Liverpool striker Fernando Torres' surname was the most popular to feature on replica Premier League shirts printed worldwide last season.
It is the second successive season the Spaniard has been top, while Anfield team-mate Steven Gerrard was second in the top 10 list compiled by SportingiD.
Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney moved up one place to third.
Figures are based on the number of official club shirts sold domestically and internationally.
Arsenal duo Cesc Fabregas and Andrey Asharvin were fourth and fifth, followed by Chelsea pair Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba.
Manchester United's Nani and Dimitar Berbatov both dropped out of the top 10, along with Arsenal's Theo Walcott.
Former Manchester United star Cristiano Ronaldo had been second in last season's list but unsurprisingly his name does not appear following his world record transfer to Real Madrid last year.
Manchester United striker Michael Owen featured for the first time alongside Drogba, while Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher and Manchester City forward Carlos Tevez were top 10 re-entries.
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You glutton for outdoor activities, the choice to enjoy with your family is very diverse. Guaranteed to provide a different experience. Especially for the little guy. Times this weekend, trekking and horse riding activities can be used as an option.
Mounted Inviting little riding, certainly exciting. Ride a horse gives many benefits. Besides recreation, beautify body posture, and beneficial to cure autism disorders in children. No need all the way to your favorite place, you and your family can also enjoy this activity.
Marcos Alonso will bring his talent to the Bolton Wanderers FC. The 19-year-old has agreed a three-year deal and Marcos Alonso became the third summer signing of the club(Martin Petrov and Robbie Blake also signed with Bolton FC).
Manager Owen Coyle was quoted in their Club site saying:
"He is an exciting young player who has undoubted quality and he will bring that into our mix. I think that we have a real talent on our hands.
"I have said before that when we are investing money in transfers that I want to do it with young, talented players. He isn't the finished article yet - he's a young player making his way - but you don't get through at Real Madrid without having a bit about you."
Marcos Alonso is now a former Real Madrid. He made his first-team debut last season with Real Madrid in a 2-0 win against Racing Santander in April.
Maradona Ousted as Argentina’s Coach By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Diego Maradona is out as Argentina’s national soccer coach. The Argentine Football Association said Tuesday it would not renew his contract. He spent an erratic 21 months in charge of a national team that was eliminated in the World Cup quarterfinals.
The federation had offered Maradona a four-year contract to continue through the 2014 World Cup. But Maradona said he would stay only if his entire staff remained. That was unacceptable to Julio Grondona, president of the Argentine Football Association. Grondona had asked for several assistants to be replaced. The federation’s executive committee sided with Grondona.
In 1927 when Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs, nobody besides himself had ever even hit more than 41 home runs. Anybody that knows baseball can tell you that there is Babe Ruth and then there is everybody else. Nobody dominated an era of baseball like he did. He was and is the Michael Jordan of his sport. But it was really more than that; Ruth out homered entire teams. Even Barry Bonds and Alex Rodriguez for all of their cheating, could not do that.
From the Roaring Twenties through the revolutionary sixties the home run was a show stopper. It was a big deal when Maris hit 61 ding dongs in 1961 to break Ruth's single season record. Of course Ruth did it in 154 game season and Maris did it in a 162 game season. Anyone that did the math knew that Ruth was still the gold standard. Perhaps our belief that he was so great is due in part to the folklore belief that he could have reached unbreakable records if he was not a heavy drinker and partyer and would have did even better were it not for his off field antics.
But perhaps that is just hero worship on our part. Nonetheless, hero is the optimal word. Baseball players were the envy of the world at one point. In Quentin Tarantino's masterpiece, The Inglorious Basterds, the American soldier brags that he is Teddy Ball Game while he bashes a Nazi officer's face in with a baseball bat.
But now?
Well now, I could not even tell you who leads the league in home runs, nor would I care to look it up. Even in 1989, it was fun to watch a spike in home runs when Kevin Mitchell hit a mere 46 jacks. Fifty two years after Ruth's epic season; in smaller ball parks and with better equipment, we were happy when a guy came within 14 home runs of Ruth! In 1991 when Cecil Fielder hit 51 jacks we were ecstatic that someone in our generation broke the 50 mark.
Even at the beginning of the 90's, the home run was still the king. We rooted for those guys. Race was not a factor then (not a real factor). We could care less, but when Barry Bonds came along later and was suspected of cheating somehow it all of the sudden was a factor.
Over and over again we have celebrated the image of two white men running on to the field and patting Hank Aaron on the back for breaking Babe Ruth's then all-time record of 714 home runs. And hardcore baseball fans even remember that Ruth hit three of his home runs for the very same Atlanta Braves. Race did not matter. We respected Ruth and Aaron both for their epic accomplishments.
Then came Mark McGwire. He hit 47 home runs as a rookie. He grew into his body and reached Ruthian status by the time he hit 70 in 1998 and crushed Ruth's old record of 60. But we ignored the writing on the wall. We ignored his increased bulk as well of his buddy, Sammy Sosa. Sosa went from being a string bean as a rooki to being The Incredible Hulk when he hit 66 that year. We did not care because we were happy to see the wooly bully mamoths crush records.
But then came Bonds. He weighed about a buck sixty when he came to the majors. But he also had a lightning quick bat and fast running speed. We certainly appreciated his natural talent. But when he became the undisputed power king over night, our steroid suspicions were way too strong to ignore. We shook our heads when we watched him mis-hit a ball (can of corn) and it still went over the fence by thirty feet. We were angered by the enabler's (media) arguments that steroids does not increase the hand eye coordination. But clearly MLB was turning a blind eye and soon we had to hear the media tell us that the fan truly did not care and that it was merely a witch hunt. Half truths dominated and the baseball purist was left for dead.
By the time Alex Rodriguez was busted for steroids, almost nobody even cared anymore. Well not for long that is. We cared from a what's the latest scandal standpoint. But the home run had already been given its last rites. When David Ortiz was exposed for steroid use, we only asked why it took so long to expose him? We watched a fat pile of blubber turn himself into Babe Ruth overnight. The Minnesota Twins were not stupid to trade him. They knew of his pre-steroids ceiling.
And so what about when A-Rod hits his 600th home run? So what? We don't care anymore. Major League Executives are millions richer. Baseball is no longer America's pastime (The NFL is). It's just something to kill a few hours. Where have you gone Joe Dimaggio? Where indeed.
The story is a world that has four civilisations, namely Spare Air (Water Tribe), Royal Land (Earth Kingdom), Air Nomads (Air Nomads), and the Nation of Fire (Fire Nation). In every nation there are people who are called Bender (bending, or in this case the controllers) that have the ability to control the natural elements according to their nations.
Control the natural elements of this art is a fusion style of martial arts and magic of natural elements. In every generation, there is someone capable of controlling all four elements, is being called as the Avatar, the spirit of the planet incarnate in human form. When the Avatar dies, he will be reborn in a nation that always turn alternately in accordance with the cycle of Avatars (Avatar Cycle), which along with the seasons: winter for water, spring for earth, summer for fire, and autumn for air.
