Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah will compete with Barcelona’s Lionel Messi and Juventus’ Cristiano Ronaldo for UEFA’s award for best Champions League forward, while his new teammate Alisson is up for the top goalkeeper award. Salah scored 10 goals in the 2017-18 competition to help Liverpool into the final, where they were beaten by Real Madrid. Cristiano […]

Inter Milan vice president Javier Zanetti has laughed off suggestions his club are preparing a bid for Lionel Messi in response to Juventus’ signing of Cristiano Ronaldo. Marco Tronchetti Provera, the CEO of Pirelli, one of Inter’s main sponsors, suggested earlier this week that Inter’s owners would consider a move for Messi in response to […]

Neymar is the biggest omission as Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Mohamed Salah headline The Best FIFA Men’s Player 2018 nominees. The 10-man shortlist was selected by a Fifa panel of experts, including Ronaldo Nazario and Frank Lampard. Voting begins on 24 July and ends on 10 August. It would be decided by four voting panels, […]

Croatia coach Zlatko Dalic has said his side have already “managed to stop Messi” and so can cope with England’s Harry Kane in Wednesday’s semi-final. The teams meet in Moscow to compete for a place in the 15 July final after Dalic’s side overcame hosts Russia on Saturday. Dalic identified top-scorer Kane and Raheem Sterling […]

A Russian man has filed for divorce after a fight with his wife over whether Lionel Messi is better than Cristiano Ronaldo. According to a report in newspaper Argumento I Fakti, the football-mad couple — named only as Arsen and Lyudmila — fell out when Arsen celebrated Argentina’s victory over Nigeria, reports Mirror UK. Arsen […]

Diego Maradona has attacked Lionel Messi following Argentina’s exit from the World Cup. Messi played an ineffectual role for most of the 4-3 defeat to Argentina on Saturday. The Barcelona star played as a false nine with Cristian Pavon and Angel Di Maria either side of him. It meant centre-forwards Gonzalo Higuain, Paulo Dybala and […]

Harry Kane has a similar influence on England as Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo do for their respective countries, says Jamie Redknapp. Argentina forward Messi and Portugal’s Ronaldo endured miserable World Cup exits on Saturday, but both will still be regarded as the inspiration behind their teams. With Kane set to be recalled for England’s […]

Super Eagles goalkeeper Ikechukwu Ezenwa is excited getting Lionel Messi’s match shirt after the team lost 1-2 to Argentina at the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Messi and Marcos Rojo netted for the South Americans in the game with Victor Moses’s spot kick giving the West Africans their lone goal. The Nigeria Professional Football League […]

Argentina forward Lionel Messi does not need to win the World Cup to be considered an all-time great, says former striker Hernan Crespo. Messi, 30, had a penalty saved in Argentina’s 1-1 draw with Iceland in their opening game in Russia. He has won 32 titles and five Ballons d’Or in 14 seasons at Barcelona, […]

Argentina legend Diego Maradona has absolved Lionel Messi of blame after the Albiceleste captain missed a penalty in the country’s 1-1 draw against Iceland in their Group D encounter in Moscow on Saturday, at the Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup. The South Americans dominated proceedings for the major part of the game against the debutants […]