Ellie Aiboy

Elie Aiboy (born 20 April 1979) is a current Indonesian football (soccer) player with Semen Padang. An attacking midfielder, and also can act as a winger, known for his explosive acceleration and brilliant dribbling skills. Elie Aiboy was a brilliant player for Selangor FA. He is also currently an Indonesia national football team player from 2001 until now. Aiboy has 33 caps (according to Fifa class A Match) and 7 goals to his name.

He played for Arema Malang in the 2007 AFC Champions League group stage, where he scored one goal.

Clubs :

• 2001-2002  : Semen Padang
• 2003-2004  : Persija Jakarta
• 2005-2006  : Selangor FA
• 2006-2008  : Arema Malang
• 2008-2008  : Selangor FA
• 2008-2009  : PSMS Medan
• 2009-2010  : Persidafon Dafonsoro
• 2010–present : Semen Padang

Boaz Solossa

Boaz Theofilius Erwin Solossa (born March 16, 1986) is an Indonesian footballer. His brother, Ortizan, is also a footballer. Boaz plays at Persipura while Ortizan plays at Persija. They met in a match at the 2005 Liga Indonesia final, where Persipura beat Persija 3-2.

Nevertheless, Boaz was unable to perform for Persipura for almost 6 months due to an incident where he and his Persipura teammates assaulted a referee officiating one of Persipura matches in the 2004-2005 season. During the time he was out of action, many considered his skills to drop and his prospect wasted. This resulted in the Indonesian national team manager Peter Withe crossing his name off the team list from the national team in 2006. He also has a bad reputation due to his alcoholism, which also contributed to his decline in form over the past year although Boaz stated that he is trying his best to quit and gain back his place in the Indonesian national team.He is absent at the Asia Cup 2007 cause Szeto Man Chun tackle that broken his legs in friendly match against Hong Kong.

Boaz was born in the Solossa family, a well-known family in the province of West Papua. His uncle, Jaap Solossa, was the governor of Papua before he died in 2005. Boaz was born in a footballing family as well, being the youngest of five children. Almost all of them were professionals, including his brother Ortizan and Nehemia Solossa.

Boaz is considered to be a bright prospect in Indonesian football after performing brilliantly in the 2004 Tiger Cup, where Indonesia was defeated by Singapore in a home and away match, which resulted in an aggregate score of 5-2 to Singapore. In the group phase, Boaz managed to score 4 goals and along with Ilham Jayakesuma, who scored 7 goals, both led the top scorers chart. He is well-known for his two-footedness, born as a left-footed but is equally dangerous with his right.

Robinho

• Date of Birth: 25 January 1984
• Height: 175 cm
• Shirt number: 11
• Position: Forward
• Current club: Santos (BRA)
• International Caps: 79
• International Goals: 25
• First international: Mexico - Brazil
  (13 July 2003)

Club History

• Manchester City (ENG): From 2008 to 2010
• Real Madrid (ESP): From 2005 to 2008
• Santos (BRA): From 2002 to 2005

Association, position, prodigy and genius condemned the teenage Robinho to the burdensome tag of ‘The New Pele'. And although the Sao Vicente native's style is mightily similar to that of O Rei, he has become a superstar in his own right.

Robinho exploded onto the scene in 2002. With his speed and, principally, his magical dribbling skills, he inspired Santos to the Campeonato Brasileiro prize. He was just 18. The dashing, deep-lying forward went on to propel O Peixe to another league title in 2004, and the final of the Copa Libertadores one year earlier, before a big-money move to Real Madrid.

Robinho made a superb debut for Los Merengues, but his form was somewhat erratic during a first season at the club which included a La Liga winner's medal. However, in his second season Robinho became a player of huge influence, creating and scoring goals consistently and wowing audiences with his productive tricks. Real again won La Liga.

On the final ay of the transfer window in September 2008, Robinho completed a 42.5-million-euro transfer to Manchester City. He scored a brilliant free-kick on his debut, in a defeat by Chelsea, and quickly began to showcase the talent that had established him as one of the world's best players. In his first season with City, he was one of the leading marksmen and set-up men in the Premier League. Again, however, the Brazilian ace put in a few shaky performances, which along with persistent injuries, harmed his status and eventually led City to agree a six-month loan deal that brought Robinho back to his beloved Santos. Here he swiftly became the focal point of a young and talented generation of attacking players.

Able to play up front or in behind the forwards, Robinho - who made his international debut in 2003 and helped Brazil win the FIFA Confederations Cup two years later - was a valuable squad member under Carlos Alberto Parreira. However, he was invariably utilised as a substitute.

After limited playing time at the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany™, Robinho was then made an automatic starter by new coach Dunga. He responded emphatically, becoming the heartbeat of the Brazil side and heroically guiding them to Copa America 2007 glory. He finished the competition as top scorer.

Robinho has taken this form into South Africa 2010 qualifying and the FIFA Confederations Cup South Africa 2009. While many of his celebrated compatriots have been below-par, the Santos revelation has been at his inventive best and is an indispensable figure for A Seleção.

Kaka

• Date of Birth: 22 April 1982
• Height: 186 cm
• Shirt number: 10
• Position: Midfielder
• Current club: Real Madrid (ESP)
• International Caps: 82
• International Goals: 27
• First international: Brazil - Bolivia
  (31 January 2002)

Club History

• AC Milan (ITA): From 2003 to 2009
• São Paulo (BRA): From 2000 to 2003

Kaka is firmly established as one of the finest players in the world. With a capacity to glide almost effortlessly past opponents, provide defence-splitting passes and score consistently from distance, the attacking midfielder won the FIFA World Player of the Year award in 2007 and made the five-man shortlist for sport's most prestigious individual honour again the following year.

Born in Brasilia in 1982, his family relocated to Sao Paulo when Kaka was young and it was there that he excelled at football and tennis. He ultimately elected to pursue the former and, after recovering from a career-threatening injury he suffered as a 15-year-old, he joined Sao Paulo.

Kaka made his Tricolor Paulista debut in January 2001 and, after helping his club lift the Torneio Rio-Sao Paulo trophy, was named in Brazil's squad for the 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan™. Although he was afforded little playing time in the Far East, he returned from the tournament with a winner's medal. Later that year he claimed Placar magazine's Bola de Ouro, awarded to the Campeonato Brasileiro's stand-out performer, and the following year he became the property of AC Milan.

There, with superstars Rivaldo and Manuel Rui Costa on the Rossoneri books, it was assumed the young Brazilian would be sent out on loan to gain experience. That move never materialised. Instead, Kaka, who got his first-team break due to injuries in the squad, rendered himself non-droppable and scored ten times in 30 outings as Milan roared to the Serie A title.

Kaka continued to excel over the following two seasons, illuminating the UEFA Champions League during the 2004/05 campaign, which culminated in his team's loss on penalties to Liverpool in an enthralling final, but his reputation accelerated to new heights in 2007; a year in which he played the leading role in Milan's capture of the Champions League and FIFA Club World Cup titles. Among the countless personal honours he received that year were a second Serie A Footballer of the Year award and the FIFA World Player gong. Injuries hindered Kaka in the 2008/09 season. However, when he started, he sparkled.

Kaka has been a fixture in the Brazil team since 2003, and by the end of 2008 had scored 23 goals in 62 internationals - interestingly, A Seleção have never lost a match in which he has found the target.

Kaka radiated as Brazil won the FIFA Confederations Cup Germany 2005, and his brilliant strike from distance earned them a 1-0 victory over Croatia in their 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany™ opener. However, he and his fellow attacking geniuses were unable to find their rhythm for the remainder of the tournament, and the five-time world champions ultimately lost to France in the quarter-finals.

Kaka’s reputation as a leader and decisive playmaker were bolstered dramatically with some impressive showings in South Africa 2010 qualifying and also at the FIFA Confederations Cup South Africa 2009, where he scooped the adidas Golden Ball award and man of the match honours for the final against USA.

Gianluigi Buffon

• Date of Birth: 28 January 1978
• Height: 190 cm
• Shirt number: 1
• Position: Goalkeeper
• Current club: Juventus (ITA)
• International Caps: 102
• International Goals: 0
• First international: Russia - Italy
  (29 October 1997)

Club History

• Parma (ITA): From 1994 to 2001

Gianluigi Buffon is the latest in a long and distinguished line of gifted Italian goalkeepers, continuing the legacy bequeathed by the likes of Giampiero Combi, Aldo Olivieri and Dino Zoff. As the Azzurri know perhaps better than anyone, a great side needs a great keeper and in Buffon they have perhaps the perfect custodian. The outstanding No1 of his generation, he has been named Serie A's goalkeeper of the season seven times and four times world goalkeeper of the year.

With his tall, slender frame, Buffon was destined to be a goalkeeper. Capable of making the most difficult saves look easy, whether from distance or at point-blank range, there is no apparent weakness in his game and few strikers have ever managed to get the better of him on a regular basis. Perhaps one of his main qualities is an ability to put whatever errors he makes to the back of his mind and focus on the match again.

Hailing from a sporting family (his mother Maria Stella Masocco was an Italian discus champion), the young Buffon made his first league appearance for Parma at the age of 17 years and nine months on 19 November 1995, keeping a clean sheet in a goalless draw with AC Milan.

He would go to play 168 games in six seasons with I Gialloblu, winning an Italian Cup, Italian Super Cup and the UEFA Cup before moving to Juventus in 2001 as Edwin van der Sar's replacement. He brought his skills to bear in his very first season, making a vital contribution to Juve's title success by conceding only 23 goals in 34 games. He has remained loyal to the Turin giants ever since, becoming a cornerstone of the club.

Buffon's first international appearance came in a match against Russia in October 1997. The following year he travelled to the 1998 FIFA World Cup France™ as Italy's second-choice keeper. Forced to pull out of the squad for UEFA EURO 2000 with injury, he made his mark at Korea/Japan 2002 by saving a penalty in Italy's fateful golden-goal elimination to Korea Republic in the Round of 16. And at EURO 2004 in Portugal his luck was out once again when Italy were eliminated in the group phase.

Those disappointments were all forgotten at Germany 2006, however, when Buffon won his first major international trophy with the national team. The Juventus shotstopper had a vital part to play in Italy's penalty-shootout win in the Final against France, keeping out Zinedine Zidane's extra-time header with a superb leaping save and then winning a bout of spot-kick mind games with his Juve team-mate David Trezeguet, forcing the Frenchman to change his usual penalty-taking technique.

Never less than fully committed, Buffon has also suffered his fair share of injuries, not unlike his idol, the former Cameroon star Thomas N'Kono, after whom the Juventus and Italy legend named his son.

Fabio Cannavaro

• Date of Birth: 13 September 1973
• Height: 175 cm
• Shirt number: 5
• Position: Defender
• Current club: Juventus (ITA)
• International Caps: 131
• International Goals: 2
• First international: Italy - Northern Ireland (22-01-1997)

Club History

• Real Madrid (ESP) : From 2006 to 2009
• Juventus (ITA) : From 2004 to 2006
• Parma (ITA) : From 1995 to 2002
• Napoli (ITA) : From 1991 to 1995

Profile

Italy's FIFA World Cup™ winning captain Fabio Cannavaro is a worthy successor to the country's dynasty of great defenders, acquiring hero status in a land where making a perfect tackle is accorded the same importance as a spectacular volley.

Realising that the skills of dribbling and scoring goals were beyond him, Cannavaro honed his defensive attributes in the streets of the working-class Naples suburb of Fuorigrotta, overlooked by the Stadio San Paolo. Those makeshift games, played with dustbin bags for goals, served him well, and over the course of nearly 500 Serie A matches and 100 Liga outings, he has perfected the sliding tackle and the art of anticipation, dominating the penalty box with his sheer physical presence.

A ball boy during Napoli's glory years, Cannavaro was inspired by the exploits of Diego Maradona and his team-mates. His role model, however, was not the Argentinian magician but the dependable stopper Ciro Ferrara, who was seven years his elder but would quickly become a trusted team-mate and mentor.

The youngster took his Serie A bow against Juventus at the imposing Stadio delle Alpi on 7 March 1993. At the age of 22 he moved to Parma, where he formed a formidable rearguard with France's Lilian Thuram and goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon.

Having been an integral part of Cesare Maldini's U-21 team, under whom he won the UEFA European U-21 Championship in 1994 and 1996, he stepped up to the full national side in January 1997, appearing in a 2-0 defeat of Northern Ireland in Palermo. Yet his first major finals ended in disappointment when Italy were knocked out by the hosts at France 1998, with the French again thwarting Cannavaro and Co in the final of UEFA EURO 2000.

Another sad exit at Korea/Japan 2002 was followed by his departure to Inter Milan. A broken tibia cut short his season in 2003/04 but before he had made his recovery, the centre-half decided to jump ship to Juventus, where he teamed up once more with Thuram and Buffon. Before long, he has established himself as a leader of the Bianconeri pack.

Cannavaro arrived at the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany having taken over the captaincy from Paolo Maldini, who had just retired from the international scene. His calm approach set the tone for the team and his outstanding performances showed that here was a player at the peak of his powers.

Stylish and unflustered throughout, Cannavaro even had the pleasure of celebrating his 100th cap in the Final, an occasion made even sweeter by Italy's shootout win over the French.

In the wake of that triumph Cannavaro signed for Real Madrid. There he pulled on the prestigious No5 jersey, worn before him by a certain Zinedine Zidane. He has since signed a contract to return to Turin and Juventus, where he will likely finish off his career where it began.

Rio Ferdinand

Ferdinand has overcome numerous off-field problems to earn his status as one of the most composed central defenders in the game. The London-born player endured a torrid period including a drugs ban, a contract dispute and injury. But the Manchester United and England defender is still viewed as one of the best around.

The former West Ham United and Leeds United player joined United for around £30 million, a British transfer record for a defender, in July 2002 and has won almost everything there is to win in the club game: the Premier League, Champions League and League Cup, although he missed out on United's FA Cup win in 2004 due to a suspension for missing a routine drugs test.

At international level Ferdinand has established himself as first-choice centre back under successive England managers but it came a long time after making his debut at the age of 19 years and 8 days as a substitute in a friendly against Cameroon on November 15, 1997, making him the youngest defender to play for England at the time.

A lack of concentration curtailed his fledgling England career but, since maturing, the Peckham-born player has been to the 2002 and 2006 World Cup tournaments and was given captaincy of the side in February 2010 after John Terry's was stripped of the title, although missed out on the 2010 World Cup through injury.

Strengths: An excellent reader of the game, he has great positional sense and shows composure on the ball.

Weaknesses: His languid style can sometimes get him into trouble and he still suffers from the occasional lapse of concentration.

Career high: Lifting the Champions League trophy after he captained Manchester United to victory over Chelsea in the 2008 final in Moscow.

Career low: Missing a routine drugs test and missing half a Premier League season and Euro 2004 due to an eight month ban.

Style: Calm, composed, a player who uses his good positional sense to make interceptions.

Quotes: "I'm going to call you Pelé, son, I like the way you play." Youth coach Dave Goodwin spots an 11-year-old Ferdinand at the district trials.

Trivia: Rio comes from footballing stock, brother Anton and cousin Les have both played for England at various levels, but off the pitch he runs a music record label, White Chalk Music, and had a prank-based TV series called Rio's World Cup Wind-Ups.

Jermain Defoe

Since his days as a teen prodigy at West Ham, where he arrived as sixteen-year-old via a controversial move from Charlton, this England international has been regarded as one of the foremost finishers in the country.

A loan spell at Bournemouth in the old Second Division during the 2000-01 season saw him match a post-war record of scoring in ten consecutive matches and he showed similar qualities when granted his chance by the Hammers. Their relegation in 2002-03 eventually saw him sold the following January to Tottenham where he enjoyed intermittent gluts of goalscoring before eventually losing his place to the partnership of Robbie Keane and Dimitar Berbatov.

A move to Portsmouth in January 2008 proved fruitful in terms of goals before he was then sold back to Spurs twelve months on for a considerable profit. However, as a result of the timing of his moves between the clubs, he missed out on a 2007-08 FA Cup winner's medal with Pompey by virtue of being cup-tied, having previously missed out on Spurs' Carling Cup win the same season despite playing in every round bar the final. Strengths: A quick-thinking striker who matches a poacher's instinct with a thunderous shot from long range. An impact player from the bench who can profit from tiring defenders. Weaknesses: Defoe has long been accused of not being able to play a bigger part in holding the ball up and being too selfish in possession. Career high: Scoring five goals in a single game as Tottenham ran riot to beat Wigan 9-1 in November 2009. Career low: Being omitted from Sven Goran Eriksson's 23-man England squad for World Cup 2006. Style: Pacy, instinctive, self-assured, a confidence player Quotes: "He looks stronger than I have ever seen him and I have known him since he was 14. He has done a lot of work in the gym in the summer and he looks even more explosive." Harry Redknapp, August 2009 Trivia: Defoe is a one-time paramour of David Beckham's sister Joanne.