Awww! They actually looked cute. What’s Rooney feeling like with the ball? Like someone who’s been playing from his mother’s womb? Ok, we get the picture.lol
Walcott is the finest, followed by Heskey, Lampard, Tevez, Beckham and Rooney. I don’t know who should take the last position between Messi and Ronaldo. Be the judge!
And the footballing legend creates another record. Barcelona forward, Lionel Messi has been named the 2012 FIFA Ballon d’Or award winner. He’s also emerged the first player in history to win 4 Ballon d’Or trophies and at the same time piped out his Madrid nemesis, Cristiano Ronaldo and team mate, Andres Iniesta to win the highly-coveted award.
Acknowledging his team mates, the 25 year-old Argentine said, “This is impressive. I want to share this trophies with all Barça players, especially with Andres today, and the ARG players. As I always say, without my teammates, I wouldn’t do what I do. Football is a team sport.”
He made the statement amidst smiles. But really, he is free to aim higher. Lionel Messi’s incredible feat last night during his club’s game with Real Madrid is still one of the most talked about football news. A quick one, he broke Gerd Muller’s goalscoring record and set a new all time world record.
Messi has now netted a total of 86 goals in 66 games for club/country in 2012 (so far). Müller scored 85 in 60 games in 1972.
Speaking on his new achievement, the Argentine said “I’ll try to score more this year to make the record a bit more difficult to break for future players”
He continued, “It was more you, the press, who talked about Muller’s record. It’s broken now, so you shouldn’t talk about it anymore… (smiles)”.
Source: Barca stuff
The 25 year-old who also scored his 300th and 301st career goals last week dedicated the award to his teammates. "it is a prize for scoring goals, but without my teammates I couldn't have scored them."
His first Golden Boot for 34 goals which he got in 2010 helped Barcelona win the league title.
Barcelona midfielder and the Euro 2012 player of the tournament Andres Iniesta tied the knot with his long term girlfriend, and mother of his daughter Anna Ortiz at Tamarit castle, Spain yesterday, 8th July 2012.
Guests who besieged the star-studded wedding including present and ex Barcelona footballers, they were accompanied by their girlfriends/wives; Lionel Messi, Samuel Eto’o, Cesc Fabregas, Pedro, Victor Valdes. Whereas Puyol, Xavi, Pique came alone.
Pep Guardiola was absent but he later joined the banquet at a restaurant with his wife afterwards. The couple met in 2008.
Congrats Iniesta!!!
Photo credit:Barcastuff
The three-time world's best footballer who became the club's all-time top goalscorer when he broke Cesar Rodriguez, (ex Barcelona player)'s 50-year record of 232 goals will be honoured with a tribute before the club's game with Athletic Bilbao today.
According to goal.com, the tribute will be in form of a combined footage of both Rodriguez and Messi.
Source: goal.comWell-deserved hun! Winks*Winks*
The 24 year old Argentine is the fourth in history after (Cruyff, Platini and Van Basten) to win three trophies.
24 year-old Leo as fondly called is the fourth person in history to win 3 Ballon d'Or trophies after Cruyff, Platini and Van Basten.
These awards were decided after a poll in which the captains and head coaches of the men's (for the two men's football awards) and women's (for the two women's football awards) national teams, as well as international media representatives selected by French football magazine France Football, voted for candidates in each of the four categories. Each group's votes represented one third of the final result.
Speaking on the honour, the Argentine said, "It's a huge honour. I want to share this award with the people that voted for me and with my teammates. I'm very proud to have won the trophy three times, especially one after the other. It's hard to win one, let alone three."
List of winners
1) FIFA Ballon d'Or-Lionel Messi
2) Presidential award-Sir Alex Ferguson
3) FIFA Coach of the year award (Men's football)- Pep Guardiola
4) FIFA's Coach of the year award (Women's football)-Norio Sasaki
5) Best Goal of 2011-Neymar
6) Best Female player of 2011-Homare Sawa
7) Fairplay award-Japanese Football Association
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| Barca team |
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| Captain Puyol lifts up the trophy |
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| Fabregas, Pique and Puyol |
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| Fabregas and Iniesta |
Okies! This is like an intro, so happy to write about this, as a huge and consistent barca fan, I’m glad this went to my best club and of course this didn’t come easy, the team worked their butts out to achieve another feat.
Barcelona Football Club has been crowned Club World Cup champions after their 4-0 victory over Santos on 18th december, 2011.
Ballon D’Or winner and Barcelona forward Lionel Messi, launched the scoring spree for the Catalans, before Xavi and Cesc Fabregas added their names to the score sheet.
For his epic and spectacular performance in the match, the quiet Argentine was also awarded the best player for the Club World Cup 2011.
Lanky and handsome Barcelona coach Josep Guardiola, together with some of the footballers dedicated the victory to David Villa who was unavoidably absent owing to an injury and also to Ibrahim Afellay.
In his words, Pep said, “We played a great game of football and people were happy to have seen it. Its great that we won it two times in three years. Winning 13 of 16 times is a huge thing, thanks to the mentality of the players. People will remember that this club won 2 club world clubs, they deserve it. ”
Josep Guardiola’s side lifted their second Club World Cup title, after the 2009 triumph over Argentine side Estudiantes. They also secured a quintuple for 2011, adding the trophy to Champions League, La Liga, European Super Cup and Supercopa triumphs over the course of the year.
Source: FCBlive
A week ago, Brazilian football legend, Edson Arantes Do Nascimento, popularly called Pele stated that Santos striker, Neymar is technically better than Argentina’s Lionel Messi only that the former has a lot to improve if he wants to be considered world best player.
Reacting to that statement, Diego Maradonna, UAE Al Wasl coach who hasn’t been on good terms with Pele declared that the latter must have taken the wrong drugs when he made the statement. Though he acknowledged Neymar is good but he would never be able to match Messi’s records.
His words, “it seems Pele took the wrong medication. Instead of taking his night pill, he took the morning pill. He got confused and didn’t know what he was talking about. I suggest next time that he should take the right pills before making any suggestions and that he should change his doctor.”
Source:Punch
