LIONEL MESSI JOSE MOURINHO TOP WORLD MEDIA FIGURES IN WORLD FOOTBALL

Some interesting Football & Maketing news handed in today by the prestigious Economics Faculty of the Spanish University of Navarra in its annual report on which World Football - Soccer personalities are the most meteoric with the World media & thus their value as World News.



Lionel Messi 2011


The most meteoric figure with World media is FC BARCELONA player LIONEL MESSI with 20. 7 points

DELOITTE REPORT | REAL MADRID RICHEST CLUB IN THE WORLD FOR SIXTH YEAR CONSECUTIVE

International Financial Consultancy firm DELOITTE has released its 44 page annual report on the state of the revenues generated by the Football – Soccer Clubs. REAL MADRID leads the list of Richest Football Clubs for the 6th year consecutive & is 9.2% up from last report with FC BARCELONA second & the remaining 4 Clubs staying unchanged in their positions from the last report.



REAL MADRID CF

FOOTBALL MARKETING | JOSE MOURINHO - REAL MADRID - SCARF

Here is another Football Marketing Insight.

Every wondered why REAL MADRID Coach JOSE MOURINHO wears the same a black scarf? There are 750,000 reasons ( or Euros). Notice the logo? The Coach & the Sports multinational have a contract that gives them high profile & publicity & income to the bearer, of course.

This partly explains why Mourinho picks up the ball or passes it with his feet to a

CRISTIANO RONALDO IS THE HIGHEST PAID FOOTBALL PLAYER IN THE WORLD

According to Belgium magazine “Sport Foot Magazine” REAL MADRID player CRISTIANO RONALDO is the Highest Paid Football – Soccer Player in the World. Second placed is Manchester United player WAYNE ROONEY while this years FIFA Golden Ball winner LIONEL MESSI of FC Bareclona is in 3rd place.



Cristiano Ronaldo with Real Madrid

The full list of Top 50 players are below & the country code

FC BARCELONA HISTORICAL - RECORD BREAKING SPONSORSHIP DEAL | WHERE DO I PLACE UNICEF NOW?

Not much "great impact" news today in reference to SPANISH FOOTBALL to transfer onto you, except with the news of Spanish Sports being "rocked" by the presumed "doping ring" with well known Athletic Sportsman being apparently involved with trafficking & doping. While an important issue & a news generator  I don´t wish to get into details here as I follow the "presume innocent until proven guilty"

FOOTBALL FINANCE | FC BARCELONA TO ACCEPT RECORD UNIFORM SPONSORSHIP DEAL

Money makes the World go around & in this case the Football World. FC Barcelona President was advised by his economic team that the Club was sacrificing 25M€ approx. per year for not accepting sponsorship on their uniform. The current “UNICEF” is a goodwill act that doesn’t report any cash inflow to the Club.


With the Barça balance sheet “dry” on the left side, Barcelona has decided to accept

SPAIN FOOTBALL TEAM 2010 | PRESENT NEW LOOK SHIRT / UNIFORM

So you just spent 90€ on the latest SPAIN FOOTBALL TEAM shirt with the little star? Guess what, there is now a NEW version of the uniform that the SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM will debut with against Portugal next Wednesday. 

Today Spanish Football Players did a Press Conference to show media the new uniform with a new design, "World Champions" badge & neck stitching. So you can now race off

FOOTBALL FINANCE | THE CASH GENERATING POWERS OF THE SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM

Spain Football Team lifts 2010 World Cup











Interesting - a bit dated - article in "Futebol Finance" about the revenue generating powers of the SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM. The figures were pre- FIFA World Cup Champions status, so we can suppose that the figures are currently higher now that they are Nº1. Here is a summary 
17 contracts signed (includes Brand, Full Team & Individual

FIVE SPANISH PLAYERS IN TOP 30 U-21 LIST OF MOST VALUABLE

A Portuguese Football Finance Web has published their list of the Top 30 most valuable U21 Football players in the World. Five Spaniards figure in the top 30 list:  Bojan (FC Barcelona 6º) , De Gea (At Madrid 17º), Alvaro Dominguez (At.Madrid 20º), Ander Herrera (Zaragoza 21º) & Sergio Canales (Real Madrid 26º).




Bojan Krkic
Below is the full list:

Name / Place of Birth / Age / Club / Min

FOOTBALL FINANCE | DAVID VILLA TOP TRANSFER DEAL FOR 2010-2011

An interesting post on Football Finance Portuguese website “futebolfinance” where they give us the Top 25 transfer operations during the last summer for this new 2010-2011 season.

Two observations:
1. Spanish International forward DAVID VILLA was the most expensive transfer operation for season 2010-2011 with a 40M€ move from Valencia CF to FC Barcelona
2. The market was less “inflated” & more

THE IVAN RUIZ STORY | HOW " BBVA CRACKS TV " ATLETICO DE MADRID SHATTERED HIS DREAMS & "DISTORTED" OTHERS | FALSE ADVERTISNG ?

This is an interesting & very human story on how Big Business “distorts” information, blemishes the image of Football, idols who eventually show how really "human" they are & in the process shatter the hopes & dreams of young people. Here is the brief & the rundown.Last season the current Spanish League Corporative sponsor of the 1º Division & 2º Division, the Spanish Bank “BBVA”, approved &

FC BARCELONA 2010 | THE CLUB WITH MOST FANS IN EUROPE

German Sports consultancy "Sport Markt" has released its "Football Top 20" report for 2010. This report is a survey that gives the estimated number of fans (admirers) per European Clubs. This is how the consultancy explains the survey:The "Football Top 20" study analyses the popularity of domestic and international top football clubs in 17 European countries (

FOOTBALL FINANCE | REAL MADRID TOP WORLD FOOTBALL SHIRT SELLER

Here is some interesting Football Finance news that I think may interest the Spanish Football Sports Blog readers.Finance expert Dr. Peter Rohlmann publishes in “Sportintelligence” a study from 2005 – 2009 on the sales of Football Club shirts throughout the World. His final results are that REAL MADRID along with English Club Manchester United are the highest sellers of Football shirts in the

REAL MADRID 2010 | THE END OF THE DUTCH CONNECTION

Once upon a time REAL MADRID had six Dutch players in their squad for a cost of 123M€ paid to have their services. Today, & with the departure of Rafael Van Ver Vaart to Tottenham, the number of Dutch players in the team is zero.To get to that zero, Real Madrid sold them for a price of 63M€ (- 60M€ loss) & Drenthe loaned out to Spanish Club Hercules. Here is a clear summary:Van der Vaart. Signed

REAL MADRID | A RECORD 1.022M€ SPENT ON NEW SIGNINGS SINCE THE YEAR 2000

Hi guys back from some days of holidays & glad to be with you again with Spanish Football news & curiosities.An interesting story featured today in Spanish Sports daily “Marca” on REAL MADRID & their spending on new players since 2000. Real Madrid is the Club that most money has “invested” (spent) on new signings since the year 2000 in the whole World of Football. The below diagram illustrates