Messi beats Ronaldo again

The Argentine star, Lionel Messi, striker for the French club Paris Saint-Germain, won the Goal 50 award, becoming the fifth time that he gets this ready and equal with Cristiano Ronaldo, while Alexia Putellas, player of Barcelona and Spain, won the special award for the women's team for the year 2021.

The battle between Messi and Ronaldo raged until the last moments, as more than 14 million people were given the prize for men, and Messi eventually got 50.1% in the end to beat Ronaldo by a very small percentage, which is 24 votes, and this is a very small number and Robert Lewandowski took third place, Egyptian star Mohamed Salah ranked fourth, and the fifth place went to the wonderful French youth Kylian Mbappe.

As for the women's prize, more than 10 million people were presented, and this resulted in the victory of Alexia Putellas of Barcelona and the Spanish national team, Alexia was able to outperform her closest competitors, and certainly because of the golden period that the Barcelona women's team is experiencing now, we have seen 4 players from the team in the first places.

World Cup 2022 surprises

Many teams qualified officially for the Qatar 2022 World Cup after the qualifiers, and the most prominent of them were Argentina, France, Germany and many others, but many surprises occurred during the qualifying stage, most notably the qualification of the Serbian national team and the Swiss national team, and that was a very big surprise for all football followers about the scientist.

Of course, this was surprising, because the Serbian team qualified at the expense of the Portuguese team, as the Portuguese team lost the last match they played with the Serbian national team, which witnessed crazy events. After the Portuguese team advanced 1-0, Serbia returned and turned the result in its favor with a fatal goal in the last minutes of the match to end the match 1_2 for the Serbian national team, thus qualifying the Serbian national team with full merit and putting the Portuguese team and Cristiano Ronaldo’s friends, who is likely to be his last World Cup in danger of the supplement.

And the Swiss team’s qualification was also a big surprise, because it qualified at the expense of the Italian team, the Euro 2020 champion, after the Swiss team won in the last round of the qualifiers 4/0 over the Bulgarian team, and the Italian team drew 0-0 with Northern Ireland, which made the fans of the Italian team in a state of great frustration because of their presence In Danger Supplement.

Also from the teams in the play-off is the Polish national team, after losing its last match with the Hungarian team, 2-1, and occupied the second place in the table, 6 points away from the leaders, which is the England team.

All of these sudden events make us wait for great matches in the qualifying round for the World Cup, and also all of this is in the interest of Lionel Messi in the Ballon d'Or race, and also to perhaps achieve the World Cup with Argentina after he won his first international title, which is Copa America 2021, because it is often this World Cup his last.

Xavi uses technology to solve Barcelona's tactical problems

After Dutch coach Ronald Koeman left Barcelona because of the bad results that the team has experienced since the start of the current Spanish League, and former Barcelona player Xavi Hernandez coached the team, imposing penalties on all violators of the new laws.

Reports revealed the new technology that Xavi is preparing to use in order to develop tactical methods in Barcelona and get rid of mistakes. Xavi is preparing to play his first match as a coach for the team in the Catalan regional derby against Espanyol in the 14th round of the League on the 20th of this month, and according to the newspaper "MundoDeportivo", he will be used Xavi is a program that automatically analyzes matches tactically and presents the matter directly to the players.
The newspaper's report also explained that Xavi used this program during his training with Al-Sadd club in Qatar, and it had a very large and positive impact on the team's development from the tactical side.

And the Barcelona fans were not greatly pleased by the arrival of Dani Alves, after sports director Matteo Alemani confirmed that the Catalan club's economic situation is very difficult and it is difficult to enter the winter transfer market except in exceptional cases.

And the newspaper "MundoDeportivo" confirmed that the only solution available to Barcelona is to get rid of some players in January, such as Philippe Coutinho and Samuel Umtiti, and perhaps substitute goalkeeper Neto, and to end the loan of Luuk de Jong to the contract with new players.

A funny story in the classico world

A 0-0 draw dominated the Argentina team’s match with the Brazilian team in the 14th round of the South American qualifiers for the World Cup, and the two teams qualified for the World Cup in Qatar.
And according to the newspaper "MundoDeportivo", Argentina did not know that it qualified for the World Cup until a while after the end of the match, and this is what prompted Messi to talk about disappointment after the match, as he stated that they knew that the match would be so difficult and difficult to win.
It is also important to remember that the first 4 teams qualify directly from the South American qualifiers to the World Cup finals, and the fifth team plays as a supplement with a team from another continent for the qualification ticket.
Officially, the Argentine national team and the Brazilian national team qualified, and Ecuador occupies third place, Colombia fourth and Peru plays the play-offs because it is in fifth place in this current ranking.

Premier League

The most beautiful league in the world and the most enthusiastic, according to the opinion of many football fans around the world, will return again on November 20, in matches that are high in fun and excitement, and after 11 rounds have passed since the start of the Premier League, Chelsea led by coach Thomas Tuchel with 26 points, who received the training of the London team in the middle Last season, he won the Champions League with them.
In second place are Manchester City and West Ham with 23 points, 3 points behind the leaders, and in third place Liverpool, with 22 points, and fifth place, Arsenal, with 20 points.
And in the matches on November 20, there are a lot of interesting matches, I think, the most important of which is the Arsenal vs Liverpool match, where each of them wants fourth place in this round because Liverpool is in fourth place and Arsenal is in fifth place, one point behind.
Chelsea will also try to maintain the lead in its next match with Leicester City, and it will be a difficult match for Thomas Tuchel's team.

And we are now a few days away from the start of the most fun days for football fans around the world, which is Boxing Day.

My sources:

https://www.sport.es/es/
https://www.facebook.com/GOAL
https://www.facebook.com/MundoDeportivo.com/
https://sport.sky.it/

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