Blaise Matuidi’s equaliser with virtually the last kick of the game clinched a draw for Paris Saint-Germain in a pulsating Champions League quarter-final first leg against Barcelona. PSG will head to the Camp Nou with optimism next week partly because of the injuries that have hit Barcelona. Defenders Puyol, Adriano and Mascherano will all miss […]
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Barcelona coach Tito Vilanova will return to Spain this week after two months of cancer treatment in New York, the La Liga club said today. “Tito Vilanova will this week leave the city of skyscrapers to return to the Catalan capital,” Barca said in a statement on their website. The club did not say whether […]
Atlético Madrid striker Radamel Falcao is expected to leave the Spanish side this season, and most people expected him to turn up at Stamford Bridge. But that does’t look like it will be happening, at least if reports out of Spain are to be believed. According to Marca, before Falcao went away for the South […]
Spain has been the epicenter of the blood doping scandal that has engulfed cycling for years. Over the last 10 years, Spanish doctors have been linked with some of the biggest doping scandals in that sport. One of the doctors behind the Tyler Hamilton doping is called Eufemiano Fuentes, and he has been at the […]
According to Football Espana a respected figure in Andalucian sport is claiming that Malaga are close to being taken over by Paris Saint-Germain’s owner Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani. Malaga are in financial trouble after their owner Sheikh Abdullah Al-Thani decided to cut back on financing the club’s operations and not paying their bills. The […]
The French newspaper Le Parisien was the first to broach the subject recently that Paris Saint Germain striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has had enough of Ligue 1 and that he wants to return to Italy. Ibra has carried PSG on his back for most of the season, and he has not being amused with the attitude […]
Bayern Munich moved closer than ever to reclaiming the Bundesliga crown after moving 20 points clear on a weekend where the Serie A, La Liga and Ligue 1 leaders all won. Germany It was business as usual for Bayern as their seemingly inevitable march to the title continued. Bayern, who play Arsenal in the Champions […]
Lionel Messi became the only player in football history to have scored in 17 consecutive league games, bettering the previous mark of 16, set by Teodor Peterek. Peterek had scored 22 goals in 16 consecutive league matches in the Polish First Division way back in 1937-38. The goal, Barca’s second in the 2-0 win over […]
Barcelona have confirmed that they will be using the Qatar Airways logo on the front of their shirts, breaking a 113 year tradition of having no corporate sponsors there. In a lucrative €35.4 million per year deal, club president Sandro Rosell said the airline will replace charity Qatar Foundation as its shirt sponsor from 1st […]