Double celebration at Camp Nou
Last night before the game against Real Betis, Lionel Messi came on to the Camp Nou pitch with the FIFA Ballon d’Or trophy he won for the third consecutive time in Zurich last Monday. Thereafter, the team presented their FIFA Club World Cup trophy, won in Japan in December 2011. Captain Carles Puyol brought the trophy, which was decorated with the Senyera (flag of Catalonia). Members of the team also showed support for Andreu Fontàs, who suffered a serious injury in the last Copa del Rey game, by wearing t-shirts with “Força i Ànims Andreu“ (“Stay strong and we support you Andreu”). Injured players David Villa, Pedro Rodriguez, Ibrahim Afellay, Andreu Fontàs, along with B team player Martín Montoya (dropped from the squad before the match) were present in the stands to share this joyous moment with the whole team and fans at Camp Nou. Click continue reading to find more pictures.
Image credit: Claudio Chaves – MD, Manu Fernadez- AP, Eduard Omedes – MD
Damn this badge looks good on their chest. It's back where it belongs.
Visca Barca!
And a Betis player got Messi's shirt. He's a lucky guy. However don't know who it was.
ot i have a feeling adriano will start wed game or play a key major role on wed. and i have a feeling those two legs vs us will take the gas out of rm im optimistic and when the face bilbao they may drop points. so who madrid plays in la liga when they meet us at camp nou i think zaragoza
These 2 upcoming classico will have a physical affect on us more than them specially because of our thin thin thin squad as of right now. But i have a feeling it will have a very strong psychological affect on madrid if they lose. I mean what else can madrid, their players, their coach and their president do to beat this barca team. Hopefully and i repeat HOPEFULLY that messes up with their recent form.
i hope they dont beat us by a huge margin wed 2 slaughter them at home but i think there wil be goals and i think we will score 2 , 3 or more goals wed mark my words
You can't blame Xavi for being biased, he is really fair player. But let's face that our players fell it too:
Xavi: "It's a fact that this season referees take decisions against us, but in other years it wasn't like that. No problem." #fcblive
I wish that Pep had also presented his Manager of the Year trophy too, but the Mister is too modest for that!
Hopefully if we beat Madrid in the Copa Del Ray it will cause them to slip up in the league also
Hopefully WHEN we beat Madrid in the Copa Del Ray it will cause them to slip up in the league also
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"Members of the team also showed support for Andreu Fontàs, who suffered a serious injury in the last Copa del Rey game, by wearing t-shirts with “Força i Ànims Andreu“ – we saw way too many of these t-shirts this year: Ibi, Tito, Villa, now Fontas … please God let this be the last one
I hope the lads will recover well and be strong when they are back from the injuries, – well, i'm not surprise that Betis scored 2 goals yesterday, they're one of the few teams that are technical and we all've seen that last year, outplayed us and outscored us 3-1, but it was probaly like that because we won the first game big and it was a meanfull game.
I'm excited to see Pedro back and Afellay will probaly be back in may, will be nice to have all lads together again.
Well played yesterday Barca, now Madrid is waiting and I think it's a big motivation for everyone in the team to beat them.
Hopefully, Afellay should be back by mid April. He had his operation in early October.
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How do U post a video like this???? Thx already!!
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Only now I realised that Messi put that ballon d'or right in front of Xavi. How sweet! :*