la liga 2012-13
Lionel Messi has always been the world's greatest player since 2009 when he won his first Ballon d'Or. This year he looks to make it four in a row and his year has indicated that this is certainly possible. If he wins the award, he becomes the first player in history to earn the award and questions about whether he is best player ever will certainly heat up.
Andres Iniesta is having arguably the best year of his career.
Radamel Falcao has brought Colombia back to the fore in International Soccer and made Atletico Madrid relevant in the Spanish League.
Who is better? Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi? The two greatest living soccer players not only compete in the same league but for rival squads. Messi has had the edge over Ronaldo the last few years as Barcelona has been the supreme squad in European soccer, but Ronaldo may be having the best year of his career.
Cristiano Ronaldo is undoubtedly going to end up on the top three list this season. In fact, he is one of the favorites to take the trophy in many people's books after a tremendous season that included winning the Spanish League Championship and also leading Portugal to the semi-finals in the 2012 Euro Cup.
Only one goalkeeper has ever won the Ballon d'Or in the award's history. Lev Yashin, perhaps the greatest keeper in the history of the sport won the award in 1963.
However, if there is ever going to be a keeper to match this feat it will be Spain's Iker Casillas who had a monumental 2012.
Read Madrid has gotten over their early season slump, but now Cristiano Ronaldo has entered into one of his own.
Barcelona suffered its first major defeat of the season when it dropped a 2-1 decision to Celtic in the Champions League.
Sergio Busquets obtained his first Ballon d'Or nomination after providing numerous years of solid play for both Barcelona and the Spanish national team.
With this year's nomination for the 2012 Ballon D'Or, Frenchman Karim Benzema has now been nominated for the prestigious award two years in a row.
Spain's best team has had a mediocre UCL thus far after barely squeaking past Celtic at home two weeks ago.
Group F is one of the tightest groups with three teams tied for first with six points. Even a win will do little to guarantee much for either team in the Valencia- BATE Borisov match.
Ronaldo's streak of consecutive goals in games for Real Madrid ended in Saturday's 4-0 thrashing of Real Zaragoza. But he needs to start a new one as soon as possible as his team takes on one of its biggest challenges in weeks.
AC Milan picked up some much needed steam after winning 5-1 over Chievo this past weekend and will to carry it over to the UCL.
Who is better? Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi? The two greatest living soccer players not only compete in the same league but for rival squads.
