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Early Lionel Messi Comparisons Were 'detrimental

... Now ». Live football odds with bet 365. Bet Now ». Live football odds with bet 365. Bet Now ». Live football odds with bet 365. Bet Now ». South Korea. Live football odds with bet 365. Bet Now ». Gerard Deulofeu: Early Lionel Messi comparisons were 'detrimental'. Gerard Deulofeu is currently on loan at AC Milan from Everton. AC Milan winger Gerard Deulofeu believes early career comparisons with Lionel Messi at Barcelona created too much expectation among the club's supporters. Deulofeu, on loan at Milan from Everton, came through the youth academy at Barcelona, where he was often compared to Messi. However, having been tipped to break into the first team at the Camp Nou, he was eventually forced to leave in 2015 in search of regular football. "In the end, [the comparisons] were more detrimental than beneficial," Deulofeu told Forza Milan. "Normally I don't read newspapers, but that headline I remember well. It created too much expectation among Barcelona fans. There's ...

What Is Lionel Messi's Net Worth And How Much Does The Barcelona Star Earn

... are, of course, plenty of clubs who would be willing to offer him significant financial incentives to quit Barca - he is in line to land a major pay day soon. But exactly how much is Messi worth right now? While it's difficult to get an exact figure, we can accumulate plenty of information from what has been reported and compare his earnings to his Real Madrid rival Cristiano Ronaldo. What is Messi's salary. Messi is reportedly the third highest-paid player in Europe after Ronaldo and Gareth Bale. It is worth noting that both Real Madrid stars signed new contracts in 2016 whereas Messi's last upgrade came back in 2014, so it is not totally surprising that both have overtaken him. The common account puts Messi's weekly salary at £336,000, about £30,000-a-week less than Ronaldo. Whether with Barca or elsewhere, Messi will at least be in line with his main Ballon d'Or foe and may even surpass him when he signs his next deal. If Messi was to really shock world football and go to China, he could even bag more than Carlos Tevez's incredible £615,000 a week - but that seems hugely unlikely at this stage of his career and ...

Ronaldo, Messi, Spotify And Mozart

... the effort it must have taken Ronaldo to get to where he has. Gyms are effing boring, and you have to respect a man who has decided that to maintain the freakish standard he has set for himself, he must embrace a lifetime of exercise bikes planted in swimming pools and enslaving thigh-crunches. But there’s nothing that I’ve ever seen Ronaldo do, except for that free-kick against Portsmouth, where I can’t see the workings of it. The best of the best, but still normal. It is the peak of what every other footballer could do if they had a hearty dose of natural ability, and willed it to the top of the mountain. Wijnaldum could do it. Shaqiri could do it, Lukaku can do it, Gareth Bale is all over it. But shadowy above that mountain, the images shimmering in the sky, unreachable to everything else, is where the stuff that really sets your heart alight. Take for example the goal Messi scored against Getafe that introduced him to the world as the one, and there can only ever be one, for our generation, as we had Zidane, as they had Maradona. Everything about it seems both spur-of-the-moment and a simplified pattern, that rush that only football can ...

I'm Good But Don't Call Me The Female Lionel Messi

... during her team's training session in Manchester on Tuesday morning. Central midfielder Lloyd is regarded as the leading player in the women's game. 'We'd just come home as world champions, but playing on that surface? The men never do,' she remarks. But then Lloyd, 34, has tended to do things her own way. She was asked to move out of the family home in New Jersey in 2008 after a breakdown in the relationship with her parents. Recently bridges have started to be rebuilt, but none of her family were at her wedding to golfer Brian Hollins in November. RELATED ARTICLES. Share this article. She is matter-of-fact as she speaks after mentoring young girls at City's plush training base, and her drive to succeed is clear. A reminder that she is described as the 'female Messi', with whom she has often shared the stage at award ceremonies, sparks a confident response. 'I'm obviously a very different player,' says Lloyd. 'Messi's in a league of his own. But when you look at my overall game, I have a completeness to it. If it requires a bit of finesse, I can do that. If it ...

Why The Socceroos Don't Need To Fear 'arabian Messi' Abdulrahman

... the line and get the much-needed three points. Instead UAE lost 2-0 with little more than a whimper, and the playmaker was again a peripheral figure in the game, hugely overshadowed by Japan's Shinji Kagawa. Heading into Tuesday's match against the Socceroos a lot of the pressure will fall on the shoulders of UAE talisman Abdulrahman. The afro-haired 25-year-old is the barometer for this Emirati side and if the UAE is to have any chance of defeating Australia he needs to lift his game, as they can’t win if he’s not pulling the strings. But it's not just Abdulrahman feeling the heat. Postecoglou hints at Socceroos changes for UAE clash. Socceroos coach Ange Postecoglou is set to make "a couple of changes" for Tuesday's crucial 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier with United Arab Emirates in Sydney. The entire UAE side from Abdulrahman to striker Ali Mabkhout, and especially coach Mahdi Ali are all under ...

Messi-less Argentina Loses Another World Cup Qualifier

... R. Caivano/AP). Associated Press March 28, 2017, 7:55 PM. SAO PAULO — Hours after Lionel Messi was suspended by FIFA for four World Cup qualifying matches, Argentina lost 2-0 to Bolivia in the altitude of La Paz on Tuesday and heightened its risk of missing a spot at Russia 2018. Argentina dropped from third to fifth place, remaining on 22 points in South American qualifying with four games to play and putting coach Edgardo Bauza under intense pressure to step aside. South America has four direct spots at the World Cup, and the fifth-ranked team goes into an inter-continental playoff against the Oceania qualifying winner for another spot at Russia next year. While Argentina struggled, Colombia had a 2-0 win at Ecuador, posting its first win in Quito in 20 years and ensuring it will end the round in second or third spot. Ecuador dropped out of the top five for the first time, slipping to sixth with 20 points. The result at Quito opened the prospect of a possible early qualification for ...

The Next Lionel Messi May Be Training At This Youth Soccer Academy

... to recite the names of the dozens of kids — more than 200 by his count — that he has coached and who went on to play with Argentina's national team, local and Europe's top clubs. He recalls how he promised Tevez that he'd be a world-class striker long before he became a top goal scorer for clubs in England and Italy. Or how Juan Pablo Sorin would cry when Maddoni would line him up on defense, because he wanted to score goals. Sorin later played left back for Barcelona and Paris Saint Germain, and invited Maddoni on an all-expenses paid trip to Germany to watch him play with Argentina in the 2006 World Cup. These days, he recites names of new young talent. "Benjamin is different from the group," he said about Palandella. "He can pass with his back turned, he uses both legs. I see some of Riquelme in the way he moves the ball. I see some of 'Carlitos' Tevez, in how he uses his hands and leans backward. He's different.". After the training game, Benjamin changed into a Barcelona shirt adorned with Messi's number 10 and continued to kick the ball even after the other kids had gone home. "I want to be like Messi and play for ...

Fifa Suspends Lionel Messi For Four World Cup Qualifiers For Insulting A Referee

... for insulting a referee. The inside track on Washington politics. Be the first to know about new stories from Power Post. Sign up to follow, and we’ll e-mail you free updates as they’re published. You’ll receive free e-mail news updates each time a new story is published. You’re all set. By Matt Bonesteel By Matt Bonesteel March 28 at 11:39 AM Follow @Matt Bonesteel. Argentina’s Lionel Messi argues with first assistant referee Emerson Carvalho during Thursday’s game against Chile. (Juan Mabromata/AFP/Getty Images). FIFA announced Tuesday that it suspended soccer megastar Lionel Messi for four international matches over an incident that took place during a World Cup qualifier between Argentina and Chile on Thursday. According to world soccer’s governing body , Messi “directed insulting words at an assistant referee.”. Messi will serve the first game of the suspension on ...

How Lionel Messi Brilliantly Owned Paul Scholes In 2008

... through to the 2007-08 Champions League final. Article continues below. However, it wasn’t Scholes or any of his teammates who was named Man of the Match by BBC Sport. Lionel Messi, just 20 at the time, didn’t look remotely overawed playing at the Theatre of Dreams in one of the biggest matches - if not, *the* biggest match of his career to date - and did his utmost to send his side through to the final. Article continues below. Monaco starlet Bakayoko will sign for Man Utd - on one condition [MEN]. Scholes: Messi should have had a penalty. The Argentine sensation was a constant thorn in United’s side and, by Paul Scholes’ admission seven years later, he should have been awarded a penalty. “It was a moment I will never forget,” Scholes wrote in the Independent. “He went past me, I stuck out my leg and Lionel Messi went over. This was at Old Trafford in 2008 in the second leg of our Champions League semi-final against Barcelona and, with the score 1-0 to us, I had fouled him in our area. “When I think about our win over Barcelona in that game, on our way to the second Champions League title of ...