Pierre Emerick Aubameyang: The football star playing for Borussia Dortmund

He is 28 years old and a French born Gabonese footballer who plays for German Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund. His name is Pierre Emerick Aubameyang. Aubameyang is 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs about 80 Kgs. He plays in the position of a centre forward as the striker for the teams he plays for. He is already having a market value of about € 70,0 Million and a football star by all standards.

His early days in football

Aubameyang had played for the French under 21. But he made his senior international debut for Gabon in the year 2009. Thereafter he also represented the same country in 3 Africa Cup of Nations tournaments and in the 2012 Olympic Games. He began his international club football career at Milan. He joined Saint Eltienne permanently in the year 2011. After winning the Coupe de la league final in 2013 he joined Borussia Dortmund. In the year 2015 he became the winner of the CAFs African footballer of the year award. He became the first player to win the award. In the December of 2016, renowned British English Daily The Guardian named him the 8th best footballer in the world.

His record with Borrusia Dortmund

In 2013 Aubameyang entered with Dortmund for a 5 year contract. He made his debut against Bayern Munich. With this he also became the first Gabonese player to appear in Bundesliga. In the November of 2013 he scored his first goal group stage against Napoli where in the team won with a score of 3 is to 1. In the 2016-17 seasons with Dortmund, Aubemeyang had an excellent start. With a double score against FSV Mainz. He also had a great start to Dormund's Champion's League group stage game. He scored in each of the group stage matches owing to which his team was at the top of their group with Real Madrid. IN December this Gabonese football star scored his 100th goal for Borussia Dortmund. Thereafter he also scored a hat-trick against Benfica shortly after. 

In spite of having a great record with Dortmund it seems that not many clubs come in for Aubameyang. The star has as much as a whopping 27% of the total goal goals scored by Dortmund in the past 2 seasons. Reasons include that some team managers and football experts do not consider him as a true value for the money invested. 

According to some there is another quality lacking in him which is important. This is to hold-up play with back passes towards goal. Keeping hold of the ball while teammates run into dangerous spaces has become an important trait for any top striker. This is what some feel Aubameyang does not have and thus not many big clubs have considered hiring him.

To conclude we can say that in spite of the fact that not many big football clubs have shown interest in him, Aubameyang still is still one of the greats of the game.

Facts about FC Barcelona you would want to know

The legendary football club Barcelona was founded in 1899 by a group of Swiss, English and Catalan footballers. Commonly known as Barcelona and more familiarly Barca is a professional football club based in Catalonia in Spain. We at Golden Goals place through this blog place before you some interesting facts about this historic football club you would love to know.

It is one of the richest football clubs in the world now

One very interesting thing to note about FC Barcelona is that unlike other professional football clubs, it is that the supporters own and operate the club. It happens to be the second highest valuable Sports team in the world. It is worth $ 3.6 billion and the second highest richest football club in the entire globe. This is in terms of an annual turnover of a whopping €560.8 million.

Some basic track records of the club

Domestically, Barcelona has won 24 La Liga championships It has also won 29 Copa del Rey, 12Supercopa de España and 3 Copa Eva Duarte. Apart from this it has also won 2 Copa de la Ligatrophies. Not only domestically but the club has a phenomenal international football record as well.

On the international scene, Barca has won 20 European and World titles. These include 4 UEFA Champions League titles. It also includes 1 European Cup. It has a record 4 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. The club also  a shared record 5 UEFA Super Cup. It has a record of 3 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup and a record 3 FIFA Club World Cup.

The club was ranked first in the IFFHS Club World Ranking for 1997, 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2015.  

Arch rivals are Real Madrid

Real Madrid is the other most renowned football club which is its arch rivals. However in spite of its rivalry with Real Madrid, the club one of the most supported teams worldwide. It has one of the largest social media following in the world among st sports teams.

The Players who represent the football club

The club has always attracted the very top players of the world. At present there is Lionel Messi who has a long term relationship with the club. Apart they also have the top world cup players which includes Pique, Iniesta, Suarez, Neymar just to name a few. All of them have an incredible record with this club.

Lionel Messi and Barcelona a long and close relationship

Out of all the football stars that have played for this legendary football club, Lionel Messi has been there for a long time. This Argentine super star who also wears the coveted No. 10 jersey has had a phenomenal record with the club. Having scored over 500 goals it has really been an amazing run and an indeed enviable record which is difficult to match. The Argentine superstar had 37 ha tricks with the club.

In conclusion we can say that Barcelona is one of the greatest football clubs of all time.

Lionel Messi: Early life

It is true that he is a mega star today. He is considered by some football experts as one of the greatest football stars of all times. However did you know that for Lionel Messi one of the best footballers of all times the initial years were not as smooth? We at Golden Goals through this blog try to give you an idea about the early life of this great Argentine footballer and how his stardom came about over the years that he played football. Let us first however begin by giving you a synopsis of his football career. 

A brief synopsis of the great footballer 

He was born on the 24th of June, 1987, in Rosario, Argentina. Messi then moved to Spain when he 13 years old. This was after when FC Barcelona club agreed to pay for hormone-deficiency treatments. Soon Messi became a star in his new country. He led his club to championships. Messi set a record for scoring maximum goals in the year 2012.In 2016, Messi was named Europe's Ballon d'Or winner for the fifth time.

How it all started? 

 As a young boy, he along with his two elder brothers played football with friends. Right from the beginning Messi was not intimidated by the bigger boys. At the very young age of 8, he was recruited to join the youth system of Newell's Old Boys, a Rosario-based club. He was comparatively smaller than most of the kids in his age group. The soccer superstar was eventually diagnosed by doctors as suffering from a hormone deficiency that restricted his growth.

His parents, decided on a regimen of nightly growth-hormone injections for their son. However it became d impossible to pay the huge amount of money involved for medication. So, at the age of 13, when Lionel Messi  was offered the chance to train at soccer powerhouse FC Barcelona's youth academy. This was called La Masia at the time. They also decided to pay for  his medical bills covered by . However his s family picked up and moved across the Atlantic. Thus Spain became a new home for them.

Football Superstar 

He often felt homesick in his new country. Messi moved quickly through the junior system ranks. By the age of 16, he had made his first appearance for Barcelona. He put himself in the record books on May 1, 2005.He was the youngest player to ever score a goal for the franchise. In 2005 itself year, he also led Argentina to the title in the under-20 World Cup. There he scored on a pair of penalty kicks to propel the team over Nigeria.

Messi eventually grew to 5 feet and 7 inches, and with his short stature, speed and relentless attacking style. Thus he drew comparisons to another famous Argentinean footballer: Diego Maradona. Messi thereafter steered Barcelona to many of successes. It was in  2009 though that he helped his  team capture the Champions League, La Liga, and Spanish Super Cup titles. In 2009 also  he took home his first FIFA "World Player of the Year" honor/Ballon d'Or award.

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