Sports Illustrated featured its Fortunate 50 list, displaying the top earning American athletes, and as you probably guessed it, its topped by Tiger Woods, who earned close to $100 milli in 2008($99,737,626 to be exact according to Fortune). This is crazy when you think that the figure is bigger than the next two guys combined, Phil Mickelson($52m) and LeBron James($42m). Its even crazier when you remembered that he missed half of the season because he was trying to play golf(and winning) with a blown out knee and a broken leg! Yesterday I tried to play golf slightly hung and my swing looked like I didn’t know my arse from my elbow.

Anyways, this is a futbol site and it is definitely It’s boom time for foreign-born athletes. Despite the slow economy, the average earnings of the top 20 non-American sportsmen are at an all-time high $29.5 million. In all, this year’s list features seven soccer players. See who they are are where they rank internationally after the jump (more…)

Dude might not be liked by anyone, but his ability is incredible… can he do it consistently on the world stage though.

“Incredible” is right..To think about trying this is one thing, but to pull it off is something completely different. And don’t forget about the strength is takes to hold off the defender and the balance to get his body right.

Even though Swedish International Zlatan Ibrahimovic has scored 19 goals this term for Inter Milan, President Massimo Moratti has admitted that if the big striker shows interest in leaving and the offer is right, a possible deal could be reached.

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The Nike Mercurial Superfly.

Zlatan’s last goal????  Really?

This is why Zlatan is Zlatan.

So good.