Who is the best? Ronaldo or Messi?: 2015

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

FIFA BALLON D'OR 2016 NOMINEES

Who do you think will win the FIFA Ballon D'or this year? Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi or Neymar Junior?

Friday, November 27, 2015

LIONEL MESSI'S AWARDS

Here are all the things that Lionel Messi has achieved (club successes, individual awards etc.)

●CLUB

Barcelona

La Liga: 2004–05, 2005–06, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2012–13, 2014–15
Copa del Rey: 2008–09, 2011–12, 2014–15
Supercopa de España: 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013
UEFA Champions League: 2005–06, 2008–09, 2010–11, 2014–15
UEFA Super Cup: 2009, 2011, 2015
FIFA Club World Cup: 2009, 2011

International

Titles

FIFA World Youth Championship: 2005
Olympic Gold Medal: 2008

Runner-up

FIFA World Cup: 2014
Copa América: 2007, 2015

Third place

South American Youth Championship: 2005

Individual

World

Ballon d'Or: 2009
FIFA World Player of the Year: 2009
FIFA Ballon d'Or: 2010, 2011, 2012
FIFA World Youth Championship Golden Ball: 2005
FIFA World Youth Championship Golden Boot: 2005
FIFA Club World Cup Golden Ball: 2009, 2011
FIFA World Cup Golden Ball: 2014
FIFA World Cup Team of the Tournament: 2014
FIFPro Young Player of the Year: 2006, 2007, 2008
FIFA FIFPro World XI: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
IFFHS World's Best Top Goalscorer: 2011, 2012
IFFHS World's Best Top Division Goalscorer: 2012, 2013
World Soccer Young Player of the Year: 2006, 2007, 2008
World Soccer World Player of the Year: 2009, 2011, 2012
World Soccer Greatest XI of All Time (published 2013)
Marca Legend Award: 2009
L'Équipe Champion of Champions: 2011
La Gazzetta dello Sport Sportsman of the Year: 2011
Sports Illustrated #1 All-time Ultimate Soccer Draft (published 2012)
ESPY Award for Best International Athlete: 2012, 2015

Europe

European Golden Shoe: 2010, 2012, 2013
UEFA Club Footballer of the Year: 2009
UEFA Club Football Award for Best Forward: 2009
UEFA Best Player in Europe Award: 2011, 2015
UEFA Team of the Year: 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014
UEFA Ultimate Team of the Year (published 2015)
UEFA Goal of the Year: 2007
UEFA Champions League Team of the Season: 2014–15
UEFA Champions League Goal of the Season: 2014–15
UEFA Champions League Genius Moment of the Season: 2014–15
ESM Team of the Year: 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015
Golden Boy: 2005
Bravo Award: 2007
Onze d'Or: 2009, 2011, 2012
El País Best Player in Europe: 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012

South America

South American Youth Championship Silver Boot: 2005
Copa América Young Player of the Tournament: 2007
Copa América Most Valuable Player: 2015 (rejected)
Copa América Team of the Tournament: 2011, 2015
Olimpia de Plata Argentine Footballer of the Year Award: 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
Olimpia de Oro Argentine Sportsperson of the Year Award: 2011
L'Équipe #3 Top 50 South-American Footballers in History (published 2015)

Spain

Pichichi Trophy: 2010, 2012, 2013
LFP Award for Best Player: 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
LFP Award for Best Forward: 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
LPF Team of the Season: 2014–15
Trofeo Alfredo Di Stéfano: 2009, 2010, 2011
Trofeo EFE for Best Ibero-American Player in La Liga: 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
Don Balón Award for Best Foreign Player: 2007, 2009, 2010Don Balón Team of the Decade (published 2010)

●ACHIEVEMENTS

Performances

La Liga top goalscorer: 2009–10, 2011–12, 2012–13
La Liga top assist provider: 2010–11, 2014–15
Copa del Rey top goalscorer: 2010–11, 2013–14
Copa del Rey top assist provider: 2014–15
UEFA Champions League top goalscorer: 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2014–15
UEFA Champions League top assist provider: 2011–12, 2014–15
FIFA Club World Cup top goalscorer: 2011
FIFA World Youth Championship top goalscorer: 2005
Copa América top assist provider: 2011, 2015

Records

World

Most Ballons d'Or: 4 (2009–12)
Most consecutive Ballons d'Or: 4 (2009–12)
Youngest two-time and three-time Ballon d'Or winner: 23 and 24 years
Most appearances as a Ballon d'Or finalist: 8 (2007–14)
Most appearances in the FIFA/FIFPro World XI: 8 (2007–14, shared with Cristiano Ronaldo)
Most FIFA Club World Cup Golden Balls: 2 (2009, 2011)
Most FIFA Club World Cup Finals Man of the Match awards: (2009, 2011)
Most Man of the Match awards in one FIFA World Cup: 4 (2014)
Top goalscorer for club and country in a calendar year: 91 goals in 2012 (Guinness World Records title)
Top goalscorer for club and country in a calendar year including club friendlies: 96 goals in 2012
Top goalscorer for club and country in International competitions in a calendar year: 25 goals in 2012 (shared with Vivian Woodward and Cristiano Ronaldo)
Longest goalscoring run in a league season: 33 goals in 21 matches in 2012–13
Only player to score consecutively against all teams in a professional league: 2012–13
Only player to both score and assist in all 6 club competitions in a calendar year: 2011

Europe

Most UEFA Best Player in Europe Awards: 2 (2011, 2015)
Top goalscorer in all club competitions in a season: 73 goals in 2011–12
Top goalscorer in all club competitions in a calendar year: 79 goals in 2012
Top goalscorer in UEFA Super Cup: 3 goals (shared with Arie Haan, Oleg Blokhin, Gerd Müller, Rob Rensenbrink, François Van der Elst, Terry McDermott and Radamel Falcao)
Only player to be top goalscorer in five UEFA Champions League seasons: 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2014–15
Only player to be top goalscorer in four consecutive UEFA Champions League seasons: 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12
Most hat-tricks in the UEFA Champions League: 5
Most goals scored in a UEFA Champions League match: 5 goals (Guinness World Records title, shared with Luiz Adriano)
Most goals scored against the same opposition team in UEFA Champions League: 8 goals vs AC Milan (shared with Luiz Adriano vs BATE Borisov)
Most cities scored in UEFA Champions League: 23
Most countries scored in UEFA Champions League: 16
Youngest player to make 100 appearances in the UEFA Champions League: 28 years and 2 months in September 2015

Argentina

Top goalscorer for Argentina in a calendar year: 12 goals in 2012 (shared with Gabriel Batistuta)
Top goalscorer for Argentina in a FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign: 10 goals for 2014
Top goalscorer for Argentina in friendly matches: 27 goals
Top goalscorer for Argentina in U-20 competitions: 11 goals (shared with Javier Saviola)
All-time top goalscorer for Argentina U-20: 14 goals (6 in Youth World Championship, 5 in South American Championship, 3 in friendlies)
Youngest player to play for Argentina in a FIFA World Cup: 18 years, 357 days in 2006
Youngest player to score for Argentina in a FIFA World Cup: 18 years, 357 days in 2006
Youngest player to reach 100 caps in CONMEBOL history: 27 years, 361 days in 2015
Youngest player to captain Argentina in a FIFA World Cup match: 22 years and 363 days in 2010
Most Man of the Match Awards in FIFA World Cup: 5 (1 in 2010 and 4 in 2014)
Most Man of the Match Awards in Copa América: 6 (2 in 2011 and 4 in 2015)

Spain

Top goalscorer in La Liga: 289 goals (Guinness World Records title)
Top assists provider in La Liga: 114 assists
Top goalscorer in a La Liga season: 50 goals in 2011–12 (Guinness World Records title)
Top goalscorer in home matches in a La Liga season: 35 goals in 19 matches in 2011–12
Top goalscorer in away matches in a La Liga season: 24 goals in 19 matches in 2012–13
Top goalscorer in Supercopa de España: 11 goals
Only player to score in five Supercopa de España editions: 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015
Top goalscorer in El Clásico: 21 goals
Top goalscorer in Derbi barceloní: 13 goals
Top assists provider in El Clásico: 13 assists
Most hat-tricks in El Clásico: 2
Most hat-tricks scored in a La Liga season: 8 in 2011–12 (shared with Cristiano Ronaldo)
Most braces scored in La Liga: 84
Only player to score consecutively against all opposition teams in La Liga: 30 goals in 19 matches in 2012–13
Youngest player to reach the milestone of 200 La Liga goals: 25 years in 2013
Only player to score at least 40 goals in 6 consecutive seasons: from 2009–10 to 2014–15

Barcelona

Top goalscorer in official competitions: 418 goals
Top goalscorer overall (including friendlies): 448 goals
Top goalscorer in International club competitions: 84 goals
Top goalscorer in European club competitions: 80 goals
Top goalscorer in UEFA Champions League: 77 goals
Top goalscorer in FIFA Club World Cup: 4 goals
Top goalscorer in UEFA Super Cup: 3 goals
Top goalscorer in La Liga: 289 goals
Top goalscorer in Supercopa de España: 11 goals
Top goalscorer in El Clásico: 21 goals
Top goalscorer in Derbi Barceloni: 13 goals
Most goals scored at the halfway of La Liga: 22 goals (shared with César Rodríguez)
Most hat-tricks scored overall: 32
Most hat-tricks scored in La Liga: 24
Most hat-tricks scored in El Clásico: 2
Most Pichichi Trophies: 3 (2009–10, 2011–12, 2012–13)
Top assists provider in La Liga: 114 assists
Top assists provider in El Clásico: 13 assists
Only player to both score and assist in all 6 club competitions in a calendar year: 2011
Only player to be the leading goalscorer and leading assists provider in the same La Liga season: 2011–12
Most Barcelona Player of the Year awards (Aldo Rovira Award): 4 (2010, 2012, 2013, 2015)
Most Major titles won: 25 (shared with Xavi and Andrés Iniesta)

REFERENCES
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Messi

CRISTIANO RONALDO'S AWARDS

Here are all things that Cristiano Ronaldo has achieved. (individual awards, world records, club successes etc.)

●CLUB

Manchester United

Premier League: 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09
FA Cup: 2003–04
Football League Cup: 2005–06, 2008–09
FA Community Shield: 2007
UEFA Champions League: 2007–08
FIFA Club World Cup: 2008

Real Madrid

La Liga: 2011–12
Copa del Rey: 2010–11, 2013–14
Supercopa de España: 2012
UEFA Champions League: 2013–14
UEFA Super Cup: 2014
FIFA Club World Cup: 2014

●Individual

FIFA Ballon d'Or:2008, 2013, 2014
FIFA World Player of the Year: 2008
Bravo Award: 2004
UEFA Team of the Year: 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Sir Matt Busby Player of the Year: 2003–04, 2006–07, 2007–08
PFA Premier League Team of the Year: 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09
PFA Young Player of the Year: 2006–07
PFA Players' Player of the Year: 2006–07, 2007–08
FWA Footballer of the Year: 2006–07, 2007–08
Barclays Player of the Year 2006–07, 2007–08
Premier League Player of the Month: November 2006, December 2006, January 2008, March 2008
ESM Team of the Year: 2006–07, 2007–08, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14
Premier League Golden Boot: 2007–08
European Golden Shoe: 2007–08, 2010–11, 2013–14, 2014–15^[
FIFA FIFPro World XI: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
UEFA Champions League top scorer: 2007–08, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15
UEFA Club Forward of the Year: 2007–08
UEFA Club Footballer of the Year: 2007–08
FIFA Club World Cup Silver Ball: 2008, 2014
FIFPro World Player of the Year: 2008
Onze d'Or: 2008, 2013, 2014
World Soccer Player of the Year: 2008, 2013, 2014
FIFA Puskás Award: 2009
La Liga top scorer: 2010–11, 2013–14, 2014–15
Copa del Rey top goalscorer: 2010–11
Trofeo Alfredo Di Stéfano: 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14
UEFA Euro Top scorer: 2012
UEFA Euro Team of the Tournament: 2004, 2012
La Liga Player of the Month: November 2013
La Liga Player of the Month: May 2015
LFP Most Valuable Player: 2012–13
IFFHS World's Best Top Goal Scorer: 2013, 2014
IFFHS World's Best Top Division Scorer: 2014
ESPY Awards Best International Athlete: 2014
Trofeo EFE Best Ibero-American Soccer Player of the Spanish League: 2012-13
UEFA Best Player in Europe Award: 2013–14
UEFA Champions League Team of the Season: 2013–14, 2014–15
LFP Best Player: 2013–14
LFP Best Forward: 2013–14
LFP Best Goal: 2013–14
BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year: 2014
La Liga Team of the Season: 2014–15
GSA Best Player of the Year: 2011, 2014
GSA Best media Attraction: 2011
GSA Fans favorite player: 2013, 2014
UEFA Ultimate Team of the Year

●RECORDS

World

The most expensive footballer in history: 2009–2013

Most international goals in a calendar year: 25 (in 2012, shared with Vivian Woodward and Lionel Messi)
First footballer to reach 40 goals in a professional league for two consecutive seasons
Only player to score in every minute of an official football game
Only player to win the League title, Domestic Cup, Domestic Supercup, Champions League, Club World Cup, League Player of the Year, Golden Shoe and Ballon d'Or at two different clubs (Manchester United and Real Madrid)
Most appearances in the FIFPro World XI: 8 times (2007–2014) (shared with Lionel Messi)
First and only player to appear in the FIFPro World XI for two different clubs.
Guinness World Record for Most Liked Person on Facebook: 2015

Europe

Only player to be among the finalists for all the editions of the UEFA Best Player in Europe Award: 2010–11 to 2014–15
Most consecutive appearances in the UEFA Team of the Year: 8 (2007–2014)

Most UEFA Team of the Year appearances: 9 times

Most European Golden Shoe awards: 4

Most consecutive UEFA Champions League matches scored in: 8 matches in 2013–14

Most braces scored in the UEFA Champions League: 20
Most wins in the UEFA Champions League Knockout phase: 28 wins
Most consecutive UEFA Champions League away games scored in: 12
Most away goals scored in Champions League history: 41 goals

Only footballer to score for two different winning teams in the European Cup: Manchester United (2007–08) and Real Madrid (2013–14)
First footballer to ever score 10 goals in four consecutive UEFA Champions League seasons: 2011–12 to 2014–15
Most goals scored in the UEFA European Championship, including qualifying: 26 goals, for Portugal
Only footballer to have won the European Golden Shoe in two different leagues: English Premier League (2007–08) and Spanish La Liga (2010–11, 2013–14, 2014–15)
Most UEFA Champions League goals scored in a calendar year: 15 goals in 2013
Most goals scored in UEFA Champions League knockout phase: 39 goals
Most goals scored in the UEFA Champions League group stage: 9 goals in 2013–14 (shared with Luiz Adriano)
Most goals scored in a UEFA Champions League/European Cup season: 17 goals in 2013–14
Most goals scored in the UEFA Champions League: 85 goals
Most goals scored in European competitions (club football): 87 goals

Spain

Most hat-tricks in La Liga history: 28^[
Fastest La Liga player to score 150 league goals
Fastest La Liga player to score 200 league goals
Most consecutive Clásicos matches scored in: 6 matches
Best scoring start in a Spanish league season: 15 goals in eight rounds
Fastest footballer to score 20 league goals: 12 games (missed one game due to injury)
Only player to reach 30 goals in five consecutive La Liga seasons
Most teams scored against in a season (2012/13): 19 (shared with Ronaldo and Lionel Messi)
Most La Liga hat-tricks in a season: 8 hat-tricks (shared with Lionel Messi)
Most hat-tricks scored in all competitions: 33

Real Madrid

Real Madrid Record Goal scorer in European Competitions: 71 goals

Real Madrid Record Goal scorer in UEFA Champions League: 69 goals

Most hat-tricks in Real Madrid's history: 33

First player to score in eight consecutive match days

Most goals scored in seven consecutive league matches: 15 goals

Fastest player to reach 200 official goals

Fastest player to reach 100 league goals

Fastest player to reach 50 league goals

Top goal scorer in La Liga: 233 goals

Real Madrid Record Goal scorer: 326 goals

References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristiano_Ronaldo

http://www.realmadrid.com/en/football/squad/cristiano-ronaldo-dos-santos

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

INFORMATION ABOUT LIONEL MESSI'S LIFE

Lionel Andrés Messi was born on 24 June 1987 in Rosario, Santa Fe, the third of four children of Jorge Messi, a steel factory manager, and his wife Celia Cuccittini, who worked in a magnet manufacturing workshop. On his father's side, he is of Italian and Spanish heritage, the great-grandson of immigrants from Marche and Catalonia, and on his mother's side, he is of primarily Italian descent. Growing up in a tight-knit, football-loving family, "Leo" developed a passion for the sport from an early age, playing constantly with his older brothers, Rodrigo and Matías, and his cousins, Maximiliano and Emanuel Biancucchi, both of whom became professional footballers. At four years old, he joined local club Grandoli, where he was coached by his father, though his earliest influence as a player came from his maternal grandmother, Celia, who accompanied him to training and matches. He was greatly affected by her death, shortly before his eleventh birthday; since then, as a devout Catholic, he has celebrated his goals by looking up and pointing to the sky in tribute of his grandmother.A lifelong supporter of Newell's Old Boys, Messi joined the Rosario club when he was six years old. During the six years he played for Newell's, he scored almost 500 goals as a member of "The Machine of '87", the near-unbeatable youth side named for the year of their birth, and regularlyentertained crowds by performing ball tricks during half-time of the first team's home games.However, his future as a professional player was threatened when, at age 10, he was diagnosed with a growth hormone deficiency. As his father's health insurance covered only two years of growth hormone treatment, which cost at least $1000 per month, Newell's agreed to contribute, but later reneged on their promise. He was scouted by Buenos Aires club River Plate, whose playmaker, Pablo Aimar, he idolised, but they were also unable to pay for his treatment due to the country's economic collapse. As the Messi family had relatives in Catalonia, they sought to arrange a trial with Barcelona in September 2000. First team director Charly Rexach immediately wanted to sign him, but the board of directors hesitated; at the time it was highly unusual for European clubs to sign foreign players of such a young age. On 14 December, an ultimatum was issued for Barcelona to prove their commitment, and Rexach, with no other paper at hand, offered a contract on a paper napkin. In February 2001, the family relocated to Barcelona, where they moved into an apartment nearby the club's stadium, Camp Nou. During his first year in Spain, Messi rarely played with the Infantiles due to a transfer conflict with Newell's; as a foreigner, he could only be fielded in friendlies and the Catalan league. Without football, he struggled to integrate into the team; already reserved by nature, he was so quiet that his teammates initially believed he was mute. At home, he suffered from homesickness after his mother moved back to Rosario with his brothers and little sister, María Sol, while he stayed in Barcelona with his father. After a year at Barcelona's youth academy, La Masia, Messi was finally enrolled in the Spanish Football Federation in February 2002. Now playing in all competitions, he befriended his teammates, among whom were Cesc Fàbregas and Gerard Piqué. After completing his growth hormone treatment aged 14, Messi became an integral part of the "Baby Dream Team", Barcelona's greatest-ever youth side. During his first full season, in 2002–03, he was top scorer with 36 goals in 30 games for the Cadetes A, who won an unprecedented treble of the league and both the Spanish and Catalan cups. The Copa Catalunya final, a 4–1 victory over Espanyol, became known in club lore as the partido de la máscara, the final of the mask. A week after suffering a broken cheekbone during a league match, Messi was allowed to start the game on the condition that he wear a plastic protector; soon hindered by the mask, he took it off and scored two goals in 10 minutes before his substitution. At the close of the season, he received an offer to join Arsenal, his first from a foreign club, but while Fàbregas and Piqué soon left for England, he chose to remain in Barcelona.

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REFERENCES

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Messi

CRISTIANO RONALDO LIFE

INFORMATION ABOUT CRISTIANO RONALDO'S LIFE

Ronaldo was born in Santo António, a neighbourhood of Funchal, Madeira, the youngest child of Maria Dolores dos Santos Aveiro, a cook, and José Dinis Aveiro, a municipal gardener. His second given name, "Ronaldo", was chosen after then-U.S. president Ronald Reagan, who was his father's favourite actor. He has one older brother, Hugo, and two older sisters, Elma and Liliana Cátia. His great-grandmother Isabel da Piedade was from Cape Verde
The family was staunchly Catholic. Ronaldo later claimed that he lived in poverty, sharing a room with his brother and sisters. Ronaldo was popular with other students at school, but he was expelled after he threw a chair at his teacher. Ronaldo later said of the incident, "He disrespected me". At age 14, Ronaldo agreed with his mother to focus entirely on football. He states, "When I got to 14 I felt I had the potential. I thought I was maybe good enough at that time to play semi-professionally".Ronaldo had started playing for amateur team Andorinha at age 8, where his father was the kit man. In 1995, Ronaldo, aged 10, signed with local club Nacional, and, after a title-winning campaign, he went on a three-day trial with Sporting CP, who subsequently signed him for an undisclosed sum.