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Thursday, March 04, 2010 LONDON: Many of the world's top soccer players, including Cristiano Ronaldo, will be wearing shirts made of old plastic bottles at the World Cup in South Africa. Nike said shirts for the nine national teams wearing its gear, including one of the favourites Brazil, would be made from polyester recycled from used bottles. Each shirt would use up to eight plastic bottles retrieved from Japanese and Taiwanese landfill sites, said Nike, the world's biggest sports goods manufacturer. All of the nine teams, who also include Portugal, Netherlands and the United States, will wear the shirts. Nike says they will keep players drier and cooler than previous kit while reducing energy consumption in manufacture by 30% compared to normal polyester. Thirty-two teams will be at the month-long finals starting on June 11. Manufacture of the shirts, which will also be sold to fans, used 13 million plastic bottles — enough to fill 29 football pitches — the US ...

Thursday, January 07, 2010 ROME: David Beckham enjoyed a winning return to the AC Milan side as they outclassed Genoa 5-2 at the San Siro. Watched by England coach Fabio Capello, Beckham impressed on the right side of a three-man attack in his first game since beginning a second loan spell. Injuries to Alexandre Pato and Clarence Seedorf meant 34-year-old Beckham played further forward than usual. After Ronaldinho had an early penalty saved, Genoa went ahead on 25 minutes but Milan were 2-1 up at half-time. Leonardo's side ran riot in the second half to keep the gap between them and leaders Inter Milan at eight points. It could hardly have gone better for Beckham, who is spending a second spell at Milan from LA Galaxy in a bid to prove to Capello that he is worth a place in England's squad for the World Cup.