Articles tagged with "messi"
Barca 2-Mallorca 3, a.k.a. "Too much ugliness all around"
By Kevin | May 11th, 2008Must look good in blue and red, great first touch mandatory. Must be a team player and a fast learner. Patience and ability to learn new systems is essential. Catalan skills desired, but not essential. Please apply to: Pep G Camp Nou Avignud ...
Barca vs Mallorca, or "Here's to happier times," Sunday, 3 p.m. ET, (5pm on GolTV)
By Kevin | May 10th, 2008Okay. Time to play out the string, to find out what kind of fans we have at the Camp Nou. We're bound for third place, and will have to play our way into the Champions League next season. Frank Rijkaard and Ronaldinho, two faces who came to epito ...
Evil Empire 4-Barca 1, or "Pimp slap is front of the hand, back of the head."
By Kevin | May 7th, 2008That's what we did. Rolled over and showed our goddamned bellies like a submissive dog, at a time when we should have been playing for a bit of pride, playing for the colors, fighting like savages for at least some salvation for this season of pu ...
Barca 6-Valencia 0 or "Like unto a peacock."
By Kevin | May 4th, 2008That's right. Just like a peacock. You heard me. Beautiful plumage, lovely to look at, and what does it mean? Is there satisfaction in having beaten Valencia, the team that took our most realistic chance at silver this season, like a gong? Dunno, ...
Barcelona and ManU Highlight Videos, to Get You in the Mood
By Laurie | April 29th, 2008[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=-lTYtkN4VRc[/youtube]I am officially not taking sides in the Champions League game between Manchester United and Barcelona, because we all know what happens when I take sides. (Actually, I'm tempted to work ha ...
Poll, Who Was The Best Player Last Night?
By Ale | April 24th, 2008I know who it certainly wasn't. I'm going with Ferdinand... without him United surely would have had at least one in the back of their net. Messi: 3 Ferdinand: 3 Patrice Evra: 1 Deco: 1 Abidal: 2 Ronaldo: 1 Other (specify): A ...
Jose & Friends Prove It's All About The Children
By chris | April 23rd, 2008Admit it, when Jose said "I'm Jose Mourinho and I'm...." you thought he was going to say "I'm fantastic", didn't you? How Adidas missed this opportunity we'll never know. They got a big fat softball lob and they whiffed. In the advert we saw ...
Barca v Man U, a.k.a. "The Big One" 1:30 p.m. CT, ESPN2
By Kevin | April 22nd, 2008You know why this man is smiling? Because he is thinking about getting in some Red Devil ass, that's why. Because this is it. The real deal, and he is the most pivotal player on the pitch for so many reasons, but most importantly, because they ca ...
Eidur Gudjohnsen Is Smart
By Alessandro | April 20th, 2008"Eidur Gudjohnsen has warned his Barcelona team-mates that Paul Scholes will be more of a threat than Cristiano Ronaldo in their UEFA Champions League semi-final clash." I couldn't have put it better myse - wait, wait, what? Today in an inter ...
Barca 0-Espanyol 0, a.k.a. "Making Kameni look good"
By Kevin | April 19th, 2008Let's just give him a pedicure, a nap and a bottle while we're at it. Repeat after me: If you shoot the damned ball where the keeper is, he's probably going to make the save. Make sense? Feel better now? Good. Now. This match had the stink o ...
Riquelme to MLS?!
By Dave Martinez | April 9th, 2008Its always interesting when you have nothing better to do at work but troll for news and rumors from Argentina. And its even better when Argie news means MLS news! According to ESPNDeportes, Riquelme was offered a $15 million dollar contract by ...
Double the Messi! Argentina AND Barcelona on the way!
By Dave Martinez | March 10th, 2008I will start with the confirmed, nearly solid, rock hard reliable rumor. ARGENTINA v. USA in GIANTS STADIUM Ahhh . . . the sound of that rings tango to my Argie ears. My two favorite teams in the world playing against each other, in what looks
POLL: Real Madrid or Barcelona?
By Dave Martinez | February 24th, 2008Within the last two weeks, Red Bulls have been linked to two Spanish Giants, Real Madrid and Barcelona, for an exhibition game rumored to be played in Giants Stadium. In Coach Arenas first year, we witnessed an exciting (if not lopsided) game ag
Di Santo and the Chelsea Youth Team Conundrum
By Jack | January 17th, 2008When you think young Argetinian starlet, who usually comes to mind? Leo Messi, Saviola? Carlitos? How about Peter Crouch? Wait, what? For most Chelsea fans who were first made aware that the club had signed an 18-year-old Argentine named Franco Di S
Marco Amelia Desination of the Week ; Barcelona
By Marco | January 8th, 2008That’s right Marco, Lovely Barcelona ! After Napoli last week and Siberia the week before, Marco Amelia is now a target of Barcelona! The city where you eat at 11pm, go to bed at noon and where you see beautiful lesbians making out in every
What does World Class mean? | Which Premiership Players are World Classs?
By ed | September 10th, 2007There’s a lot of talk about the need to sign “world class” players but how do you define the term? Is world class just another way to describe a player – like “good” or “great”? Or is it a literal term to mean players that are good enough
Monday Milan Musings
By Gianfranco | July 10th, 2007Well another lethargically slow transfer rumor day. I am beginning to wonder if everyone over at the San Siro is asleep. I like slow days because it gives me a chance to ramble aimlessly about everything AC Milan. -Grazie to Martha for allowing me to
Javi does it again!
By Brian | July 9th, 2007Javier Mascherano just scored his second career international goal and his second goal of Copa on a put-back off a Messi shot that was saved by the Peruvian keeper. Congrats Masche.
The Rumor Mill Continues...
By Gianfranco | May 8th, 2007Today Sammie Eto has joined the long list of Milan targets for a summer transfer. If talks with Barcelona continue we may even get a buy two get one free deal and sneak Messi in with Eto and Ronaldinho. I sometimes just shake my head at these far fetche
Inter: We Want Messi. No, Wait, Deco! Eh, Whatever.
By Martha | March 21st, 2007Not content to let Milan have all the fun, Inter are now allegedly also getting into the race for a Barcelona player or two. According to a recent story in La Gazetta dello Sport, the nerazzurri have turned to the Spanish club in their desperate search fo
Recreativo Huelva 0 – 4 Barcelona: Match Review
By Isaiah | March 18th, 2007There is apparently something wonderful to be said about the 4-3-3; that something was four goals against a decent squad on Saturday as Barcelona won their first away game since something like 1979 (if you’re actually keeping track at home, the last a
Recreativo Huelva - Barcelona Preview
By Isaiah | March 16th, 2007Barcelona have a middle-of-the-road away record this year (4W-5D-4L), which is good enough for 7th best away record in La Liga. Their full stats, for all you stat-crazed fans, are available here. The roster for the game has been released: Keepers: V
Top of the Table and Never Looking Back…Maybe.
By Isaiah | March 13th, 2007Whereas for most of Europe, silly things tend to happen now and then, in Spain “now and then” seems to mean every weekend. Take this past weekend for example. Barcelona and Real Madrid started off the big boy games with a down-right awesome 3-3 draw t
It Seems Inter Are Preparing to Do a Little Shopping
By Martha | December 7th, 2006You know all the endless talk about how Beckham is headed to the USA next season, what with the rule being named after him and everything? Well, not so fast -- clubcall reported yesterday (with actual quotes and everything) that Inter might be preparing a
Adriano Out, Messi In? Yes, Please!
By Martha | November 11th, 2006How about some rumors with your breakfast? This one's at least a vague possibility, if you believe the Italian papers. Well, sort of. Apparently the brilliant scouting minds at Inter think that Messi youngster might just have something, and they're gearin
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