Ball Possession

Ball possession is the amount of time a team in football possesses the ball during a game. Possession is usually expressed in a percentage (60% for team A, 40% for team B). Historically, Germany has had a dominating ball possession. Since 2006, Spain and FC Barcelona of the Liga BBVA are the best in keeping possession; Germany come in 2nd place with Bayern Munich. Xavi Hernandez is said to be the most possessive player today.


Famous quotes containing the words ball and/or possession:

    A ball player’s got to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That’s why no boy from a rich family ever made the big leagues.
    Joe Dimaggio (b. 1914)

    Virtue and vice suppose the freedom to choose between good and evil; but what can be the morals of a woman who is not even in possession of herself, who has nothing of her own, and who all her life has been trained to extricate herself from the arbitrary by ruse, from constraint by using her charms?... As long as she is subject to man’s yoke or to prejudice, as long as she receives no professional education, as long as she is deprived of her civil rights, there can be no moral law for her!
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