Football players in and out of football

Andrés Iniesta Luján is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for FC Barcelona in La Liga and the Spain national team, as a central midfielder

David Josué Jiménez Silva is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for English club Manchester City and the Spanish national team

Wayne Mark Rooney is an English footballer who plays as a forward for Manchester United and the England national team. Aged nine, Rooney joined the youth team of Everton, for whom he made his professional debut in 2002 at the age of 16

Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro, OIH, known as Cristiano Ronaldo, is a Portuguese footballer who plays as a forward for Spanish club Real Madrid and captains the Portugal national team

Mesut Özil is a German footballer who plays for Premier League club Arsenal and the German national team. Özil has been a youth national team member since 2006, and a member of the German national team since 2009

Lionel Andrés Messi is an Argentine footballer who plays as a forward for Spanish club FC Barcelona and the Argentina national team. He serves as the captain of his country's national football team

Francesc "Cesc" Fàbregas Soler is a Spanish footballer who plays for Chelsea in Premier League, and the Spanish national team

Sergio Leonel "Kun" Agüero Del Castillo (born 2 June 1988) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as astriker for English club Manchester City and the Argentina national team

Radamel Falcao García Zárate (10 February 1986), commonly known simply as Radamel Falcao, Falcao García or Falcaoin South America, is a Colombian football striker, who plays for AS Monaco in the French Ligue 1 and represents the Colombia national football team. He is sometimes nicknamed as El Tigre (Spanish for The Tiger) and King of the Europa League