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dietsono: so.....u messififa fans nw believed that ballon d'or is not based on goal or 3 month performance right.......after ur messififa had already won d award based on goals and some unusual and weird decisions and criterias........a player dat has no single goal in south Africa 2010 W/C and still went ahead to claim d award...........so r u guys still saying sthg?......mtcheeeeeew

why do you like lying? There is no season since 2008 till date that messi went trophyless. Messi has won at least one trophy since 2008 till date. You can't even tell the truth to save your own life.

It's funny to think thAt there are people who think that the ballon dor could be awarded based on a play off, when going for the play off in the first case is a result of a failure. Yes it's a good performance but should they be given any credit or advantage over ruSsia and all other automatic qualifying players and teams? Common sense defies this.

trustedward: #Leo_Messi v/s #Cristiano_Ronaldo 2013-14 [Clubs
Only]
#Messi_Stats
Appearances : 16
Total Goals : 14
Assists : 4
La Liga : App. 11 | Goals 8 | Assists 4
UCL : App. 3 | Goals 6 | Assists 0
Spanish SuperCup : App. 2 | Goals 0 | Assists 0
#Cristiano_Stats
Appearances : 17
Total Goals : 24
Assists : 5
La Liga : App. 13 | Goals 16 | Assists 3
UCL : App. 4 | Goals 8 | Assists 2
Who deserves Ballond'or?

who deserves ballon dor? So ballon dor is now based on performance for september october and november? What about january to august? Lola. These ronaldo fans have to be the most desperate set of people in the world.

Thiago silva has declared that he voted for messi for ballon dor. Let's hope that he wins so that those stvpid, id1otic literate illiterates will come out and start shouting fifa, fifa, uefa, caf, even nff join. If you know you ever shouted fifa, fifa after messi won any of his 4 ballon d'ors you've gotta be the 1diot iam talking about.

PurpleHouse: As the FIFA world cup draw is fast getting close, which Team would you want the Super Eagles to be paired with at the World cup group stage proper? Mine is:
England
Argentina
Japan
i think we have a chance in a group like this, because, the opponents we meet will determine if or not we'll go pass the group stage. Let's see yours!

we couldn't come out when we had uruguay and tahiti. Na here we go from comot?

Spain uruguay tahiti

Our left wing and right wing com be like lagos ibadan expressway.

yourangel: Brother, me I dey watch Del Bosque o!...lol. Actually, there's no FIFA's law which forbids him or other voters from voting for their own players. You can vote for anyone you feel like voting for. Even CR7 indirectly votes for himself every year by relinquishing his Portuguese national team captaincy to another team member at this time of the year, so that they would vote for him. Once the voting is over, he becomes the national team captain of Portugal again...lol. Let's watch and see if he does the same this year too...lol.

hahahahahahahahaha. R u for real? Ronaldo get sense o!

yourangel: This news about Jordi Alba is heart-warming:

Left back Jordi Alba, who is recovering from a thigh muscle injury since September, will join the group on training this week. #fcblive [as]




Xavi: "If I'd be captain, I'd vote Messi-Ribery-Cristiano for Ballon d'Or. Messi is the best in the world. For 2013, you can discuss."

Xavi: "Having won 4 consecutive Ballons d'Or could work against Messi. Maybe voters say: he already won four, it's time for someone else."

Del Bosque (coach ESP): "For the Ballon d'Or, I've voted for the two Spaniards - Xavi and Iniesta - and for another player..." [cope]

but how could del bosque vote for xavi and iniesta? I thought since he's spanish he is not supposed to vote for any spanish player.

yourangel: Pele, Maradona, Messi and more: Jimmy Greaves picks his all-time world XI

The England legend certainly prioritised attack when picking his best-ever side


http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/pele-maradona-messi-jimmy-greaves-2801770

Someone should please kindly educate me. I saw this Baba's all-time world XI (shown below) and was wondering if Messi also plays as a left-winger? I used to think he (Messi) plays on the right wing and not left. Please tell me if I'm wrong? Thanks!

you're right my brother, but I think he had already given garrinca the right wing. But his soul and conscience told him he had to fix the genius messi in somewhere. Lol. He just couldnt imagine his list being complete without lionel.

Iaz93: Ronaldo was leading messi with 8 goals in the league before Messi got injured. So, what are you trying to imply?

this man, are you a learner? Messi was actually topping on the scorers' chat until match day 7, september 28th 2013 against almeria when he got his first injury. Then he was on 8 goals while ronaldo was on 6 goals.

yourangel: Brother, you're very right. However, na the maggi wey dey the soup be that..lol.

I called my Ghanaian and South African friends to inform them that we were the first in Africa to qualify for next year's WC. It's actually baseless, senseless and meaningless to say 'first to qualify', yet it's a sweet bragging right...lol. It's all part of the fun bro, don't mind us o.

hahahaha. No wahala. Abeg make we carry go my guy!

yourangel: Lionel Messi will get back to his brilliant best, says fellow Barcelona superstar Xavi

The Spanish international believes the diminutive Argentine will return from his muscle injury woes better than ever


http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/lionel-messi-back-brilliant-best-2799302

Great people have great heart. Thanks Xavi for those generous and encouraging words. Please, the team should continue in one love!


Meanwhile, congratulations to us (Nigerians) for being the first in Africa to qualify for the world cup in Brazil next year! Well done Super Eagles!

yeah congratz too. But what's the essence of the 'first' that you people are just talking about. I thought we were first because we scheduled our own qualifier before others?

usbcable: and bros abeg is this professional from fifa.com:

But looking at Ronaldo’s profile on the Fifa’s official website, the Portuguese may indeed have a point.

“2013 proved to be another goal-drenched year for Cristiano Ronaldo. The Portuguese star helped himself to 34 of them in the 2012/13 Liga season, a haul beaten only by Lionel Messi’s 45, and scored a hatful more in Europe and for his national team,” it said.

To analyse this, the profile has missed out the fact that Ronaldo has scored 62 goals for club and country in his “goal-drenched” year, currently 17 goals more than any other player (Lionel Messi has scored 45). The Barcelona forward, meanwhile, was described as an “attacking wizard” in his profile, while Franck Ribery was lauded for “mesmerising dribbles” in his.

Ronaldo’s “hatful” in Europe is 14 Champions League goals in 2013, five more than any other player as well.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/international/fifa-ballon-dor-have-the-2013-achievements-of-cristiano-ronaldo-been-played-down-on-fifas-website-8939956.html

no positive adjective for him unlike fifa's "every parents dream child" and Frank ribery.

wont be suprised if they dont give the award to ribery sef.
at least forlan, iniesta and xavi are living witnesses.

bros I agree that fifa erred in that regard but it was a welcomed error. Why? Because people were begining to forget what messi achieved in may this year. People were beginning to see it as balon dor october and november not balon dor 2013 so that error by fifa reminded everyone. I won't accept that 'ronaldo scored 14 champions league goals in 2013. That is not a record. You cannot add two champions league seasons together. Yes ronaldo was top scorer in champions league 2012/13 with 12 goals, yes ronaldo scored 63 goals in 2013, yes ronaldo is the current la liga top scorer with 16 goals, yes ronaldo is the current top scorer in the champions league with 8 goals. Let me tell you messi's own- messi won the pichichi in may with 46 goals, messi won the european golden shoe with 46 goals, messi was top scorer in all competitions with 63 goals, messi became the first man in history to score consecutively in 20 matches including all 19 league opponents, messi has masterminded his country to top spot in the south america world cup zone and then messi won la liga and the spanish super cup. Now compare these two feats and sincerely tell us who deserves the ballon dor more!

philfearon: Maybe your sweet mindblowing eyez didnt see ur post i quoted........what else wia u talking of if not achievement? Do u need a soothsayer to tell u that the 2galactico Eras were total failures and waste of resources?



In football,and esp in Fcb and RMA,Success is measured by on-field activities==>trophies.....
I dont know what other yardsticks you are talking about!!



Dont make me believe you are a kid bro!!


Individual honours are part of team Succex!


Puyol will go down as one the Greatest defenders of the game!
Xavi and Iniesta will go down as the greatest midfielders of their time,and one of the greatest the round leather game has ever seen....
Dani Alves will go down as a great Right full back!
Sergio Busquets will forever be one of the greatest box to box midfielders of this age...Even ur Xabi Alonsi testified to it!!
I need not say about Messi! Need i tell u about Neymar too?



And yet u cant prove me wrong!! Smh! Wich of my points was flawed anyway?


See who is talking of consistency and record breaking!!..You are just making me laugh bro! Considering that ur team is languishing in 3rd position and winning matches with as many controversial pK's as possible,i'll pass! Has it occurred to u that Barca has been on top of Laliga for 52weeks now,and stil counting..Talking of breaking records,we finished the league 15points ahead of u.....I wonda wich century u guys will break this record anyway!


Hahahahaha! Speaking like a typical Arsenal fan!!
If ur head is swelling that u won 9European cups{now UCL},then u are a fooool!
When Madrid won the European cup in 5consecutive times,only 8teams played it in a sort of closed Union..And this 8teams were winners of their respective leagues...
Its a pity that it coincided with the 5yrs they laid siege to laliga,winning it by their unscrupulous and ill-mannered means anyway!
Since the UCL has been expanded,whats holding them from winning it 5times consecutively?? Mtcheeeeww!!

general franco hated losing.

usbcable: i remember Ronnies first season he was injured for two straighht months.

no one was saying Messi won the awards due to Ronnies absence for those two months.

so deal with your pulga's inability to keep discipline with his feeding and exercise regime.

better still make una go bring bonaventure back from bayern

as if we give a phuck if he is injured abi na our fault.

no excuses, for 3 whole seasons they were both fit. Judge the results!

switdick: Unfortunately, FIFA, UEFA, wouldn't Say aaahh, Mercy had a kneel injury hence his reason for not keeping up to his own end of being a top notch baller and contending with the likes of record breakers of a Season , So I choose to ignore this excuse.

no excuses. Just compare and judge when they were both fit! The result says it all.

switdick: Don't Mind Them, As If Loosing to Bayern Last Season Isn't Akin to a record breaking "Loss" Of/in a Tournament ?...LoL

no shame in losing to bayern. But you? You lost to lewandowaski.

switdick: Have You Not Proved Your Bias With This Post Of Yours ...?

If You Don't Know How to Argue Coherently dealing With Facts and Statistics as to What Football entails, Why not Take a Seat and Learn ?

What Do You Call Someone Whose "Time" has Passed( as You Say It ),Predominately Topping Charts on Every Spheres Of Football ?

Highest Goal Scoring affinity !

Both in Laliga and Ucl huh ?

Your Midget Doesn't Seem to be Keeping his own End Up to "Agility" but Subjected to
Unfitness ,Isn't this his Prime" or "Time" as you Put it ?

I'd Like To Think You and Your ilk forming Forces against The Whites" are Just Haters Of Good record..LoL

DeaL With Your Club's Stale and Never Progressing Record while We Celebrate Ours, If You aren't bias as You Claim...

it's just so funny how we nigerians love to bury our heads in the sands. What happened all these seasons both players were injury free? Pls u people should stop reminding us how ronaldo is top scorer cus when you say that, all I remember is that messi is injured. Its not a coincedence that ronaldo outscoring messi has coincided with messi being injured. Pls hide ronaldo's shame for him na!

Iaz93: Messi played more matches, period!

Portugal topped those teams. Russia just came first due to Portugal's carelessness against Israel.

See, stop spewing thrash, biko!

If Portugal had played the number of matches Argentina played, they'd have topped the group. . .and they'd have scored more goals.

You think European Groups are as easy as that of the South American's?

nna na wa o! Do I have to paint you a picture to understand? Iam not comparing messi's goals to ronaldo's. Iam comparing messi to the likes of cavani, suarez, forlan, aguero, falcao, etc who also competed in the south american zone! Carelessnes against israel? Ok I see! But iam sure you wouldn't admit to it that argentina were careless as well in that match against peru which you talked about earlier.

Polio: Oi who the fu..ck are you?

Where did you get the nerves to quote me? was i having a convo with you?

I won't bother with you again till you come you improve your command of english tremendously, till your written english is at an advanced level, till you demonstrate that you know the game well and understand the comparison is about individual influence and performances... Open up a thread if you satisfy all of the requirements... Till then, i dont have time for idio...ts whose command of english is absolutely pathetic

I dont have time for numbskulls and foo..ls who go round quoting intelligent posts and replying with un-intelligent and grammatical blunder laden crap!

Fuc..king pleb!

lol. As long as you keep putting up 1mbecilic posts, I will quote you b1aaaaaatch! I don't blame you at all. The federal govt should call off this ASUU strike and let these worms who have invaded this thread get back to class. Damn iam almost puking on this nvmb nut. He prolly thinks that my use of the word 'proved' is wrong in this context, and he's here to correct my english. D0UCHEBAG! Stop blaspheming.

Iaz93: Why wouldnt he be the highest goal scorer, when he played more matches Imagine just 4 abi na 5 teams in one group, do you think finishing first would be easy?


Which unknown quantities are you talking of?

wtf are you talking about? Messi even played 3 matches less in the south american zone yet he was the second top scorer! Second top IN THAT ZONE! unknown quantities-israel, nothern ireland, azerbijan, etc

Iaz93: There's something you don't understand. The groups consisting of South American teams is not the same as that consisting of European teams, where they have only 4 teams in a group. For the South Americans, they have about 9teams in a group. The first four will automatically qualify, YOU SEE! For the European teams, only the first will qualify. The second will qualify for playoffs. Can you now see how difficult it is?

yes I know all that and I understand you. Let's not derail and pretend. The bone of contention here is- between messi and ronaldo, who performed better for his country in the qualifiers? Argentina did not just qualify, they topped a group with uruguay, paraguay, chile, ecuador, colombia, etc and messi waas the top scorer. Portugal had no business not qualifying automatically ahead of russia, isreal, northern ireland and asome unknown quantities. Now everybody is resting, they are still stressing with qualifiers. So my simple question again is- messi or ronaldo who performed better for his country in the brazil 2014 world cup qualifiers?

Iaz93: What has Portugal finishing ahead of Russia got to do with my post?

I was addressing Lat4real's post.
If you don't understand, don't quote and spew rubbish.

yes of course, you are talking how argentina struggled to beat peru but they still qualified automatically. So all he is asking you is why can't portugal qualify automatically? Despite all their stars- ronaldo, nani, pepe, moutinho, mereileas, bruno alvez, posatiga, contreao, varela.

Iaz93: What has Portugal finishing ahead of Russia got to do with my post?

I was addressing Lat4real's post.
If you don't understand, don't quote and spew rubbish.

yes of course, you are talking how argentina struggled to beat peru but they still qualified automatically. So all he is asking you is why can't portugal qualify directly? Despite all their stars- ronaldo, nani, pepe, moutinho, mereileas, bruno alvez, posatiga, contreao, varela.

Iaz93: No!

Argentina played 1 - 1 in their first match with Peru.

Argentina now needed a win against Peru at home, to qualify for 2010 World Cup. That winning goal came in 92nd minute. The match ended 2 - 1.

Bro, where did you watch your own match? Where did you see 3 - 1?
Ignorance is really a disease!

o! For his mischievous intentions he choses to ignore the current campaign and takes us back to 2010. And you fail to address why your beloved portugal never gets to qualify directly but always tru play offs when they have the 'best' player in the world who proves himself everywhere and carries the whole country on his head. He defends himself, crosses to himself and scores himself.

Ovie56: you guys have turn it to messi vs ronaldo thread so this is what I'll have to say
2009 messi is d world best
2010 a new year gift (from fifa)
2011 messi is d world best
2012 how can you give world best to a player that scores bunch of unimportant goals...
2013 except you are lying to ur self Ronaldo has performed more than him
.
messi is la liga highest goal scorer
Ronaldo is champions league highest goal scorer
.in all the el classic ronaldo did well than messi
first in super cup 1st leg he scored messi didnt
second leg he scored twice messi scored once
la liga they both scored twice in first leg...
copa dey rey none of them scored during first leg
ronaldo scored twice second leg
la liga second leg
messi scored ronaldo didn't
but one could see his contribution to the game despite coming on from substitute bench..... but we all know it's not the award for best player but most loved

that's the problem. You guys need to quit acting like illiterates that's if you aren't one. Fifa's gift to messi? So yobo and siasia that voted for messi are now fifa right? Pls use your head a little bit. 2012- unimportant goals? Kai, height of stvpidity! 73 goals a season-guiness book of records, 91 goals a year-guiness book of records, 8 hattricks-record, 50 goals a seaason- book of records, 5 goals in one match-guiness book of record, 14 champions league goals-history, the guy broke 70 year old records and created history and you call them meaningless goals? Plus adding the copa del rey trophy to all these records. But you say asomeone else should win becos he won only la liga, just la liga? When others won epl and serie a! Now in 2013 you have suddenly forgotten about the meaningless goals u said messi scored and you are telling us about goals ronaldo started scoring in october without winning a spoon? Big hypocrite u are!

Ovie56: I guess their starting line up looks like this.....
messi
messi
messi messi
messi
messi messi
messi
messi messi..... and the opponents play against no body when he was injured..... lwkmd

hypocrite. Just as you and your cohorts would say' ronaldo destroys sweden' or 'ronaldo singlehandedly sends portugal one leg to the world cup'. Your friend aasked, what was messi's impact and then I guess my answer hurt you to your bvtt.

Polio: Ballon D'Or = Messi Award!

The footballing world know that #YES

And oh yes, golden boot can be linked back to the team's contribution to the eventual winner's goal tally, think outside of the box homie

A player dont just pick up the ball and scores, he get's assist and support all round...

CR7 dont need Ballon DO'r .. He will continue to prove himself

He has shows up everywhere, club, country, your house, your work, everywhere ... He is massive!

Messi is different class but to say Messi is better than him is a fu..cking blasphemy!

Ask Messi to come to the EPL please, let him come and prove himself outside La Liga

Till then, dont bother arguing, Messi and Ronaldo are on PAR!

fvck epl. Tell ronaldo to go to serie a or come to nigerian league to prove himself. Stop blamsphening ronaldo will never be at par with messi. Shoe get size.He couldn't even prove himself against athletico. If he had proved himself against russia he would be resting by now. Yes he needs ballon dor, he has been crying for it for 5 years.Mumu.

Polio: Can you summarise Messi's impact in Argentina's qualification? Please quick in one paragraph and i give you 5 minutes ...

Thank you!

in summary messi qualified argentina being the second top scorer in the south american zone despite missing 3 games tru injury. And he qualified argentina with 2 games to spare. Comprende?

Remii: Thank you jare, many soccer analysts have maintained that chosing Messi over CR7 is a matter of personal choice not technical.

there goes another l1ar. Personal choice?Maybe that is why messi has outscored him in every season and maybe that is why messi is being compared to maradona and pele. Maybe that is why he can't even score more than messi till messi got injured. Maybe that is why he could only win ballon dor in 2008 when messi was injured for so long.

Iaz93: Guy, it was at the last minute Argentina qualified for the 2010 World Cup. Peru almost shattered their dreams. So shut up!
I hope Messi would be able to hit the post in Brazil. Lol! He shouldn't disgrace his fans like he did 3years back.

bl00dy fvcking st1nking l1ar, argentina qualified on match day 16, that is with 2 games to spare. Which peru almost denied them? Peru that they beat 3-1 with all 3 goals already scored at 47 minutes. L1ar, you can't even tell the truth to save your own life.