Articles tagged with "carles-puyol"
Barça players and the International Break: Spain, Argentina and the meaning of ‘friendly’
By Ade C. | November 15th, 2009So, yesterday was the first day of friendlies, World Cup qualifiers and playoffs of this maligned international break, and those of our boys who had ...
FIFA World Player Nominees and the Barça machine
By Ade C. | October 30th, 2009So, the list is out for the 23 male football players who are in the running to get the (second?) most prestigious footballing award, the ...
Castrol Unleash Rankings Which Provide Ammo Against Rankings.
By chris | October 29th, 2009Nothing wrong with this picture whatsoever. It's a novel idea - compile a ranking which will help determine the world's best player. Castrol did it for ...
We just got ourselves some more Captain Caveman!
By Ade C. | October 23rd, 2009And the sole most important piece of news of the day, enough to make us forget about Rubin Kazan (Rubin Kazan who?), Pep shaving his ...
Poll: Who is the Hardest Working Player in Football?
By Daryl | September 8th, 2009Yesterday we asked Offside readers to sound off and let us know who the hardest working player in world football was. We had a great ...
Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Bigger.
By chris | August 25th, 2009The constant oneupsmanship off the pitch between El Clasico lovers Real Madrid and Barcelona might be as entertaining, if not more, than anything the two ...
Transfer Talk: How Dare You, Mr. Vieira!
By chris | July 14th, 2009Patrick Vieira is a cunning bastard. Well past his prime and entering retirement territory as the ability to time a tackle has left him entirely, ...
Chelsea v Barcelona Semi-Final 2nd Leg Preview
By chris | May 6th, 2009Chelsea (0) v Barcelona (0) Considering how things went in the first leg, can we finally say "this is the game we've been waiting for"? After ...
Barca 6 - Real 2: The Best Team on Planet Earth.
By chris | May 2nd, 2009Real Madrid had won 17 of 18. They'd not lost since the last Clasico in December. They were, Champions League aside, the hottest team in ...
The Anti-HAB
By Wanda Touchim | May 1st, 2009Ok, so you know the idea that you can't really know what it is to be happy unless you know what it is to be ...
Preview: Valladolid - Barça, Saturday 2pmEST, GolTV (maybe)
By Isaiah | April 3rd, 2009La Liga is back, suckas. And you know what that means: another preview! Holy cow it's going to be a fun one, too. Well, fun ...
Nice View, Carles!
By Amanda Leerat | March 7th, 2009It's never polite to take advantage of a man when he's injured. And this isn't the best photo of Barcelona's rough-and-ready centerback, Carles Puyol. But ...
Fan Voted UEFA Team of the Year Announced
By chris | January 22nd, 2009Surely millions of fanboys and fangirls couldn't have shown half a noggin? Surely not. Surely there was lots of bickering between who has the better ...
Weekend Quiz Answers: Who Were Those Bundesliga and La Liga Players?
By Laurie | January 11th, 2009If you haven't already taken our weekend quiz on Bundesliga and La Liga players, stop by here first. Then come back to this post ...
Hi, my name is Carles, what's yours?
By Isaiah | December 9th, 2008It's nice to meet you, Wesley. Please say hello to my friend, the Camp Nou grass.
Meet Your Captains!
By Isaiah | September 23rd, 2008Come get your Captains! Get your Catalan captains here, full of piss and vinegar! 4 for the price of 1! Rebajas rebaixas savings! There's little else ...
Happy 400th, Capitan!
By Isaiah | September 18th, 2008Carles Puyol turned 400 on Tuesday against Sporting CP. That's right, 400. Over the last nine years, the man known alternately as El Capitan, Puyi, ...
For the Ladies: Spain in the Locker Room. (OR: What Kind of Undies Does Iker Casillas Wear?)
By Laurie | July 1st, 2008Euro 2008 is over. I just closed my bookmark folder and don't plan to reopen it. But we would be remiss in our ...
Manchester United - Barcelona: Champions League, Tuesday 2:45pmEST
By Isaiah | April 28th, 2008Update: Check out the liveblog on the main page This. Is. It. There's no tomorrow, no next match. We're in it to win or we're out ...
Barcelona 1 - 0 Schalke: YAY...a Toure Edition
By Isaiah | April 9th, 2008So I just spent somewhere in the 20+ minute region writing up what wasn't too bad a post, certainly evolving into something worthwhile anyway, and ...
Where Are You Going? Barcelona. Oh.
By Sam | April 9th, 2008A bit cryptic, that title (it's a Sondheim lyric: Soundtrack to Company, the musical ... lovely song). But I'll be in Barcelona in less than ...
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 ...
Real Betis - Barcelona: Saturday 3pm EST
By Isaiah | March 28th, 2008In a world obsessed with little orange globes being thrown at metal circles 10 feet in the air by amateurs (that would be my world), ...
Barcelona - Villarreal: Preview, Sunday 4pm EST
By Isaiah | March 8th, 2008The squad list is out and we're back to shuffling players due to injury: Valdés, Pinto, Abidal, Thuram, Milito, Sylvinho, Zambrotta, Edmílson, Touré Yaya, Xavi, Iniesta, ...
Barcelona - Levante: Sunday 1pm EST
By Isaiah | February 22nd, 2008The fortune teller in me is saying the end of this weekend will be just like it began: 5 points back of Real Madrid, but ...
Celtic Green, Barca News & Fat Spurs
By JT | February 14th, 2008Not that we didn't already know that Celtic are one of the top twenty clubs in the world (actually top 1), Deloitte's Football Money League ...
Barca's Injury Pile & The Brilliant McGeady
By JT | February 12th, 2008With a brief winter vacation in the books, its time to get back to what really matters in life: media coverage of The Celtic Football ...
Ins & Outs From an Efficient January
By JT | February 1st, 2008There's tons of info to round up today, so lets get right to it. The transfer period was a productive one for Celtic, of that there ...
Barcelona: a statistical analysis of the defense
By Isaiah | December 16th, 2007The question of Barcelona's defensive capabilities has been brought up before, in comments, and I'd like to take a moment or 10 to delve into ...
Lyon - Barcelona: Champions League (Tuesday, 2:30pm EST)
By Isaiah | November 26th, 2007I don't have much time to write up this post, so I'm just going to link to Inara's post about the game and copy my ...
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