All Entries Tagged With: "Messi"
Messi and Marta: 2009 FIFA World Player of the Year
As expected, Messi and Marta are 2009’s FIFA World Player of the Year.
Messi took his first FIFA World Player award home by beating C. Ronaldo (who had 352 points against his 1,073). Xavi was third, Kaka fourth and Iniesta fifth. Very well deserved.
Marta took the award for the fourth consecutive time, something never achieved [...]
Messi Takes Ballon D’Or Award
Yep, it was him. As predicted Lionel Messi took France Football’s Ballon D’Or award. He is the first Argentinian to ever take it and one of the youngest ones ever to take home the Golden Ball. Messi had 473 votes against 233 to C. Ron and 170 to Xavi Hernandez. Kaká was 6th with 58 [...]
Ballon D’Or: France Football Announces The 10 Finalists
There used to be 30… now the contestants for the Ballon D’Or, France Football Magazine annual award, are down to 10. The winner (as well as the 10 player shortlist) is selected by many European journalists and will be announced tomorrow, December 1st. Cristiano Ronaldo took it last year and I find it hard he [...]
Video: watch Messi’s amazing goal against Racing.
Barcelona is keeping up the great results. And Messi continues to show why he isone of the top footballers out there. One of his goals scored today on Barcelona’s 4 -1 win against Racing shows just that. Simply amazing.
Barca is now isolated first in La Liga.
Watch Messi’s goal.
Liverpool takes a hit at home. Barca flies over Bayern.
Liverpool 1 – 3 Chelsea
Not a good day for Liverpool. Playing at home against fellow English team Chelsea, Liverpool managed to let victory escape and lost the match 1 – 3. Rafael Benítez’s squad started out better with a really nice goal from Fernando Torres. However, it seemed as if Liverpool’s defense forgot how to [...]
Ouch! Messi gets beat up in El Classico.
Messi left the pitch with his ankles crying for help this past weekend. The Argentinian got beat up during the match Barcelona vs Real Madrid. Barca won 2-0.
FIFA Gala: who is the C. Ronaldo who will take best player?
Today FIFA unveiled the very short list of players who will watch C. Ronaldo win best player on January 12th. We are all very sure he will win so there are no other expectations there. The men’s nominees are: Kaká (Brazil), Lionel Messi (Argentina), Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal), Fernando Torres (Spain), and Xavi (Spain).
On the women’s [...]
Argentina kicks Brazil’s behind. Why are Brazilians saying ‘thank you’?
I am truly, really, extremely super angry at Brazil’s stupid brainless coach Dunga. So instead of writing today, I am giving you what I feel, after Brazil’s 0 -3 loss against the Argentinians, through the words of my good friend Bruno Romani.
Dear Argentina,
you don’t even know, but you just did a major favor to Brazil. [...]
Messi novel resolved. Apparently.
Lionel Messi has been given the OK to go play for Argentina in Beijing. The Barcelona star was having several issues with the club letting him off the leash. FIFA has forced Barcelona to let him ‘free’ since he has Olympic age (under 23). Barcelona is not happy at all and will still try to [...]
