Michael Essien Profile, Biography

Name:	Michael Essien
Nationality:	Ghanaian
Date of Birth:	03/12/1982
Height:	5' 10" (177cm)
Weight:	13st 6lbs (85.35kg)
Previous
Clubs:	Lyon, Bastia
Position:	Midfielder

Michael Essien signed a two-year extension to his existing contract in June 2010 that will keep him at the club until 2015.
It was welcome news for a player who has suffered two bad seasons with injury and missed the first African World Cup as a result.
The midfielder, nicknamed 'The Bison' by fans in his home country of Ghana, ruptured a cruciate ligament on international duty in early September 2008, and it wasn't until March that season that Chelsea fans saw him again.
His comeback was a half-hour cameo in the FA Cup quarter-final as Coventry were swept aside, before he landed a starting role in Turin for a crucial Champions League tie against Juventus.
In typical Essien style, he came back with a performance full of running and commitment, weighing in with an equalising goal on the stroke of half-time to dampen home spirits.

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Frank Lampard Profile, Biography

Name:	Frank Lampard
Nationality:	English
Date of Birth:	20/06/1978
Height:	6' 0" (184cm)
Weight:	13st 12lbs (88.0kg)
Previous
Clubs:	West Ham Utd, Swansea City (loan)
Position:	Midfielder

With 27 goals  from central midfield in 2009/10 and countless assists, it seems Frank Lampard is getting better with age.
If you factor in the England man's extraordinary resistance to injury and his ability not to earn one booking in the entire campaign it is easy to see why many think it is he that makes the Blues tick.
His season began as it would continue against Manchester United at Wembley, where he contributed a goal, helped set up the other, and then buried a penalty in the shootout.
Questions were raised over his impact in games, but having returned to a deeper position from the top of the diamond, where he had been restricted, his influence grew once more.
He netted another at Sunderland as we turned around a half-time deficit, and helped create seven in as many league games that followed, despite not scoring himself.
The 31-year-old actually went 10 without a goal before four in three arrived in October, helping send Atletico back to Madrid empty-handed as we began to score freely.

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Michael Essien Profile, Biography

Name:	Michael Essien
Nationality:	Ghanaian
Date of Birth:	03/12/1982
Height:	5' 10" (177cm)
Weight:	13st 6lbs (85.35kg)
Previous
Clubs:	Lyon, Bastia
Position:	Midfielder

Michael Essien signed a two-year extension to his existing contract in June 2010 that will keep him at the club until 2015.
It was welcome news for a player who has suffered two bad seasons with injury and missed the first African World Cup as a result.
The midfielder, nicknamed 'The Bison' by fans in his home country of Ghana, ruptured a cruciate ligament on international duty in early September 2008, and it wasn't until March that season that Chelsea fans saw him again.
His comeback was a half-hour cameo in the FA Cup quarter-final as Coventry were swept aside, before he landed a starting role in Turin for a crucial Champions League tie against Juventus.
In typical Essien style, he came back with a performance full of running and commitment, weighing in with an equalising goal on the stroke of half-time to dampen home spirits.

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