Kim Kallstrom Best Midfielder Playing Footballer

Kim Källström (Swedish pronunciation: born 24 August 1982 in Sandviken) is a left-footed Swedish midfielder playing for the Swedish national team and Olympique Lyonnais. He has a powerful shot, which once knocked out his team-mate Andreas Isaksson during training prior to the 2006 World Cup. His nickname is Kongo-Kim. He is a box-to-box type of midfielder however, he has sometimes been fielded as a left winger. He is best known for his passing, although his crossing is very accurate, and left-footed long-range strikes.

Källström's first professional club in Sweden was BK Häcken from Gothenburg but his big breakthrough in Sweden came when he moved to Djurgårdens IF in 2002, where he won the Swedish Allsvenskan in 2002 and 2003 and svenskacupen"Swedish Cup" 2002. Scored twice in the UEFA Cup against Shamrock Rovers and FC Copenhagen. On May 26, 2006, he signed with French league champions Olympique Lyonnais, and helped them to capture their 6th straight league title, the following season.

Kim Kallstrom said he did not have plans to leave Lyon, and seeks to focus on helping the club won the Ligue 1 title. "My contract still remaining one and a half years," he told Expressen. "I'll finish. Right now I do not want to think about the future,"said Kallstrom.

Kallstrom displaced in the core team Lyon. There has been speculation he would leave the Stade de Gerland. He denied it, saying it would struggle to regain his place in midfield squad Claude Puel. Lyon is now in fourth position Ligue 1, having started the season poorly. Puel had rumored to be fired. "At first I was frustrated to face reality Lyon started the season poorly, and worse,"said Kallstrom. "However, after Lyon through 12 games without unbeaten, Lyon are in the position should be,"added the player from Sweden.

Kallstrom is relatively not much else to sit on the bench. However, he could not appear as a starter every week. According Kallstrom himself not very upset. He believes could help the team won the game when played. He also felt did not really miss the place. If it is no longer played in midfield, Kallstrom several times played as left-back.

Personal information
Full name Kim Källström
Date of birth August 24, 1982 (1982-08-24) (age 28)
Place of birth Sandviken, Sweden
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position Midfielder
Club information
Current club Lyon
Number 6
Youth career
Partille
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1999–2001 BK Häcken 69 (14)
2001–2003 Djurgårdens IF 48 (26)
2004–2006 Rennes 83 (20)
2006– Lyon 151 (15)
National team‡
2000–2003 Sweden U21 21 (5)
2001– Sweden 78 (13)

Ibrahim Afellay Footballer Playing PSV Eindhoven

Ibrahim Afellay (born 2 April 1986 in Utrecht) is a Dutch footballer of Moroccan descent (Rif region) playing for PSV Eindhoven in the Eredivisie. He has played for the Dutch national youth team and is now part of the senior Dutch national team, who he represented at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. He usually plays as the centre attacking midfielder for PSV Eindhoven but can also play at the right or left side due to his creative qualities. In 2007, Afellay was awarded the Johan Cruijff Award for "Young Player of the Year" in the Netherlands.

PSV Eindhoven officially proclaimed captain of the team, as well as the Dutch national team midfielder Ibrahim Afellay will not extend his contract which expires at the end of this season. In a statement on the club's official website, PSV says, "For many reasons, not realistic to extend the contract."

Afellay is believed to be leaving the club where he started his professional career in the January transfer window, after ensuring PSV Afellay agree not to leave the club without a transfer fee is quite large. Dutch two-goal scorers goal against Sweden it seems to have left the club because of financial conditions PSV which recorded a loss $ 24 million for the 2009/10 season, down sharply from profit of $ 11 million in the previous season.