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You may not have heard of Josef Bican before, but he's the man Cristiano Ronaldo just equaled as highest goal scorer in history. On Sunday night, five-time Ballon d'Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo scored a goal for Juventus vs Sassuolo - his 759th career goal - tieing Bican's record. Bican is a Czech striker who played for Austria during his career - he counts a total of 730 club goals and 29 national team goals.  The 35-year-old is officially past legends like Romario and Pele with his goal tally. Juventus' victory over Sassuolo on Sunday night lifted them to fourth place in the Serie A charts. Ronaldo only needs one more goal to become the highest scoring player ever. The players with the most official goals in football history are: 1.      Cristiano Ronaldo - 759 2.    Josef Bican - 759 3.    Pele - 757.

Martin Cardetti says he prefers Brazil prodigy and former Paris Saint-Germain team-mate Ronaldinho to Barcelona legend Lionel Messi. Cadetti and Ronaldinho played together at PSG before the latter's transfer to Barcelona in 2003. Cadetti told  Crack Deportivo : As a coach, for my team I would choose Ronaldinho at his best over Messi. "I shared a year with Ronaldinho and he is a different player, he's touched by God. "He always had fun; with the ball he was always doing things and he practiced a lot so that he could replicate those things in matches." The Argentinian added: "You see him in training, in matches and every move he makes is different from everyone. "Players like him appear very rarely and they are remembered in football history. "I'm proud to have been a team-mate of that kind of player." Ronaldinho has won the 2005 Ballon d'Or, World Cup, Champions League and La Liga among other honors. Messi has also enjoye...

After an unfruitful, devastating night for Barcelona at Anfield yesterday, Barcelona striker Luis Suarez said his side "looked like schoolboys" after Liverpool overturned Barcelona's 3-0 first leg lead and won the game on aggregate to advance to the Champions League finals. Barcelona repeated the same mistakes they made last year, throwing away a three-goal first leg lead; last year in a quarter-final second leg in Rome, and now in the semi-final return leg at Anfield. Spanish media have labelled the defeat "The biggest farce in football" and "The blackest page in Barcelona's history". The Reds won 4-0 at Anfield, with Divock Origi converting a quick corner from Trent Alexander-Arnold into the winner Liverpool needed. "We have to be ready for all the criticism that is going to rain down on us now," former Liver player Suarez said. "We are very sad, we are in a lot of pain." "It cannot be that in a minute we conce...

FC Barcelona's captain Lionel Messi is arguably the most dominant player in La Liga history. With that acknowledgement, the president of La Liga, Javier Tebas - a renowned Real Madrid fan - recently admitted that the league (La Liga) has been giving some thought to naming the MVP award after the Argentinian No. 10 when he retires. The Blaugrana No. 10 is La Liga's leading goalscorer of all time, and is largely considered to be the best player to have played in the top Spanish league. With Spain's history of naming, footballing awards after some of its greatest-ever players, naming an award after Messi can't possibly be a far-fetched idea. The most popular Spanish awards named after players are the Pichichi for top goal scorer of the season and the Zamora for the best goalkeeper. La Liga president Javier Tebas, believes Messi deserves to have an award named after him for having dominated football in Spain for so many years. Messi has won five Pichichi awa...

Floyd Mayweather may have been absent from the list of top 100 highest-earning athletes in 2017 but he is the highest earner this year (2018). Mayweather has been the highest-paid athlete in 2012, 2014, 2015 and now, 2018. Cristiano Ronaldo held the crown in 2016 and 2017, but has dropped to 3rd this year ($108) with Lionel Messi edging him out ($111 million) to the 2nd spot.  Photo credit: Philippine Star Athletes from 11 different sports made it to the list. Basketball (NBA) is the leading sport with 40 hoopsters among the top 100. In 2016, only 16 made it to the Top 100; the number progressed to 32 in 2017. The National Football League (NFL) seconds with 18 athletes. Baseball comes third with 14 athletes; soccer 4th, with 9 athletes; golf 5th, with 5 athletes; and golf and tennis 6th, with 4 athletes each. Racing came 8th with 3 athletes, while cricket, mixed-martial arts and track had an athlete each. The earnings figures provided by Forbes include salaries, bon...