Cristiano Ronaldo
Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the most hated, respected, ridiculed and loved football stars today. He is a true icon – splitting public opinion right down the middle. A Portuguese national and a Manchester United star, the right-winger had a career-changing 2006/2007 season, when he came in off an excellent World Cup performance (although people only remembered the diving and the Rooney incident) and led Manchester United to their first Premiership title in four years.
He’s a good player, that boy Ronaldo.
Scoring Stats – European Goal Trends
When we first examined the most important marksmen in the Big Four leagues, we looked at which players in Europe were the most crucial to their teams. This was done according to Scoring Stats, a measure of a player’s combined Goals and Assists, measured as a percentage of their team’s total league goals for the…
Irina Shayk – Babe of the Month (June 2011)
It was speculated the Cristiano Ronaldo is seeing the American socialite and model Kim Kardashian when he was seen on a three day trip on a yacht with the Russian model Irina Shayk. Soon afterwards, the Cristiano Ronaldo Jr. issue exploded but Irina has been seen with CR time and time again even afterwards. Irina…
Two of Premier League’s best players missing from ‘Team of the Decade’
Selecting the best team of a decade can be a flawed approach – you miss the players who straddled the previous and current decades, you forget players who were great in the first half of the decade and you give undue importance to players of the latter half of the current decade. Still, if you…
Barcelona vs Manchester United – What has changed since 2009?
2008/2009 was all-in-all Barcelona’s season. Pep Guardiola led his childhood club to glory like no other manager had done before him. United on the other hand, weren’t too bad the whole season. They were back again in the UEFA Champions League final to defend the title that they had won last year against Chelsea. 08/09…
Has Cristiano Ronaldo evolved too far?
The debate about who is the world’s greatest player has revolved for nearly five years now around two names: Barcelona’s Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, who now leads the line at Real Madrid after emerging as a tricksy winger at Manchester United. Only two other names are mentioned: Messi’s Barca teammates Xavi and Andres Iniesta….
Real Madrid Need More Conversion, Not More Possession
It seems easy to blame lack of possession (i.e. negative tactics) on Madrid’s defeat against Barcelona but numbers don’t tell the whole story. In fact, as Castrol EDGE Performance data shows, one of Real Madrid’s main problems in both the league and Champions League this season has been poor finishing in front of goal –…
Beyond Lionel Messi: An Alternative List of the Best 25 Footballers in the World
The titanic four-game battle between Real Madrid and Barcelona has once more thrown up the seemingly inexhaustible comparison between Cristiano Ronaldo and an Argentinian chap whose name I have momentarily forgotten. Every time I read about how Lionel Messi boasts so many more goals per game than Cristiano Ronaldo, or that Cristiano Ronaldo has winked…
Beyond Lionel Messi: An Alternative List of the Top 25 Football Players in the World (10-1)
In my previous article, I argued that the process by which we decide who the world’s best players are has been grossly distorted. A combination of mainstream media hype (backed up with its ‘statistics’ – often little more than a ruse to get people gambling) and a nostalgic longing for the return of the great…
What Mourinho learned from 5-0 at Nou Camp
El Clasico is probably the most watched football derby in the world. Nowhere in the world so much is put on the line. If you think Chelsea and Manchester City have the most expensive players and the biggest wage budget, you should really take a look at the numbers Real Madrid and Barcelona spend. Without…
Manchester United must spend for Ferguson to retire on top
Sir Alex Ferguson has spent most of the last twenty years at the top of English football. In order to retire there, no matter when that day comes, he’ll need to spend.
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