WHY BARCELONA LOST TO REAL MADRID.

There is no doubt that Barcelona are still a very strong side in the Spanish League. But the main reason they lost the Spanish title to their arch rivals Real Madrid , by a margin of seven points was mainly due to the long time injury of the star striker from Barcelona, David villa, he has missed almost the entire season and may also miss the EURO 2012. If Real Madrid has missed out Cristiano Ronaldo for the same period of time , then the title winners would have been some one else. But the good news for Barcelona was that Lionel Messi scored a total of 72 goals for Barcelona , breaking the 1972 record of 68 goals set by Gerd Muller at Bayern Munich.

MESSI BREAKS MULLERS EUROPEN RECORD.

Lionel Messi the footballer from Argentina , who plays his club football with the Spanish giants Barcelona . Has set a new European record for scoring 68 goals in one season. He has now broken Gert Mullers record of 67 goals , which he scored for Bayern Munich in 1972/1973. So the record has stood for 39 long years.And with two games remaining the number could very well increase , or he may be given a rest to be fresh for the Copa del Rey final match. But we must take into account that Muller has a far better goal average compared to Lionel Messi here.

ONLY PLAYER TO SCORE IN EACH MATCH OF A WORLD CUP.

The Brazilian winger Jairzino is the only footballer ever to score a goal in each of the matches he played in the 1970 world cup , in Mexico. Brazil won the world cup then making it their third in the Pele era. No footballer has been able to do this from the time the world cup started in 1930.
But strangely he did not win the golden boot in the 1970 world cup. That year the boot went to Gert Muller of West Germany who scored 10 goals.
Jarzino is alsp the person who discovered Ronaldo Lima at a very small club and got him to Gremio. It was from here he went to P.S.V. Eindhoven taken by Sir Bobby Robson, and then to Barcelona as well.

TOP GOAL SCORERSIN EUROPEN COMPETION.

Raul of Spain and Real Madrid equalled the number of goals scored by the Italian Fillippo Inzaghi which is 64 goals.
1) Fillippo Inzaghi . Italy , and A.C.Milan. 64 goals.
2) Raul Gonsalves . Spain and Real Madrid. 64 goals.
3) Gert Muller. West Germany. 62 goals.
4) Andriy Shevchenko. Ukraine. A.C.Milan 61 goals.
5)Ruud Van Niistelrooy.Holland. Real Madrid. 60 goals.
6)Eusibo.. Portugal. Benfica. 56 goals.
7)Henrik Larsson. Sweeden. Helsingborg. 56 goals.
TOP SCORERSIN CL/ EUROPEN CUP SINCE1956.
1) Raul Gonsalves Spain . Real Madrid. 62 goals.
2) Ruud Van Nistelrooy Holland. Real Madrid. 60 goals.
3) Andriy Shevchenko . Ukraine. A.C.Milan. 56 goals.
4Alfredo Di Stefano. Argentina. Spain .Real Madrid .49.