Skin Cancer(taken from wikipedia)

Skin cancer is a malignant growth on the skin which can have many causes. The most common skin cancers are basal cell cancer, squamous cell cancer, and melanoma. Skin cancer generally develops in the epidermis (the outermost layer of skin), so a tumor is usually clearly visible. This makes most skin cancers detectable in the early stages. There are three common and likely types of skin cancer, each of which is named after the type of skin cell from which it arises. Unlike many other cancers, including those originating in the lung, pancreas, and stomach, only a small minority of those afflicted will actually die of the disease.[1] Skin cancer represents the most commonly diagnosed cancer, surpassing lung, breast, colorectal and prostate cancer.[1] Melanoma is less common than basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma, but it is the most serious—for example, in the UK there are 9,500 new cases of melanoma each year, and 2,300 deaths.[2] More people now die of melanoma in the UK than in Australia. It is the most common cancer in the young population (20 – 39 age group).[3] It is estimated that approximately 85% of cases are caused by too much sun.[citation needed] Non-melanoma skin cancers are the most common skin cancers. The majority of these are called basal cell carcinomas. These are usually localised growths caused by excessive cumulative exposure to the sun and do not tend to spread

transformers(taken from wikipedia)

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a 2009 American science fiction action film which was released on June 19, 2009 in the United Kingdom and June 24, 2009 in North America.^[3] It is the sequel to 2007's Transformers and the second film in the live action Transformers series. Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg return respectively as director and executive producer, while Shia LaBeouf reprises the role of Sam Witwicky, the human caught in the war between Autobots and Decepticons. The film introduces many more robots and the scope has been expanded to numerous countries, most notably France and Egypt. The plot revolves around Sam, who has been seeing visions of Cybertronian symbols and therefore gets hunted by evil Decepticons to awake their long-time-hidden leader, The Fallen.

A major hurdle that was overcome during the film's production was the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, as well as possible strikes by the Directors Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild. Bay finished the production on time with the help of previsualization and a scriptment by his writers Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, and series newcomer Ehren Kruger. Shooting took place from May to November 2008.

Revenge of the Fallen achieved the highest Wednesday opening gross in history, bringing in $62 million in North America alone and close to $100 million worldwide; this is also the second-highest opening day gross of all time, behind only The Dark Knight's $67.8 million. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is currently the highest grossing film of 2009, beating out Angels & Demons which previously held the title.

history of wwe(taken from wikipedia)

Beginning as WWF Monday Night Raw, the program first aired on January 11, 1993 on the USA Network for one hour. Out of all of the wrestlers that were featured, only two are still employed in WWE: Shawn Michaels and The Undertaker. The original Raw broke new ground in televised professional wrestling. Traditionally, wrestling shows were taped on sound stages with small audiences or at large arena shows. The Raw formula was very different than that of its predecessor, Prime Time Wrestling. Instead of taped matches, with studio voice overs and taped chat, Raw was a show shot to a live audience, with angles as they happened. The first episode featured Yokozuna defeating Koko B. Ware, The Steiner Brothers defeating The Executioners, WWF Intercontinental Champion Shawn Michaels defeating Max Moon and The Undertaker defeating Damien Demento. The show also featured an interview with Razor Ramon.[3]
Raw originated from the Grand Ballroom at Manhattan Center Studios, a small New York City theater and aired live each week. The combination of an intimate venue and live action proved highly successful. However, the weekly live schedule proved to be a financial drain on the WWF, and taped shows began airing every other week. From early 1994 to September 1999, Raw was shown live on one Monday and then the next day (Tuesday) next Monday's Raw was taped. This meant that Raw was live one week and taped the next.
The storylines and characters during the early years of Raw still had a healthy dose of the old Federation "gimmick-heavy" style. For instance, there were moments such as Irwin R. Schyster tearing up Tatanka's headdress, the various "Undertaker sightings" (during the Undertaker vs. Undertaker storyline, leading up to SummerSlam 1994); and characters like Duke "The Dumpster" Droese, Doink the Clown, or Thurman "Sparky" Plugg.

WWF Monday Night Raw logo (January 11, 1993-March 3, 1997)
Raw was also one of a kind, in which they covered the unexpected, exciting moments, a prelude to "the Attitude Era", in which it coined Raw as "Uncut, Uncensored, Uncooked." Some of those moments include Razor Ramon losing a match unexpectedly to Sean "The 1-2-3 Kid" Waltman, who was later known as X-Pac; Marty Jannetty beating Shawn Michaels to win the WWF Intercontinental Championship; and Raw was the first WWF television program of any kind to show footage of Lex Luger bodyslamming Yokozuna at the USS Intrepid.
The original hosts of Raw were Vince McMahon, Rob Bartlett and "Macho Man" Randy Savage. Sean Mooney conducted the interviews and Bobby "The Brain" Heenan also helped contribute. On April 19, 1993, Rob Bartlett made his final appearance on the program. He was dropped from the broadcasting team and was replaced by Bobby Heenan the following week. Then on December 6, 1993, Gorilla Monsoon kicked Bobby Heenan out of the WWF forever. In reality, this was a storyline between Monsoon and his close friend Heenan, who decided to leave the World Wrestling Federation in order to lighten his travel schedule and because he didn't want to take a 50% paycut. After about a year, Raw moved out of the Manhattan Center and traveled to various regular Federation venues in the United States.

[edit] The Monday Night Wars
Main article: Monday Night Wars
In 1995, World Championship Wrestling (WCW) began airing its new wrestling show, Monday Nitro, live each week on TNT. Raw and Nitro went head-to-head for the first time on September 11, 1995. Due to Raw's taping schedule on several occasions, WCW Vice President Eric Bischoff, who was also an on-air personality, would frequently give away the results of WWF's taped Raw shows on the live WCW show. Some fans also looked at Raw taping results on the steadily growing Internet; as a result, this caused the ratings of the taped Raw episodes to be lower.
WWF Raw had a live broadcast every other week to save costs, until September 1999, when ratings and pay-per-view buy rate increased, allowing them to justify doing a weekly live show.
At the start of the ratings war in 1995 through to mid-1996, Raw and Nitro exchanged victories over each other in a closely contested rivalry. Beginning in mid-1996, however, thanks primarily to the nWo angle, Monday Nitro started a ratings win-streak that lasted for eighty-four continuous weeks, ending on April 13, 1998.

[edit] Raw is War

WWF Raw is War logo (March 10, 1997-September 10, 2001)
On February 3, 1997, Monday Night Raw went to a two hour format, as the Attitude Era was starting to come in full stream in the WWF. In an attempt to break the momentum of what had turned into ratings domination by WCW's competing Monday Nitro, Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) was brought in as Jerry Lawler "challenged" ECW on February 17, 1997.
In an episode where Raw returned to the Manhattan Center, the "challenge" answered on the following week's show with Taz, Mikey Whipwreck, Sabu, Tommy Dreamer, D-Von Dudley, and The Sandman. ECW owner Paul Heyman did a call-in interview on Raw the week after that.
Throughout 1997, further controversial elements emerged with Raw and WWF programming. Memorable moments included Bret Hart cursing profanely at the crowd after reaping loss in a Steel Cage match, with commentators apologizing for his foul behavior, before he proceeds in major brawls with Sid, The Undertaker, Steve Austin, and briefly Shawn Michaels. Some of the most notable moments cites the profusely intense feud with The Hart Foundation against Michaels and Austin, which saw Raw develop a memorable episode in which Michaels and Austin beat The British Bulldog and Owen Hart for the WWF Tag Team Championship, and during their post-match attack on Michaels, Austin physically charged a disabled Bret Hart to ward them off. Other events saw the new black street gang Nation of Domination formed, and Michaels D-Generation X "racial graffiti" storyline designed to "implicate Bret Hart's 'The Hart Foundation'", and the "XXX Files" series.
On March 10, 1997, Monday Night Raw officially became Raw is War. The March 17, 1997 episode featured a heated Bret Hart/Vince McMahon ringside altercation (that unknowingly foreshadowed events in November) with profanity normally unheard on TV. Brian Pillman did a series of "XXX Files" segments with Terri Runnels, which further "pushed the envelope". These segments ended prematurely with the September 29, 1997 episode of Raw, after the death of Brian Pillman on October 5, 1997 due to hereditary heart problems.
After WrestleMania XIV in March 1998, which featured Mike Tyson as a ring enforcer, and Shawn Michaels final match up until 2002, the WWF regained the lead in the Monday Night Wars with its new "WWF Attitude" brand, led in particular by rising stars Steve Austin, The Rock, Triple H and Mankind. The classic feud between the villainous WWF Chairman Vince McMahon (who was re-imagined and re-branded from the color commentator into the evil corporal chairman character Mr. McMahon after the real-life Montreal Screwjob incident) and fan favorite Steve Austin (who had been released by Bischoff in the summer of 1995 for not being marketable) caught the imaginations of fans. The April 13, 1998 episode of Raw, headlined by a match between Austin and McMahon, marked the first time that WCW had lost the head-to-head Monday night ratings battle in the 84 weeks since 1996.
While Raw was taking a new approach to programming, Nitro began producing lackluster programming with repetitive storylines. Older stars such as Hogan and Nash frequently occupied the main events, while younger talent such as Rey Mysterio, Jr., Chris Benoit, Chris Jericho, and Eddie Guerrero were not given opportunities to advance, and the only newcomers elevated to main-event status at this time were Bill Goldberg and Diamond Dallas Page.
Meanwhile, on Raw, fans were immersed in the feud between WWF owner Vince McMahon and "Stone Cold" Steve Austin. New talent such as Triple H being the new leader D-Generation X (DX) faction, Mankind and The Rock were elevated to main event status on the WWF's program. Superstars such as Kane, Kurt Angle, Val Venis, Goldust and the like were coming through the ranks and exposing the WWF as territory where new talent can ascend unlike the WCW counterpart. Matters were so heated between the two programs that, when both shows were in the same area on the same night (Raw in Hampton, Virginia, Nitro in Norfolk), DX was sent to film a "war" segment at the Norfolk Scope where they berated WCW and interviewed fans on camera who stated that they received their Nitro tickets for free (presumably in an attempt by WCW to pack the arena to capacity due to low ticket sales).
On January 4, 1999. Mick Foley, who had wrestled for WCW during the early 1990s as Cactus Jack, won the WWF Title as Mankind on Raw. On orders from Bischoff, Nitro announcer Tony Schiavone gave away this previously taped result on a live Nitro, and then sarcastically added "that'll sure put some butts in the seats" consequently resulting in over 600,000 viewers switching channels to watch Raw. This was also the night that Nitro aired a WCW World Heavyweight Championship match in which Kevin Nash blatantly laid down for Hulk Hogan after Hogan poked him in the chest. The next week, and for months after, many fans in the Raw audience brought signs which read, "Mick Foley put my ass in this seat!"

[edit] The end of the Wars

WWF Raw logo (September 17, 2001-April 29, 2002)
A new television contract with Viacom led to a WWF change in the broadcast. On September 25, 2000, Raw moved from the USA Network to TNN (which later became Spike TV).
WCW's sharp decline in revenue and ratings led to Time Warner's sale of the company to the WWF in 2001. The final edition of Nitro aired on March 26, 2001. The show began with Vince McMahon making a short statement about his recent purchase of WCW and ended with a simulcast on Raw and on TNN with an appearance by Vince's son Shane McMahon on Nitro. Shane interrupted his father's gloating over the WCW purchase to explain that Shane was the one who actually owned WCW, setting up what became the WWF's "Invasion" storyline.
The Raw is War logo and name were retired in September 2001, following the September 11 attacks and sensitivity over the word war, and because the Monday Night Wars were "over".

[edit] Brand Extension
Main article: WWE Brand Extension

WWE Raw logo (May 6, 2002-October 2, 2006)
In early to mid-2002, WWE underwent a process they called the "Brand Extension". WWE divided itself into two "de facto" wrestling promotions with separate rosters, storylines and authority figures. Raw and SmackDown! would host each division, give its name to the division and essentially compete against each other. The split was a result of WWF purchasing their two biggest competitors, WCW and ECW. The brand extension was publicly announced during a telecast of WWF Raw on March 25, 2002, and became official the next day.
Wrestlers now would become show-exclusive, wrestling for their specific show only. At the time this excluded the WWE Undisputed Championship and WWE Women's Championship, as those WWE titles would be defended on both shows. In August 2002, WWE Undisputed Champion Brock Lesnar refused to defend the title on Raw, in effect causing his title to become exclusive to SmackDown! The following week on Raw, General Manager Eric Bischoff awarded a newly instated World Heavyweight Championship to Raw's designated number one contender, Triple H. Due to the fact that since the WWE Undisputed Championship was now SmackDown! exclusive it was no longer seen as "undisputed". Following this, the WWE Women's Championship soon became Raw-exclusive as well. As a result of the Brand Extension, an annual "draft lottery" was instituted to exchange members of each roster and generally refresh the lineups.
WWE Raw claimed to have earned the distinction of having the most original episodes of any fictional weekly program on August 2, 2005 when it broadcasted the 636th episode. It was said to have taken the place of Gunsmoke, which held that distinction. However, under the criteria WWE used to make this claim, the actual record would be held by the show Georgia Championship Wrestling, which ran continuously on Saturday evenings on TBS between 1972 and 1984.[citation needed] That said, Raw went on to surpass the Georgia Championship Wrestling record as they now have produced over 800 episodes.

[edit] Return to USA Network

Variations of the Raw modern titantron set were used from April 1, 2002 - January 14, 2008.
On March 10, 2005, Viacom and WWE decided not to go on with the agreement with Spike TV, making it so Raw and other WWE programs on the network would cease when their deal expired in September 2005. On April 4, 2005, WWE announced a 3-year deal with NBC Universal to bring Raw back to its former home, the USA Network, with 2 yearly specials on NBC and a Spanish Raw on Telemundo.[4] On the same week as Raw's re-debut on USA, Spike TV scheduled Ultimate Fighting Championship's live Ultimate Fight Night in Raw's old timeslot in an attempt to go head-to-head with Raw.
The show's first night back on USA was billed as the "WWE Homecoming" and featured the return of former WWE Champions such as Hulk Hogan, Steve Austin, Shawn Michaels, Mick Foley, Triple H and Vince McMahon along with cameos from legends such as Roddy Piper, Jimmy Hart, Jimmy Snuka and Harley Race. WWE Homecoming was three hours long — the second longest an episode of Raw has ever run in its 12-year history. USA also showed Raw Exposed, an hour of the best moments of Raw during its previous run on USA. WWE announced that Raw received its highest ratings in three years, gaining close to six million viewers.
The following week, Vince McMahon fired Jim Ross for not helping after Steve Austin gave him and his entire family the Stone Cold Stunner. Jonathan Coachman, the second analyst at the table, took over Ross's duties as play-by-play for two weeks until former ECW announcer Joey Styles was hired.

[edit] 2006
On the May 1, 2006 edition of Raw, Joey Styles announced he was quitting (kayfabe). His vacating of the announcer position set the stage for Jim Ross to return to Raw's commentary booth, thus ending the storyline where Ross got fired by Linda McMahon. This freed Styles to become a commentator for the ECW brand when it launched in June.
In Canada, after an 11 year run on TSN, Raw moved to rival sports broadcaster The Score after it was announced that TSN would be carrying Monday Night Football for the 2006 season. This also meant that Canadian viewers would be watching via a one hour tape-delay, as The Score does not broadcast Raw live, but in 2007, started airing the show with only a 15 minute tape delay. The first 15 minutes of the hour contains a countdown pre-show recapping the previous week's events.[citation needed]
During the September 25, 2006 episode of Raw in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the opening of Raw suffered a blackout. Spotlights were the only lights running in the house. Power in the presentation was later restored. Another similar moment happened back on May 26, 1996 in Florence, South Carolina for WWF In Your House 8: Beware of Dog, when a major thunderstorm hit the Florence Civic Center causing major chaos for the PPV. That Tuesday, Beware of Dog, returned to North Charleston, South Carolina to finish out three matches that were not shown because of the lost power feed.
On October 9, 2006, Raw held a three hour season premiere called the "Raw Family Reunion", where the Raw brand debuted a new logo and theme song, Papa Roach's "...To Be Loved". The episode also featured talent from the SmackDown! and ECW brands. Later that month, on October 23 Raw aired its 700th episode, making it the longest running weekly entertainment show, without a hiatus, in television history.

[edit] 2007
See also: Chris Benoit double murder and suicide
On June 25, 2007, Raw was scheduled in Corpus Christi, Texas to be a three-hour special memorial show for the storyline death of the Mr. McMahon character. Two weeks earlier, the show had broadcast an angle in which Mr. McMahon was murdered by a bomb planted within his limousine. The 'Mr. McMahon' tribute was cancelled on the day it was due to air after the real life death of current superstar Chris Benoit and his family. The show then became a three-hour tribute to Benoit. What made this tribute different from others (e.g. Eddie Guerrero and Owen Hart) was that the show had no original matches and no live audience. Instead, the three-hour show aired highlights from the WWE DVD 'Hard Knocks: The Chris Benoit Story', and a selection of Benoit's most famous matches. Several wrestlers paid tribute in the form of real interviews about him, and Vince McMahon broke character to address the viewers about what had happened. However, when the facts of Benoit's death came to light, WWE pulled this episode from international markets which aired Raw on a tape delay basis. Several channels announced the episode was being withheld for legal reasons. A substitute Raw, hosted by Todd Grisham from WWE Studios, was created featuring recaps of John Cena's WWE Championship victories, mainly the ones that had occurred over the past year. The episode started with a message from Vince McMahon which originally aired on the June 26 edition of ECW. Some countries that received WWE programing up to three weeks late had all Chris Benoit matches edited out. The WWE even removed all Chris Benoit matches and interviews from the 'WWE 24/7' service.
On December 10, 2007 Raw celebrated its 15th anniversary in a three-hour spectacular on the USA Network with the returns of Stone Cold Steve Austin, Rob Van Dam, The Godfather, Steve Blackman, Howard Finkel, Ted DiBiase, Eric Bischoff, Marty Jannetty, Gangrel, Trish Stratus, Lita, Sunny, Hulk Hogan and Mick Foley (as Mankind) among others. Along with several reunions of former tag teams and also included a 15-man "15 Years of Raw" battle royal. The Raw 15th Anniversary DVD was also released which featured some of the most memorable moments in Raw history.

[edit] 2008

The Raw version of universal WWE entrance set introduced on January 21, 2008 for WWE's high-definition broadcasting debut.
WWE began their 2008 year with a new HD set, which consisted of more than 1,000,000 LEDs. The introduction of this new set retired the old set, which was used from April 2002 to January 2008. Raw's first show in HD was held in the Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, Virginia. On June 30, 2008 the World Heavyweight Championship returned to Raw after CM Punk cashed in money in the bank and defeated Edge. On the September 8, 2008 edition of Raw it was announced that a "talent exchange" was started between ECW and Raw, allowing their respective talent to appear and compete on either brand. This is similar to an earlier "talent exchange" between SmackDown and ECW.
On November 3, 2008, Raw celebrated its 800th episode with a three hour episode. The actual 800th episode aired on September 22, 2008.

[edit] 2009
On June 15, 2009, McMahon announced on a special three-hour edition of Raw that he had sold the show to Donald Trump, who appeared on-screen to confirm it and declared he would be at the following commercial-free episode in person. WWE treated the sale as real, even issuing a press release on their corporate site announcing it, but USA Network confirmed the next day that it was kayfabe and part of a storyline. The "sale" was picked up as a real event by many industry sources. The day following the announcement, WWE's stock on the New York Stock Exchange fell. On June 22, 2009, Vince McMahon bought back Raw from Donald Trump for double of what he paid for Raw. Despite USA Network's acknowledgment that the sale was fictional, Randy Katz, a securities lawyer with Baker & Hostetler, told Fox Business Network that a probe by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission against WWE and USA Network owner General Electric "certainly is a possibility."[5] After buying Raw back, McMahon announced that instead of general managers being in charge of Raw, each week a different guest host would be in charge. These hosts were either injured wrestlers, Hall of Famers, or celebrities.[6]

[edit] Production
The theme song for the Raw brand is "...To Be Loved" by Papa Roach, which has been used for the Raw brand since October 9, 2006. Previous to this, Raw's theme song was "Across the Nation", by The Union Underground.
Since March 10, 1997, broadcasts of Raw were split into two hours and given hourly names for television ratings purposes, with the first hour being referred to as Raw is War and the second as War Zone by the show's on-screen graphics. However, as of October 1, 2001, the first hour has been referred to as Raw and the second as Raw Zone by the show's on-screen graphics. However, both hours are known as just "Raw" on-air.
On January 7, 2008, WWE announced that all 3 brands (Raw, SmackDown, and ECW) would be broadcast in HD, codenamed "WWE HD" starting with Raw on January 21. WWE invested an estimated $20 million dollars on new recording and broadcasting equipment to prepare for the move, as well as new pyrotechnics and lighting. The move replaced the Raw, SmackDown!, and ECW sets with a new state of the art set shared by all brands.[7][8]

David Villa(taken from wikipedia)

i love fDavid Villa was born on 3 December 1981 in Tuilla, a small village in Langreo, Asturias, a region in northern Spain. The son of a miner,[4] his professional career was put in jeopardy at the age of nine when he was left with a limp after suffering a severe fracture to his femur, but thanks to a non-invasive approach he was able to make a complete recovery.[5]
Villa admitted that he came close to giving up football at the age of 14 after growing disillusioned and falling out with his coach. However, thanks to his parents' encouragement, he carried on pursuing his dream and realised his talent could earn him a living.[4]
"In those days I was a nobody, not earning a penny and after being made to sit on the bench all season I just wanted to get away and play with my friends" he said. "But my dad always supported me and cheered me up until my career turned round."[4]
He began his footballing career at UP Langreo.[6] Due to an injury that he suffered to his right leg he began to work on strengthening his left leg and ultimately became an ambidextrous footballer.[6] When he turned 17 he joined the Mareo football school.[6]

[edit] Club career

[edit] Sporting de Gijón and Real Zaragoza
Villa was receiving interest from many Asturian teams, however, one of the province's bigger teams, Real Oviedo, declared that they did not believe he had sufficient potential.[7] He subsequently got his professional breakthrough at his local club Sporting de Gijón, following in the footsteps of his childhood idol Quini.[6] Starting out at the team's youth ranks he made his first-team debut in the 2000–01 season after scoring 25 goals in two seasons. By the next season he became a first team regular, scoring 18 league goals, and 20 the next season.
After scoring nearly 40 goals in three seasons at Gijón's main team (one of which he only played one game),[8] he got his chance in Spain's top-flight La Liga, when promoted Real Zaragoza bought him in the summer of 2003. He had no trouble adapting to the step up in class and scored 17 times in his first season at Zaragoza.[9] He debuted in La Liga during a 1-0 loss to Deportivo de La Coruña at the Estadio Riazor[10] while his first goal came 2 games later, an 8th minute goal against Real Murcia which put Zaragoza 2-0 up in a match which ended 3-0.[11]
December 4, 2003 saw him net his first brace in a 2-2 draw against Athletic Bilbao[12] and on April 25, 2004, David Villa would score his first hat-trick. A tight 4-4 draw against Sevilla FC would see Villa score all four of Zaragoza's goals, putting his team ahead on two occassions.[13]
Villa led Zaragoza to a Copa del Rey victory scoring a crucial goal to put his team 2-1 up against Real Madrid in a match which eventually ended 3-2. Soon after he earned his first international call-up and cap which resulted in Zaragoza fans inventing the football chant "illa illa illa, Villa maravilla" which is a play on the words "Villa" and "maravilla" which can be translated into marvel, wonderful, to work wonders (in verbal form), or great.[6]
After Zaragoza's triumph in the Copa del Rey, they were granted a place in the 2004-05 UEFA Cup, this would be David Villa's first taste of European football. In the team's opening group game against FC Utrecht, Villa netted a brace in the dying minutes of the game which subsequently ended 2-0 in Zaragoza's favour. In the round of 16, Zaragoza faced Austria Wien. The first leg ended 1-1, Villa put Zaragoza up 2-1 in the second leg, however, the team from Vienna pulled one back and went through on the away goals rule.[14] Meanwhile, in La Liga, Villa excited Zaragoza fans on September 23, 2004 by putting the team 1-0 up against Barcelona at the Nou Camp, however, it was not to be as Barcelona came back to win the game 4-1.[15] On April 17, 2005, Villa would score a brace which would help see off Sevilla in a 3-0 victory.[16] 15 goals in the 30 games he played that season gave him a goal ratio of 1 goal every 2 games.

[edit] Valencia

[edit] 2005–06 season
David Villa's success at Zaragoza caused many teams to be after his signature. He finally made his big move to one of Spanish football's heavyweights as a new look Valencia under Quique Sánchez Flores parted with €12 million (£8.2 million) to secure his services in the summer of 2005.[8]
Villa scored in his first game in a Valencia shirt in an Intertoto Cup match against Belgian outfit K.A.A. Gent, a game which Valencia won 2-0.[17]
Villa made his league debut for Valencia coming on as a substitute against Real Betis in a 1–0 win on 27 August, 2005.[18] Valencia's next match would be against Villa's previous club, Real Zaragoza. Zaragoza were up 2-1 for the majority of the match, but on the 81st minute Villa came on as a late substitute for Rubén Baraja and would waste no time in making his former club regret their loss by scoring within a minute after coming on, earning Valencia a point as the game ended 2-2.[19]
On September 21, 2005, Villa would once again save Valencia a point by netting a brace against Barcelona at the Nou Camp, actually giving his team the lead at one point after Víctor Valdés' poor clearance rebounded off Villa's back and into the net.[20][21] On October 23, 2005, Villa would score the winning goal against another Spanish giant, this time Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium[22] and would once again score against Barcelona, on February 12, 2006, however, this time his one goal would prove enough to secure all three points in front of an ecstatic Mestalla crowd as the match ended 1-0.[23] Villa scored a remarkable goal against Deportivo La Coruna at the Riazor on February 4, 2006, hitting the ball from the half way line it sailed over the keepers head and into the net.[24] He scored his first hat-trick for Valencia against Athletic Bilbao at San Mamés in La Liga on the 23 April 2006. Villa managed the hat trick in just over 5 minutes (80th to the 85th minute) making it one of the quickest hat-tricks ever recorded. Valencia won that game 0-3.[4].
That season saw him score 25 goals in 35 league matches for Valencia,[9] finishing 1 goal behind the league's top scorer Samuel Eto'o of Barcelona. Villa's goal tally that year was the best that any Valencia player had ever achieved since Edmundo Suárez over 60 years ago.[25]

[edit] 2006–07 season

David Villa converting a penalty against Sevilla.
Villa's form continued into the 2006–07 season, with the striker forming a prolific partnership up front with former Real Madrid star Fernando Morientes. Together, Villa and Morientes netted 43 goals in all competitions.[9][26]
That year also saw Villa debut in the UEFA Champions League, his first match would be in a qualifying match as a late substitute in a 1-0 first leg loss against FC Red Bull Salzburg, however, his next match would be the second leg where he would score the second and third goals in a 3-0 win qualifying Valencia for the Champions League group stages.[27] Crucial goals against Roma[28] and Shakhtar Donetsk[29] helped Valencia qualify for the knock out stages where they face Inter Milan where he scored a free kick goal in the second leg, a game which was more famous for the events after the match rather than what happened during the 90 minutes.[30] Valencia went through to the quarter finals where they faced Chelsea. Villa featured in both games but failed to make the score sheet. Valencia subsequently got knocked out by the London team 3-2 on aggregate[31]
A crucial goal against Espanyol[32] and a brace against Sevilla[33] helped him reach 16 goals that season and would see him come 6th in La Liga's top scorer list that season, scoring the same amount of goals as fellow international Raúl Tamudo and would also see him help Valencia finish 4th in the league.
In October, 2006 he was included among the 50 nominees for the Ballon d'Or (often referred to as the European Footballer of the Year Award).[34]

[edit] 2007–08 season
The 2007-08 season was not easy for Villa nor for his teammates. Early in the season, their manager, Quique Sánchez Flores, was fired and replaced by Ronald Koeman who, on December 20, 2007, axed Valencia captain David Albelda, along with other teammates Santiago Cañizares and Miguel Ángel Angulo from the Valencia squad, furthermore, despite Valencia's ample choice of players to play down the flanks, he chose not to utilise any wingers.[35] Valencia finished 10th under his reign and was subsequently sacked and replaced by the highly rated UD Almería coach, Unai Emery.[36] Despite such a pessimistic and injury-ridden season, Villa managed to see the back of the net 18 times in his 26 appearances.[6][9] He also won his first, and as of yet, only trophy with Valencia, winning the Copa del Rey for the second time in his career, beating FC Barcelona 3-2 in the semi-finals and then Getafe CF 3-1 in the final.[37] giving the team a place in the UEFA Cup.[6]
He signed a new six-year contract at the Mestalla. The 26-year-old ended speculation over his future by putting pen to paper on a deal which ties him to Valencia until 2014.[38]
That season, Villa once again saw himself playing Champions League football. He scored the only goal in a 1-0 win against Schalke 04[39] and went on to put Valencia 1-0 up against Chelsea F.C, however, goals from Joe Cole and Didier Drogba saw Valencia lose 2-1.[40] Valencia finished bottom of the group and were knocked out.
On his 100th league appearance for Valencia, Villa scored a hat-trick against Levante; his 54th, 55th and 56th league goals for the club.[41] Another two goals on the final day of the season against Atletico Madrid completed his tally of 18 goals that season.[9]

[edit] 2008–09 season
After finishing top scorer at Euro 2008, Villa continued his form into the 2008-09 season where he scored the first goal in a 3-0 win against Mallorca in what was the opening game of the season. Valencia faced many financial problems during this period, as a result, none of the players received any form of payment between the late stages of January until April.[42][43] This caused Villa to be linked to many top clubs such as Chelsea and Juventus, however, he reassured his desire to fulfill his contract and continued to score consistently for the club.[44]
In October, 2008, Kaká praised Villa, speaking to Canal+, he claimed that Villa is "the best Spanish footballer" adding that "The player with whom I would most like to play is David Villa of Valencia."[45]
On December 2, 2008, Villa came 7th in the Ballon d'Or 2008 rankings[46] and on 12 January 2009, Villa was announced as the joint 9th best player of 2008 alongside international team mate and Barcelona player Andrés Iniesta, according to the 2008 FIFA World Player of the Year awards.
Valencia finished second in their UEFA Cup group, however, Villa was not featured heavily and was often an unused sub or a late sub.[47] He scored a late winner against Maritimo[48] and was used in the Round of 32 against Dynamo Kyiv, however, he did not make the score sheet. The two legs resulted in a 3-3 aggregate score, Dynamo Kyiv went through as the away goal rule went in their favour.[49]
Hitting an excellent form during mid season, he scored against Deportivo de la Coruña, however, he received a red card during the match and as a result missed Valencia's next match against Real Valladolid, a game which Valencia lost 2-1 at home. Ready to return from suspension, Villa would suffer from an inflammation in the joint in his left knee due to a partial dislocation and would be out for the next 15 days, missing games against Numancia, Recreativo de Huelva and Racing de Santander.[50] When he finally returned from injury on April 5, 2009, he topped it off with a brace against Getafe, in a game which Valencia won 4-1.[51]
On April 12, 2009, Villa was set to return to El Molinón, the home ground of Sporting de Gijón where he started his career. He admitted that the encounter would be very emotional for him. Villa went on to score the second Valencia goal in a 3-2 win and kept a pre-match promise by not celebrating the goal.[52]
Villa ended the season as the third top scorer in La Liga behind Samuel Eto'o and Diego Forlan one game before the end of the season. After recording the best goal tally for a Valencia player in 60 years back in the 2005–06 season, he went three better in the 2008-09 season. His goal against Villarreal brought his tally to 26, he then scored another two against Athletic Bilbao finishing with 28 goals after the last game of the season, thus equalling records set by the Argentinian Mario Kempes and the Montenegrin Predrag Mijatovic, who also scored 28 goals in a Valencia shirt in 1978 and 1996, respectively. Villa, whose 28 goals plus 3 more in other compeitions that season, acumulated a total of 101 goals in 180 official games of which he has played with the team. Kempes reached his tally of 28 goals in 34 games while Mijatovic achieved it in 40, ultimately seeing Villa beat their percentages, as he achieved the 28 goals in 33 games, recording a goal ratio of 0.84 goals per game. That season saw Villa's best season at Valencia as far as goal scoring is concerned.

[edit] International career

[edit] World Cup 2006
"I'd have David Villa over Kaká and Cristiano Ronaldo"
—–Vicente Del Bosque, Spain coach[53]
An occassional member of the Under 21 team, Villa marked his international debut under Luis Aragonés on 9 February 2005 in a 2006 World Cup Qualifier where Spain beat San Marino 5-0 at the Estadio del Mediterráneo. His first international goal came in the form of a late equaliser during a World Cup qualifier against Slovakia.[54]
Brilliant form for Valencia saw him get called up as part of the 23-man squad to represent Spain at the 2006 FIFA World Cup. In Spain's first match at the tournament, a 4-0 win against Ukraine, Villa netted a brace,[55] and also put his nation 1-0 up against France in the Round of 16, although Spain went on to lose the match 3-1.[56] Him and Fernando Torres finished as Spain's top scorers with three goals each.

[edit] Euro 2008
By the end of 2006, Villa had become an integral part of Luis Aragonés' plans and ousted Raúl González from the team.[57] Proving vital in Spain's qualification for Euro 2008, scoring six goals including an infamous bicycle kick against Liechtenstein, he was subsequently called up for the tournament where he formed a great relationship with Fernando Torres, with whom he would often celebrate his goals with. He scored a hat-trick in Spain's 4-1 win over Russia, making him the first player to hit a hat-trick at a UEFA European Championship since Patrick Kluivert in 2000, and only the seventh overall. After the third goal he went out of his way to meet Torres, who was on the bench at the time, to celebrate with him.[58] In the next match, he secured a 2-1 win against Sweden with a goal in the 92nd minute. In the quarter finals, the Spain and Italy match was decided by penalties which Spain won 4-2, Villa took the first penalty and scored.
Spain once again met Russia in the semi-final, however, during the early stages of the match, Villa sustained a thigh injury after taking a free kick and as a result missed the final where Spain beat Germany 1-0 to claim their second win at the European Football Championships. Despite missing the final and the majority of the semi-final, Villa's 4 goals in the 4 games he played were enough for him to be top scorer of the tournament[58] and was awarded the Golden Boot.[59] He also made the UEFA Euro 2008 Team of the Tournament alongside striking partner Fernando Torres.[60]

[edit] World Cup 2010 qualification and 2009 Confederations Cup
A consistent goal scoring rate during World Cup qualification saw a successful year with the Spanish national football team where Villa broke the Spanish record of 10 goals in one year held by Raúl González since 1999 by scoring 12 goals (including the four that were scored at Euro 2008).[61]
Villa began 2009 with a goal against England in a 2-0 friendly.[62] With this goal, Villa broke another record and became the first Spanish international to have scored in 6 consecutive games, seeing off records set by Telmo Zarra and Ladislao Kubala.[63] Speaking of the goal he said, "I am very happy with the goal. Truth is, I really want to see it on TV. The record is very nice. I would never have imagined in years that I would be able to obtain it. I am very proud and I hope I can continue breaking records".[63]
On 1 June 2009, Vicente del Bosque named Villa in his 23 man squad for the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup.[64] In a friendly match before the tournament, Villa scored his second international hat-trick against Azerbaijan, nearly exactly a year after his hat-trick against Russia at Euro 2008. He debuted at the Confederations Cup with a goal, the last of the five goals in Spain's 5-0 victory over New Zealand,[65] while the next game he scored the decisive goal against a tough Iraqi team.[66] Against South Africa, he missed a penalty, but within a minute made up for the miss by putting Spain ahead, helping them equal the records of most consecutive wins and most consecutive matches undefeated before making way for Pablo Hernández.[67] The goal would be his last of the tournement and enough to see him win the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Bronze Shoe, he would also go on to make the team of the tournament.[68]

[edit] Succeeding Raúl as Spain's number 7
The media, generally the Spanish one, has often compared and contrasted Villa with Raúl González and to the point where Villa was accused of taking the #7 jersey away from the Real Madrid player. In March 2009, Villa spoke out against this saying, "I have not taken anything away from anybody, I was simply playing well for my club and the national coach gave me an opportunity. Too much has been said about the number issue. I’m not looking to cause any controversy. In fact, Raul and I were in the national squad together in the past. I haven’t forced anybody out." He was then questioned on whether the whole uproar created over Raúl's omission was affecting him personally, he said, "I’ve never liked it because I think it has been damaging for the both of us. We’ve always got on well together whenever we’ve met up for international duty, so I’m not concerned. I just work hard for myself. All I want is to be in the squad for every game, to have the Spain badge on my chest and to score as many goals as I can."[69]
Speaking about Raúl's record with the Spanish national team as the nation's leading top scorer, Villa said, "I've got 25 goals but he's got 44 and is still playing. I'd be delighted to reach that tally as I'd help the national team achieve great victories and, in many years' time, I could see my name on a [scorers' list] that another young lad was trying to beat. That would be great."[69]

[edit] Personal life

David Villa supporting the "Doi la cara pola oficialidá" campaign
Although he prefers to keep his personal life out of the spotlight due to his discreet and introverted personality, it was still publicised that in 2003 Villa married his childhood sweetheart Patricia (who had also been a footballer in her teenage years). On 7 December 2005, their first child, a girl who they named Zaida[8] was born. He and his wife are currently expecting their second child. Villa made a very special dedication after scoring the goal against Villareal and said: “I dedicate the goal to my wife Patricia. [70].” He has his daughter's name engraved on his personalised Adidas F50's,[6] while one boot bears the Spanish flag, the other has the Asturian flag.[71]
In 2008, Villa joined a campaign called "Doi la cara pola oficialidá", which is an attempt to make the Asturian language one of the official languages in Spain.[72]

[edit] David Villa camp
From the summer of 2008, there is now a David Villa Camp being held every first week of July in the Centro Regional de Deportes de La Morgal (Llanera, Asturias). Around 150 participants, between the ages of 6 and 14 can enter and be trained by professionals. They will also be offered a training session with Villa himself.[73]ootball...my favourite player is david villa....he is a spain player

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