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Is Lionel Messi Unstoppable?

by Rami Soufi on April 11, 2010 · 11 comments

At the moment the answer would most likely be a resound­ing “Yes” con­sid­er­ing Lionel Messi’s tor­rid scor­ing run and his great form. How­ever, one would only need to look at Argentina’s matches to see how the tal­ented Messi who is widely regarded as the best player in the world becomes just another good player. In […]

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Messi Wins Ballon d’Or

by Rami Soufi on December 1, 2009 · 3 comments

As expected Lionel Messi suc­ceeded Cris­tiano Ronaldo as the win­ner of the Bal­lon d’Or award. The Barcelona star com­fort­ably won the prize but he admit­ted his sur­prise at the mar­gin of vic­tory as he received 240 points more than Cris­tiano Ronaldo who fin­ished sec­ond. Messi was quite close to win­ning all 480 points  pos­si­ble as he fin­ished with a […]

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Atlético Madrid Continues Their Stumbling Start

by Andy Pineda on September 14, 2009 · 0 comments

Atlético Madrid pro­longed their fal­ter­ing start with a 1–1 draw against Rac­ing San­tander on Sat­ur­day.  Even with a man advan­tage for the major­ity of the sec­ond half, they lacked the fin­ish­ing touch to nip the win from a feisty San­tander side.  Rac­ing came off a 4–1 drub­bing at El Sar­dinero by Getafe, includ­ing a hat […]

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Heinze Gone From Albiceleste?

by Juan Arango on September 12, 2008 · 0 comments

Gabriel Heinze’s days with the Argen­tine national team could be num­bered after his fall­out with Alfio Basile. His dread­ful per­for­mance against Paraguay, his hor­rid own goal and his reac­tion to be subbed in favor of Getafe’s Daniel Díaz will most likely leave him out of the upcom­ing call up that will occur in Octo­ber.  Heinze’s […]

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Noir Being Shopped Around

by Juan Arango on September 10, 2008 · 0 comments

Boca Juniors’  striker Ricardo Noir is the lat­est gem to emerge from the club’s pro­lific youth pro­gram that exported play­ers in recent years like Fer­nando Gago, Ever Banega, and Car­los Tévez, .   After a thun­der­ous start to his first-team career, he is now being looked at by var­i­ous Span­ish teams as a viable option or […]

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Getafe Is Seething Mad

by Juan Arango on September 8, 2008 · 0 comments

Azulón pres­i­dent Ángel Tor­res came out with all guns blaz­ing as his team will be with­out their two goal­keep­ers in less than a month.   What made the club prsi­dent more indig­nated was the fact that he did not receive a call from any Argen­tine foot­bal fed­er­a­tion offi­cial to talk about the mat­ter and arrange­ments as […]

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Díaz Replaces Burdisso

by Juan Arango on August 29, 2008 · 1 comment

Daniel ¨Cata¨ Díaz got the call from coach Alfio Basile as a replace­ment for Inter defender Nicolás Bur­disso.  Bur­disso suf­fered a calf injury and will be out of action for approx­i­mately 45 days. The Getafe defender  will This injury ocurred in this weeks Ital­ian Super cup final at the Sta­dio Olimpico in Rome.  The injury  […]

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