Win, lose, or draw.
I’m excited for the game today. You should be too.
Kick off is at 4pm EST, 6am in Tokyo, 11pm in Beirut, 3pm in Tegucigalpa, and midnight in Minsk HLEB CITY. Liveblog starts whenever I feel like it. (Probably half an hour before)
FCB Lineup: Valdés, Alves, Puyol, Mascherano, Adriano; Fàbregas, Dos Santos, Thiago; Messi, Cuenca Tello
Bench: Pinto, Xavi, Alexis, Pique, Busi, Abidal, Sergi Roberto
“If Madrid win all of their matches, we will obviously applaud and congratulate them for their great campaign. They will have deserved to win if that happens.” – Javier Mascherano.
The difference in class between EE & Barca….
Hey guys, this might be a little off topic but I suggest you check this movie out. Its a documentary about soccer(football) around the world, Ill leave you with the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfLEcfH8OL4
I actually watched this last week on Netflix. I thought it was fairly enjoyable and worth the time spent. I particularly liked their experience in the prison in Colombia(?).
Homare Sawa got a signed Xavi samarreta, and Xavi got a chocolate Ballon D’Or!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn0khFJZHxw&feature=player_embedded
INAC Kobe Leonessa and Barca Women’s A teams were at the First Team training today. How lucky were they? 😀
Love how happy she was to meet him. Really cool. Also love that they both spoke a bit of Engish.
Yeah – her reaction is awesome!
I guess that Sawa knows quite a bit of English from her 5 years playing in the US, and Xavi is currently taking English lessons – probably from Cesc! 😀
With our present shortage of players we should have given her her own jersey and gotten her ready for Wednesday’s game.
she’s not cute enough to distract Valencia players attention 🙂 jk/
Sawa’s great 😀
“Awesome! Thanks! Yamada-san, quick, take a picture!”
Xavi is actually pretty well known over there, at least among soccer fans. I remember seeing giant posters of him in the convenience stores during WC2010.
That was cute but it bummed me out that Xavi kind of treated her like some random fan–she is a World Cup champion and female Balon D’Or winner–he could have shown a little more mutual respect
I don’t think he did anything wrong. He looked happy to be taking the picture. He even wished her luck… don’t think he does that for random fans.
Hahaha i think it’s Sawa that acting more like Xavi little girl fans instead of Ballon D’Or winner. Xavi look cool as usual 🙂
btw, Sawa look pretty old there. How old is she? *not sarcasm*
Accdg from her wikifile, she’ll be 34 on September.
34 years old. 🙂
Barcelona named Laureus Sports Team of the Year 😀
We beat out “NBA champions Dallas Mavericks, Formula 1 outfit Red Bull, Rugby World Cup winners New Zealand, England’s cricket team and the Japanese women’s national football side”
Messi and Abi lost out in their categories though 🙁 – Djokovic won sportsman of the year and Darren Clarke got comeback of the year…
too bad for Messi. But Djokovic also doing a great year in tennis. toppling Federer and Nadal at their peak from world no.1 is equal himalayan mountain to climb
No Team Sport player will ever win this award. It’s heavily favored to individual sports.
Roberto Carlos (Anzhi): “If Barcelona would sell Messi, Anzhi would buy him. The fee wouldn’t be a prolem, money doesn’t matter.” [marca]
from barcastuff tweet.
off topic.
dont know whether anyone posted this link about a manga on FC Barcelona.
its childish but it was quite fun reading the manga.
http://www.mangafox.com/manga/fc_barcelona_monogatari/c000/1.html
lol, i just saw that.
So quiet around here. Where is everyone?
Just want to share this article by Phil Ball. Not usually his biggest fan but this article is a nice read.
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story/_/id/1018469/phil-ball:-the-camp-nou-chronicles?cc=5901
Also, has anyone seen Barca’s manga posted on the Guardian? Their depiction of Puyol is really funny 🙂
Messi picture?? I thought it’s Caceres and it’s some old comic made while Gudjohnsen and Caceres were there LOL
Interested to see what you guys think about this as a possibility
Put Busi in attack instead! http://www.barcablaugranes.com/2012/2/7/2781755/sergio-busquets-as-a-false-enganche