CRISTIANO RONALDO WINS UEFA BEST PLAYER SEASON 2013-2014 AWARD

As expected Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo was awarded this afternoon the "UEFA Best Player season 2013 - 2014". The Portuguese player won the title over Bayern Munich candidates Manuel Neuer & Arjen Robben.

This award was missing in CR7 "collection" with previous winners being Ribery last year, Lionel Messi & Andres Iniesta.




Cristiano Ronaldo had a fabulous 2013 - 2014 season winning

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UEFA THREE CANDIDATES FOR BEST EUROPEAN PLAYER 2013-2014

UEFA has just handing in its list of the three final candidates for the soon to be announced "UEFA Best European Player of the Year". The winner will be made official on the 28th of August in Monaco where one of the following names will be prized:


Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid CF)
Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich)
Arjen Robben (Bayern Munich)





The hot favourite is Real Madrid forward Cristiano

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REVISED FASTEST FOOTBALL - SOCCER PLAYERS IN THE WORLD | FIFA RANKING

Some time ago I published a list by FIFA listing the "Fastest Football Players on the Planet". The current & ongoing FIFA World Cup in Brazil has put on show some of those listed & apparently has lead to modify the list. One devastating example was the opening match of Group B between Spain & Holland, where Arjen Robben reached 37 Km/h to overtake Sergio Ramos & later score. This registered

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CRISTIANO RONALDO FAR FROM A TRUE CHAMPION

Firstly, congratulations to Real Madrid CF for winning their 10th UEFA Champions League (European Cup) after defeating Atletico de Madrid 4 - 1 in extra time yesterday in the Final at the "Estadio da Luz Stadium" in Lisbon Portugal.Epic goal from Sergio Ramos in the last moments to take the match into extra-time after Atletico de Madrid was leading 0 - 1 which virtually had the title in their

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SPANISH FOOTBALL LIGA TOP GOALSCORER - TOP GOALKEEPER WINNERS SEASON 2013-2014

With the Spanish Football Liga season over it is time to post about the awards winners & all other types of official ( & unofficial ) recognitions that habitually appear at the end of the season. Two very important & prestigious Awards are the Spanish Liga "Top Goalscorer" - El Pichichi - & the Spanish Liga "Best Goalkeeper" - El Zamora.The Award for the Spanish Football Liga "Highest Goalscorer"

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EUROPEAN GOLDEN BOOT AWARD | CRISTIANO RONALDO, LUIS SUAREZ OR LIONEL MESSI

The English Premier League season finished with Liverpool FC forward Luis Suarez the top "EPL" goalscorer for season 2013-2104 with 31 goals. However, this weekend the Uruguayan International was not able to score & thus was not able to shake off Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo who also has 31 goals this season. Both players are currently locked in the top spot of the "European Golden Boot

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SPANISH FOOTBALL LEADING GOALSCORER AFTER ROUND 31 | EL PICHICHI

The Spanish Football League is at the Round 32 stage with just 6 more Rounds left before the end of the season. Good moment to have a look at which players are leading the "Top Goalscorers" ranking. The title given to the Spanish League top goalscorers is "The Pichichi" Award.

Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo currently leads the "Goalscorers" table with 28 goals, followed closely by

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REAL MADRID | MUTINY & THE END OF IKER CASILLAS ?

The
aftermath of the Real Madrid 3 – 4 loss to FC Barcelona in Sundays “Clasico” still
continues send "waves" with more “juicy news” that is worth a mention & may have long
term effects. After the match the Spanish media & most Spanish Football
fans were caught by surprise by the “post match” comments from Cristiano
Ronaldo & Sergio Ramos to the media. Both sanctioned the referee decisions & both

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LIONEL MESSI HIGHEST INCOME GENERATOR IN WORLD FOOTBALL

French Sports magazine "France Football" has published the list of the "Best Income Generating Football Players", with FC Barcelona player Lionel Messi taking the Top spot with 41M€ ahead of Real Madrid player Cristiano Ronaldo with 39,5M€. The difference is "peanuts" compared with third placed FC Barcelona player Neymar with 29M€, however this will be on the rise as many expect the Brazilian to

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RIDICULOUS 600 € FINE TO ATLETICO FOR THROWING AN OBJECT AT RONALDO

During the half time break of the 2º leg semi final of the Spanish Cup between Atletico de Madrid & Real Madrid a "Neanderthal" threw a lighter ( an object ) at Real Madrid player Cristiano Ronaldo at his head. This action is in itself deplorable in or outside a Football field but worst the responsibility usually goes to the home Club, which again shows the "love" of the colours that the walking

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CRISTIANO RONALDO WINS THE BALLON D´OR - FIFA FRANCE FOOTBALL GOLDEN BALL 2013

FIFA along with media partner France Football has announced the winner of the "Ballon d´Or" - "Golden Ball Award" for 2013 to Portuguese International & Real Madrid forward CRISTIANO RONALDO. The player received his second "Golden Ball" Award with joy & with emotion as the Portuguese broke into tears obviously overwhelmed by the occasion. The son of Cristiano Ronaldo innocently followed his

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FIFA - FRANCE FOOTBALL GOLDEN BALL 2013 | IS CRISTIANO RONALDO ALREADY THE WINNER ?

Tomorrow night we will have a new ( or renewed ) "King of World Football". FIFA-France Football will announce the winner of the "2013 FIFA Golden Ball Award" in Zurich in front of a "creme de la creme" audience from three candidates: Franck Ribery (Bayern Munich), Lionel Messi ( FC Barcelona) & Cristiano Ronaldo ( Real Madrid ).Whoever of these three "Titans of Football" is proclaimed the winner,

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LA GAZZETTA DELLO SPORT LEAVES OUT MESSI & SPANIARDS FROM "BEST XI 2013"

The below post highlights the "Best Ideal XI Team for 2013" by the French Sports paper "L´Equipe". This post is the "Best XI Team for 2013" by Italian Sports paper "La Gazzetta dello Sports". If the French left out Sergio Ramos, the Italians left out FC Barcelona player Lionel Messi. And while the French at least included a Spaniard in FC Barcelona defender Jordi Alba, the Italian list has no

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CRISTIANO RONALDO WINS WORLD SOCCER BEST PLAYER AWARD 2013

The prestigious Football Magazine, "World Soccer" has released its list of "Best Football Player 2013", "Best Coach 2013" & "Best Football - Soccer Club 2013". The voting comes in from all their journalists around the World & gives the  Real Madrid & Portuguese International Cristiano Ronaldo the Award as the "Best Football Player of 2013" ahead of FC Barcelona player Lionel Messi & Bayern Munich

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FIFA ANNOUNCE THE FINAL THREE CANDIDATES FOR GOLDEN BALL AWARD 2013

The news released by FIFA - France Football is a "no News". As expected the final three candidates up for the FIFA France Football Golden Ball Award - Best World Footballer 2013 - are Cristiano Ronaldo ( Real Madrid CF ), Franck Ribery ( Bayern Munich ) & Lionel Messi ( FC Barcelona ).



The winner will be announced in Zurich (Switzerland) on the 13th of January 2014. The Award will be given

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SPANISH FOOTBALL LEADING GOALSCORER - GOALKEEPER AFTER ROUND 15 OF LIGA

The Spanish Football League - Liga - has just concluded Round 15 & this weekend has Spanish Cup matches. Good moment to have a look at which player is currently the Spanish League leading goalscorer & which goalkeeper has stopped the most goals.




In the race for the "El Pichichi" - name given to the Spanish Liga maximum goalscorer - Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo currently leads after

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THE LEGS OF CRISTIANO RONALDO VALUED AT 140M US$ - 103M € | REAL MADRID

According to "Economia & Negocios" - a Spanish Online Financial source - the value of the legs of Real Madrid player is 140M US$ ( or 103M€ ). The Spanish Football Club Real Madrid has renewed its "insurance policy" & has lifted the value of the legs of Cristiano Roanldo 3% more than the last policy.



In case of a severe & serious injury that would risk the "future" of the Portuguese star Real

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CRISTIANO RONALDO GETS EUROPEAN FOOTBALL RECORDS & GIVES THEM TO REAL MADRID

There is no doubt that Portuguese International & Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo is perhaps at his best level of his entire career in Football. The player is an authentic goal scoring machine both in Spanish Liga & in European competition. Last nights exhibition in Champions League against Juventus not only gave Ronaldo a goal but in doing so gave the player two individual records in

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FIFA POWER POLITICS | BLATTER vs CRISTIANO RONALDO | THE REAL STORY

The storm caused by FIFA President Blatter & his comments in reference to the question of who he preferred, Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo, has been magnified & blown out beyond what simple outside Football observers would have expected. In fact no one knew in Spain that Blatter had spoke at the Oxford University forum until yesterday night. The comments took place on Friday & came to light 3 days

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FIFA GOLDEN BALL AWARD 2013 LIST OF 23 CANDIDATES

French Magazine "France Football" has released the list of 23 candidates eligible for this years "FIFA GOLDEN BALL Award". The surprise is that there are only 2 Spanish born players & both from FC Barcelona: Andres Iniesta & Xavi Hernandez.




The full list of 23 FIFA Golden Ball candidates:

Gareth Bale (Tottenham/Real Madrid)

Edinson Cavani (Nápoles/PSG)

Radamel Falcao (Atlético/Mónaco)

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