El Classico Showdown-Facebook’s Data Gives Barcelona Slight Edge Over Madrid

Barca in red, Madrid in white

As the world eagerly awaits this weekend’s El Classico match between European Champions Real Madrid and Barcelona both of Spain; social media giant Facebook has released a data, which shows that Barcelona is slightly ahead of their bitter rivals, Madrid.

The released data shows that Barcelona has 77 million likes across the world, while Real Madrid has 75.5 million likes.

Reports also show that Cristiano Ronaldo of Real Madrid is the first sportsman in the world to clock 100 million Facebook likes.

Real Madrid Sets New Revenue Earning Record

According to Forbes, Real Madrid has set a new revenue earning record by announcing it is financial results for the year 2013; declaring a revenue of $797 million, making them the highest revenue earner in the history of professional team sports.

The club won its 10^th Champions’ League trophy in May when it defeated current La Liga Champions, Atletico Madrid. The club already boasts of icons like Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale.

The report in Forbes reads thus: