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5 Reasons Why Real Madrid Will Win the Champions League
After two straight seasons of being halted at the semifinal, it’s time Real Madrid come through and reach the Champions League final for the first time in over a decade. With Cristiano Ronaldo playing better than anyone in the world, not to mention scoring on every big occasion, there’s no reason that Jose Mourinho doesn’t get the chance to become the first manager with three trophies for three different clubs.
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10 Highest Paid Footballers in 2013
Of the 10 biggest earners in world football over the last 12 months, we have two players from Manchester City (Sergio Aguero, Yaya Toure), two from Real Madrid (Kaka, Cristiano Ronaldo) and one from each of the following: Galatasaray (Didier Drogba), Santos (Neymar), Chelsea (Fernando Torres), Manchester United (Wayne Rooney), Barcelona (Lionel Messi) and Paris Saint-Germain (David Beckham).
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Cristiano Ronaldo Will Never be as Loved as Lionel Messi
Every time Real Madrid visit Bilbao to play against Athletic, Cristiano Ronaldo gets the awkward, abusive treatment from fans and players. No matter who good he’ll be and how much there will be an attempt to change his image, which has gone a long way from his early days in Spain, it’ll never be on par with the way Lionel Messi is treated.
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Real Madrid – Cristiano Ronaldo Still Wants the Pichichi
Individual awards mean something to Cristiano Ronaldo, especially when he keeps missing out on them. So while Real Madrid are still formally on the chase after the La Liga leaders, Cristiano Ronaldo himself remains in the hunt for the Pichichi, the scoring trophy for Spain’s top scorer, hoping that a late season surge while Lionel Messi remains benched and rested helps him narrow the gap.
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Bayern Munich & Borussia Dortmund Simply Too Good for Bundesliga
It might be a tad fitting that Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich are going to play Real Madrid & Barcelona in the Champions League, because the way the Bundesliga is playing out this season and in the past few years, the distance in quality and ability between the two clubs and the rest of the competition might be getting to the levels of the traditional La Liga powerhouses have over their local opponents.
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Cristiano Ronaldo Has to Win the Champions League With Real Madrid
Coming up with the image of a younger, slimmer, different Cristiano Ronaldo during the Manchester United portion of his career is getting harder and harder to do. The image of the beefier, better version of him, scoring goals for Real Madrid, has almost erased the achievements and titles he won during his Premier League days, including the Champions League trophy.
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Ranking the Favorites to win the Champions League
If you believe in UEFA conspiracies, it seems like the ruler of European football want us to have an all-German or all-Spanish Champions League final, putting Bayern Munich with Barcelona and Real Madrid with Borussia Dortmund in the semifinals.
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Champions League – All 4 Teams in the Semifinals
Only two nations, probably the best in Europe over the last few seasons, will be represented in the semifinals of the 2012-2013 Champions League. Spain, sending its two giants, Real Madrid and Barcelona, while Germany and the ever improving Bundesliga present Bayern Munich and Dortmund.
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Chelsea FC – The 2014 Shopping List
If certain tabloids are to be believed, Jose Mourinho is going to return to the post he left over six years ago and become the manager of Chelsea once again, bringing an impressive shortlist of players with him, led by Hulk, who currently plays for Zenit, and Radamel Falaco of Atletico Madrid.
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Cristiano Ronaldo Scores Just as Much as Lionel Messi
While last season may have been a more evident team effort from Real Madrid, this season it’s all about the scoring ability of Cristiano Ronaldo, showing his usual clinical finishing in Istanbul to send his team through into the Champions League semifinals for a third consecutive season, while proving a point about his goal scoring rivalry with Lionel Messi, showing he can be just as efficient.