Finally, D-day arrived and results were much predictable when Argentinian star footballer Lionel Messi won his much awaited fourth Ballon d'Or award in Zurich. He beats other two finalists: his arch rival Portuguese Ronaldo and his own club teammate Andres Iniesta. The award made him a special record holder by winning four consecutive Ballon d'Or trophies. Last night event looked like a formality for him coz he was the favorite of everyone who knows what he achieved last year. However, the award was based on voting from international coaches, captains and journalists; hence there is no question of its credibility. Out of total votes cast, Messi got 41.6% of the votes along with Ronaldo who got 23.68% and Iniesta’s 10.91% votes. Messi, who also holds the record of scoring maximum number of goals in one calendar year, has another highly admired medal in his collection. Notably, despite his existence in the team, Barcelona could not win Spanish league title or Champions League last year … [Read more...]
Lionel Messi turns down a mega rich transfer deal
Surely, nobody will believe this if anyone says that Messi can ever think of leaving Camp Nou, and rightly so, as per the recent developments in soccer fraternity, he has turned down the mega rich transfer deal from a Russian club Anzhi Makhachkala. Reportedly, Russian giant has offered an unprecedented figure of €250 million for the star Argentinian player. The bid is said to be for a five year contract that means Messi would have taken home a weekly salary of more than 560000 euros, which would have made him world’s highest paid player of all time. But, he did not think twice to say no to Russian aspirant who has already stolen many star players from many big clubs in the past. Like, Cameroon striker Samuel Eto’o, who used to play with Messi for Barcelona FC, has been acquired by the same club in 2011 at €20 million per year prize tag, which is a highest paid amount till date. As expected, Anzhi’s officials have completely denied offering such a mega million deal offer to Barca. … [Read more...]
Zambia FA and Flamengo to Challenge Messi’s Record
At the moment, everybody knows that Messi has broken Muller’s forty-year old record of scoring the maximum number of goals in one calendar year, but Zambia FA and Brazilian club Flamengo have now come forward and challenged Messi’s record saying their own players have scored more goals than Argentinean player in one calendar year. Zambia FA says it has sufficient evidence that shows that their club Kabwe Warriors’ striker Godfrey Chitalu has already scored 107 goals back in 1972, which is much more than the number set by Barca player. On the other hand, Brazilian club Flamengo has its own claim that says former Brazil captain Zico has also scored 89 goals back in 1979. In an interview given to a Brazilian sports daily, Bruno Lucena, head of Flamengo's research and statistics department, said, “We are upset. Messi still hasn't passed the milestone.” He also presented a whole list with all the goals fired by former Brazilian that include 81 goals for Flamengo in 1979, seven for Brazil, … [Read more...]
Messi Scores 86th Goal of the year, becomes world record holder now
Argentinean great Lionel Messi finally reached to a milestone of scoring a maximum number of goals in a calendar year by breaking Germany’s legendry Gerd Mueller's record of 85 goals set up around forty years ago. Messi scored 86th goal on Sunday during a match between his club Barcelona and Real Betis in Spanish league wherein Barca defeated Real Betis by 2-0. More interestingly, he still has to play three more matches this year, so everybody is keeping his fingers crossed to see what would be the next target for record aspirants. Since, Messi hardy missed any match due to his injury or for any other reasons; he got more matches exposure to beat the German record. While 74 of his 86 goal come while he was playing for his club Barca, remaining 12 were fired by him for his national team Argentina. This year seems to be a year of lifetime for the star player who recently became a father, coz he also broke Brazil great Pele's record of scoring maximum number of goals in a single season … [Read more...]
Messi is Doubtful for Barca’s Sunday’s La Liga Match
Today, when injuries are routine news in the soccer world, some players clearly stand apart of recurring injuries. Lionel Messi, the Argentinian and Barcelona star football has ever been known for his fitness and rolling match records! Recently, in a match between Barcelona and Benfica, he somehow got injured in an attempt to score his record leveling 85th goal of the year. He got his knee badly injured, and was taken off the field on a stretcher. Initially, it looked to be a major injury that could lay him out of the field for a longer term, but fortunately, his injury did not come out to be a serious one, and expectedly, he will only miss one match for that injury. Actually, everyone was quite surprised to see Messi got injured; coz last time he missed a match for injury was in September 2010. Anyways, it is a big relief for both player and his club to see his fast recovery. Messi himself said that he could only miss out a match at Real Betis while earlier; he was taking his … [Read more...]