TIME COVER: EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH LIONEL MESSI This week’s international edition of TIME features football star Lionel Messi on the cover with the title, “King Leo.” In an exclusive interview with TIME’s Bobby Ghosh, the Argentina native and FC Barcelona superstar speaks to TIME about handling criticism from his fellow countrymen and how he still [...]
Horrible news out of Japan this morning where FC Barcelona defeated Al-Sadd 0-4 in the Club World Cup semi-final and will move on to play Santos in the final. In the 36th minute of the first half David Villa was injured running down a through ball and when he tried to control the pass twisted [...]
In today’s training session midfielder Ibrahim Afellay ruptured his left ACL and will have to have surgery tomorrow. The news is just breaking but preliminary reports are that the player will be lost for six months. Once we have more information we will be updating this post.
Last week FC Barcelona lost winger Alexis Sanchez for eight weeks with a thigh injury suffered in their 2-2 league draw against Real Sociedad. Last night in Barcelona’s 2-2 draw against AC Milan in Champions League play they suffered another injury to their starting lineup. This time it was Andres Iniesta who suffered a [...]
Great news came today from all places, Twitter! Captain Carles Puyol announced via his personal Twitter page that he is finally returning to action following a three month hiatus due to a knee injury. Puyol has been sidelined since May, missing out on the clubs entire summer tour and the first La Liga match of [...]
Back again to take a look at some of our players playing abroad. I will be adding Henrique and Keirrison to the list of players to watch and will update about their Brazilian adventures as best as I can. Additionally, La Masia graduate, Alberto Botia shall join the list so we can watch him closely. [...]
With La Liga finally about to begin after a long summer, I wanted to commence with what I hope will become a once a week article covering some of our wonderful players playing abroad in Europe. I am open to suggestions on players who will feature in these articles but to start with I will [...]
Following training on Wednesday Alexis Sánchez received medical clearance and will be available to play in Friday’s UEFA Super Cup match against Porto. Sánchez has been inactive for a week following a hamstring injury suffered against Real Madrid in the second leg of the Spanish Super Cup. Guardiola will likely opt to start Pedro but [...]
In a closed training session on Tuesday defender Gerard Pique suffered an injury to his left leg that will keep him sidelined for up to three weeks. Via the clubs website the injury a statement was issued confirming the injury and that the player will be unavailable for Friday’s Super Cup match against Porto. Pique [...]
On Monday FC Barcelona technical secretary Andoni Zubizarreta addressed rumors that midfielder Ibrahim Afellay would leave the club following the signing of Cesc Fabregas. One of the clubs rumored to be interested in signing the 25 year old is Italian side Juventus. Zubizarreta strongly denied the rumors saying that Afellay is to remain with the club [...]
