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Barcelona Win La Liga

by Rami Soufi on May 16, 2010 · 0 comments

The Cata­lan giants have suc­ceeded in defend­ing their league title and will end the sea­son on a high note despite los­ing in the Cham­pi­ons League semi-final to Inter and being elim­i­nated from the Copa del Rey ear­lier in the sea­son. One of the main cat­a­lysts behind the suc­cess­ful defend­ing of la Liga title has been […]

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The Camp Nou will be the venue when Barcelona host Inter in the second-leg of the Cham­pi­ons League semi-final. In Milan, Inter were able to score a fan­tas­tic 3–1 win after trail­ing 1–0 against the Euro­pean cham­pi­ons. One player who has been instru­men­tal for the Ner­az­zurri in Europe is Wes­ley Snei­jder yet the Dutch playmaker […]

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NINO, NINO, NINO!” chanted Los Chichar­reros in the Esta­dio Heliodoro Rodríguez López.  When shouted aloud, the chant sounded like an onrush­ing ambu­lance through a traffic-jammed street, and for Getafe, who fell vic­tim to the bril­liance of Nino, they needed the assis­tance of EMT work­ers. After a 0–0 draw at home to Real Val­ladolid last Saturday, […]

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Real Madrid Close The Gap On Barcelona

by Rami Soufi on April 18, 2010 · 1 comment

Los Galac­ti­cos were able to defeat Valen­cia 2–0 cour­tesy of their two top scor­ers Gon­zalo Higuain and Cris­tiano Ronaldo. Real Madrid have been heav­ily depen­dent on the duo to deliver the goals and achieve vic­to­ries. When the two are hav­ing a rel­a­tively sub­dued match, Real tend to strug­gle as wit­nessed against Barcelona. With the win […]

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Through­out Barcelona’s two-year run of ground­break­ing excel­lence, Josep Guardi­ola i Sala role as a tac­ti­cian tended to be under­val­ued.  He rein­sti­tuted the “Total Foot­ball” con­cept that Johan Cruyff, Guardiola’s for­mer man­ager at FC Barcelona, instilled when he was a player and a man­ager at the club, and he changed the cul­ture inside the dress­ing room. He […]

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Is Lionel Messi Unstoppable?

by Rami Soufi on April 11, 2010 · 11 comments

At the moment the answer would most likely be a resound­ing “Yes” con­sid­er­ing Lionel Messi’s tor­rid scor­ing run and his great form. How­ever, one would only need to look at Argentina’s matches to see how the tal­ented Messi who is widely regarded as the best player in the world becomes just another good player. In […]

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Barcelona emerged vic­to­ri­ous from ‘El Cla­sico’ after beat­ing Real Madrid 2–0 in Madrid. This was the first home defeat for Los Galac­ti­cos in la Liga and might sig­nal the end of Real’s chal­lenge to wres­tle away the league title from the Cata­lan club. Real’s defend­ers  looked shaky not only because of Lionel Messi’s move­ment but also due to […]

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