Barcelona president Laporta declares Messi greatest EVER
Barcelona president Joan Laporta declared Lionel Messi the greatest EVER after his hat-trick against Real Zaragoza.
Messi again lit up Barca with a thrilling hat-trick last night.
"He's the best player in the world and the history of football. Along with [Johan] Cruyff and [Diego] Maradona he is the best we've seen in Barcelona," Laporta told Canal +.
"He's played a great match, he is a football genius and he plays for the team. He is the leader of Barcelona. Also he thinks about his team-mates after he handed the penalty to [Zlatan] Ibrahimovic to score."
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| Home | Away | Score | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri Feb 17th | |||
| Hoffenheim | Mainz 05 | - | 19:30 |
| Hannover 96 | Stuttgart | - | 23:00 |
| Bayer Leverkusen | Augsburg | - | 23:00 |
| Hertha BSC | Borussia Dortmund | - | 23:00 |
| Hamburger SV | Werder Bremen | - | 23:00 |
| Freiburg | Bayern München | - | 23:00 |
| Nürnberg | Köln | - | 23:00 |
| Schalke 04 | Wolfsburg | - | 23:00 |
| Kaiserslautern | Borussia M'gladbach | - | 23:00 |
| Sat Feb 18th | |||
| Hannover 96 | Stuttgart | - | 00:00 |
| Hoffenheim | Mainz 05 | - | 00:00 |
| Schalke 04 | Wolfsburg | - | 00:00 |
| Bayer Leverkusen | Augsburg | - | 14:30 |
| Nürnberg | Köln | - | 14:30 |
| Hertha BSC | Borussia Dortmund | - | 14:30 |
| Hamburger SV | Werder Bremen | - | 14:30 |
| Kaiserslautern | Borussia M'gladbach | - | 14:30 |
| Freiburg | Bayern München | - | 17:30 |
| Sun Feb 19th | |||
| Schalke 04 | Wolfsburg | - | 14:30 |
| Hannover 96 | Stuttgart | - | 16:30 |
Tables
| Team | P | W | D | L | GD | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Borussia Dortmund | 21 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 32 | 46 |
| Bayern Munchen | 21 | 14 | 2 | 5 | 35 | 44 |
| Borussia M'gladbach | 21 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 22 | 43 |
| Schalke 04 | 21 | 13 | 2 | 6 | 18 | 41 |
| Werder Bremen | 21 | 9 | 6 | 6 | -1 | 33 |
| Bayer Leverkusen | 21 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 31 |
| Hannover 96 | 21 | 7 | 10 | 4 | -2 | 31 |
| Wolfsburg | 21 | 8 | 3 | 10 | -11 | 27 |
| Stuttgart | 21 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 26 |
| Hamburger SV | 21 | 6 | 8 | 7 | -8 | 26 |
| Hoffenheim | 21 | 6 | 7 | 8 | -2 | 25 |
| Koln | 21 | 7 | 3 | 11 | -12 | 24 |
| Mainz 05 | 21 | 5 | 8 | 8 | -6 | 23 |
| Nurnberg | 21 | 6 | 4 | 11 | -12 | 22 |
| Hertha BSC | 21 | 4 | 8 | 9 | -11 | 20 |
| Kaiserslautern | 21 | 3 | 9 | 9 | -11 | 18 |
| Augsburg | 21 | 3 | 9 | 9 | -14 | 18 |
| Freiburg | 21 | 4 | 5 | 12 | -20 | 17 |
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Comments (21)
Visca Barça , visca Catalunya //*//
Marc Sabatés
To be as good as Maradona and other big names of all time, he must prove himself in the international level. I'm a fan of Argentina. But, Messi must give a goodbye kiss to the Fifa Player of the Year as they won't win it. Although he is a real genius when playing at Barca, he showed no class or contribution when their qualification to the world cup was hanging in a thread. Ppl should rather be realistic and expect him to be named again for the 2011-2012 when his Barca team does something special.
Balugrana - take you barcelona specs off. Messi is a great player absolutely but to say that the likes of C. Ronaldo and Rooney aren't great players is rather childish. If that were the case then barcelona have not had a "great" player since ronaldo when he was young. this is of course nonsence. xavi, iniesta, guardiola, ronaldinho, rivaldo, enrique, are or were great players. henry was a great player at arsenal for several years. rooney is a great player as has been ronaldo, scholes, beckham, keane, stam, ferdinand, cantona, robson at Man United.
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