2015 UCL Final - Juventus vs. Barcelona ('Superbowl of Europe')

[gettlemanjack]

Squawka Football @ Squawka

May 12

Most goals in all competitions across Europe's top 5 leagues

this season:

Barcelona (164)

Real Madrid (150)

PSG (126)

Bayern Munich (117)

[gettlemanjack]

[gettlemanjack]

barcastuff @ barcastuff

May 11

Barcelona have now gone 638 minutes without conceding a goal

#fcblive Last: 1-3 against PSG (own goal Mathieu) on 15 April

[via opta]

[gettlemanjack]

OptaJose @ OptaJose

May 11

638 - Barcelona have gone 638 minutes of football without

conceding a goal - the last was against PSG in UCL (Jérémy

Mathieu own goal). Wall

[gettlemanjack]

barcastuff @ barcastuff

May 9

Barcelona have now kept clean sheets in their last 7 games

#fcblive Valencia PSG Espanyol Getafe Cordoba Bayern

R.Sociedad

[Goondal]

this 2015 UCL Final might be the first ever to feature two multiple South American Footballer of the Year winners:

3x - Carlos Tevez (2003 , 2004 , 2005) Boca Juniors, Corinthians

2x - Neymar (2011, 2012) - Santos

compare to:

2x - Diego Maradona (1979 , 1980) - Buenos Aires clubs

1x - Pelé (1973) - Santos

note: both Neymar and Pele played for Santos, which is the port town about 30 miles from São Paulo, where Tevez played for Corinthians, both located in Brazil, where Samba dancing originated

note: both Tevez and Diego Maradona played for Boca Juniors in Buenos Aires, Argentina (where the current pope is from, as well as where Tango dancing originated)

note: not only are Tevez and Neymar both multiple-time South American Footballer of the Year winners, but both were born on Feb 5 (same day Christiano Ronaldo was born)

that is crazy. I do not know why but I am a sucker for these type of stats

[Goondal]

The UCL Final is the biggest game of the year of all the pro teams in Europe

The Super Bowl is the biggest game of the year of all the pro teams in the US

If you were explaining the significance of the UCL Final to Americans that never heard of it, you say it's like the 'Super Bowl of Europe'

If you were explaining the significance of the Super Bowl to Europeans that never heard of it, you say it's like the 'UCL Final of the USA'

obviously, being that this is an American forum populated by Americans, the former makes much more sense to use here than the latter

Between the two games, it's an interesting question as to which is a bigger deal to their respective fanbases. Being that soccer is popular globally, and the UCL Final has players from all over the world, you'd think the UCL Final would blow away the Super Bowl in viewership. I remember this was the case 10-20 years ago per a Sports Illustrated piece I read, but I'm surprised to now learn this hasn't been the case since then:

2010: "the Champions' League final has overtaken the Super Bowl as the most popular televised event in global club sport. ... The Super Bowl, traditionally the biggest TV event in global club sport"

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/european/elite-clubs-on-uefa-gravy-train-as-super-bowl-knocked-off-perch-1884429.html

2012:

"Champions League surpasses Super Bowl THE growth of the Champions League into a football phenomenon has been underlined by a new study which reveals it has usurped the Super Bowl to become the world’s biggest annual sporting event."

http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/366335/Champions-League-surpasses-Super-Bowl

And if you take out the global audience and compare just the European audience that watches the UCL Final to the American audience that watches the Super Bowl, that would be interesting to see who has more

it is true that this is an American message board but to be fair this is the soccer section, meaning we are smarter than the average American