Articles tagged with "yaya-toure"
A Ballon D’Or on a field blaugrana…
By Ade C. | October 19th, 2009To wash the bitter taste that this weekend’s match left in our mouths, and get in the mood for Wednesday’s return to the European matches, ...
CL Team of 2009 - Central Midfielders
By Rob | May 14th, 2009So this beast staggers on for another day. You've picked the Goalkeeper you'd like in your team, you've picked your back line (although the polls ...
Weekend Quiz Answers: Who Were the African-Born Players?
By Laurie | May 10th, 2009First, if you haven't done your quiz, stop by this post and make your guesses. Then come back here for the answers. Well ...
CL Preview: Barça - Bayern Munich, Wednesday 2:45pmEST, ESPNDeportes
By Isaiah | April 7th, 2009Bayern, meet The Yaya. The Yaya, meet Bayern. Go to war. Sweet baby Jesus we have our Destroyer back in midfield thanks to recovery from injury/return ...
Show Yaya the Money
By Isaiah | March 26th, 2009Why are we dithering on this? Seriously, give the man a better contract. Or this stare will be turned on you. And that, of course, ...
Taye Taïwo, African left-back of the year...
By Magnusson | February 9th, 2009The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has announced its 2008 African Team of the Year. Our left-back, Taye Taiwo, has the great honor to be a ...
Preview: Racing - Barça; Sunday 11amEST, GolTV
By Isaiah | January 30th, 2009February 1, 2009 is one of those rare Sundays when La Liga takes precedence over all on GolTV. There will be three (3) matches shown ...
Copa: Barça - Atleti, Wednesday 4pmEST, GolTV
By Isaiah | January 13th, 2009Copa del Rey, leg two, in the Camp Nou. Barça enters with a 3-1 lead after Messi's gorgeous hat trick last Tuesday. Despite the obvious ...
I Demand More (Money For) Yaya
By Isaiah | January 12th, 2009Dear Joan Laporta and the rest of the FCB Board of Directors, It has come to our collective attention -- we being myself, Kevin, and all ...
Preview: Villarreal - Barça; Sunday 1pmEST, GolTV [Updated]
By Isaiah | December 19th, 2008After what felt like a month off, we're back to the league, though not without first being handed Lyon. But now it's Villarreal time, time ...
Yaya: Bigger Than You
By Isaiah | December 10th, 2008There are only a few things that are constants in the universe: gravity, the speed of light, fear of Yaya.
December of Truth: Sevilla - Barça, Saturday 4pmEST, GolTV
By Isaiah | November 28th, 2008So it's here. December. One word, one serious f-ing month. Technically the first game of this stretch doesn't take place during December, but whatever. Sure, ...
Preview: Athletic - Barcelona, Sunday 1pm EST, GolTV
By Isaiah | October 18th, 2008Well, I'm back, so my previews are also back. Yay. Just remember, my record is 100% in terms of predictions,* so you can trust me ...
Give me more Yaya
By Isaiah | September 22nd, 2008Dear Josep Guardiola, I love what's happening with the squad and I love the results we've had the last two outings; your obvious knowledge of tactics ...
Barcelona - NY Red Bulls: Today, 7pm EST
By Isaiah | August 6th, 2008First, you can check out Dave's excellent coverage of yesterday's Malaria No More event here (it includes a scintillating interview with Henry!). I personally thought ...
The Readers CL XI - Central Midfielders
By Rob | May 12th, 2008We're begining to get to the buisness end now. If you haven't been paying attention, at the CL Offside, we've been offering you the chance ...
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 ...
Barcelona - Valencia: Sunday 1pm
By Isaiah | May 3rd, 2008There's a Spanish word that I love both because of its meaning and the actual sound when you spit it out: venganza. Revenge, payback. You ...
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 ...
Photo of the Day: Getting the Job Done
By Laurie | April 9th, 2008Barcelona player Yaya Toure celebrates with teammate Samuel Eto'o after Toure's goal in the Champions League quarterfinals against Shalke. Barcelona won the game ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
Barcelona - Celtic: Champions League Second Leg!
By Isaiah | March 3rd, 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 ...
Atlético de Madrid - Barcelona; Saturday 2pmEST
By Isaiah | February 29th, 2008It's back to La Liga now, with the Copa semis taking a break for a couple of weeks. It's another trip to the Calderon to ...
Preview: Barcelona - Real Zaragoza; Saturday 4pm EST
By Isaiah | February 14th, 2008So I know it's a day early, but the preview for the first of many must-win games is here and I'm leaving town tonight on ...
Sevilla - Barcelona: Copa del Rey preview + randomness
By Isaiah | January 8th, 2008It's January and a soccer blogger of even my stature would be remiss if he or she didn't cover a couple of the rumblings in ...
Some thoughts before the real thoughts
By Isaiah | December 17th, 2007You'd think it'd be hard to organize your thoughts before such a huge game as the one coming up this weekend, but the reality is ...
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 ...
Valencia - Barcelona: Preview (Saturday, 4pm EST)
By Isaiah | December 14th, 2007Saturday's matchup at the Mestalla is not just between two heavyweight contenders in the La Liga title chase, but also between The Offside crew. Cesar ...
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