France Football has announced the 30 finalists for the World Player of the Year award which will be decided in December.

Five players from Real Madrid have been chosen. Those include: Casillas, Van Nistelrooy, Van Der Vaart, Pepe and Ramos.

It seems that Real Madrid is the only team with most finalists this year. This says something ;) -

Here is the full list:

Emmanuel Adebayor (Arsenal), Togo.
Sergio Agüero (Atletico Madrid), Argentine.
Andreï Archavine (Zénith Saint-Pétersbourg), Russie.
Michael Ballack (Chelsea), Allemagne.
Karim...

Real Madrid take on Numancia tomorrow night at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid.

Bernd Schuster has announced his squad list which didn't include Ramos nor Sneijder due to injuries, and it didn't also include Cannavaro and a number of bench warmers for obviously, technical decisions.

This is our second game in La Liga. We lost to Deportivo in the La liga opener, but this one is gonna be in our own stadium and in front of our fans so I expect that we will win, but what I know is, that it won't be easy although that team we are facing is not among Spain's biggest.

Numancia are a pretty small side. If you watched their first game against Barcelona (which Barcelona lost - and hey they drew Racing 1-1 today) you'd know that if those guys score a goal then you won't equalize because they would all defend and even call the manager to come...

I'm very happy that the Robinho saga has finally ended and I think it has ended happily with us offloading an unhappy lad for a lot of cash. And the club has now revealed that they will offer Sergio Ramos a life time contract just like the ones they offered to Casillas and captain Rau'l.

The new improved contract would keep the excellent right back until he becomes 32, pretty much when he will retire. He would earn 6m euros a year, a salary that Robinho wanted badly, but one that Calderon refused to give.

While I believe that Sergio deserves such a contract, I have my concerns too. Signing a player for such a long period of time is a "gamble". Will he continue playing as he is currently doing? Or will he still be faithful to the club? He...