Upsets are common in world football but when so many top clubs fall simultaneously, its no fluke. The rest of Europe stepped their game up and getting out of the [...] The post Champions League: Has the Rest of Europe Caught Up To The Top Teams? appeared first on The Smoking Section .
Begrudgingly, I was denied an El Clasico Champions League Final. Chelsea scores before halftime again and shuts the door with an injury time Torres hop-and-pop goal over Barcelona. Real Madrid [...]
You know him as the master producer behind the global phenomenon "Loca People" that hit #1 on the electro charts in nearly all European countries, the U.S., Canada as well as in Lebanon and Israel (and won him gold and platinum discs in Holland and Denmark), but here we get to learn more about the [...]
A Real Madrid vs FC Barcelona Final? Maybe not. As the first leg of the semi-final rounds of the Champions League draw to a close, the dream final most were [...]
The Champions League's version of the elite eight kicked off their first leg match ups this week. While the Barcelona vs AC Milan match surprisingly ended in a stalemate, Real [...]
Soccer's greatest player, Lionel Messi , recently broke his Barcelona club's record for career goals scored. Considering that Messi is just 24-years-old, by the time he retires, the record might be considerably out of reach for anyone to break. Anyway, here's a fourteen minute compilation recapping all of Messi’s goals. It's a nice addendum to the other Messi viral video of him not flopping and his overall genius . [via theaggregate ]
Words By Jason Horitllas, B.L. Lauvray History was made this week in the first batch of second leg match-ups in the Champions League. While superstars like Leo Messi accomplished the [...]
Michael Jordan didn't give fair warning when he jammed home a missed Scottie Pippen free throw. Peyton Manning won't apologize for disrupting defenses when he calls audibles at the last [...]
The first week of matches in the knockout stage of the UEFA Champions League didn't provide too many surprise results but with top clubs like AC Milan and defending champions [...]
The last time FC Barcelona and Real Madrid met in the Copa del Rey, Cristiano Ronaldo and company took the trophy in the Final. Unfortunately for "Los Blancos," the dropping [...]
FC Barcelona's goalkeeper flubbed a clearance resulting in a Real Madrid goal in the first minute of the game but with a little luck and resiliency, Barcelona won 3-1 to [...]
Imagine the NBA Finals, the World Series and the Stanley Cup Finals on steroids. An event garnering even more viewers than the coveted Super Bowl Championship. The other type of football provides just that in the UEFA Champions League Final. The European soccer competition is a sporting event of massive proportions, a battle between what [...]
The NY Times ran a big feature on 23-year-old FC Barcelona star Lionel Messi this weekend. Some are already calling him one of the best footballers ever. During the careers of the greats to whom Messi is most often compared — Pelé of Brazil and Diego Maradona, a fellow Argentine — the pace of the game was slower, with more space to operate and more chance for flamboyant playfulness in the flowing dribbles known as gambeta. Today, soccer increasingly relies on size and muscle and speed. The best players must be able to [...]
The NY Times ran a big feature on 23-year-old FC Barcelona star Lionel Messi this weekend. Some are already calling him one of the best footballers ever. During the careers of the greats to whom Messi is most often compared — Pelé of Brazil and Diego Maradona, a fellow Argentine — the pace of the game was slower, with more space to operate and more chance for flamboyant playfulness in the flowing dribbles known as gambeta. Today, soccer increasingly relies on size and muscle and speed. The best players must be able to [...]
Regisseur Johan Kramer maakte een 7 minuten durende korte film over Charly Rexach en FC Barcelona. Charly Rexach was bij Barcelona jarenlang de rechterhand van Johan Cruijff. Deze prachtige film is gemaakt op initiatief van Turkish Airlines, die sinds begin dit jaar sponsor van Barcelona zijn. En mocht je hem nog niet hebben gezien, check dan Johan Primero . De Barcelona film van Johan Kramer.
Over in the soccer world, championships were decisively won and lost this past weekend. Beginning in Spain, only five points separated Barcelona and Madrid in their annual two-horse race at the start of Saturday morning. By day’s end, Madrid’s title challenge was effectively over. A mediocre-at-best Sporting Gijon team handed an injury-plagued Madrid a loss, the first home defeat for manager Jose Mourinho in nine years—stretching his stints with FC Porto in Portugal, Chelsea in England, and Internazionale in Italy. Barcelona, on the other hand, dispatched a prickly Villareal [...]
"Two teams, both alike in dignity, In fair España, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to La Liga, Where fútbol makes rival fans scream..." [See post to listen to audio] » Romeo + Juliet Soundtrack - O Verona Extended [...]
Fifa 11 follows NBA 2K112s footsteps with a recent release on the PS3 and Xbox 360 . It gives you a taste of what you'll find in the full game with multiple difficulty settings, 3 minute halves and the following clubs: Real Madrid, Barcelona, Chelsea, Bayer Leverkusen, Olympique Lyonnais and Juventus. The demo also features some unlockables to bide your time with like the ability to play as well as play in Emirates Stadium. There are also some treats available that tie in to EA's Fifa Superstars if Facebook games are your thing. [...]
In the midst of a tight title race, Barcelona seems to be eager for greater separation from Madrid come next season. If preliminary reports out of Spain are to be believed, then the biggest transfer of the summer is complete and David Villa will soon don the blaugrana. Heading southwest in the opposite direction could be Barca attackers Bojan Krkic and Alex Hleb and duffel bags packed with a cool 40 million euros. It would be a move in response to a similar one that backfired last year: bringing in Zlatan Ibrahimovic [...]
Any recent soccer coverage (especially from that of a non-football site) must make mention of Lionel Messi. Over the past month in particular, the play of the little Argentine has suggested that he could be the greatest soccer player ever—at 22, mind you. Maradona has even said so himself (though he says a lot of things). Saturday evening brought the big showdown: Barcelona v. Madrid, Messi v. Ronaldo, La Liga title on the line at the Bernabéu. Anticlimactic, it was. Just over half an hour, Xavi chipped the ball over the Madrid backline, and [...]
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