Articles tagged with "lionel-messi"
Villareal 3 - 1 Barcelona: Review and Highlights (Finding silver linings edition)
By Isaiah | October 22nd, 2007On Saturday afternoon I was completely prepared to watch Barcelona dismantle Villareal and dispell any thoughts about how out of form Barcelona is on away ...
International Break: Of Boys and Henk ten Cate
By Isaiah | October 9th, 2007If you didn't now this, Barcelona is a big club. Huge, if you will. Until international break, when the team's squad is reduced to five ...
Barcelona 3 - 0 Atletico de Madrid: Review and Highlights (Holy crap, we're good edition)
By Isaiah | October 8th, 2007I have to admit right here and now that I was not expecting this sort of scoreline. It wasn't even particularly flattering, but I did ...
Barcelona - Atletico de Madrid: Preview (Sunday 11am EST, GolTV)
By Isaiah | October 5th, 2007Whoever it is that schedules La Liga matches sure knows how to make me happy. They must have me in mind, I mean, they must ...
Stuttgart 0 - 2 Barcelona: Highlights and Review (Bitter Victory Edition)
By Isaiah | October 3rd, 2007The headline today on Sport's website was "Smiles and Tears," which is pretty appropriate, I suppose. Last night Barcelona defeated Stuttgart 0-2 in Germany with ...
Snapshot: Messi Hair
By Jan | October 3rd, 2007Here's Lionel Messi fighting for the ball against Fernando Meira during Stuttgart's Champions League match against Barcelona yesterday. Barcelona won the match 2-0. I only ...
Levante 1 - 4 Barcelona: Review and Highlights
By Isaiah | October 1st, 2007For all of you (ahem, us), who wondered if Henry had lost his scoring touch, Saturday's game at Levante should have send you/us into rapturous ...
Barcelona 4 - 1 Zaragoza: Review
By Isaiah | September 26th, 2007I left work early today to go home and watch the Barca-Zaragoza game and I'm definitely glad I did. The game was well and truly ...
Barcelona 2 - 1 Sevilla: Review and Highlights (I heart Toure edition)
By Isaiah | September 24th, 2007While everyone else is lauding the brilliance of Messi during Saturday's 2-1 defeat of Sevilla at the Camp Nou, I think it would be wrong ...
Barcelona - Sevilla: Saturday 4pm EST
By Isaiah | September 21st, 2007There has been some debate on whether or not this game will be shown, but as attentive reader John pointed out in a comment to ...
Barcelona 3 - 0 Lyon: Review and Highlights
By Isaiah | September 20th, 2007Wow! I didn't see this coming at all. I privately forecasted a 2-1 victory that I thought was perhaps being a little optimistic, but it ...
Représente ta ligue: The Lyon Sleeps Tonight
By Sam | September 19th, 2007Yes, I insist on using that headline every time, what of it? You've probably heard: Olympique Lyonnais were destroyed by Barcelona, Lionel Messi in particular, ...
The Dawn of Messi
By Jan | August 16th, 2007Mehmet Scholl Farewell Match between FC Barcelona and FC Bayern Munich.
Bayern Munich 0 - 1 Barcelona: Messi-ah is back!
By Isaiah | August 15th, 2007I didn't watch the match, but it seems from Sport's Partido Al Minuto that Leo Messi scored an absolute golazo in the 84th minute of ...
Bayern Munich enters Third World Child Trade Business Race to sign the next Maradona
By Jan | August 6th, 2007
I guess six to eight years from now will mark the beginning of a new golden age for the beautiful game. That's around the time ...
When they were young: Lionel Messi being the next Lionel Messi
By Bob | July 25th, 2007[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wad16fQKK0c[/youtube] One benefit of living in the Internet era is that we are able to watch videos of young kids dominating the opposition on the pitch. ...
'Nastic 1 – 5 Barcelona: Ending the season with style
By Isaiah | June 18th, 2007First, congratulations to Real Madrid for winning the league. Certainly the better team during the last third of the season, the merengues, as always, left ...
Barcelona 2 - 2 Espanyol: I'd laugh if I weren't crying
By Isaiah | June 12th, 2007Despite the fact that Lionel Messi has further proven he's the second coming of Maradona by scoring what would truly have been the Hand of ...
Barcelona 1 - 0 Getafe: Review and Highlights
By Isaiah | May 28th, 2007Well, Barca got revenge, at least in part. Still tied with Real Madrid on points, but trailing on head-to-head. The big story is, of course, ...
Barcelona - Getafe: Venganza!
By Isaiah | May 24th, 2007Revenge. It is a brutal word most of the time, even in sports. But now is not the time to be squeamish about such things ...
Atlético 0 - 6 Barcelona: "a professional humiliation" with highlights
By Isaiah | May 21st, 2007Well. What a difference a week can make. All the naysayers who came out of the woodwork after Getafe and Real Betis can return to ...
May 16 Juventus News- Im dizzy....its insanity
By Gianfranco | May 16th, 2007I think once we acquire a bigtime midfielder and defender this season Im going to take a month off, all of these rumors and speculations ...
Copa del Rey Semifinal, 2nd leg, Thursday 3pm EST
By Isaiah | May 9th, 2007Tomorrow is another game, but one lacking a the spark associated with recent Barcelona games. Sure it's the domestic cup semifinal, but Barcelona enter with ...
An early preview: Real Sociedad - Barcelona, Saturday 1pm EST
By Isaiah | May 1st, 2007Estadio Anoeta: beautiful, perhaps deadly It's perhaps a bit early for a preview of the weekend matches, but whatever, I've written it and I'm sticking to ...
Barcelona 1 - 0 Levante: Eto'o grabs 3 points
By Isaiah | April 30th, 2007Well, we got 3 points, even if it turned out to be pretty much the hardest way we could do it while maintaining a clean ...
Cesc plays video games, loves Messi more
By Isaiah | April 21st, 2007There are times in my life when I realize I'm living vicariously through the latest FIFA game, but it does come as a surprise that ...
Villareal - Barcelona; Sunday 3pm EST: The Legacy of Juan Roman Riquelme
By Isaiah | April 20th, 2007After a week that pushed Barcelona 4 points clear in the league and included a ridiculous goal by Leo Messi in the Copa del Rey, ...
Coaching 101: Don't Order your Team off the Pitch
By Bob | April 20th, 2007You are the coach of a team in Bosnia. Your team is in third place in the league, just six points from the leaders. ...
Messi & Maradona: A Side-by-Side Comparison
By Bob | April 19th, 2007I've seen Lionel Messi's goal about 20 times today and each time it is no less amazing. The best commentary of the goal is ...
The New King of Football. Simply, Messi.
By Isaiah | April 19th, 2007Best commentary I've heard in years: and all of the goals, but without the great commentary:
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