Articles tagged with "lionel messi"
Poll: Messiah Or Cristiano Ronaldo?
By chris | May 16th, 2008Joe Cole made a statement the other day which brings up an important question: Who would you rather have, Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo? Joe makes no attempt to hide his feelings, and he thinks Lionel is the man of the hour: "Ronaldo has been ...
Day 4 of the Readers CL XI - Wingers
By Rob | May 11th, 2008All wekk we've been giving you the chance to vote in your CL team of the season. On paper this might be the most one (well two) sided battle of all time (fittingly perhaps for wingers). With two of the best players in the world playing on the wings, ...
Photo of the Day: Upended
By Laurie | May 8th, 2008"Upended" is a not a bad description here, both for what's happening to Leo Messi in the photo and for what Real Madrid did to Messi's team, Barcelona, in yesterday's game. Full story on the game and it's implications here. (Photo: Denis D ...
Step away from the Bridge
By Matt | May 8th, 2008As the summer quickly approaches, the EPL tends to become a bit like a middle school cafeteria in it's propagation of nasty rumors. "omg, did you see who Drogba is flirting with?" "Jose just passed a note to Adriano Galliani, teheheh ...
El Clásico!
By Isaiah | May 6th, 2008I know that the rumors about who is leaving and who is arriving are flying thick and fast from all over the world (should we get Anakin Skywalker Rodrigo Palacio? How about Jozy Altidore, David Villa, or Peter Parker?), but there is something much ...
Highest Paid Footballers (and Guess Which MLS Star is #1?)
By Laurie | May 2nd, 2008The numbers are out. Guess who the #1 highest-paid footballer is? You'll never guess. I'll give you a hint. Plays in MLS. Has a "pop-star" wife. Made an estimated $49 million last year, of which only $12 million came from actually playing t ...
Messi. Ronaldo. Who's The Man?
By Rob | April 23rd, 2008Tonight, as you will probably be aware, Barcelona are playing against Manchester United at Camp Nou. Its the Champions League semi-final, but more than that, its a chance to see the best two footballers in the world at the moment (sorry Ricky) on the ...
Barcelona vs. Manchester United Champions League Preview
By Laurie | April 23rd, 2008Cristiano Ronaldo. Wayne Rooney. Carlos Tevez. Thierry Henry. Samuel Eto'o. Lionel Messi. And perhaps even Bojan Krkic. Any one of these names can strike fear into the heart of defenders. And there's a chance that we may see all of them to ...
Episode 20: Champions League Semifinal Preview
By Ian Rose | April 22nd, 2008It's the most wonderful time of the year ... perhaps not, but it's pretty damned close. European football seasons, both domestic and continental, are coming to a close, and not far off over that horizon is the joy of Euro 2008. We focus on the big ...
Recreativo Huelva - Barcelona: Saturday 4pm EST (GolTV)
By Isaiah | April 11th, 2008While El Mundo Deportivo reports that a Ronnie-to-Milan deal has been reached for €30million, the focus for the team must be on Recreativo Huelva and regaining some sort of foothold on the league title -- or at least not slipping further behind Rea ...
The Morning After: Injury Report
By Isaiah | April 10th, 2008The injuries just keep right on coming, that's for sure. Do we have a quota we have to fill or something? The biggest news is that Andres Iniesta has a slipped meniscus, which could require surgery either now or at the end of the season, depending on ...
Frank Rijkaard's Leather Couch
By Sam | April 7th, 2008Simon Kuper has a superb interview in today's Financial Times with Barcelona's Dutch coach. Frank's comment about Lionel Messi -- whom we shall not see this week due to injury -- illustrates Rijkaard's sensitivity toward his players and to the ...
Reminder: Barcelona and Man U giveaways
By Ian Rose | April 4th, 2008Just a little reminder about our backpack and sackpack giveaway. If anyone is interested in winning Barcelona or Man United gear, you need to send in your picks to podcast[at]theoffside.com before the games kick off. The contest is closed, after ...
Barcelona - Getafe: Sunday 3pmEST
By Isaiah | April 4th, 2008[Updated Version] Just an FYI for all the readers: The Offside is listed as the 35th most powerful blog in the entire universe by The Guardian. Check it out. How cool is this!? We've also received just over 9,500 visitors last month (half of them ar ...
The Return of the Absentees
By Isaiah | April 2nd, 2008The big news coming out of La Masia today seems to be the return of Deco and Ronaldinho to full training. Kevin has already expressed his opinion on the matter in the comments of the previous post, but I'd like to take a moment to discuss this situat ...
Episode 17: Champions League and Title Races (+ Contest)
By Ian Rose | April 1st, 2008Well, it's April, and rather than play any nasty tricks on you the way Matt at the Celtic blog did on me, we bring you a preview of the Champions League quarterfinals starting later today. We'll go through each of the four matchups, and tell you wha ...
RED BULLS v. BARCELONA - AUGUST 7th
By Dave Martinez | March 18th, 2008This will be the I TOLD YOU SO post. RED BULLS v. BARCELONA - AUGUST 7th DC Game mysteriously moved for nothing? I think NOT! Of course it was moved for Barcelona!!! They will need their rest after chasing Henry and Ronaldinho up and down the fie
Almeria - Barcelona: Preview; Sunday 2pm EST
By Isaiah | March 14th, 2008Updated version. I found out this morning that there is so much more news available that I just couldn't fail to update my "janky" preview. This is almost a complete rewrite. It's away to Almeria this weekend and it won't be a cakewalk. Yes, we beat th
A few tidbits and oh yeah, Messi is out
By Isaiah | March 6th, 2008First, foremost, top of the list is Lionel Messi's injury. It's a hamstring injury that will keep him out for six weeks. Yes, we're through to the quarterfinals of the Champions League (hip! hip!) thanks to a 1-0 win over Celtic (hooray!), but we had to w
Barcelona - Celtic: Champions League Second Leg!
By Isaiah | March 4th, 2008Updated version It's the second leg of the Champions League first round knockout stage and we've got a decided advantage going in. We're up 3-2 already and we're at home. That's fantastic. It's hard not to be extremely confident in a team with such an ad
Copa: Barcelona 1 - 1 Valencia (Deification Edition)
By Isaiah | February 28th, 2008The game came down to the hands of a man Ray Hudson screamed was a "black jungle cat" and yet another late, late, late heroic strike from Xavi. If not for Timo Hildebrand's freakish ability to tell where the ball was going and his absurd luck, the game wo
Copa del Rey! Copa del Rrrrrreeeeyyyyyyy!!!!
By Isaiah | February 27th, 2008Remember this is what happened last time we played a Copa del Rey semifinal at the Camp Nou: Tot el camp és un clam som la gent blaugrana tant se val d'on venim si del sud o del nord ara estem d'acord, estem d'acord una bandera ens agermana b
Barcelona 5 - 1 Levante (Holy Balls Edition)
By Isaiah | February 26th, 2008Squashed between several big matches in the Champions League, Copa del Rey, and even La Liga itself, was a little visit from old Levante. Any thought that Barcelona would have a post-Celtic hangover was dashed early, then reignited for lack of anything be
Barcelona 1 - 0 Osasuna: Holy Bejesus Hay Liga Edition
By Isaiah | February 4th, 2008Going from a bored, downtrodden fan wishing his team would show some life to a beaming, screaming, semi-intoxicated imbecile with a blaugrana shirt on takes approximately half of a second. That's the time, by my official stopwatch, between when I realized
Barcelona - Villarreal: Copa del Rey 2nd Leg, TODAY 4pm EST
By Isaiah | January 31st, 2008Heyyyyoooo it's Barcelona hosting Villarreal in a must-win match. Not draw, not lose, but win. Outright. By putting more goals in the net than the other team. Anyone not clear on this? Rijkaard, any questions? Ronaldinho is back, in the squad, if not nece
Villarreal - Barcelona: Copa del Rey preview, in brief
By Isaiah | January 24th, 2008It's the Copa del Rey quarterfinals, first leg at El Madrigal, a place that hasn't been kind to us this season (see 3-1 loss), but we've got our little "talisman" back and Lionel Messi might just prove the difference. He was there for that loss, of course
Barcelona - Racing Santander: Sunday 3pm EST
By Isaiah | January 19th, 2008It's another match at the Camp Nou, the third in a row, and the hope is that Barcelona can take advantage of Real Madrid visiting the Calderon -- assuming that RM slips up, of course. Racing comes calling on Sunday at 3pm EST, broadcast on GolTV as per us
RAWR!!! Don't Look Now But Here We Come!
By Inara | November 28th, 2007Today Lyon crawled back from behind twice to draw with Barcelona at the Gerland. While a win would have been much sweeter, at least Lyon are still in the running for a place in the knockout rounds of the Champions League (thanks to our German friends over
Gooooolaaaaaaazooooooooooo
By Isaiah | November 21st, 2007Who, but Messi? Two versions: Warning: the video below is crazy loud and includes clapping by the commentator Messi gol a colombiaUploaded by DJKALIN24 Slightly less insane version: Colombia 2-1 Argentina (0-1 Messi)Uploaded by MoreGoals Even t
Getafe 2-Barcelona 0 (The “Orange Turd” edition)
By Isaiah | November 10th, 2007Guest blogger: Kevin. Thanks so much to Kevin for taking over this week's edition. Not a lot to say about this one. Thanks to my futbol-mania, I had GolTV as part of the Spanish language package (which I got for ESPN Deportes and Champions League matc
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