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Manuel may refer to:

People[link]

• Manuel (name)
• Manuel (Fawlty Towers), a fictional character from the sitcom Fawlty Towers
• Charlie Manuel, coach of the Philadelphia Phillies

Places[link]

• Manuel, Valencia, a municipality in the province of Valencia, Spain
• Manuel Junction, railway station near Falkirk, Scotland

Other[link]

• Manuel (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse
• Manuel and The Music of The Mountains, a musical ensemble

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Ed Motta in 2006.

Ed Motta (born Rio de Janeiro, 17 August 1971), is a Brazilian MPB, rock, soul music, funk and jazz musician. He is nephew of late Brazilian singer Tim Maia.

His musical career started as vocalist of the hard rock band Kabbalah.^[1] though his first album was with the band Conexao Japeri in 1988. In 1990, Motta departed to begin his solo career, recording his debut Um Contrato Com Deus, where he played almost all the instruments by himself. Since then he has released several solo albums. In 1997 he supplied to the soundtrack to the film, Pequeno Dicionário Amoroso (The Book of Love).

In 1999, he translated Phil Collins's songs for the Disney film Tarzan into Portuguese (Brazilian version).

His album Aystelum was nominated for the Latin Grammy Awards of 2006 in the Latin jazz category.

Motta has worked with Roy Ayers, 4 Hero, Seu Jorge, Incognito, Bo Diddley and Ryuichi Sakamoto amongst others.^[1]

His work covers a variety of genres utilising influences from jazz to popular Brazilian music, rock to Hollywood film soundtracks, funk, classical music, bossa nova and reggae.

A noted record collector, Motta has over 30,000 records.^[2]

Selected discography[link]

• Conexao Japeri (WEA) 1988
• Um Contrato Com Deus (WEA) 1990
• Entre e Ouça (WEA) 1992
• Ao Vivo (live) (WEA) 1993
• Manual Pratico Para Festas, Bailes E Afins, Vol.1 (Universal) 1997
• As Segundas Intenções (Universal) 2000
• Dwitza (Universal) 2002
• Poptical (Trama) 2003
• Aystelum 2005
• Ao Vivo (live) (Trama) 2006
• Chapter 9 (Trama) 2008
• Piquenique (Trama) 2009

External links[link]

• Official Ed Motta site
• All Brazilian Music Profile
• AMG Profile

References[link]

Manuel Neuer

Personal information
Full name	Manuel Neuer
Date of birth	(1986-03-27) 27 March 1986 (age 26)
Place of birth	Gelsenkirchen, West Germany
Height	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	Bayern Munich
Number	1
Youth career
1991–2005	Schalke 04
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2004–2008	Schalke 04 II	26	(0)
2006–2011	Schalke 04	155	(0)
2011–	Bayern Munich	33	(0)
National team‡
2004	Germany U18	1	(0)
2004–2005	Germany U19	11	(0)
2005–2006	Germany U20	4	(0)
2006–2009	Germany U21	20	(0)
2009–	Germany	26	(0)
Honours Schalke 04 Winner DFL-Ligapokal 2005 Runner-up DFL-Ligapokal 2007 Runner-up DFL-Supercup 2010 Winner DFB-Pokal 2011 Bayern Munich Runner-up DFB-Pokal 2012 Runner-up UEFA Champions League 2012  Germany Winner UEFA U-21 Championship 2009 Third FIFA World Cup 2010
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 15:22, 5 May 2012 (UTC). † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 20:08, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

Manuel Neuer (German pronunciation: [ˈmaːnu̯ɛl ˈnɔʏ.ɐ]; born 27 March 1986 in Gelsenkirchen) is a German footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Bayern Munich and the German national football team.

Club career[link]

Schalke 04[link]

Neuer signed professional terms in 2005 after progressing through every age group at his hometown club. He made his Bundesliga debut when he came on to substitute the injured Frank Rost on match day 2 of the 2006–07 season. The 20-year-old eventually won the starting position when Rost was surprisingly dropped for the crunch clash against Bayern Munich. He did not disappoint and managed to secure a 2–2 draw against the defending champions. Despite his young age, he was widely tipped to be a potential successor to his former idol Jens Lehmann in the future for the German national team.^[1]

On 5 March 2008, in the first knockout round of the UEFA Champions League, Neuer performed fantastically against FC Porto where he almost single-handedly kept Schalke in the game with some brilliant saves and forced the game into penalties. He then saved penalties from Bruno Alves and Lisandro Lopez to help Schalke advance to the quarter finals. For his heroics, he was shortlisted for the 2007–08 UEFA Club Goalkeeper of the Year award of which he was the youngest as well as the only Bundesliga goalkeeper on the list.^[2] He was one of only three Bundesliga players to play every minute in the 2007–08 season.

The 2008–09 season was somewhat disappointing as Schalke finished eighth in the league table and missed out on a Europa League spot. However, his good showing at the 2009 U-21 European Championships sparked interest from Bayern Munich, with Bayern chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge declaring interest in signing the young goalkeeper. Schalke's new manager Felix Magath, however, insisted that Neuer "will play for Schalke next season".^[3] In November, he was the only German goalkeeper in the list of five nominated goalkeepers for the UEFA Team of the Year.^[4] On 20 April 2011, he announced that he will not be extending his contract with Schalke which was set to expire at the end of the 2011–12 season.^[5] He earned criticism by Schalke-fans, who were disappointed with him leaving for a rival club.

Bayern Munich[link]

Neuer making a save from a penalty kick

On 1 June 2011 Schalke and Bayern Munich confirmed that Neuer would move to Bayern Munich in July 2011.^[6] Neuer signed a five-year contract that will last until June 2016. The move was worth 22 million euro, making Neuer the second most expensive goalkeeper of all time. After hostilities of Bayern fans against Neuer (some fans were unhappy about Bayern buying a Schalke keeper), a round-table discussion between Bayern Munich and group of supporters’ representatives took place on 2 July 2011. Among other things, it was decided that Manuel Neuer will be "regarded as a full member of the FC Bayern Munich team, who should be treated with due respect. Furthermore, hostility towards him should cease".^[7] Right in the first weeks at Bayern, after a 0–0 draw with Hoffenheim, Neuer broke the Bayern Munich record for most competitive clean sheets in a row, having gone over 1000 minutes without conceding. He improved the record formerly held by Oliver Kahn.^[8]

During an away Bundesliga game at Borussia Dortmund on April 2012, Neuer was pelted with a steady stream of bananas by the home fans. The incident was apparently a call back to when Dortmund fans used to give the same treatment to former Bayern keeper Oliver Kahn.^[9] On 25 April 2012, Neuer saved penalty kicks from both Cristiano Ronaldo and Kaká and helped Bayern through the UEFA Champions League semifinals against Real Madrid. Following the match, Neuer has revealed that he studied the way Ronaldo's likes to take his penalties. Neuer tell told Bild "I always prepare myself for such situations, Our goalkeeping coach, Toni Tapalovic, showed me on his laptop before the match how Ronaldo usually takes his penalties. I learned that Ronaldo prefers to send the ball low to his left. In the penalty shoot-out, I was convinced that he would aim for his favourite spot."^[10]

He went on to the 2012 UEFA Champions League Final against Chelsea and it also went to a penalty shoot-out. He saved the first penalty taken by Juan Mata but all the rest were scored and Munich lost that match 4–3 on penalties. He took and scored the third penalty for Bayern.

International career[link]

Youth Teams[link]

After progressing through the youth teams, Neuer made his U-21 debut on 15 August 2006 against the Netherlands. He won the 2009 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship with the Germany national under-21 football team in Sweden and kept a clean sheet in the 4-0 win in the final against England.^[11]

World Cup 2010[link]

Neuer was called-up on 19 May 2009 to the senior Germany squad for a tour of Asia.^[12] He made his debut on this tour in a match against United Arab Emirates on 2 June.^[13] He played in the November friendly against the Ivory Coast that ended 2–2. Although he took responsibility for the first goal conceded, manager Joachim Löw refused to blame him and instead commended him for doing his best.^[14]

The death of keeper Robert Enke in November 2009 saw him elevated as the second choice goalkeeper under René Adler. However, Adler suffered a serious rib injury which ruled him out of the World Cup. Neuer then became Germany's first choice goalkeeper ahead of Tim Wiese and Hans-Jörg Butt for the upcoming tournament.^[15]

Neuer was selected as Germany's number one goalkeeper for the World Cup in South Africa.^[16] During the group stages, he only conceded a single goal, a close range shot by Jovanovic in the match against Serbia. He provided the assist for Klose's opening goal against England, winning 4–1. He played in all of Germany's World Cup matches apart from the third-place game against Uruguay, when Hans-Jörg Butt was rewarded with a spot in the starting lineup.^[17]

Euro 2012[link]

He played every single minute of every match in the qualification campaign for Euro 2012, helping Germany to secure 10 wins out of 10 games and top their group. After Germany's 3-1 away win against Turkey he was especially praised for his 'sensational' performance. He retained a close range volley shot by Hamit Altıntop, and then he quickly threw the ball to the halfway line into the feet of Thomas Müller, who immediately provided the assist for Mario Gomez's opening goal. Neuer then set up the second goal, under pressure by Turkish attackers he fired a precise long range shot to Mario Götze deep in the opponents half, who found Thomas Müller on the edge of the opponents penalty box to score.^[18]

Personal life[link]

Neuer attended Gesamtschule Berger Feld, like many other notable footballers, such as Mesut Özil. His brother Marcel is currently a football referee in the Verbandsliga.^[19] He got his first football when he was two. He had his first game on 3 March 1991, 24 days before his fifth birthday.^[20] Neuer's hero and idol as a child was fellow German and former Schalke goalkeeper Jens Lehmann.^[21]

In November 2011, Neuer won €500,000 on Wer wird Millionär?, German version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?.^[22]

Career statistics[link]

As of 19 May 2012 (2012 -05-19)^[update]

Honours[link]

Club[link]

Schalke 04

• DFB-Pokal: 2010–11
• DFB-Ligapokal: 2005

International[link]

Germany

• UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship 2009
• FIFA World Cup 2010: Third place - Bronze medal

Individual[link]

• Best Bundesliga Goalkeeper: 2007
• Best UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship Goalkeeper: 2009
• Fritz-Walter-Medal 2005 in Silver (Category U19)
• Silbernes Lorbeerblatt (1): 2010^[23]
• Best Bundesliga Player of the Year: 2011^[24]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Manuel Neuer

• Official website (German)
• Manuel Neuer at fcbayern.de
• Manuel Neuer at fussballdaten.de (German)

Germany squads v t e Germany squad – 2009 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship Winners (1st Title) 1 Neuer 2 Beck 3 Boenisch 4 Höwedes 5 Boateng 6 Aogo 7 Ebert 8 Khedira 9 Dejagah 10 Özil 11 Marin 12 Fromlowitz 13 Wagner 14 Johnson 15 Hummels 16 Schwaab 17 Grote 18 Adlung 19 Ben-Hatira 20 Castro 21 Schmelzer 22 Ede 23 Sippel Coach: Hrubesch v t e Germany squad – 2010 FIFA World Cup Third Place 1 Neuer 2 Jansen 3 Friedrich 4 Aogo 5 Tasci 6 Khedira 7 Schweinsteiger 8 Özil 9 Kießling 10 Podolski 11 Klose 12 Wiese 13 Müller 14 Badstuber 15 Trochowski 16 Lahm (c) 17 Mertesacker 18 Kroos 19 Cacau 20 Boateng 21 Marin 22 Butt 23 Gómez Coach: Löw v t e Germany squad – UEFA Euro 2012 1 Neuer 2 Gündoğan 3 Schmelzer 4 Höwedes 5 Hummels 6 Khedira 7 Schweinsteiger 8 Özil 9 Schürrle 10 Podolski 11 Klose 12 Wiese 13 Müller 14 Badstuber 15 L. Bender 16 Lahm (c) 17 Mertesacker 18 Kroos 19 Götze 20 Boateng 21 Reus 22 Zieler 23 Gómez Coach: Löw

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Manuel Carrasco

Manuel Carrasco Galloso (born January 15, 1981) is a Spanish pop singer from Isla Cristina, Spain. He rose to fame during his participation in the second edition of the Spanish reality TV program, "Operación Triunfo," where he finished second. He has gone on to record four studio albums, including his debut album, "Quiereme," which sold more than 200,000 records.

Early life[link]

Manuel Carrasco was born on January 15, 1981 in Isla Cristina, a seaside town in Huelva, Spain. Son of Jose Carrasco and Maria Galloso, he is the fourth of five siblings. From a very young age, he worked as a painter with his brothers, while he rehearsed and performed with a carnival group from his town. He joined the group when he was 13 and led it at age 16.

Operación Triunfo[link]

At 21, he tried out for the second edition of the Spanish interactive reality TV show, Operación Triunfo (Spain's version of American Idol or Fame Academy) where he finished second. The winner of that edition of OT was Ainhoa Cantalapiedra.

Recording career[link]

His first album, “Quiéreme,” was released a month after the show's end in 2003. The album was produced by Miguel A. "Capi" Arenas and included four songs written by Carrasco himself. His first album sold more than 200,000 copies. The "Quiereme" concert tour performed in 39 cities throughout Spain.

While recording his second album, Carrasco was offered the chance to participate in the Latin American music festival, “II Festival Mundial de Canción,” in Puerto Rico. After competing against 22 singers from countries around the world, Carrasco finished first with his self-composed song titled, “Dibujar Tu Olvido.”

In October 2004, he released his second album, "Manuel Carrasco." It was produced by Jordi Armengol, Jordi Cristau and Carrasco himself. All of the 13 songs (lyrics and music) were composed by Carrasco. He sold more than 100,000 albums and performed in 80 cities in the tour for his second album, including Ceuta, Baleares and the Canary Islands. Throughout the tour, Carrasco was accompanied on stage by renowned musicians, including Jordi Armengol (electric guitar and artistic direction), Jordi Cristau (keyboards), Jordi Portaz (bass), Eduardo Cortés (Spanish guitar), Carlos Martín (percussion) and David Simó (drums).

After spending more than a year recording in studios in the U.S. (NYC) and Spain (Girona), Manuel Carrasco released his third album, "Tercera Parada," on September 5, 2006, with 13 self-composed songs plus an added bonus track. His first single off of the album was titled "Y Ahora."

Carrasco's self-composed song, "El Beso de la Vida," was the theme song for the Venezuelan soap opera, "Ser Bonita No Basta."

In February 2005, Manuel Carrasco won the "Premio Dial" prize and went on to win the "Premio Musical 2005" for best new artist. He most recently received the "Premio Cadena Dial 2006" prize on February 28, 2007.

On September 16, 2008, Manuel Carrasco released his fourth studio album, "Inercia." It was recorded in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and produced by Cachorro Lopez. To promote the album, Carrasco will be performing in theatres and auditoriums throughout Spain from January to March, 2009. The official "Inercia" concert tour was set to begin in April, 2009. "Inercia" entered the Spanish charts("Lista 40 Principales") in its first week at number 34. As of November 29, 2008, the first single off of the CD, "Sigueme," was at number 27 on the Spanish charts.

Discography[link]

Studio albums

• Que corra el aire (2003)
• Manuel Carrasco (2004)
• Tercera Parada (2006)
• Inercia (2008)
• Habla (2012)

Extended Play

• Quiereme (2003)

External links[link]

• Manuel Carrasco Official Website

EJ Manuel

Florida State Seminoles — No. 3
Quarterback	Junior
Major: Engineering
Date of birth: (1990-03-19) March 19, 1990 (age 22)
Place of birth: Virginia Beach, Virginia
Height: 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)	Weight: 245 lb (111 kg)
Career history
High school: Bayside High School, Virginia Beach, Virginia
College(s): Florida State (2008–present)
Bowl games
2010 Gator Bowl 2010 Chick-fil-A Bowl 2011 Champs Sports Bowl
Career highlights and awards
Most Valuable Player - 2010 Gator Bowl
Stats at ESPN.com

Erik "EJ" Manuel Jr. (born March 19, 1990) is an American football quarterback. He currently plays college football as the quarterback for the Seminoles of Florida State University. He took over the position from Christian Ponder late in the 2009 season due to Ponder's shoulder injury.

Early life[link]

Manuel was born in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He attended Bayside High School, where he played football. In 2004, as a freshman, he started at quarterback and threw for 589 yards and seven touchdowns, as well as rushing for 119 yards and one touchdown. As a sophomore, he recorded 1,332 passing yards and eight touchdowns as well as 276 rushing yards and six touchdowns. As a junior, Manuel threw for 1,973 yards and 15 touchdowns while rushing for 345 yards and five touchdowns. In 2007, as a senior, Manuel passed for 1,859 yards, 18 touchdowns and rushed for 541 yards.^[1] He was considered a five-star recruit by Scout,^[2] a four star recruit by Rivals^[3] and both sites, as well as Sports Illustrated,^[4] listed him the second best quarterback. An All-American quarterback in high school, Manuel was recruited by then FSU Offensive Coordinator Jimbo Fisher, now the head coach.

College career[link]

Freshman season[link]

Manuel took over for an injured Christian Ponder as the 4-5 Seminoles were in danger of finishing with a losing record for the first time since Bobby Bowden took over the program. His first start was an away game against Wake Forest. He completed 15-20 passes for 220 yards with one touchdown, leading the seminoles to a 41-28 win over Wake Forest, who at the time had won three games in a row against Florida State. Manuel struggled in his second game against Maryland but still managed to pull out a much needed win making FSU bowl eligible. Manuel's struggles continued against the dominating Florida Gators, and the mobile quarterback wasn't able to get into a rhythm as Florida State lost, 37-10.

Florida State entered the Gator Bowl 6-6 and in serious danger of letting legendary coach Bobby Bowden leave with a losing record. Manuel led Florida State to a 33-21 victory and won the Gator Bowl MVP honors.^[5]

Sophomore season[link]

Manuel started twice in the 2010 season for Christian Ponder, who battled a nagging forearm injury. In his first start against Clemson, he picked up 71 yards on 15 carries.^[6] He also led the Seminoles to a victory in the 2010 Chick-fil-A Bowl against South Carolina when Christian Ponder was injured in the second quarter.

Junior Season[link]

In the 2011 season, EJ Manuel played in every game besides the loss at Clemson after injuring his shoulder in a loss against Oklahaoma the previous week. He finished the season with 2,666 yards passing on a 65% completion rate. He also finished with 18 passing touchdowns, 4 rushing touchdowns, and 8 interceptions. He helped lead the Seminoles to a comeback win against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in the Champs Sports Bowl by throwing for 249 yards and 2 touchdowns.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Florida State Seminoles bio