Not even a wildcat strike by Spanish air traffic controllers could slow Lionel Messi and Barcelona this weekend. Barcelona traveled by train and bus to Pamplona, and despite arriving just before kickoff, they still managed to beat Osasuna 3-0. The late arrival seemed to upset the La Liga leaders who took longer than usual to […]
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He is the best coach in football and Barcelona want to tie him up with a new long-term contract. Media reports say that Barca are set to offer Pep Guardiola a five-year contract to stave off growing interest from Chelsea, reports from the English press suggest. Guardiola only signed a one-year contract when Sandro Rosell […]
Is there a better footballing team on the planet than Barcelona? At the moment I would take Barcelona over anybody. Manchester United, Bayern Munich, Brazil or Argentina. Doesn’t matter. Barca wins. Tonight Barcelona showed their class with a resounding 5-0 win over Real Madrid at the Nou Camp in a memorable El Clasico to usurp […]
Interesting post on our Barcelona Fan Site about Lionel Messi has now scored 100 goals since Pep Guardiola took over as Barca manager. In that time period, Barca have scored 332 goals. The remarkable thing is that Messi has scored his 100 goals in just 117 official matches. He has scored 64 goals in the […]
The financial problems that have plagued La Liga in recent years have stretched now to one of the two biggest clubs in Spain. Today Barcelona announced that they lost more than 77 million euros last season. Sandro Rosell took over from Joan Laporta as Barcelona President and one of the first things he did was […]
Ten-men Inter Milan put on a textbook example of how to defend in Barcelona and knocked the defending champions out and sent Inter to their first Champions League Final since 1972. Once again Jose Mourinho showed why he is the “Special One. His tactics proved decisive as Inter not only overcame the loss of Goran […]
Inter Milan stunned Barcelona to take a 3-1 first-leg lead in their UEFA Champions League semi-final. José Mourinho’s team inflicted only a fourth defeat of the season on a Barcelona side bidding to make modern history by retaining the trophy. Instead, the goals from Wesley Sneijder, Maicon and Diego Milito, in response to Pedro Rodríguez’s […]