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January 5, 2011

Beckham to help Spurs win some Football Trophies this season

Filed under: Football Trophies — admin @ 6:50 pm

The David Beckham Roadshow is back in town, and if you believe the rumours flying about, this years’ hosting rights have been passed to Tottenham Hotspur. In 2008 he left LA Galaxy in their off season to head over to Italy and play for Milan for 3 months (which later turned in to 6 months) before returning with a ruptured Achilles – putting him out for the large part of the MLS football season. As LA Galaxy are finding out, you can’t buy much of Beckham for $6million a year – and they haven’t won a football trophy since his arrival in 2007.

David Beckham

So, what happens now? Well, earlier today LA galaxy approved a loan move for Beckham until the MLS season starts in mid-March – so that paves the way for Spurs chairman Daniel Levy to complete negotiations with LA Galaxy and potentially get Beckham on the field for their FA Cup clash with Charlton on Sunday. If they do land the talents of Beckham until March, it will be interesting to see how he copes with the heady pace of Premiership Football, and even more interesting to see if he can get himself any football medals for his troubles.

Is this a good move? Only time will tell – but one thing for sure is, Spurs are making a heavyweight push to win as many football trophies as they can this season.

August 9, 2010

Spanish player lifts the World Cup

Filed under: Football Trophies,Trophy History — admin @ 6:37 pm

Spain lifts the World Cup trophy

In Soccer City in Johannesburg, Iker Casillas became the first Spanish player to lift the World Cup.  But what do we know about the trophy he lifted?

It is a cup that is instantly recognisable, and was originally created in 1971 by Italian designer Silvio Gazzaniga. The trophy is 36cm high, which is fairly small in comparison to other famous football trophies – the UEFA Champions League trophy, for example, is more than double that size.

FIFA insist that the trophy is ‘solid gold’ and weighs 6.175kg, although recently a chemistry professor at Nottingham University contested that if it was solid gold it would be too heavy to lift and would weigh around 70 -80kg.  His theory is that at least part of the trophy must be hollow.

What gives the cup it’s distinctive look is the two green layers of the semi precious stone ‘malachite’ and the design of the two sporting figures holding up the earth.  When it was originally made the trophy cost around £35,000 but is now estimated to be worth over £6.5 million!

At Challenge Trophies we have many cups which are the same size but thankfully cost a lot less!!  Please browse our extensive range of football trophies and cups and give one of our friendly sales staff a call.

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