Balotelli "raises up" Messi and ironizes with Ronaldo

Lionel Messi has equalized yesterday the Cristiano Ronaldo record, with 600 goals scored in his career as a professional, as the debate on which of the two is better, has been heated even more. But there is no doubt Mario Balotelli, who through a post on social networks has called Lionel Messi, a football phenomenon. "Leo Messi phenomenon. For the benefit of football, do not compare with Juves number 7, "wrote the Italian striker on social networks. The Argentine star scored twice in Barcelona's 3-0 win over Liverpool last night at Camp Nou.

EXCLUSIVE MN - Ielpo: "Milan, the withdrawal is a signal that had to be done. We are the last train, we must try them all"

Mario Ielpo, ex-goalkeeper of the Rossoneri, was interviewed exclusively by MilanNews.it to comment on Gattuso's decision to send the team to retirement after Bakayoko's delay, a drop that caused Milanello to overflow. Do you rightly see the choice to send the team to retirement? "It seems to me that this is the last train that passes, you have to try them all. The withdrawal can also be good" In the past, how was this provision seen? "Once we were always in retreat. With Lazio we did the withdrawal all year round, starting on Tuesday and playing on Sunday." Can the withdrawal cause a shock for the season finale? "Football is not mathematics, we don't know if it can give results or not. It is a signal that must be made, to show that the season is not over yet. In my opinion it is a signal that had to be done". Can players benefit from this period? "They have more time to clarify, the withdrawal sometimes serves this purpose. The players are a bit individualistic, they can find the mentality of the team, of the group. The team is in a difficult moment and it shows. It is not a question tactical and physical but psychological ".

May 1st, the national holiday returns to Bologna

The procession with the general secretaries of Cgil, Cisl and Uil. Then the rallies in Piazza Maggiore and the concert

After 17 years since the last time, Bologna returns to host the national demonstration of May Day. With the procession through the streets of the center, led by the general secretaries of CGIL, CISL and UIL, the rallies in a Piazza Maggiore crowded with people (thirty thousand people, according to the unions) and the closing concert in the afternoon.

At the start of the big snake, in Piazza XX Settembre, the proposal - launched by CGIL leader Maurizio Landini from the pages of the Republic - to revive the unity among the confederal trade unions is the bench, because "the historical, political and party reasons that led to the division between the Italian unions no longer exist ". A theme that in the small groups is a bit 'all for the breadth of the challenge but also for the difficulties that inevitably such an initiative (CGIL, CISL and UIL together count over twelve million members and have mammoth equipment) is intended to meet. But the official theme chosen to characterize this Labor Day is Europe. Landini himself recalls this: "We paid for the relocations, the competition between countries and the absence of a European policy that puts people back at work. This has led to precariousness, reduced rights and reduced wages. the rest - he said - May 1st was born so many years ago precisely on an international battle, that of time and time and equal rights for all workers in the world to avoid competitions. A different Europe means putting work at the center and asking that politics take over again the centrality of work and of the person as an element of economic and social redesign ".

Then there is, and it is the emergence of these months, the question of the economy that continues to stagnate, even though yesterday Istat reported the exit from the "technical recession" thanks to the fact that in the first quarter of 2019 GDP stands out slightly, at 0.2 percent. "02 is a good prefix for Milan telephones - the secretary of the Uil Carmelo Barbagallo attacks with a joke - but it doesn't reassure me at all. The data say what we have been supporting for some time: the only sector that is good is exports. Internal consumption, on the other hand, is languishing, because workers and pensioners do not have the purchasing power to buy what we produce, so we begin to restore purchasing power, which can only be done in two ways: with contracts, and the government should immediately open bargaining on the civil service, and with the reduction of taxes, instead they reduce taxes to those who evade them but do not touch the tax wedge (the gap between the gross salary and what actually ends up in the payroll, ed), which also Confindustria claims should start with workers and pensioners ". Landini's reflections are of the same tenor: "Whoever today applauds the data of Istat, that is the Government, is the same that made a Def a few weeks ago saying that we do not grow as we expected and that, if nothing changes, between three years unemployment will still be over 10% ". The CISL guide, Anna Maria Furlan, speaks of the relaunching policies: "Unfortunately the country is blocked. The real thing is this, and we must unlock it by changing the economic line that characterized the financial first and then the Investment, investments. , investments - it marks -. And unblocking of the infrastructures. There are so many billions, a sea of ​​money already allocated to unlock to finally create 400 thousand immediate jobs ".

The meetings. This, at the start of the event. From the stage, predictably, the rallies have instead targeted some of the most discussed measures taken by the yellow-green government. Barbagallo, the first to speak, has focused his shooting on social policies, supporting the need not to cancel, but to "modify to correct the legal texts on quota 100 (the advance of retirement, ed) and on citizenship income". Furlan, in his speech, took it with sovereignism: "We need Europe, other than sovereign speeches. But we need a Europe that is not just coefficients and protocols, but that is flesh and blood and also a little soul ". As for Landini, having overturned the League's issue on security: "The security of this country is not making laws to arm the citizens and defend ourselves, but that of not dying at work", he attacked. To then mark: "I would like to remind Minister Salvini: if he wants to respect the Constitution on which he has sworn he must not close the ports, but he must close the offices of Casapound". Also because, he shouted at the microphone closing in a roar of applause, "fascism is not an idea, fascism is a crime and we must always remember it". The procession was attended, among others, by the former CGIL leader Susanna Camusso, the archbishop of Bologna Monsignor Matteo Zuppi, representatives of local institutions, with the regional president Stefano Bonaccini and the mayor Virginio Merola, and national representatives, such as the Senator (and former governor of Emilia-Romagna) Vasco Errani, former Minister Cecile Kyenge and former Speaker of the Chamber Laura Boldrini.

Messi, 600 career goals: two goals in Barcelona-Liverpool

With the one-two scored at Liverpool in the Camp Nou 3-0, the Argentine reaches 600 career goals with a single jersey exactly 14 years after the first goal (Barcelona-Albacete on 1 May 2005). Equalized Cristiano Ronaldo who had crossed the same milestone in Inter-Juve. But Messi scored the same number of goals in 118 games less. Black beast of the English: has made goals against all those faced in career

That would have been inevitable. That he would arrive in the evening of the first leg of the Champions League semi-final against Liverpool, exactly 14 years from the first professional network, seemed much less likely. It was May 1st 2005 when a very young Leo Messi, served no less than Ronaldinho, scored his first goal with the Blaugrana shirt at Albacete. On May 1st, 2019, a 600th unexpected goal arrived and everything to be framed. Unexpected because to reach this goal Messi would have had to score a brace to a tough opponent like Liverpool, to be framed because he arrived with the umpteenth, masterful punishment that ended at the crossroads without leaving any chance for Alisson.

Like Ronaldo, better than Ronaldo Messi, therefore, reached as his own goleador his usual opponent, that CR7 that in the Italian derby drew from Juve with Inter had reached 600 in the clubs. The difference? Simple, Messi scored these goals in 683 games, Ronaldo in 801. Difference not insignificant if you think that the Argentine has cut this goal 118 games before CR7.

As marks Messi Obviously, being a natural left-handed person, most of his goals Messi scored with his left foot: exactly 491. But many are also those scored with the foot considered "weak": 85 with the destronon are a negligible data . His stature does not make him seem dangerous on high balls and instead Messi has scored, and not just a little, even at the head: 22 goals including the very precious one in the Champions League final at Manchester United under the leadership of Guardiola. In this particular statistic Messi also boasts a "body" and a "hand" goal.

In the Champions League: goals to 32 of the 37 clubs faced The Barcelona playmaker scored at almost every club he faced in the Champions League, for a total of 32 out of 37 and Liverpool became the number 76 team against which Messi scored in all competitions. Only Raul did better than him (33).

Black beast of the English Messi is the second player to score against three English teams in the same Champions League (Tottenham, Manchester United and Liverpool). The same thing happened only to Thomas Muller in the 2013-2014 season (Arsenal, Manchester City and Manchester United). But above all the Argentine scored against every English team he faced, for a total of 25 goals.