⚽️ 2023/24 Season - General Football News - Open Thread

Marta has scored more World Cup goals (17) and won more FIFA World Player of the Year awards (6) than any other man or woman in football history.

2023 FIFA Special Award winner. :goat:

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Lionel Messi:

◉ Most Ballon d’Or awards (8)
◉ Most European Golden Shoe awards (6)
◉ Most FIFPRO World 11 appearances (17)
◉ Most FIFA The Best Men’s Player awards (3)
◉ Most FIFA World Cup Golden Ball awards (2)

The G.O.A.T. :goat:

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Lionel Messi has now won The Best FIFA Men’s Player of the Year more times than any other footballer in the award’s history.

◉ 2019
◉ 2022
◉ 2023

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Most FIFPRO Men’s World 11 appearances by player:

17 - Lionel Messi
16
15 - Cristiano Ronaldo
14
13
12
11 - Sergio Ramos
10
9 - Andrés Iniesta

Leo extends his lead with a place in the 2023 team.

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Lionel Messi was sent off for the first time in his club career in the Spanish Super Cup three years ago.

It’s 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 his only red card in 867 games of club football :exploding_head:

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23 years ago, Ronaldinho moved from Grêmio to PSG to start his journey in European football :call_me_hand:

The Brazilian legend on his time in Paris: ‘The only words that come to my mind are joy, joy and joy’

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Birmingham City lost nine of their 15 games under Wayne Rooney’s management.

They’ve now gone three consecutive games unbeaten since his departure.

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Adidas have released the new adidas Predator 24… and they’re beautiful :star_struck:

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Rodri in 2023:

:white_check_mark: Lifted more trophies (6) than games lost (4)
:white_check_mark: Champions League final Player of the Match
:white_check_mark: FIFA Club World Cup Player of the Tournament
:white_check_mark: UEFA Nations League Finals Best Player
:white_check_mark: Ranked 5th in the Men’s Ballon d’Or rankings

He wasn’t named in The Best Men’s FIFA XI :flushed:

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Karim Benzema’s favourite opponents in the Champions League:

◉ 7 goals vs. Liverpool
◉ 6 goals vs. Chelsea
◉ 6 goals vs. Man City

Premier League proven. :wink:

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:brazil: Neymar Jr is the only player in football history to have been in the Top 3 of the Puskás Award three years in a row! :sparkles:

:1st_place_medal: 1st - 2011
:3rd_place_medal: 3rd - 2012
:3rd_place_medal: 3rd - 2013

He was only 19 when he won the Puskás Award. :medal_military:

Greatness! :clap:t4::fire:

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:rotating_light: 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟: Pep Guardiola has won “Best Coach of the Year” at the Globe Soccer Awards. :trophy:

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:rotating_light: Karim Benzema’s lawyer filed a lawsuit against Éric Zemmour for defamation.

The French politician Zemmour had made a link between Karim Benzema and the terrorist organisation that killed professors Dominique Bernard and Samuel Paty.

Éric Zemmour faces one year in prison and a fine of €45,000 if found guilty.

(Source: @RMCsport)

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Erling Haaland wins Best Men’s Player of the Year at the Globe Soccer Awards :trophy::clap:

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The top three clubs Karim Benzema has scored most against in the Champions League are all from the Premier League:

:white_small_square:7 goals vs. Liverpool
:white_small_square:6 goals vs. Chelsea
:white_small_square:6 goals vs. Man City

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Jordan Henderson’s Ajax shirt is already the fastest selling player shirt in the club’s history :hushed:

It’s also worth noting that it’s currently 40% off :tshirt:

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10 years ago today, Chelsea sold Kevin De Bruyne to Wolfsburg for £18 million. He was voted Bundesliga Player of the Season at his first full season at the club. The rest is history.

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It’s been three years since Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 760th goal to become the all-time leading scorer in world football.

Today he has 873 and is still going strong :triumph:

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No Chelsea player, male or female, has scored more goals at Stamford Bridge this season than Lauren James (7) :fire:

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:white_check_mark: 2-0 vs. Utrecht
:white_check_mark: 3-1 vs. Vitesse
:white_check_mark: 4-0 vs. RKC Waalwijk
:white_check_mark: 4-0 vs. NEC Nijmegen
:white_check_mark: 4-0 vs. Almere City
:white_check_mark: 3-0 vs. Go Ahead Eagles
:white_check_mark: 3-1 vs. Volendam
:white_check_mark: 4-0 vs. Sparta Rotterdam
:white_check_mark: 3-1 vs. Fortuna Sittard
:white_check_mark: 5-2 vs. Ajax
:white_check_mark: 6-0 vs. Heracles
:white_check_mark: 4-0 vs. PEC Zwolle
:white_check_mark: 3-0 vs. Twente
:white_check_mark: 2-1 vs. Feyenoord
:white_check_mark: 2-0 vs. Heerenveen
:white_check_mark: 4-0 vs. AZ Alkmaar
:white_check_mark: 3-1 vs. Excelsior
:heavy_minus_sign: 𝟭-𝟭 𝘃𝘀. 𝗨𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗵𝘁

It took 18 matches for PSV to drop their first points in the Eredivisie this season. What a run :exploding_head:

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