ROUND OF 16 DRAW CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

The Round of 16 of the UEFA Champions League results are:

Match dates

FIRST ROUND  

Tuesday , February 12, 2013 

                            

 CELTIC         vs        JUVENTUS 

            GLASGOW  

                    

VALENCIA     vs     PARIS SAINT

                                GERMAIN

Wednesday , February 13th, 2013

                         

SHAKHTAR       vs           BORUSSIA               DONETSK                        DORTMUND

   

                                                                                                                                  

    REAL            vs    MANCHESTER 

   MADRID                    UNITED

 Tuesday , February 19th, 2013

OPORTO           vs           MALAGA

 

ARSENAL         vs           BAYERN

                                           MUNICH

Wednesday , February 20th, 2013

                    

GALATASARAY      vs      SCHALKE 04

       MILAN            vs          BARCELONA

SECOND ROUND

Tuesday, March 5th, 2013

                      

                   

MANCHESTER           vs              REAL                           

      UNITED                                MADRID

                      

   BORUSSIA        vs        SHAKHTAR

  DORTMUND                  DONETSK

Wednesday, March 6th, 2013

                                   

   PARIS SAINT         vs        VALENCIA

     GERMAIN

                                                 

JUVENTUS           vs          CELTIC 

                                          GLASGOW

Tuesday, March 12th, 2013 

    

     

   SCHALKE      vs     GALATASARAY

          04

               

     BARCELONA     vs       MILAN

Wednesday, March 13th, 2013 

MALAGA        vs         OPORTO

                       

BAYERN                vs    ARSENAL

 MUNICH

GOLDEN BALL FINALISTS 2012 ANNOUNCED BY FIFA

FIFA has finally announced the three finalist for the Golden Ball award this year.The three players were picked from a list of 23 candidates for this year.

As a very important aspect to mention, the three finalists play in the same league the Spanish "La Liga" . Messi and Iniesta play in FC Barcelona  and Cristiano Ronaldo in Real Madrid FC. For three years in a row , three players from the same league are finalists for this award.  The Spanish football is very strong since seven players from the Spanish National team made the 23 - name list for the award. Spain is strong not only in the clubs but also in the national team as FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke said. 

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If Messi wins the award, this will be his fourth Golden Ball in his career. Iniesta has the chance of winning the award for the first time and Cristiano Ronaldo the second time. 

The finalists for the women's World Player are five -time winner Marta and United States duo Alex Morgan and Abby Wambach. 

Spain Coach Vicente del Bosque , former Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola and Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho are running for  the world coach of the year award.

The women's coach of the year award will go to either France's Bruno Bini, Japan's Norio Sasaki or  The United States  Pia Sundhage.

The Puskas award for the Best Goal of the year will be presented to Radamel Falcao, Neymar, or Miroslav Stoch. 

The winner will be announced in Switzerland on Jan 7. 

UEFA 2012 BEST PLAYER IN EUROPE NOMINEES

 

How the nominees were shortlisted

A jury of 53 sports journalists representing each of the UEFA member associations whittled down the 2011/12 long list to Andrés Iniesta, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. The final three will feature in a deciding vote in Monaco on Thursday 30 August during the UEFA Champions League group stage draw.

You can find out how the votes were counted here  the officila UEFA site.