The top AP Global Soccer ranking’s player of the week is Lionel Messi, an expected name in the soccer fraternity, and his club Barcelona is ranked as number 1 soccer club according to The Associated Press’ panel of 20 global soccer journalists. Messi earned 183 points out of 200 maximum; he shifted last week’s winner Paris Saint-Germain’s striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic to second spot this week; he had 124 points this week. Besides, Messi and Ibrahimovic, another Barcelona player Andres Iniesta got 119 points placing him on the third spot for the week. Another milestone for Messi is in the making as he only shorts three goals to beat all-time great Gerd Mueller's record of 85 goals in a calendar year. Messi missed last week’s top position coz Ibrahimovic scored four goals for Sweden against England, but this week; there was no competition for the finest soccer starlet in contemporary football. Barcelona is also comfortable at its top position with its 176 points. It leads second position … [Read more...]
A Father-to-be: Messi
A new salutation is in the making to be added after Messi’s brand name and that is ‘A father.’ Yes, the soccer giant is all set to become a father anytime from now since his girlfriend has already been admitted to a nearby hospital to give birth to their first child. While Barcelona players are busy in training for their next match against Celta Vigo, Lionel Messi is looking for an excuse to miss the training session to be at the hospital sharing his life’s most rememberable moments with his girlfriend. His girlfriend Roccuzzo has already admitted to USP Dexeus in early hours of Friday and Messi will soon be joining her. At the moment, he is at the training facility near Camp Nou and expecting that he will be allowed to go to her girlfriend. Moreover, Barcelona coach has already hinted that they can grant him a leave not only for training but also for next match on Saturday if he becomes a father any time before that match. Barcelona is on the top in leaderboard in La Liga league … [Read more...]
Messi and Villa: No conflict between them
La Liga 2012-13 has shown us many surprises and one of them is recent infield spat between FC Barcelona’s Lionel Messi and David Villa where, apparently, Lionel Messi was yelling on David Villa over some issue. Actually, everybody saw what happened on the ground and everybody is surprised to see a cool player like Messi is behaving like this. Basically, there could be several reasons for such loss of control on the field: one could be, that match between Barcelona and Granada brought many shocks like Messi’s inability to score a goal even after getting so many chances. Perhaps, after the brilliant display of soccer, Barcelona could not fire a goal until 87th minute, this delay and frustration could be the reason for uncontrolled behavior of Messi. Otherwise, we have seen him showing great level of comfort even during many embracing situations, like in the last match when referee dismissed a penalty, we saw him smiling on that decision. So, how comes a 25 years old start footballer … [Read more...]
Lionel Messi to have his contract revised; Ronaldo mulled
The star Argentinian forward player and captain of Argentinian national football team, Lionel Messi, who is under contract with Barcelona for next 4 more years, is going to have his existing contract revised to have more bounties for him. Sandro Rosell, the president of Barcelona club has recently confirmed that they are thinking of revising said contract even though there are more than four years left for existing contract. Lionel Messi, the star player for Barcelona is responsible for as much as 73 goals and assisted another 29 goals in his last sixty games for the club has no intentions to leave the club. Moreover, since his new contract is supposed to have more lucrative terms for the player, another legendry player Ronaldo is also eyeing on a similar kind of revision to his contract with Real Madrid. Though, till now, Real Madrid has not confirmed any such increment or a revised contract for Ronaldo. Even yet, everybody expects that Ronaldo would also ask or perhaps compel his … [Read more...]