For the third time (and for the second time in a row), Cristiano Ronaldo became the winner of the Ballon d'Or, Fifa's award for the best footballer of the past year. The four-time winner of this prestigious award, Lionel Messi, and the newcomer among the finalists, the German Manuel Neuer, were in competition for it. The picture at the top was identical to last year's, except that at the award ceremony in Zurich, the Real Madrid star replaced the tears of happiness with a battle cry and was immediately nicknamed Roar-aldo.
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Lionel Messi and Kobe Bryant are fierce competitors in their fields, but they found a way to compete with each other. After a very successful ad campaign last year for Turkish Airlines, which reached more than 100 million views, they thought about how to get back into the game of the most wanted on the Internet. And they came up with the idea of including the most searched word of the previous year: "selfie" or "self-portrait with a mobile phone".
Adidas has unveiled the official ball for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil in Rio de Janeiro. They called her "Brazuca", an informal local term meaning "Brazilian".
Are you curious about what Lionel Messi eats? The content of the Argentinian's plate was revealed by nutritionist Giuliano Poser, who has been taking care of the nutrition of one of the best football players in the world since 2014. Find out what's on the Barcelona star's plate below.
Soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo has had a dream year behind him. He became European and world club champion with Real Madrid, celebrated with the Portuguese national team at the European Championship in France, won the Ballon d'Or (this is his fourth Ballon D'Or) and the title of European Sportsman of the Year. With $88 million in earnings, he is also the highest paid athlete in the world. So his wealth is unimaginable. How he treats him is an interesting story, which we reveal below. This is how Cristiano Ronaldo spends his millions…
The British humanitarian organization Hubbub came up with a brilliant idea of how to clean the streets of London and wean people from recklessly throwing waste on the ground. The #neatstreets campaign includes projects such as voting with cigarette butts in public places (privacy is not guaranteed), a device that plays music when you insert a cigarette butt, and a special educational and interactive board for those who chew gum.
The World Cup and Hollywood have a lot more in common than meets the eye: both are dramatic, spectacular and packed with emotion, and we're also revealing which celebrity faces bear an uncanny resemblance to famous footballers.
Lionel Messi, football virtuoso and four-time winner of the prestigious FIFA Ballon d'Or award, is the first representative of Samsung's new "Galaxy 11" advertising campaign.
Barcelona footballer Lionel Messi set a new milestone in the last league match. In the 92nd minute, he scored the 500th goal for FC Barcelona. I couldn't have picked a better competitor and a better moment for this. He scored it against his biggest rival, Real from Madrid, who is otherwise a regular client of the prodigy from Argentina, and this at his Santiago Bernabeu stadium, and to top it off, in the dying moments of the match, which also sank the white ballet and kept Barcelona in the race for the title of Spanish champion. With this incredible achievement, it is right to pay tribute to this miracle on the green with a video of all his 500 goals in the Blaugrana jersey.
While the footballers of the strongest football leagues are eagerly preparing for the start of the new season, UEFA filled the lack of football action by announcing ten candidates competing for the goal of the year in the 2014/2015 season. And since there is no football list addressing excesses without Messi and Ronaldo, the stars of Barcelona and Real Madrid are among the candidates for the most beautiful goal. Check below which of their goals compete for the prestigious title alongside Neymar's and others.
Lionel Messi scored the most beautiful goal of the 2015/16 season. This was determined by visitors to UEFA.com, the website of the European Football Union, who believed that he was absent from the Argentinian's goal against AS Roma, which the five-time Ballon d'Or winner scored in FC Barcelona's jersey in the November match in the group stage of the Champions League and was the icing on the cake of the wonderful action and precise passing of the entire team.
Soccer player Georginio Wijnaldum is a magician. But only on the football field and in the parable. Or is it? A member of Liverpool performed a trick with a soccer ball during the national team training, which baffles not only the soccer, but also the world public. How he managed this feat, no one knows, but we promise that it is not a photomontage, although you will find it hard to believe.