European Football Leagues 2012-13 [Spain/France/Italy/Germany/other]

Its not only the goals, it's the goal scoring opportunities he creates for team mates that is staggering too. I have no idea what his assist count is for the year, but I bet it's better than those chasing him.

That's the funny thing about him, he's not your typical one dimensional forward who gets fed for all his goals.

I think I even saw a stat which read he had scored more goals in this calendar year than the likes of Liverpool and a few others.
 
What a monster Messi is, just has this penchant to score goals at will. Watched the game against Betis and thought its only a matter of time before he scores and either equals or beats it. Glad he beat the record though, hes won just about everything on the domestic stage, just needs a WC to complete the full monty.

I kinda feel sorry for Ronaldo, playing in an era where Messi is literally god like. But unlike Ronaldo who scores most of the goals for RM, without him RM would be truly screwed imho. Messi not only scores for fun but also makes plenty of chances for the other Barca players to get in on the act as well.

Forgetting about Messi for one minute, dear god Falcao scoring 5 goals:eek:...hes another star in the making, some of the goals he's scored have been immense...the flying header for the 6th or 5th goal was sublime.
 
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Udinese traveled to Genoa for their match against Sampdoria on Monday and one man showed up to support them in the otherwise empty visitor's section. Whether that man happened to be a local Udinese supporter or the only person who made the 600-mile round trip to follow his club isn't clear, but he was there and he was apparently the only one.

His presence was such a delight to the home supporters that instead of abusing him as football fans tend to do with larger visiting crowds, they cheered him and he gave them a wave.

His effort proved well worth it though, as Udinese won 2-0.
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He was there because of work, and he even had to register himself (Italy have this system where fans have to register). The stadium staff offered him to go in another section, but he wanted to get what he paid for, the visitor's section. Its good to notice that after the game, some Doria fans went to congratulate him for being the only one to see his team.

The Sampdoria chairman gave him Eder's shirt, as a sign of gratitude for seeing the game (even though he is an Udinese fan).

When he went in the fans area and he noticed that he was alone, he shouted 'FORZA RAGAZZI' and Di Natale heard him, and told him to go and warm up with them (obviously as a joke).
 
I support Juve and the reason 90% of stadiums in italy are less than half full is because they have really really old stadiums and a lot of them have olympic style tracks which makes it harder for the fans to see, Juve are the only italian club that actually own their own stadium.

The rest are owned by the council in the city and the clubs have to pay the council rent to use it, i think AC Milan pay over 10 million euro's to rent it a year which is another reason italian teams cant spend like England.

Fair play to that 1 fan it just sums up italian stadium attendances in italy to much corruption in italy for anyone to give damn.
 
He's such a hero:

Brovedani, a wine merchant by trade, himself told the Udine Today supporters’ site:

“I was in Genoa for a work meeting and usually take a trip round the area around this time of year, but it was pure coincidence Udinese were playing there at the same time. So I took advantage and organised a ticket.

“If I am in a city where Udinese happen to be playing, clients tend to send me free tickets, as they know my passion for the team. This time it wasn’t possible and I had to sort it out myself.

“It wasn’t easy, as I had to buy a ‘Fan Passport’ to buy a ticket for an away game and it takes 18 days to go through, so I wrote to Sampdoria in order to make sure it would be alright and they were very helpful.

“I made the journey to Genoa, arrived at the stadium and only then did I realise I was the only Udinese fan there! At that point the stewards asked if I wanted to sit in the main stand, but I insisted on going into the away end, seeing as I had paid for that ticket.

“I had the Udinese flag with me, as I carry it everywhere in my car. The Samp fans applauded me after we scored and they were really very kind.”

Brovedani also said that Udinese captain Antonio Di Natale had jokingly invited him down from the stands to warm-up for the game with the players after catching a lone “Forza Udinese” chant wafting down from on high.

He was also given coffee by stadium stewards, with the Sampdoria higher-ups also giving him a Sampdoria shirt for his efforts! It’s also being reported that a large group of Samp fans invited Brovedani for a drink with them after the game.

As for Brovedani’s own club; Udinese have formally dedicated the victory to their lone hero and have issued him with free admittance to watch their upcoming fixture against Palermo from the comfort and warmth of the directors’ box.
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lucarocks92 said:
I support Juve and the reason 90% of stadiums in italy are less than half full is because they have really really old stadiums and a lot of them have olympic style tracks which makes it harder for the fans to see, Juve are the only italian club that actually own their own stadium.

The rest are owned by the council in the city and the clubs have to pay the council rent to use it, i think AC Milan pay over 10 million euro's to rent it a year which is another reason italian teams cant spend like England.

Fair play to that 1 fan it just sums up italian stadium attendances in italy to much corruption in italy for anyone to give damn.
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While you bring up some good points, you bring up also some horrible points.

It is true that Juve are the only team that have their own stadium. It is also true that one of the reasons teams can't spend is because of the rent, but the rest is pure BS.

While there are a few stadiums that have a track, it doesn't really change a whole lot in terms of view. I know people who went in the Stadio Olimpico, and they stayed in the Curva Sud, and they could see just fine.

Also, the stadiums are only full in places like England is because of the foreigners. the majority of the people who come are non-locals, when in italy, you do not get that much non-Italians.

The juve stadium is small, that is why its always full lol. it has a capacity of 40k people. just to put you into perspective, Stadio Olimpico seats just over 80k people. Last league game (vs Fiorentina) there were 50k people, hardly full, but more than what the Juventus stadium can hold.

Also, the Udinese game was on a Monday, at 6pm. Not many people can travel over 200km on a weekday. Apart from that, the weather is terrible atm, which doesn't encourage people to go to games.

Also about the corruption. Seriously? Italian football (and all football) has been corrupt for ages. In the 80s it was corrupt, but there were many stars playing in Italy, so people cared. Now, not much is going on, so people don't really care about it. heck, look at France. not many people cared about it a few years ago, but not that P$G are in there, with their money, then people start to care.
 
The__Malteser said:
Also about the corruption. Seriously? Italian football (and all football) has been corrupt for ages. In the 80s it was corrupt, but there were many stars playing in Italy, so people cared. Now, not much is going on, so people don't really care about it.
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Yeah, it's not like Italian football is going through yet another match fixing scandel is it (6 years after the last one)...
 
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