Barcelona won the UEFA Super Cup Tuesday and Messi was the star with two free kick goals. His immense talent was on display, and one lunatic is claiming Messi's goals were due to luck. That lunatic is Lionel Messi.
"I've just been lucky enough to score those and I'm very happy the team won and very grateful to everyone for their support and such a warm welcome," Messi said after the game.
“The question of our times” is often thrown around at bars, universities, and kitchen tables between drunks, scholars, friends, and you and me. It might might take different forms, but its nature is always the same: it’s a question that we all have an answer to, but to which there is no real answer.
There isn’t really a universal question of our times, but there are specific ones in specific areas. In football, there is no debate about what that question is: Messi or Ronaldo, who is better?
Lionel Messi and Carlos Tevez have an old rivalry, a new episode of which will start in Berlin tomorrow, when Barcelona and Juventus meet in the final of the Champions League.
Carlo Ancelotti has confirmed that the Norwegian wunderkind has been selected to the bench for tomorrow’s league match against Almeria.
The French legend knows it will be hard, but believes that PSG has what it takes to come back and beat Barca in the 2nd leg.
Cristiano Ronaldo may be one of the most popular players in men’s soccer, but surprisingly he is not the highest paid. His rival, however, is.
India's biggest Atletico Madrid fan discovers the Calderon, and meets his idol in the process.
Cristiano Ronaldo is from Madeira, a little island off of the coast of Portugal and it is not surprising that his persona is probably the biggest export to come from the petite island. The Real Madrid goal-scoring machine (who has 25 goals in 15 La Liga matches) has a museum dedicated to his likeness on the island, and this past weekend they added another memento to honor the Portuguese star: A statue.
Except there are two problems with this statue.
#1: It looks nothing like Cristiano Ronaldo: