UEFA Champions League - Top 5 Best Fistpumps of the Week

After taking a look at some of the worst fistpumps from this past week's Champions League action, it is now time to unveil the Top 5 Best Fistpumps...

Before we get into the countdown, let's take a look at a few honorable mentions...

Best Pre-Game Fistpump
Luca Toni - Bayern Munich

No wonder he went on to score two goals during Munich's 5-nil shellacking of Sporting Lisbon...

Best Fistpump in a Losing Effort
Liedson Muniz - Sporting Lisbon

I know we've discussed this before, but we just can't stress enough that a fistpump doesn't always have to be the result of triumph. Sometimes it's important to release your frustration with a vicious double fistpump (in next week's From the Vault series, we will run The Darkside of Fistpumping which explains this in greater detail)...

On to the countdown...

5. Maxi Rodriguez - Atletico Madrid

A scream and double grocery bag pump was the only way Maxi knew how to celebrate the fact that he was not ratted out by his cousin Alex...

4. Mario Galinovic - Panathinaikos

Now there are several unwritten rules I like to live by: never get less than twelve hours sleep; never play cards with a guy who has the same first name as a city; never get involved with a woman with a tattoo of a dagger on her body; and when a keeper fistpumps, he makes the top 5...


3. Franck Ribery - Bayern Munich

They say hell hath no fury like a fist scorned. Truer words have not been spoken then after Ribery's second goal on Wednesday in which he was literally possessed by his fist after a pump so hellatious that teammate Miroslav Klose was forced to intervene and choke Ribery until he lost complete and utter consciousness...


2. Yossi Benayoun - Liverpool

Although Benayoun's double pump was only good enough to notch second place this week, he did take solice in the fact that he was able to claim the title in the oh so important, Fistpumper Most Resembling Bod Geldof category...

1. Lissandro Lopez and Lucho Gonzalez - FC Porto

Yesterday we told you the harrowing tail of the trials and tirbulations of Lopez's and Gonzalez's obscure goal celebration which came in first in our Worst Pumps of the Week countdown. However, in an unprecedented turn of events, these two jokers finally got their act together after Lopez's second goal of the game...

(Inside Joke Alert!) This pump is also special because it reminds me of arguably my all-time favorite fistpump...

That's right! Oh, you mean...THIS GUY...