Barcelona makes fun of UEFA after questioning the MVP of the day

"Do you mean it?" Questioned the Catalan club through its Twitter account, after the Lionel Messi exhibition.

On Thursday, UEFA published a poll to choose the MVP of the last day of the Champions League. Barcelona, ​​quick reflexes, replied with humor through his Twitter account: "Come on, Champions League, do you mean it?"


After the enormous exhibition of Lionel Messi, in the victory against Liverpool by 3 to 0, in the Catalan club do not doubt about the best player that is chosen after analyzing the two games played in the first leg of the semifinals. Nor do they believe that they should vote.

Come on, @ChampionsLeague! Are you serious? 🤣🤣🤣https://t.co/ktwvslshHx

— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) May 2, 2019

However, from the Twitter account of the Champions League, beyond what the Barça team questioned, they gave four options for voting, two for each match: Frenkie de Jong and Donny van de Beek, for Tottenham-Ajax, and Messi and Luis Suárez, for Barcelona-Liverpool.

UEFA confirmed duel between Chile and the champion of Euro

Prior to the final of the Copa America between Chile and Argentina , the president of CONMEBOL, Alejandro Dominguez , he announced that it had proposed to the UEFA match between the champion of the centenary tournament held in the United States and the winner of the European Championship .

Finally, the governing body of European soccer accepted the realization of this meeting, it was announced honcho through his Twitter account. Yes, emphasizing that missing define the commitment date.

Recibimos respuesta positiva de UEFA sobre el duelo entre campeones de #CopaAmerica y #Euro2016. Estudiaremos fecha viable en conjunto.

— Alejandro Domínguez (@agdws) June 29, 2016

During the day this information was denied, but the Conmebol published a letter from the First Vice President of UEFA,
Angel Maria Villar , which welcomed the opportunity to carry out the duel, although evaluating various aspects. "

I propose that the Conmebol and UEFA study together the feasibility of the party, which would become a footballing milestone soon as possible , "wrote the manager. In this way, Chile would face the champion of the tournament held in France, in a date would be defined.

Duelo de Campeones: CONMEBOL y @UEFA estudiarán fecha viable de disputa https://t.co/f670IvAZ0c pic.twitter.com/sZvNqZ6sSK

— CONMEBOL.com (@CONMEBOL) June 30, 2016

UEFA restates play Euro closed

The attacks in Brussels reopen the debate on the safety of the tournament: "There is a perception of greater risk and less enthusiasm to participate"

Police in the vicinity of Stade de France in Saint Denis - AFP

The bombings in Brussels have relocated safety in focus next European Championship , to be held in France between June 10 and July 10. UEFA issued a statement Tuesday condemning to the action of the terrorists in reaffirming its commitment to putting safety at the center of their plans for the organization of the tournament.

However, hours later, the Italian Giancarlo Abete , vice president of the continental body would back the door to the possibility that certain parties have to play behind closed doors by the terrorist threat: "The Euro is a type of event that no it can be postponed. Not a friendly or an official match isolated that can be canceled or be moved to another date, is not the case. We can not exclude the possibility of playing behind closed doors. "

Speaking to Italian radio station Radio 24 , Abete acknowledged the difficulties by raising a Euro marked in advance for attacks like those in Paris in November or Brussels yesterday: "There is a perception of greater risk and less enthusiasm for participating in a spirit positive".

Delayed or canceled

At the same time, the French Interior Minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, insisted Tuesday that security levels during Euro will be "extremely high". Manuel Valls also, French Prime Minister, appeared to ensure that there is no risk of cancellation of Euro "Suspend it would be a defeat or delay. t would be a defeat. The terrorist threat is unmatched breadth and means that we provide to fight it must keep up".

The tournament organizers last month announced the hiring of 10,000 security people, including 900 policemen for each of the 51 games scheduled.

Spain debut in the European Championship on June 13 in Toulouse, in the Czech Republic. On June 17 it will face Turkey in Nice and close its participation in the first phase on June 21, in Bordeaux and against Croatia.

The TAS continues to suspend Platini, which could be expanded to "several years"

Michel Platini , threatened with a lifetime ban by the domestic courts of FIFA, received on Friday a double whammy: the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) maintained its current provisional suspension and spokesman of the Ethics Committee of FIFA predicted for him a sentence of "several years".

The ability to run for the presidential elections of February 26 moments away by Platini, who was considered the favorite to succeed Joseph Blatter, resigned and currently provisionally suspended for a long time.

Platini did not hide his anger at the words of spokesman to the daily L'Equipe on Friday.

When asked by the French sports newspaper, which published the answers on their website, Andreas Bantel, spokesman for the Ethics Committee of FIFA, was confident that there will be a tough sanction against the president of UEFA, "Platini will surely be suspended several years".

"As for Blatter, no difference for him between several years and a lifetime ban," he added Bantel.

- "Anger and dismay" -

In a statement sent to AFP, Platini, UEFA president, and his lawyers expressed their "anger and dismay at the statements of Mr. Andreas Bantel", estimating that constitute "a flagrant violation of the presumption of innocence and demonstrate the political objective They pursued by the Ethics Committee of FIFA, for whom the debate and contradictory statement that she has set for December 18 are clearly not of any use. "

8 for FIFA presidency race

Official candidates for the FIFA presidency from top left: former Trinidad and Tobago's football player David Nakhid, UEFA secretary general Gianni Infantino, AFC President Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, former FIFA deputy general secretary Jerome Champagne, Liberia FA chairman Musa Bility, FIFA vice president for Asia Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan, Chairman of the FIFA monitoring committee for Israel and Palestine Tokyo Sexwale and UEFA President Michel Platini . PHOTO: AFP

Jordanian Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein, the 39-year-old brother of Jordan's King Abdullah who was the only adversary to Blatter at the previous election in May this year and can boast that he took the veteran Swiss to a second round of voting before withdrawing.

French former diplomat Jerome Champagne, 57, spent 11 years working for FIFA between 1999 and 2010. Unlike his previous bid in May, he has managed to get the necessary five signatures from national associations.

But he appears to lack the necessary clout, a problem also faced by David Nakhid, the former Trinidad and Tobago captain who once played for Swiss side Grasshoppers. In addition, Liberian FA chief Musa Bility confirmed to AFP on Monday that he had entered the race.

A heavyweight candidate to come forward is Tokyo Sexwale, the 62-year-old South African anti-apartheid campaigner who was once jailed alongside Nelson Mandela, serving 13 years of an 18-year sentence on Robben Island on terrorism charges.

Bahrain's Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim al Khalifa and UEFA General Secretary Gianni Infantino blew the race to succeed Sepp Blatter as FIFA president wide open on Monday as they announced their bids. Infantino's announcement would appear to place Platini, who is currently serving a 90-day ban as investigations continue into a 1.8 million euro (S$2.77 million) payment received from FIFA in 2011 without a written contract, in an uncomfortable position.

Asian football chief Shaikh Salman pledged to get the scandal-tainted FIFA organisation "back on the right track", but the biggest shock-waves were created by the multilingual Infantino, who has the "full backing" of UEFA's Executive Committee.

Messi, Ronaldo and Suárez for the best player award in Europe

Winner will be announced on August 27, during the draw of the Champions League group phase

UEFA announced on Wednesday (12), the list of nominees for the award for best player of Europe in season 2014-15. Among the 35 named by journalists, Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Luis Suárez achieved more points and now await the announcement of August 27, date of the draw of the Champions League group stage.

Among the three nominees, only Suarez has not won the prize. Messi won the award in 2011, the year of the first edition of the appointment, and Ronaldo was elected last year. The other winners were Andrés Iniesta in 2012 and Franck Ribéry in 2013.

Brazil had only two listed in the previous polls: Neymar, who finished fifth, and Roberto Firmino, who finished 28th.

For the award, journalists from each of the 54 federations that are members of UEFA present a list of their five nominees. Thus, the first receive five points, the second four, and so on. The ten top rated players went to a second vote, which determined the three finalists.

Check out the other positions of the Top 10:

4 Gianluigi Buffon (Italy - Juventus) 24 points 

5 Neymar (Brazil - Barcelona) 23 points 

6 Eden Hazard (Belgium - Chelsea) 21 points 

7 Andrea Pirlo (Italy - Juventus) 12 points 

8 Arturo Vidal (Chile - Juventus, now Bayern Munich) 11 points 

9 Carlos Tevez (Argentina - Juventus, now Boca Juniors) 8 points 

10 Paul Pogba (France - Juventus) 5 points

In total, 35 players received votes in the initial election:

11 Arjen Robben (Netherlands - Bayern Munich) 

12 Manuel Neuer (Germany - Bayern Munich) 

13 Carlos Bacca (Colombia - Sevilla, now Milan) 

14 Andrés Iniesta (Spain - Barcelona) 

14 Álvaro Morata (Spain - Juventus) 

14 Thomas Müller (Germany - Bayern Munich) 

17 Kevin De Bruyne (Belgium - Wolfsburg) 

Zlatan Ibrahimović 18 (Sweden - Paris Saint-Germain) 

19 Gareth Bale (Wales - Real Madrid) 

19 André-Pierre Gignac (France - Olympique Marseille, now Mexico Tigers) 

21 Robert Lewandowski (Poland - Bayern Munich) 

21 Ivan Rakitić (Croatia - Barcelona) 

23 Jérôme Boateng (Germany - Bayern Munich) 

23 Xavi Hernández (Spain - Barcelona now Al-Sadd of Qatar) 

23 Jackson Martínez (Colombia - FC Porto, now Atletico Madrid) 

23 Javier Mascherano (Argentina - Barcelona) 

23 Alexis Sánchez (Chile - Arsenal) 

28 Giorgio Chiellini (Italy - Juventus) 

28 Roberto Firmino ( Brazil - Hoffenheim, now Liverpool) 

28 Nemanja Matić (Serbia - Chelsea) 

28 Arkadiusz Milik (Poland - Ajax) 

28 Nicolás Otamendi (Argentina - Valencia) 

28 Sergio Ramos (Spain - Real Madrid) 

28 Marc-André ter Stegen (Germany - Barcelona ) 

28 Arda Turan (Turkey - Atletico Madrid, now Barcelona)

UEFA Super Cup Winners

Here are all the teams who won the European Super Cup: