Messi Score 4 as Barcelona Dismantle Valencia

Messi put in an extraordinary game to destroy the third placed team in La Liga and reiterate Barça’s faith in their chances of fighting for the La Liga title. The team showed immense character and commitment when they came back from a sticky looking situation – 13 points behind the leaders, trailing 0-1 to a [...]

Barcelona Gave Up Liga Title?

Barça have suffered their second defeat of the season away to an Osasuna side that made the most of their chances and adapted better to the freezing conditions FCB were two goals down at half time but in the second half looked to have equalised when Alexis’s goal was ruled offside B arça are further [...]

Sergio Ramos: “The merit belongs to collective work to help us win titles”

Sergio Ramos scored the victory goal for Real Madrid in Getafe. The defender analysed the match in the mixed zone. “It’s been a tough game against an opponent that always makes things hard for us. Knowing how to suffer is also important. What matters is we faced up to the challenge. The 1-0 score is [...]

Pep Guardiola has not decided yet

Barcelona might have won as many titles and trophies before this, but things are not looking good with Pep Guardiola. Pep Guardiola also been linked with Arsenal as one of contenders to replace Arsene Wenger lately. Arsene Wenger has been with the gunners for almost 16 years and Arsenal recent poor performances in the league [...]

Badge of champions awarded to FC Barcelona

FC Barcelona  received the FIFA Club World Cup Champions Badge, a physical reminder of the club’s emphatic triumph in FIFA’s annual club event in Japan in December. Following on from individual awards for Pep Guardiola and Lionel Messi at the FIFA Ballon d’Or, the Champions badge is an award for the whole team, serving as [...]

Mourinho: “I didn’t expect this score”

Sevilla 2-6 Real Madrid: Jose morinho – “I expected us to win and top the table. I also expected my men’s reaction, but not the score. It’s happened twice, but it isn’t normal. Sevilla are always a difficult team to face… We’ve won 16 of our last 17 games and it was normal for us to [...]

World Football’s 5 Unforgettable Moments for the Month of November

One third into the 2011/2012 football season and already spectators have witnessed events on and off the pitch eliciting both pleasant surprises and tragic losses. I’ve complied a handful of events that stood out in my mind while reflecting on last month’s matches and news reports in the unpredictable world of football. 5. Manchester City [...]

Will Manchester United and FC Barcelona Continue to Fall?

“What goes up must come down” is a saying most sports teams do not want to acknowledge, especially if you’re Manchester United and FC Barcelona. People often ask me as a poet and a fiction writer why I decided to write about world football. I tell them it’s because of clubs like Barcelona and Manchester [...]

Move to homeland working out for Ronaldinho

When players reach the latter days of their career, and have been plying their trade on foreign playing fields for the most of it, it seems quite inevitable that they should go on to finish their careers in their home countries or a league where the expectation levels are a little less.  This has been [...]

Real Madrid: Cristiano Ronaldo’s Proclamation and Player Preservation

The thing that irks me most about is that I like him—he’s rich, handsome and brilliant. According to several online sources, the triple adjectives the superstar ascribed to himself are what spurred the jeers during the Champions League match against Dinamo Zagreb. div class=”zemanta-img” style=”margin: 1em;”> Now a frenzy has stirred concerning his preconized vanity [...]

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