The Football - 'Rooney? We Never Heard Her name is'

The Football - Wayne Rooney is the mainstay of the England striker whose name is also looming with club Manchester United. But in parts of Ukraine, there is a shake does not know his name.

Rooney's return after serving ban has great passion for the camps 'Three Lions'. Rooney will now be a mainstay of England's last match against the group phase of counter Ukraine, Wednesday (06/20/2012) pm dawn.

Rooney figure undoubtedly invite special attention from the players of Ukraine because of its ability to break the opponent's goal. Ukrainian fans will also probably anxious to action later Rooney.

However, Rooney's name instead of foreign partners and Vera Pryhodko Stefan who lives in a small village called Dvirkivschchyna. They are foster parents Ukraine captain Andriy Shevchenko.

"Wayne Rooney? No, we never heard of him," said Stefan who is now 69 years old, as reported by the Mirror.

Stefan and Vera helped raise Sheva after he and his family fled to the region following the Chernobyl nuclear tragedy in 1986. When Sheva was only 10 years old.

Not without a reason why Stefan and Vera do not know anything about Rooney. There are only three television channels that they can catch in the Soviet era television at his residence.

Internet? Nothing at all. If you want to Kiev, Dvirkivschchyna residents also have to travel two hours by car.

"We do not have the internet, and we just follow the news of our little Sheva. We hope the UK get a pleasant time here, but not on Tuesday. Ukraine will win 1-0, and our children will score goals," Stefan straightforward.

Rooney now seems to be directly acquainted with Stefan and Vera.

The Football - Italian Haunted by Failure in 2004

The Football - Italy will face the party of "on-off" against the Republic of Ireland to win tickets to the quarterfinals. Failure at Euro 2004 was haunting Gli Azzurri.

Here are some facts related to both teams in the last match of Group C Euro 2012 on Stadium Miejski, Poznan, Poland, Tuesday (06/19/2012) pm dawn, as summarized Eurosport:

Italy will be eliminated if they fail to win this fight.

The two teams have met before in a major tournament victories and share each one: Italy's World Cup 1990 and the Irish back in the United States four years later.

But in the last five meetings with Ireland, Italy only won once. End up losing two games and the other two series.

Ireland manager, Giovanni Trapattoni, the manager of Italy's World Cup 2002 and Euro 2004.

Italy have never won in their last six matches in major tournaments for the first time in history, with five draws and one defeat.

This is the second time the Azzurri won the draw in the initial lag phase of two European Cup group, others were in 2004 and was eliminated even though they won the third game.

Republic of Ireland conceded eight goals and always lost in three games in the European Cup final

Italy scored four of their last five goals in the Euro through the set-pieces.

Antonio Cassano is the only non-goalie player who appeared in nine games Italy in Euro since 2004.

During handled Cesare Prandelli, Italy has never lost when Antonio Cassano played. Of the 12 matches, Italy won eight and four draws.