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  • Lionel Messi Scored More Than 43 Teams Last Season

    Lionel Messi Scored More Than 43 Teams Last Season

    Taking into account the top 5 leagues in Europe – Premier League, Serie A, La Liga, Bundesliga and Ligue 1, Lionel Messi scored more than 43 different teams last season. He finished with 46 league goals for Barcelona.

  • Liverpool FC – Daniel Sturridge Setting Scoring Records

    Liverpool FC – Daniel Sturridge Setting Scoring Records

    By scoring his 7th goals of the season for Liverpool, Daniel Sturridge has beaten a long list of fantastic strikers who have suited up for the club by reaching 20 scores for the team since joining the faster than anyone else, proving just how prolific he is, and can be in the promising future.

  • Robin van Persie, Greatest Netherlands Scorer in History

    Robin van Persie, Greatest Netherlands Scorer in History

    It’s quite unlikely that Robin van Persie will be remembered as the greatest Dutch player in history, but he does have one historic mark to his name, making it to 41 goals for the Netherlands national team, becoming the all-time leading scorer for the Oranje.

  • 2012-2013 Top Scorers in Europe’s Top Leagues

    2012-2013 Top Scorers in Europe’s Top Leagues

    Like in every season, the tracking of top scorers around Europe’s best football leagues is all about seeing if anyone can get close to the incredible scoring numbers Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo produce year after year. Alas, no one was good enough to top the usual top two.

  • FC Barcelona – Lionel Messi Scores More Than Entire Teams

    FC Barcelona – Lionel Messi Scores More Than Entire Teams

    The scoring machine that is Lionel Messi never ceases to amaze when new numbers and recognition as to how great his achievements are keep coming out. The Barcelona star has scored 21 goals so far this season in 14 matches; that puts him above 44 teams in the top 4 leagues of Europe up to this point. The list will probably be longer at the end of the season.

  • Records and Milestones in the 2011-2012 NBA Season

    Is there a way to define the 2011-2012 NBA Season? Short? LeBron James got himself a milestone or two, while NBA coaches like Popovich and Thibodeau set wins milestones as well. Above all was Kobe Bryant, moving up the all-time scoring list, smashing franchise records for the Lakers while putting names like Kareem and West behind him. Even Michael Jordan.

  • 2011-2012 Top Scorers in Europe’s Top Leagues

    All the major leagues in Europe have concluded their business, so we decided to check if there was anyone alive good enough to tickle the scoring heroics of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, racing through the record books for another season. These are the best the English Premier League, Spanish La Liga, German Bundesliga, Italian Serie A and French Ligue 1 had to offer.

  • Lionel Messi Doesn’t Have Many Goal Scoring Records Left to Break

    Lionel Messi keeps can’t stop scoring, reaching 60 goals in all competitions for Barcelona this season after bagging a brace against Zaragoza, becoming the first player in Europe to score 60 since Gerd Muller, who played for Bayern Munich, in the 1972-1973 season.

  • Who Said Deron Williams Isn’t Motivated Playing for the Nets?

    Deron Williams isn’t exactly in the situation he wished to be. Playing for a team with no playoff prospects and an owner who’s more busy with Russian politics. Williams is still putting up impressive numbers, but nothing came close to his explosion against the Charlotte Bobcats, scoring a franchise record 57 points as the New Jersey Nets won 104-101.

  • Paul Makes Clippers Better Team Than Lakers Despite Bryant

    Kobe Bryant is pretty much unstoppable right now, and so were the Lakers over the last 10 days, until they met the Los Angeles Clippers. Bryant may be scoring over 40 points a game this past week, but the Clippers, with an one fire Chris Paul (33 points) are simply the best team in LA right now, winning 102-94.