With the transfer of Kylian Mbappe at Real Madrid, official announcement on 16th of July 2024, the recap of a 21st century situation resumed. After 2000, Real Madrid did its best, thru the president Florentino Perez to sign all key players world wide, on astronomical amounts of money. The initial big signature of Real Madrid…
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EURO 2024 – the story of fading football, detailed analysis
EURO 2024 was a very expected football tournament, not only on its continent, obviously Europe, but worldwide. It is true that Copa America developed in the same time, but these are two competitions which purely cannot match. Even if the latest had its first edition long before Coupe of Europe (as EURO was called when…
What is the legacy of the FIFA World Cup 2022 from Qatar?
Hard question: what should be the legacy of the latest World Cup, the 2022 Qatar competition? It is a serious debate, and it cannot be resumed in a couple of words, so this is why I have waited for some time to pass to assess and order my thoughts as better as I could to…
Cristiano Ronaldo interview by Piers Morgan, explained – the ultimate joke
In the last week, the World Cup in Qatar took the second place, because the interview with Cristiano Ronaldo, held by Piers Morgan, covered the so-called football world almost entirely. Because it was such a one-of-a-kind event I have decided, on one of my runs, to listen to the whole 90 minutes and draw my…
Madeira Island – complete guide if you want to have the vacation of your life
To visit Madeira Island, part of Portugal, was one of my objectives for some time. Once arrived at the location, for a one-week vacation, alongside my beautiful girlfriend, I have decided from the first moment that this looks like better than I even imagined. I am saying this, even though the full experience will be…
Cristiano Ronaldo & Lionel Messi football era comes to an end
Cristiano Ronaldo – Lionel Messi is, for sure, the most consistent rivalry in the history of world football in terms of statistics especially. I am mentioning this, because is quite hard to avoid Eras in which Maradona & Platini were playing, when Di Stefano & Puskas were on the same pitch, when Zidane & Ronaldo…
Sven Rydell, the record holder from another era
Swedish sportsmen look like having something special from the beginning of sport history. Sven Rydell is no different than that. If you check whom has the most hat-tricks from football history, this guy stands out a bit. I mean, alongside Cristiano Ronaldo, he has the most hat-tricks scored for a national team, Sweden. Truth been…
CR807: Cristiano Ronaldo became the best all time football top scorer
Cristiano Ronaldo and a huge achievement! “Who had believe me that I have scored five times more than the great Pele?”, stated, around 2001 the great Josef Bican when questioned that some reports showed he scored more than 5.000. It is hard to believe though and it is hard to believe also that Pele did…
Lionel Messi: adevăr sau provocare?
Lionel Messi și Balonul de Aur. Dacă tot n-a luat Sneijder Balonul de Aur, uite că nu l-a luat nici Iniesta. Probabil că toată lumea a ajuns la părerea că acel gol din finala Campionatului Mondial, chiar putea fi marcat de un fundaș. Nu am nimic cu mijlocașul catalan. Dimpotrivă, mi se pare o piesă…
reth Bale: a new football star
Gareth Bale: a new football star. Barcelona has Messi, Real Madrid has Cristiano Ronaldo and Manchester United has Rooney. But this year, despite the individual performance of the first two and despite the performance of Spanish football, a man managed to shine on the soccer scene. Young Gareth Bale of Tottenham, became one of the…