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18 December 2011
Barça are champions of the world! The Club World Cup ended with a 0-4 victory over Santos FC. Goals by Messi (2), Xavi, and Cesc had things under control extremely early. My quick awards: Man of the Match: The Whole Team. Don’t even try to argue with me on this one. All-around brilliance that made [...]
Posted in Club World Cup28 Comments
18 December 2011
culegirl3 is the Heroine this time around. Be nice and maybe she’ll only Neymar you for a bit. NEYMAR. Barca v Santos de Neymar
Posted in Club World Cup, Liveblog54 Comments
18 December 2011
“Gentlemen, if you lose today you will continue to be the best in the world – but if you win today you will be eternal.” - Pep Guardiola, prior to the Club World Cup finals in 2009 Think back to Pedro equalizing in the 89th minute. Messi scoring off the club crest in the [...]
Posted in Barcelona9 Comments
17 December 2011
CWC Preview: Santos – Barcelona, 5:30am ET, Fox Soccer and Fox Deportes (ESPN in UK) I know you want to read about tactical innovations from Pep, wrinkles in the seemingly perfected system, and the selection headache created by David Villa’s unfortunate injury in the semifinal. You might want to hear about Pele’s adventures with Santos [...]
Posted in Club World Cup, Preview45 Comments
16 December 2011
Don’t forget to check out the Champions League draw post I put up a few minutes ago. If you’d told me that there would ever be a match where Adriano, Keita, and Maxwell combined to score 4 goals while no one else ended up on the scoresheet, I’d probably have told you that you might [...]
Posted in Club World Cup, Review68 Comments
16 December 2011
So the Champions League draw went ahead without me being awake, which is simply unreasonable. Don’t they know I need a lot of beauty rest? Whatever, here are the results: Bayer Leverkusen – Barcelona, taking place February 14 & March 7 Lyon – APOEL; February 14 – March 7 Napoli – Chelsea; February 21 – March 14 [...]
Posted in Champions League15 Comments