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Pique talks about Fabregas, Wembley, Messi, Euro 2012 & Tiempo Legend IV
Barcelona and Spain defender Gerard Pique was chosen to be the global lead athlete for the new Nike Tiempo Legend IV football boots. At the launch of the Tiempo Legend, Pique was interviewed about the boot, Fabregas, Euro 2012, why did he cut the net off in the final and more. Here is the transcript:…
England shouldn’t expect any success in the near future
Like myself, all English football fans have been let down in recent years by our regularly under achieving international side. I would like to share my views on why this is the case, and on why I don’t see any reason to expect success in the near future. The fact that us English created the…
Why Can’t the Football World Keep Up With Spain?
As the dust settles on Barcelona’s fantastic 3-1 demolition of Manchester United in the Champions League Final, and the national side recently so effortlessly thumped the United States 4-0, one thing is for certain – Spain are the best footballing nation in the world at this moment in time. Spanish football’s contemporary success is hugely…
Ronaldo bids farewell to football – His legacy lives on!
In the mid-90s a striker from Brazil was making tremors throughout the world football as he scored 42 goals in 46 appearances with PSV Eindhoven. His journey continued from there to Barcelona to Inter Milan to Real Madrid and greatness pursued in all the four leagues he played in. On the international level, he served…
Barcelona have won more doubles than anyone in Europe
Barcelona rose from a very controversial semifinal against Real Madrid to a very fine performance in the final against Manchester United. A performance that has quietened the outcry of Mourinho-hopefuls against Barca’s theatrics in the Bernabeu – with a little help from FIFA again. And this is coming from a Barcelona fan… It’s just that…
This season’s miracle, Eric Abidal
We tend to forget due to our overwhelming passion, that football is just a game. We perceive it as so much more as we are enthralled every single day of our lives with a topic, subject, drama or elation that entails of the sport we love. Besides all that, other issues in the game occur…
What Manchester United Must Do To Knock Barcelona Off Their Perch
The obituaries being written about Manchester United’s OAPs for the last five years are now finally relevant. Gary Neville and Edwin van der Sar have retired, Paul Scholes might have by the time you read this article and Ryan Giggs is holding back the development of younger players with more long-term value to the club….
Pep Guardiola’s achievements at Barcelona are far from complete
At 40 years of age Pep Guardiola has already implemented himself into one of the greatest coaches in modern history. 29 years his senior Sir Alex Ferguson, the man who sat in the opposite dugout at Wembley on Saturday night, conceded his Manchester United team were inferior to the young pretender’s Blaugrana who put on…
The Champions League Final: or how Manchester United gave Barcelona a helping hand
Stephen O’Sullivan points out that if you’re playing the best team in the world, it’s never a good idea to make it easy for them. The Manchester United players and staff queued up last night to hail Barcelona as, amongst other things, the best team they’d ever seen; Rio Ferdinand (“they were the deserving winners”), Nemanja Vidic…
The Champions’ League Final: Five Things We Learned
Five Things we learned from Barcelona’s 3-1 trouncing of Manchester United: 1. It’s definitely now time for Sir Alex Ferguson to trust his younger players Paul Wilson has already argued this in The Guardian, and he couldn’t be more right. How is it possible that a club of United’s stature and resources can roll up…
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