FIFA : Atletico Madrid striker Radamel Falcao has said that he is more concerned with helping his team do well this season than fighting Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo for the Pichichi award as the leading scorer in La Liga.
Falcao struck twice in last night’s 4-2 win over Real Betis to take his tally to seven in five league games this season, leaving him one clear of Barcelona ace Messi at the top of the scoring charts. Last season Messi won the Pichichi with an astonishing 50 goals, four ahead of 2011 winner Ronaldo, with Falcao third on 24 goals in his first year in Spain following his big-money move from Porto.
I didn’t say I wanted to compete with Cristiano and Messi. I simply want to score goals to help my team, nothing more.
Radamel Falcao
Falcao’s superb start to the season – he also netted a hat-trick in the UEFA Super Cup against Chelsea and got goals in both of Colombia’s FIFA World Cup™ qualifiers earlier this month – suggests he could challenge Messi and Ronaldo to finish as top scorer, but the 26-year-old insists that is not his driving force.