Firmino and the greatest assist that almost was
Firmino produced a master class pass to Mane against Genk – which would surely have gone down in history...
Category: Soccer Hall of Fame
Cristiano scores 700
A picture instead of a thousand words …
Zlatan gets a mighty statue
When you come to New York you see the statue of Liberty. When you come to Sweden you will...
Messi is better
Artificial intelligence has stepped in and solved a problem that human intelligence was unable to solve. Football pundits and...
Fifa chooses ” The Best”
Messi, Frenkie de Jong and Caroline Graham Hansen are amongst the 10 finalists for the FIFA award for the...
Beckham rolls back the years
It’s been a while since Beckham featured on Soccerblog.Manchester United Legends played Bayern Munich Legends at Old Trafford last...
Messi leaves Ronaldo behind in the golden boot race
Messi picked up his 6th “Pichichi” Award for ending the season as the top scoring player in the La...
Messi gets the boot – for the 6th time
Messi picked up Golden Shoe Number #6 for 36 goals for Barcelona this season. That makes it two more...
Messi in the EPL
Messi is top of the charts in 15 categories in the La Liga this season However when that stat...
Klopp
“I don’t think I would have believed it but I am not a very negative person.I would not have...
Ronaldo wins a historic treble
Ronaldo became the first person in all of footballing history to be part of the title winning team in...
125 Champion’s League Goals
Predator Ronaldo notched up Champion’s League goal number 125.It takes him 17 clear of Messi. Statistics update on their...
Messi scores a Paneka free kick
Messi creates history again by creating a new kind of free kick. Antonin Paneka created history in 1976 when...
Messi adds another hat trick to his tally
Real Betis were at the receiving end of a 4 -1 beating during which Messi scored his 33rd La...
Messi closes in on Ronaldo’s hat trick record
Messi equalled Ronaldo’s record of 44 hat tricks for Real Madrid when he put three past Sevilla a couple...
Aguero hat trick takes City closer to Liverpool
Sergio Aguero smashed three against Arsenal and now has as many PL hat-tricks as Cristiano Ronaldo, Eric Cantona, Dennis...
Yet another Ronaldo record
He scored in Juventus’ 2-1 win over Lazio a couple of days ago and thus became the FIRST PLAYER...
Messi scores 400 La Liga goals
Lionel Messi scored his 400th La Liga goal as Barcelona beat Eibar and became the first player ever in...
Salah on a hat trick of titles
Mohamed Salah was named African Footballer of the Year for a second successive year last tuesday.He beat Sadio Mané...
Messi top scoring footballer of the year
Messi with 51 goals to his credit is going to end 2018 as the footballer having scored the most...
Messi’s incredible free kick record
He scored two more absolute beauties against Espanyol a day or so ago. And it turns out that since...
Modric is the man
Luka Modric won the Ballon D’Or 2018 bringing an end to the era of Messi and Ronaldo.
Ronaldo breaks Juventus record
Ronaldo,after a bit of slow start at Juventus,has gone into hyperdrive again. He has become the fastest player in...
Messi and Ronaldo are out of the Ballon d’Or shortlist?
The unthinkable. The full list of nominees has Leo and Ronaldo leading the pack. Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Sergio...
Maradona shows off his dance moves
Maradona had taken over as manager of second division Mexican club Dorados de Sinaloa in September this year and...
Rooney’s swansong
Rooney played for England one last time when England played USA a couple of days ago.The game was precedede...
Salah scores a half century
Mohammed Salah made it 50 goals for Liverpool when he scored two in their 4 – 0 win over...
A MessiRonaldo less El Clasico after 11 years.
Not since the year 2007 has such a thing happened.Real Madrid and Barcelona head into an El Clasico next...
Kylian Mbappé makes the cover of the TIME magazine
He’s being called the new future of Socccer.The Time mag article on him here .. And a song to...
Zlatan’s 500th goal was pretty incredible
Salah got the Puskas Goal of the year for this goal and Ronaldo was pretty bugged about that because...
Modric ends Messi,Ronaldo dominance
Luka Modric brought the era of the utter dominance of Messi and Ronaldo at international awards to an end....
Messi goes missing
Messi’s name has gone missing from FIFA’s three-man shortlist for The Best Men’s Player of 2018.Luka Modric, Cristiano Ronaldo...
Ronaldo wins UEFA goal of the season
The goal that left Buffon standing.Ronaldo’s overhead stunner against Juventus in the CL quarters has been voted as UEFA’s...
Beckham and the elaborate Chinese Egg Tart Ad
Beckham has joined the list of football players heading to China.However its not goals and money glory that he...
Zlatan gets his first MLS hat trick
The mighty Z was in the thick of things again.LA Galaxy came from behind to beat Orlando City 4...
Mandela,Obama and the power of the game
“Sport has the power to change the world…it has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite...
Buffon is not done yet.
All of us who were thinking that Buffon had hung up his goalkeeping gloves and ridden off into the...
Ronaldo breaks the Puskas record
Ronaldo after equalling Ferenc Puskas’s record of 84 goals with a hat trick against Spain needed only four more...
Ronaldo adds a World Cup Hat trick to his goal tally
Spain and Portugal played out the best game of the World Cup so far.And Ronaldo the relentless was the...
Usain Bolt wants to play for Manchester United
Usain Bolt has playing for Manchester United on his Bucket List and he’s working towards getting there. At the...
Iniesta rides off into the sunset too
Its been a week of tears and farewells.Buffon bid farewell to Juventus,Torres said goodbye to Atletico Madrid ( scoring...
Buffon bids farewell
“Six thousand, one hundred and eleven days. Semilacentoundici moments of pure passion. Of joy, of crying, of defeats and...
Iniesta isn’t going to China
Iniesta,master of the feint that sent opposition players in the wrong direction has done it again.He led everyone to...
Arsenal say goodbye to Wenger with 5 – 0 win over Burnley
There are many highlights after 22 years.I think I played 840 Premier League games. Do you know how many...
Get Well, Sir Alex
It’s Fergie time, for real. As the former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson recovers from emergency surgery, we wish him a...
Iniesta scores in his final cup final
The tears flow – because soon its going be goodbye Barcelona – Hello China. The Copa del Rey final...
The Wenger Years
Wenger has announced that he is going to step down at the end of the season.
Bayern and Liverpool Legends roll back the years
Liverpool legends and Bayern Munich legends played out a thrilling 10 goal game in which each set of legends...
50 hat tricks and counting
Ronaldo scored the 50th hat trick of his career and Real Madrid beat Girona 6 – 3 while that...
Salah breaks Liverpool scoring record
Salah is another Messi in the making.The internet is rife with odious comparisons between the two players.And if you...
Messi scores 600 goals
Messi 600th career goal came off yet another brilliant free kick. He has chalked up an incredible 539 goals...
Back to back hat tricks from Antoine Griezmann
Antoine Griezmann became the first Atletico player to score a hat trick in successive league games since the turn...
Another brilliant Messi free kick
Barcelona were held to a one all draw by Las Palmas thanks to a pretty dubious penalty call. But...
The Prince of Egypt
Mohamed Salah’s absolutely awesomely brilliant composure and control are evident in this goal he scored against Porto yesterday. This...