FC BARCELONA

Although the month of April ended with painful defeats against Chelsea in the Champions League (1-0) and against Madrid in el Clásico league (1-2), Barça head is held in the world ranking of clubs, in which the Madrid meanwhile remains second, deserve mention Atletico and Athletic: both finalists in the Champions League also listed in the top ten, occupying seats 5 and 8.

Effective 'Team of the World', a title already won in 1997 and 2009, the Barcelona adds 367 points against 306 white set, in December 2011, when the azulgrana were crowned a second time with Guardiola and for the third time in términso absolute Blaugrana the advantage was 55 points (367 against 312), in January, 57 (359 against 302), in February, 77 (369 against 292) and in March, 76 (382 against 306). Now sends Barça with 61 points ahead of Real Madrid, that has not stopped going to his trailer. It is recalled that in this classification, developed by the IFFHS (International Federation of Football History and Statistics) since 1991 is scored only performance and are rewarded regularly at the highest level, with this leadership Barça partial sum and a record 44 .

Third place now is for the University of Chile (304.5), followed by Bayern (287), Atlético (278), Velez (264), Chelsea (245), Athletic (244), Sporting Lisbon (235.5) and Vasco (235). The 'blues' FA Cup finalists and Champions League, have climbed from 19 th place. The IFHHS held on Monday its Gala-2011 at the W Hotel Barcelona, ​​Pep Guardiola ('Top Manager'), Leo Messi ('Best international striker'), Xavi ('Best organizer of the game ") and the actual Barça ('Best Team') among the winners. As infomado MD, the club has yet to confirm whether all the winners will attend the evening, which comes after Saturday's derby with Espanyol. (via MD)

The World gala awards ceremony will be held on Monday the 7 in Barcelona with the presence of most of the winners.

Lionell Messi (international top goalscorer), Iker Casillas (best goalkeeper), Xavi (best player), Pep Guardiola (best coach) and Barcelona (best club) will be the main winners of the gala of the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS).

The World gala awards ceremony will be held next Monday in July in Barcelona with the presence of most of the winners at a ceremony to be chaired Mohammad Al Qassemi, new president of the IFFHS since November 2011.

Award also highlights the league championship first division in Spain as Liga strongest in the world, ahead of the Premier League.

Uruguay also will be awarded the Óscar Tabarez for best national coach, Hungarian Viktor Kassai as best referee and Latvian Trans Narva in his country, Alexsandrs Cekulajevs, top scorer in a league championship.

This last award is different from Messi, who is rewarded for his goals with the Argentina national team and international goals for his club.

They will receive a gold trophy while the runners in each category will receive silver. There will also be prizes for the best in the first decade of XXI century in each category and for the most popular players last year.

The runners-up in 2011 are Vicente del Bosque (coach), Manuel Neuer, Bayern Munich (goalkeeper), Leo Messi (best player), Colombian Radamel Falcao, his goals in the national team, Porto and Atlético Madrid and the Portuguese José Mourinho (coach).

The second top goalscorer in Liga is Cristiano Ronaldo in the Spanish first division, second best club is Real Madrid, the second best league is the English and the second best referee in English Howard Webb, one year before, in 2010 , refereed the World Cup final South Africa won Spain.

Of the eighteen awards, nine and nine seconds, seven are for Spanish. Del Bosque, Casillas, Xavi and Guardiola receive it at the individual and these are added the awards for Barcelona, Real Madrid and la Liga First Division.

The awards for the best in the decade 2001-2010 are for Markus Merk (best referee), Arsen Wenger (coach), Gianluigi Buffon (goalkeeper), Ruud van Nistelrooy (scorer in international matches), Barcelona (club) and Shakhtar Donestsk Ukrainian as a club that has progressed in the decade.

There are also awards for best club of its continents for Barcelona (Europe), Boca Juniors (South America) América of Mexico (CONCACAF), Al-Ahly of Egypt (Africa), Al-Hilal of Saudi Arabia (Asia) and Auckland City new Zealand (Oceania).

The prizes for the most popular players confederations in 2011 correspond to the Italian Roma, Francesco Totti, Manchester United Mexican Javier "Chicharito" Hernández, Eduardo Jesús Vargas of the Universidad de Chile, and Harold Kewell (Oceania), Yasser Al Qahtani (Asia) and Nadir Lamyaghri (Africa). (via SPORT)

The best of the month of January has been Juventus, ahead of Barcelona.

Barcelona and Real Madrid continue dominating the world classification of clubs of IFFHS that has not suffered changes in the first seven positions during the month of January.

In the "Top 100" there are clubs in 38 countries: 68 teams are from the UEFA, CONMEBOL, 22, four of the CAF, four in the AFC, two from CONCACAF and none of the OFC, while the leagues that have with a greater number of clubs representatives in the "top 100" are: England (7), Brazil (7), Spain (6), France (5), Italy (5), Russia (5), Portugal (4 ), Germany (4), Argentina (4), Belgium (4), Netherlands (4). (via AS)

Barça, after winning the award in 2007 and 2009, was named the best club in the world in 2011 and beat out Real Madrid and Vélez Sarsfield, second and third, respectively.

The International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS) has published its annual worldwide club ranking for 2011, FC Barcelona, after finishing the year with a handful of titles, has finished first. After top place finishes in 2007 and 2009, this is the third time Barça has topped the IFFHS ranking. The team finished with 367 points, quite a bit more than the second place finisher, Real Madrid (312 points), and third, Veléz Sarsfield (271 points).

Barça’s 367 points are the third highest mark ever awarded to a team since the IFFHS started giving out the award in 1991. Only Juventus in 1993 (with 5.5 more points) and AC Milan in 1995 (with only half a point more) achieved more points than Guardiola’s men. At the time Juventus and AC Milan topped the list, however, Serie A was the dominant league in the world. Therefore the Italian teams received five points per victory as opposed to four currently awarded to current-day teams. With that in mind, the points awarded in 2011 to Barça single the team out as the best in the world.

Furthermore, Barça also finished atop the IFFHS ranking as the best team in December. FC Barcelona didn’t lose a single game that month. (via FCBarcelona.cat)

[The Top 10 of 2011]
1. FC Barcelona (ESP) 367,0
2. Reial Madrid (ESP) 312,0
3. Vélez Sarsfield (ARG) 271,0
4. Manchester United (ENG) 270,0
5. Manchester City (ENG) 239,0
6. Santos (BRA) 238,0
7. Universidad de Chile (XI) 235,5
8. Benfica (POR) 235,0.
9. Porto (POR) 231,0
10. Universidad Católica (XI) 230,0

There are Barça players fighting for the Ballon D’Or, the Puskas Prize and a place in the FIFPro World XI today. In addition, Guardiola is in the running for the Manager of the Year Award.

FC Barcelona could well come away with the lion's share of the prizes at the FIFA gala in the Kongresshaus in Zurich. Messi and Xavi are in the running for the Ballon D'Or alongside Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo, but the two will not be on their own at the awards, with the Club providing candidates for all the other main prizes at the event, which begins at 19.00.

Manager of the Year

Pep Guardiola is one of three candidates, alongside Jose Mourinho and Sir Alex Fergusson, for the Manager of the Year Award, just a week after been named the IFFHS Coach of 2011.

Goal against Arsenal set for Puskas prize

Leo Messi is up for not just the Player of the Year Award, but also for the best goal of the year for his strike against Arsenal in the Champions League game at the Camp Nou. In that competition he is up against goals from Santos star Neymar and Manchester United's Wayne Rooney.

11 Barça players up for World XI

There are also 11 Barça players in line for a place in the 2011 FIFPro World XI -Valdés, Alves, Puyol, Piqué, Abidal, Sergio Busquets, Xavi, Iniesta, Cesc Fàbregas, Messi and Villa – with the Club providing more players than any other for the award. (via FCBarcelona.cat)

Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho praised by Barcelona's Pep Guardiola, coach named best of 2011 according to the annual survey by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS), and said "it is deserved . "

Guardiola repeats award to get 201 points for the 112 made by Mourinho, who is second and 107 Scottish Sir Alex Ferguson, Manchester United.

The Madrid coach did not hesitate to congratulate his great rival and took the step to remember that the IFFHS still has not delivered he won two seasons ago. "It's a deserved award," said Mourinho.

"My hope is that Pep does not have to wait for yours because I've won in 2010 and still not have given me. But it is deserved, no doubt." (via MD)

The FC Barcelona manager has been named the best coach in the world for the second consecutive year, according to the survey conducted by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS). Guardiola got 201 points in the vote and finished ahead of José Mourinho and Sir Alex Ferguson.

The FC Barcelona manager is still collecting accolades. This time it was the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS) that once again made him the best manager on the world. Guardiola was given 201 points in votes by the experts in 81 countries in all continents that took part in this annual election.

Guardiola finished way ahead of Real Madrid boss José Mourinho, and also Sir Alex Ferguson of Manchester United, who finished second and third.

Barça's amazing football and wealth of titles won in 2011 are still gaining worldwide recognition and Guardiola has once again been deservedly honoured for the fantastic job he is doing. (via FCBarcelona.cat)


[Classification]
1. Pep Guardiola FC Barcelona, 201 points
2. José Mourinho Real Madrid, 112 points
3. Sir Alex Ferguson Manchester United, 107
4. André Villas-Boas Chelsea, 78 points
5. Roberto Mancini Manchester City, 45 points
6. Muricy Ramalho Santos, 20 points

The International Federation of Football History & Statistics has named the Barça midfielder the best playmaker in the world for the fourth year in a row. Leo Messi and Andrés Iniesta are second and third behind Xavi.

Yet another accolade for Josep Guardiola's team at the start of 2012. Three FCB players, Xavi, Messi and Iniesta, top the list of the best playmakers in the world according to the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS). Xavi is number one for the fourth consecutive edition.

Members of the media and football experts from 81 countries voted for the impeccable performances of the Barcelona number 6, making him the runaway winner with 232 points, while Messi got 147, and Iniesta 110.

There is further representation for the club in the form of Cesc Fàbregas, who is tenth with 15 points. That means Barça has no fewer than four players in the top ten, followed by rivals Real Madrid with three – Özil, Cristiano Ronaldo and Xabi Alonso.

Xavi and Messi will be presented with awards for finishing first and second in the IFFHS classification at the FIFA Ballon d'Or 2011 ceremony, for which they are also in the running for the player of the year award along with Cristiano Ronaldo, to be held next January 9 in Zurich. (iia FCBarcelona.cat)

The 2011 classification:
1. Xavier Hernández Creus, 'Xavi' (ESP/Barcelona) 232 points
2. Lionel Messi (ARG/Barcelona) 147
3. Andrés Iniesta (ESP/Barcelona) 110
4. Mesut Özil (GER/Real Madrid) 59
5. Cristiano Ronaldo (POR/Real Madrid) 47
6. David Silva (ESP/Manchester City) 31
7. Wesley Sneijder (HOL/Inter Milan) 22
8. Xabier Alonso, 'Xabi' (ESP/Real Madrid) 19
9. Diego Forlán (URU/Inter Milan) 17
10. Cesc Fàbregas (ESP/Barcelona) 15
11. Andrea Pirlo (ITA/Juventus) 15
12. Franck Ribéry (FRA/Bayern Munich) 10
13. Bastian Schweinsteiger (GER/Bayern Munich) 9
14. Luka Modric (CRO/Tottenham Hotspur) 8
15. Frank Lampard (ENG/Chelsea) 5
16. Javier Matías Pastore (ARG/Paris Saint-Germain) 5

The Argentinian, who scored 19 goals in international matches, was recognized by the Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) as the top goal scorer of 2011.

Leo Messi keeps on winning titles and awards. The latest title to be awarded to the Argentinian came this Friday, when the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) named Barça’s genius striker as the ‘World's Top Goal Scorer’ of 2011. In the past 12 months Messi has scored 19 goals, two more than Falcao, the second place finisher. The award only takes into consideration goals that have been scored in international and Olympic matches and continental tournaments.

David Villa, tenth

FC Barcelona has two top-10 finishers this year. David Villa, who finished tenth, is level with Cristiano Ronaldo, both with 12 goals. (via FCBarcelona.cat)

Here is the complete list of the top goalscorers in 2011:

1- Leo Messi, FC Barcelona (19 goals)
2- Radamel Falcao, Porto/Atlético de Madrid (17 goals)
3- Hasan Mahmoud, Kuwait-City/Al-Wehdat/Jordan (16 goals)
4- Mario Gómez, Bayern Munich (16 goals)
5- Javier Hernández, Manchester United (15 goals)
6- Sunil Chhetri, FC Kolkata (14 goals)
7- Neymar, Santos FC (14 goals)
8- Abdullah Khaled Deeb, Al-Wehdat (13 goals)
9- Eduardo Jesús Vargas, Universidad de Chile (13 goals)
10- David Villa, FC Barcelona; Cristiano Ronaldo, Madrid (12 goals)