How FC Barcelona Transformed into a Global Power House
No other football team in the world inspires such deep feelings and widespread admiration like FC Barcelona. Barcelona represents much more than an ordinary football team because its identity extends ...
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Where are they now? Every player Lionel Messi voted for in the Ballon d’Or
Lionel Messi has won more Ballon d’Or – eight – than any other footballer in history. But who did the Argentinian icon vote ...
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Cristiano Ronaldo leaves Lionel Messi behind again, becomes first footballer to achieve THIS historic feat
He also claimed his first Ballon d’Or in 2008. In 2009, Ronaldo made history again, moving to Real Madrid for a then-world record €94 million (£80 million) transfer. In Spain, he cemented his legacy ...
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Champions League all-time top scorers: Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Robert Lewandowski, Karim Benzema
First contested in 1992/93, the UEFA Champions League has become synonymous with the very best strikers in world football history, with Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Robert Lewandowski and ...
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Champions League all-time top scorers: Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Robert Lewandowski, Karim Benzema
Messi left Barcelona for Paris Saint-Germain in the summer of 2021 having scored 120 goals for the Spanish club in the Champions League – a record that even Cristiano Ronaldo, with his 105 for ...
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Champions League all-time top scorers: Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Robert Lewandowski, Karim Benzema
First contested in 1992/93, the UEFA Champions League has become synonymous with the very best strikers in world football history, with Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Robert Lewandowski and Karim ...
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Where are they now? Lionel Messi’s 10 favourite teammates from his career
Messi has often spoken about what it meant to share a pitch with the great Brazilian Ballon d’Or winner when he was first breaking through at Barcelona. After leaving Barca when Pep Guardiola took ...
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Top ten players who have won the most trophies ever: Lionel Messi breaks record ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo as Harry Kane misery continues
However, others make it look easy, with Lionel Messi continuing to add more to his ... Barcelona to help his boyhood club win trebles in 2008/09 and 2014/15. Pique, who hung up his boots in ...
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Most goal involvements since 2000: From Cristiano Ronaldo to Lionel Messi and Harry Kane as Mohamed Salah rises up rankings
That was epitomised by the fact that between 2008 and 2023, only two other players ... from other leagues and international fixtures, like Messi and Ronaldo at the MLS and Saudi Pro League ...
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Jude Bellingham matches Lionel Messi achievement but continues to trail Real Madrid teammate in race for Champions League record
Meanwhile, at 21, Messi had two UCL titles to his name (2005-06 and 2008-09), while Bellingham has one title (2023-24) so far. Haaland's first UCL title came when he was 22 in the 2022-23 season ...
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Rangers and the 2008 Manchester riots: ‘The worst night of violence since the Blitz’
As has the stark contrast between the conduct of the club’s supporters in 2008 to that after they reached the final of the same competition in 2022. For their penalty shoot-out defeat to ...