The Best Men's Player The Finalists

The Best Men's Player: The Finalists

 

 

• • Antoine GRIEZMANN

  • France
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  • Having been named the best player both in the Spanish league, in which he helped Atletico Madrid finish third, and at the UEFA EURO, 2016 will go down as the year in which Antoine Griezmann truly came into his own. With 40 goals over the course of the 2015/16 campaign, he spearheaded Atletico and France's respective charges to the finals of the UEFA Champions League and EURO 2016, although both ended in heart-wrenching defeats. A skilful, unselfish attacker, the 5'9 (1.76m) schemer can quite simply do the lot. As Griezmann himself recently told, he is a "more complete player now" than ever before and has "improved in every way in the last two years". One person who would certainly echo this view is his coach Diego Simeone, who is on record as saying that the man they now call Grizou has raised his game to such an extent that he is currently "among the top three players in the world".

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    Lionel MESSI

  • Argentina
  • Lionel Messi shows no signs of letting up. After rounding off 2015 by collecting the adidas Silver Ball at the FIFA Club World Cup in Japan, he continued to figure large for club and country in 2016. In winning his eighth La Liga winner’s medal with Barcelona, he chipped in with 20 goals (putting him third in the scoring charts) and an impressive 16 assists, and also won the Copa del Rey for a fourth time with Los Blaugrana and the Spanish Super Cup for the seventh time. La Pulga also starred for Argentina on their run to the final of Copa America Centenario, serving up more assists in the tournament than any other player and ending it as the second highest scorer. In the process, Messi also became La Albiceleste’s leading all-time goalscorer.
  

The Best Men's Player

The Best Men's Player

    

CRISTIANO RONALDO

Portugal 

Ronaldo will remember 2016 for reaching the pinnacle on three fronts: for club, for country and individually. He was crowned a European champion for both Real Madrid and Portugal - with victory in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA EURO 2016 - and the legendary No7 further rubberstamped his place in the annals of footballing history by being named the world’s best player for the fourth time. Cristiano clinched the Champions League crown by defeating city rivals Atleti before lifting his country’s first major trophy in France as Portugal’s captain. With his irrepressible thirst for goals, power and speed, Ronaldo continues to amass silverware and records in abundance – and is the inaugural The Best Men’s Player.

Which players have never been banned?

 Which players have never been banned?

Raúl González (Real Madrid, Schalke, al-Sadd, New York Cosmos and Spain) 17 years as a player, 388 goals in 932 matches at club level, 44 more goals for Spain, UEFA Champions League champion 1998, 2000 and 2002, the first player to score in two finals, six conquered leagues and an overwhelming win ... Without seeing any red card. 

Gary Lineker (Leicester, Everton, Barcelona, ​​Tottenham, Nagoya Grampus Eight and England) A career with 281 goals in 567 games is impressive by itself, but in addition the English ex-leader was never expelled. In fact he saw nothing more than a yellow card.

Andrés Iniesta (Barcelona and Spain) Another player with their showcases full of trophies at club level and selection. Iniesta has played more than 750 games with his club and his team without being expelled.

Karim Benzema (Lyon, Real Madrid and France) The Frenchman who scored the most goals with the Real Madrid shirt and in the League has played 649 matches and has never been expelled.

João Moutinho (Porto, Sporting CP, Monaco and Portugal) The 30-year-old midfielder continues to play at a high level in Monaco, with which he already has 153 games. These must be added to the 140 plays in Porto, 259 plays with Sporting and 94 with Portugal. He also played 17 times with the combined U21 team, and that adds a total of 663 games as a professional without being ejected.

Michel Platini (Nancy, Saint-Étienne, Juventus and France) The three-time winner of the Ballon d'OR played a total of 655 games with his clubs and his selection without being expelled. "Football was more violent than before, and today referees are better protecting players with yellow and red cards, and that's good for the show," he said in 2014. 

Marco Bode (Werder Bremen and Germany) The left wing spent his entire career at Bremen and is now the club's president. FIFA World Cup finalist in 2002, the 1992 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and Bundesliga champion and three times in the German Cup, Bode only saw 13 yellows in 529 matches.

All the trophies

All the trophies

  Here we have all the teams that have won the champions cup.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Club stats

Club stats

Team                   Matches played              Victories         Draw                   Defeats

Dortmund          6                                          4                 2                             0

Barcelona          6                                            5               0                            1

Arsenal               6                                           4                 2                            0

Real Madrid       6                                             3                  3                          0

 

Bayern             6                                         4                    0                          2

 

Paris                  6                                           3                     3                           0

Man. City         6                                              2                     3                          1

Juventus       6                                                   4                    2                       0

The UEFA Champions League trophy

The UEFA Champions League trophy

 Did you know what?

 

  The current UEFA Champions League Trophy is 73.5 cm, weighing 7.5 kg.

  A rule introduced in the 1968/69 edition allowed the cup to be given to clubs that won the competition five times or three consecutively. The club then starts a new zero cycle. Real Madrid CF, AFC Ajax, FC Bayern München, AC Milan, Liverpool FC and FC Barcelona have the original trophy in their showcases.

 

The current trophy is the fifth version of the current design. It was commissioned by UEFA General Secretary Hans Bangerter after Real Madrid was allowed to keep the original in 1967.

  

  It was designed and realized in Bern (near the headquarters of the UEFA) by Hans Bangerter.



    The young Stadelmann stressed that: "My father Hans and I went to Bangerter's office and covered the floor with sketches. He made comments of the type: the Bulgarians will like the bottom part. Italians will prefer this and the Germans will want a little more of this. So we made a kind of puzzle with the design uniting many parts. "

 

  The trophy took 340 hours, with Stadelmann finishing the job in a limited time. "It had to be finished before March 28 because I was getting married and then I was going to do a 10-day boat trip to Los Angeles.I did the most delicate work and the engraver, Fred Bänninger, finished the piece.In time, I can say that I am proud ".

 

The nicknames of the UEFA Champions League teams

The nicknames of the UEFA Champions League teams

Arsenal - 'The Gunners'

The Arsenal was founded by armament industry workers in 1886 in Woolwich, an area of southeast London that was associated with the army. Hence the name of Arsenal, the cannon in the shield, and for the sake of consistency, the nickname.

Atlético - Los Colchoneros 

In the postwar period in Spain, the mattresses had a red and white cloth, making the material cheaper. Atletico abandoned their colors blue and white and soon were nicknamed as the mattresses.

Barcelona - Barça, Blaugranas, CulésBarça is more common, Barça more obvious, but Catalan is more interesting. It is more for the fans, and comes from the history of some spectators who could not find site in the old stadium of 'Les Corts'. Instead they sat on the far wall, exposing the pedestrians to their butt.Bayern - Die Roten (The Red ones)Six years before being an own club in 1900, Bayern was linked to the Münchner Sport-Club to be able to use its field and its facilities. There was only one condition: he had to change his black shirt for a red one. Bayern have since become known as 'die roten'.
Benfica - Eagles (Las Águilas)It comes from the eagle that enumbra the shield of the equipment from 1904, a symbol of authority, independence and notoriety. The club currently has two bald eagles, Vitória (victory) and Glória (glory). Before the home matches one of them flies around the stadium before landing on the club's shield.

 Dortmund - 'Die Schwarz-Gelben' (The black and yellow)The Dortmund used to wear red, white and blue, but changed its colors in 1913 after the lobbying of its president August Busse. Yellow and black were the colors of Britania, a team that had merged with Dortmund a few years earlier. For a time they were known as lemons.

Juventus - 'Vecchia Signora' (The Old Lady)There is some debate about the origin of this nickname, but many believe that comes from the Agnelli family, who bought the club in the 1920s. They wanted to evoke a sophisticated style, 'Juve style', so we opted for the kind of A noble old lady.

Leicester - 'The Foxes'Leicestershire is the cradle of fox hunting (currently illegal in Britain) and the nickname was made in 1920. Players jumped into the field under the motto 'fox never escapes'.Leverkusen - 'Die Werkself'Leverkusen began as a team of pharmaceutical giant Bayer, and was founded in 1904 after the signing of 170 workers.Manchester City - 'Citizens', 'The Sky Blues' (Citizens, Sky Blue)'Citizens' is an extension of 'City' (the members of the club are now known as 'cityzens'). The blue sky comes due to the color of its first equipment. 

Monaco - 'Les Rouges et Blancs' (Los rojiblancos)It is not an overexploited nickname. 'Los rojiblancos' comes from the colors of the club, which borrowed from the flag of the Principality, which in turn were fixed in the heraldic colors of the House of the Grimaldi.Naples - 'Partenopei'Of the old name of the city, Partenopeo. In Greek mythology, Parténope was one of the sirens that threw itself to the sea and died drowned when its song did not manage to attract Ulysses. The name of the city was put in honor to the legend tells that its body was dragged until the small island of Megaride.

Paris Saint-Germain - PSGPublishers eager to avoid repetition call them 'Les Rougues-et-Bleu' (the reds and blues) or 'Les Perisiens' (the Parisians), but French football always likes a good acronym.Oporto - 'Dragões' (dragons)The dragon has been a symbol of Porto since the 19th century, representing the spirit of struggle and invincibility. Porto adopted it in 1992 at the suggestion of the exjugador Augusto Baptista Ferreira.

Real Madrid - MerenguesA Spanish radio commentator began calling them that when he compared the white of the shirt with the merengue. A writer from the British newspaper 'The Times' uses a less common nickname, Vikingos, after comparing the great victory of Madrid 7-3 to the Eintracht Frankfurt in the final of the 1960 European Cup in Glasgow with the Viking invasion in Europe.

Sevilla - PalanganasAnother label of suspicious origin. One explanation is that the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán stadium is reminiscent of a basin. Another says that basins at the beginning of the 20th century were white with a red line, thus recalling the colors of the club.