Daily Archives: May 28, 2011

UEFA Champions League Final!

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And the moment awaited by every one of us is here. The UEFA Champions League final is just a few hours ahead. Emotions are the main thing upon both camps. Supporters tremble to find who, or maybe better said, which is the best team in Europe, but better said, in the world.

Both teams stand with great chances, considering a round ball and a gather of the top players in each team. Barcelona comes after an awesome parcour during the stages with awesome winnings but Manchester United is no down like them. Two teams with different football styles will meet in the British capital.

In 1968, Manchester United became the first England team that won the Champions Cup after the game with Eusebio’s Benfica, won with 4-1, the final played at Wembley.

Barca won the Champions Cup for the first time at the famous stadium in England. It happened on May 20, 1992 after a match against Sampdoria.

Ready to guess?

If football is in the mood for a story, then the trophy is entitled to be earned by Manchester United. But if statistics will have the last word, the English will have an impossible task ahead of Messi and Iniesta.

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Cristiano Ronaldo

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Let’s talk about a player, one of the wonder players in the world.

Cristiano Ronaldo‘s treble against Getafe was his fourth hat-trick of the season and his fifth since joining Real Madrid. The forward, who also has seven braces to his name this year, has 13 multi-goal performances in the 26 matches he has scored in. What’s more, he is the first player in the history of La Liga to score three or more goals six times in one season. Romario and Langara shared the record of five.

Ronaldo has played in 52 matches this year (32 in La Liga, 12 in UCL and 8 in Copa) and scored in 26 of them, for an average of one goal every two matches. But CR7 doesn’t settle once he has found the back of the net. Quite the opposite in fact. Thirteen of the 26 matches he has scored in have been multi-goal performances.

Real Madrid’s forward is sitting on 49 goals this season and 82 since arriving in the Spanish capital in the summer of 2009. Twenty-two times over the last two seasons, Cristiano Ronaldo has scored more than one goal in a match (15 braces, 5 hat-tricks and two four-plus goal performances). He has scored in an astounding 49 of the 87 matches (56.3%) played for Real Madrid.

With 235 total goals as a professional footballer, Ronaldo is on the verge of earning his second Golden Boot, his first Pichichi trophy (top scorer in La Liga) and equalling or breaking the 38-goal record for goals in a season set by Zarra and Hugo Sanchez..

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