UEFA BEST PLAYER IN EUROPE 2012 - 2013 | RIBERY FAVOURITE AHEAD OF RONALDO - MESSI

The local Football observers & punters have French International & Bayern Munich Franck Ribery as favourite to take the "UEFA Best Player in Europe" season 2012-2013 award. If the Frenchman wins he will be come the second after Zidane ( 2002 ) to take the prestigious Individual European Football Prize




To win Ribery will have to overcome in the voting  from European Sports-Football journalist

CRISTIANO RONALDO - RIBERY - MESSI FINALISTS UEFA PLAYER OF THE YEAR

UEFA has handed in their list of the three candidates up for the "UEFA Player of the Year" season 2012-2013. The three chosen are:

Cristiano Ronaldo ( Real Madrid CF)
Franck Ribery ( Bayern Munich)
Lionel Messi ( FC Barcelona)


The winner will be announced the 29th of August in Monaco where 29 leading Football journalists will vote live & direct via an electronic voting system.






Cristiano

UEFA TOP 10 CANDIDATES EUROPEAN PLAYER SEASON 2012-2013

UEFA has released its 10 candidates that will opt for the UEFA European Footballer of the Year ( season 2012-2013). Two players will represent Spanish Football in Lionel Messi ( FC Barcelona ) & Cristiano Ronaldo ( Real Madrid). The list is full of Bayern Munich Players as to expect with their tremendous last season of success ( Bundesliga, German Cup & Champions League).





The list of 10

THE GREATEST 11 PLAYERS - COACH OF ALL TIME | WORLD SOCCER

Football Magazine "World Soccer" has asked the question, which is the "Best XI" of all time & the "Best Coach" ? To get an answer, the magazine, asked all its journalist correspondents  around the globe. The answers & voting were varied but there was overall consensus that gave the following players & Coach.




Yashin; Cafú, Bobby Moore, Beckenbauer, Maldini; Zidane, Cruyff, Di Stéfano, Maradona

LIONEL MESSI THE MOST VALUABLE FOOTBALL PLAYER IN WORLD SOCCER

Which player is the "most valuable" in World Football ( Soccer ) ? This question has been answered by the FIFA backed "CIES Football Observatory" - Sport Studies Centre, report which has been picked up by Spanish Sports daily "Sport". The Barcelona based paper have elaborated the below infograpgh to give a "birds eye" view of the World Top priced Football Players.



Courtesy from sport.es

EUROPEAN GOLDEN BOOT 2012-2013 | LIONEL MESSI RUNAWAY LEADER

It's natural that Barcelona based Spanish Sports daily "Sport" remind everyone that FC Barcelona player Lionel Messi is currently "light years" ahead of all the European Football contenders for this seasons "European Golden Boot Award". The Argentine & Barça marvel has currently 43 goals ( 86 points), with current second place with Real Madrid astro Cristiano Ronaldo with 28 goals ( 56 points ) ,

LIONEL MESSI | SPANISH SOCCER GOALS RECORD - "LA VUELTA PERFECTA"

FC Barcelona Argentine ace Lionel Messi keeps breaking records. Yesterday with his 73rd min goal against Celta in Liga, the 4 time FIFA Golden Ball winner became the first player in Spanish Football - Soccer history to score a goal against all the Clubs in the First Division. That is, Messi has scored a goal in 19 straight Liga games.





Barcelona based Sports paper "Sport" has made this

IFFHS PRIZES FC BARCELONA | MESSI | INIESTA | BEST IN 2012

The FIFA backed International Federation of Football Statistics & History (IFFHS) has added more trophies for the collection for Spanish Football Club FC Barcelona & its players with the following prizes:

FC Barcelona was awarded "Best Football Club 2012"
Lionel Messi the "Best Goalscorer 2012", second year running
Andres Iniesta the "Best Player maker in World Football", taking over from

LIONEL MESSI | ANOTHER WORLD FOOTBALL RECORD

Last night FC Barcelona Argentine star Lionel Messi was
called into action in the second half of the teams match against Deportivo A
Coruña of “Liga” to put some spark into the Barça game. Leading 1 – 0 with an
earlier goal from team-mate Alexis, Barcelona
was struggling to “knock-out” Deportivo who was putting up a admirable fight. 



Lionel Messi had to once again “rescue” his side late in the

SPANISH FOOTBALL - PICHICHI - TOP GOAL SCORER AFTER ROUND 24

Spanish Football League - La Liga - has already celebrated  24 rounds & there is one player in the goalscoring front that is a clear runaway. So much so that his nearest rival is 13 goals behind & that rival is not just any other Football player. Lionel Messi is currently leading as "Pichichi" ( maximum Spanish League goalscorer ) race with 37 goals ahead of another "Goal machine" Cristiano