All posts tagged "Barcelona"

  • MOTD: Barcelona 3-1 Juventus

    There were hours upon hours of dissection ahead of the Champions League final in the media. No player, or injured player, boot or foot was left unturned. There was a preview for every few fans watching. It...

    • Posted June 6, 2015
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  • The Billion Euro Game: Glory and Money in the UCL Final

    The Champions League final is, in itself, a fantastic brand. It’s the pinnacle of club football and a crown jewel of European football. It’s also one of the premier sporting events in the world, second only in football...

    • Posted June 5, 2015
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  • Tiki-taka is dead. Long live tiki-taka; Barcelona’s evolution

    Pep Guardiola was famously zealous about many things; about tiki-taka, club culture, training, and about Coldplay’s song, “Viva La Vida.” He’d play it to his Barcelona team before every game and often over the loudspeakers at the...

    • Posted June 4, 2015
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  • MOTD: Bayern Munich 3-2 Barcelona (3-5 agg)

    When Bayern Munich took an early lead, it was thought “game on.”  A 3-0 loss in the first leg was heavy, but not completely insurmountable, particularly in light of Bayern’s comeback verses Porto in the quarterfinals.  When...

    • Posted May 12, 2015
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  • MOTD: Barcelona 3-0 Bayern Munich

    “There is not a system or coach to stop talent of Messi’s magnitude.  He is too good,” Pep Guardiola said.  Oh, how right he was. All tactics, injuries, and referee calls (lack thereof) aside, Messi could not...

    • Posted May 6, 2015
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  • Why El Clasico trumps all

    England’s horrid week in football will only get more embarrassing; two great derbies are set to take place this weekend, Liverpool-Manchester United and El Clasico, but once again England will be trumped by their foreign counterparts in...

    • Posted March 20, 2015
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  • MOTD: Barcelona 1-0 Manchester City (3-1 agg)

    We can imagine how, many years from now, a retired Fernandinho will be sitting around a warm hearth with his grandchildren, wistfully describing the night when he was nutmegged by erstwhile football legends Neymar and Lionel Messi....

    • Posted March 18, 2015
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  • MOTD: Manchester City 1-2 Barcelona

    The Etihad was the one fortress Luis Suarez could never break with Liverpool; indeed, he mustn’t have fond memories of Manchester City, who nicked the Premier League title out of Liverpool’s hands last season. Yet now he...

    • Posted February 24, 2015
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  • MOTD: Atletico Madrid 2-3 Barcelona (2-4 agg)

    Atletico Madrid’s shirt sponsor is fitting: Azerbaijan – The Land of Fire.  Vincente Calderon was tonight the stadium of fire.  Nine yellows, two reds, and multiple skirmishes in the club’s Copa Del Rey semi-final against Barcelona. By the eighty-fourth minute...

    • Posted January 28, 2015
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  • Tables turned on Messi as Barcelona dip

    Let’s imagine, for the sake of example, that Lionel Messi were playing at, say, Norwich City, while Cristiano Ronaldo remains at Real Madrid. No matter who is the “better” player, Ronaldo would score more, would he not?...

    • Posted January 7, 2015
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