In any given game, Messi was statistically more likely to score multiple goals than no goals at all. Zinedine Zidane once said that havingCristiano Ronaldoon the team practically meant they started every game 1-0 up. Well, in 2012, having Messi on your team was like starting every game 2-...
one back of Landon Donovanfor second all-time in MLS history. The first was the byproduct of a run into the box and cut-back ball, while the second was a curled-in cross to the back post.
That same study showed the first kick is scored in shoot-outs more often than any other (nearly 84 per cent) and is typically delivered by the most reliable penalty taker. Messi andKylian Mbappetook the first two kicks in the World ...
the third fewest since MLS moved to a 34-game schedule in 2011. Though his year was cut short by a hamstring injury that kept him out of SKC’s final three regular season matches and their Knockout Round loss at Houston, Melia registered career highs with 31 regular season appearances, 12...
Around Messi's influence, every Barca coach understands his modest role. When I visited Valverde last year at the first team's training ground, the Ciudad Deportiva Joan Gamper, his white office walls were almost bare except for the first-team's schedule. There was barely a personal ...
“He’s unbelievable, but Ronaldinho was something different. For me, he was special, magic – the way that he played football, the way that he could do it on the field with a smile on his face.” Messi might return to Barcelona as the veteran will become a free agent on June 30....
Messi started to play football at the age of 5, and his coach? His father. And by the age of 8, he was playing for his school team. However, at the age of 11, he was diagnosed with growth hormone deficiency. None of the local clubs wanted to help him with his medical bills, des...
I remember many years ago, there was a management book that once swept the world - who moved my cheese. There are more or less people who know the book. The book describes two mice, sniffing and haste, and two dwarfs "hem" and "haw". ...
Well I frankly know Messi is. But if you look at the history of Ronaldo, he was the first on the training pitch, he was the last off. He practiced harder than everybody and he just told his teammates, well players were playing for Manchester United. You know they get a good wage, ...
Standing only 5 foot 6 inches, Messi was diagnosed with a growth hormone deficiency as a child. He left Argentina to join FC Barcelona when he was just 13, with the top-ranking Spanish team paying for his treatment. Diego Maradona, another of soccer's greats, said of Messi, "I have se...