuel arrived in Riga. Abramovich co-operated with the investigation, and the case was closed after the oil production factory was compensated by the diesel's buyer, the Latvian-US company, Chikora International.^[18]
In 1995, Abramovich and Boris Berezovsky, an associate of President Boris Yeltsin, acquired the controlling interest in the large oil company Sibneft. The deal was within the controversial loans-for-shares program and each partner paid US$100 million for half of the company, below the stake's stock market value of US$150 million at the time, and rapidly turned it up into billions. The fast-rising value of the company led many observers, in hindsight, to suggest that the real cost of the company should have been in the billions of dollars.^[19] Abramovich later admitted in court that he paid huge bribes (in billions) to government officials and obtained protection from gangsters to acquire these and other assets (including aluminium assets during the aluminium wars).^[20]
Thus, the main stages of Abramovich's financial career were: January 1989 to May 1991, chairman of the Comfort Co-op (manufacturer of plastic toys); May 1991 to May 1993, director of the ABK small enterprise, Moscow. According to various sources, from 1992 to 1995 Roman Abramovich set up five companies engaged in the production of consumer goods and selling-and-buying. In May 1995, jointly with Boris Berezovsky, he set up the P.K. Trust close joint-stock company. In 1995 and 1996, he established another 10 firms: Mekong close joint-stock company, Centurion-M close joint-stock company, Agrofert limited liability company, Multitrans close joint-stock company, Oilimpex close joint-stock company, Sibreal close joint-stock company, Forneft close joint-stock company, Servet close joint-stock company, Branco close joint-stock company, Vector-A limited liability company, which, again together with Berezovsky, he used to purchase the shares of the Sibneft public company.^[21]
The Guardian concludes Abramovich's career as follows:^[22]

RDM

Roberto Di Matteo - Manager and first team coach

Roberto Di Matteo was appointed on a permanent basis in June 2012 having acted as interim first team coach following the departure of Andre Villas-Boas the previous March.
Di Matteo fulfilled that role for the final 11 weeks of the 2011/12 season, leading the club to an historic Champions League and FA Cup double triumph.
He won his first four matches in charge including a tricky FA Cup replay away to Birmingham City and the memorable second-leg turnaround against Napoli.
Although ultimately Chelsea finished outside the top-four places, our success in Europe, that saw Benfica and Barcelona beaten before the victory against Bayern Munich in their home stadium, meant that not only had Di Matteo guided the club to our first Champions League title, but we had also ensured our place in the competition next season.
The Wembley win over Liverpool in early May continued his already sparkling FA Cup history at Chelsea.
Di Matteo is the fourth Italian to manage Chelsea, continuing his association with the club that began in 1996 when he signed as a player from Lazio, the choice of Ruud Gullit.
An international midfielder, he ended his first season by scoring in the FA Cup Final as major silverware was brought back to Stamford Bridge for the first time in 26 years. He also found the net in a League Cup Final win and another FA Cup Final before injury forced his retirement at the age of 31 having played 175 games and scored 26 goals for the club.
He returned to Chelsea as assistant first-team coach under Villas-Boas at the start of last season having become a manager for the first time at League One MK Dons in 2008. A year later he moved up a division to West Bromwich Albion whom he then took into the Premier League at the first time of asking. He was named the top-flight manager of the month in September 2010 but left The Hawthorns in February 2011.
He signed a two-year contract to be Chelsea manager.

chelsea 1945

Chelsea 3-3 Dynamo Moscow (1945 Friendly)

Chelsea vs Dynamo Moscow
Scoreline	Chelsea 3-3 Dynamo Moscow
Date	13 November 1945
Competition	Friendly
Referee	G Clark
Stadium	Stamford Bridge
Attendance	74,496[1]

Chelsea vs Dynamo Moscow was a friendly match which took place at Stamford Bridge on 13th November 1945.

Contents [hide] 1 Match review 2 Match details 3 Images 4 Notes 5 References 6 External links

Match review

The Second World War had just come to an end and Britain was beginning a slow return to normality. Competitive football had been suspended since 1939, so as a morale booster and to celebrate the return of the peacetime game, the football authorities announced that the Soviet Union's leading club side, Dynamo Moscow, would tour Britain. It was the first time a team from Russia had visited the country, and Dynamo boasted an impressive side; they had recently won their national championship by winning 19 of their 22 matches and losing just one. Their first opponents were Chelsea.
Years without regular football and general curiosity about the visitors from Britain's mysterious ally led to huge interest in the match, and a large crowd descended on Stamford Bridge on 13th November. The gates were closed with an official crowd of 74,496 in attendance, but thousands continued to enter the ground regardless. Spectators crammed into any available space, including around the edges of pitch and on the roofs of the stands. Others watched from nearby buildings. The actual match attendance is usually estimated to be in the region of 100,000 to 120,000.
To add further spice to the occasion, Chelsea would be fielding Tommy Lawton, the iconic England centre forward signed from Everton for a club record £11,500^[2] just a week earlier; the Soviets charged that Lawton had been signed specifically to play against them. Chelsea's line-up also included Joe Bacuzzi and Jim Taylor, both of whom guested from Fulham. For their part, Dynamo were reinforced with one of the USSR's most celebrated players, Vsevolod Bobrov, who guested from CSKA Moscow.
As a goodwill gesture the Dynamo players presented each Chelsea player with a bouquet of flowers before the match. Dynamo's slick passing and movement saw them dominate the early stages, but it was Chelsea, wearing a red strip due to a colour clash, who took a 2-0 half-time lead. Lawton won the ball from Khomich to set up Len Goulden for the opener and Reg Williams added a second when a mis-kicked Dynamo clearance rebounded in off him. Dynamo missed a penalty and also had a goal disallowed because it had gone in off a spectator.
The scoreline remained unchanged until some 20 minutes from full-time, when Kartsev drove the ball into the net from outside the area. Seven minutes later Kartsev set up Archangelski for the equaliser. Lawton appeared to have won the match for Chelsea when he latched onto a high ball and scored with a powerful header, but just minutes later Bobrov grabbed a deserved equaliser for Dynamo - to the delight of the crowd, who by now were cheering on the tenacious visitors - which was allowed to stand by the referee despite being five yards offside. The referee later told Lawton that he had made the decision for "diplomatic reasons".
After the match both sides were praised for what was described as one of the best football matches ever seen on English soil. Dynamo continued with their tour, winning 10-1 against Cardiff, 4-3 against Arsenal and drawing 2-2 with Rangers, thus returning home unbeaten and to a hero's welcome.

Match details

13 November 1945 2.30pm	Chelsea	3 - 3	Dynamo Moscow	Venue: Stamford Bridge Attendance: 74,496[1] Referee: G Clark
	Williams Goulden Lawton		Archangelski Kartsev Bobrov