Lionel Messi and Carlos Tevez To India

Lionel Messi and his Argentina team mates will travel to India later this year to take on Venezuela in a friendly designed to boost football on the subcontinent.
The FIFA-sanctioned game is scheduled for September 2 in the eastern city of Kolkata and the Argentinian squad will then travel to Bangladesh where they will take on Nigeria, the Press Trust of India (PTI) newsagency reported.

"The Argentina Football Association has indeed signed a contract to bring in the full-strength squad including Messi and Carlos Tevez among others," Bhaskar Goswami of the Celebrity Management Group was quoted as saying by PTI.
"The contract guarantees their participation."
The Argentina squad will land in Kolkata on August 30 and will take part in a number of events, including a charity programme.
It was undecided if world player of the year Messi, whose club side Barcelona begin their La Liga title defence the day before, would fly out with his Argentina team mates or join the tour later.
After the Kolkata outing, the Argentine group will travel to Dhaka for another friendly against Nigeria on September 6, the report said.

EUROPEAN GOLDEN BOOT 2010 - 2011 | A TWO HORSE RACE - MESSI vs RONALDO

SPANISH FOOTBALL SPORTS is answering here a few emails from readers asking how things are going so far in the race for this seasons European Golden Ball Award. Well with 6 Rounds left to go,  more or less,  in local competitions ( or at least with the Spanish League ), FC Barcelona player LIONEL MESSI is currently on Top with 30 goals.

The Argentine is closely followed by Real Madrid player

CRISTIANO RONALDO OR LIONEL MESSI | WHO IS CURRENTLY THE SPANISH LEAGUE TOP GOAL SCORER?

Who is currently the leading Spanish Football League - La Liga - leading Goal scorer? 


You may think that it is strange that such a question be asked if the statistics are recorded & followed strictly, but no, there is "controversy, & so much that it could play a vital role at the end of the season to decide which player receives the prestigious "EL PICHICHI" Award.

At the moment it´s a two

HUMOUR | FAN LOSES HIS PANTS OVER LIONEL MESSI AT BARCELONA AIRPORT

Here is a light humour post to give you a true human story. Let me put you in the picture.

LIONEL MESSI returned to Barcelona today from Zurich where the night before he played for Argentina in a Friendly International against Portugal. All fine & normal up to this point.

At the Airport the famous World Nº1 Football player grabbed the attention of a fan, a zealous fan at that, who followed