It seems the coaching staff at Barca are curently debating whether or not to offer a renewed contract to reserve goalkeeper Jose Manuel Pinto, 34, or whether to look elsewhere for an understudy to Victor Valdes.
Periodico de Aragon reported that Real Zaragoza reserve central defender Yann Songo’o (18) caught the interest of FC Barcelona after his excellent performances with Zaragoza’s youth team this season.
After Wednesday’s Champions League elimination by Olympique Lyonnais, some Real Madrid players have expressed their plan to now fully focus on the domestic league. Despite this fact, Barcelona forward Pedro Rodriguez (22) believes that La Liga’s crown will not be decided in ‘El Classico’ in the Bernabeu.
UNICEF has appointed Barcelona forward Lionel Messi a global Goodwill Ambassador.
Bayern Munich midfielder and French international Franck Ribery (26) is one of Barcelona’s major targets in the upcoming summer transfer window.
Al Ahli manager and former FC Barcelona assistant manager Henk Ten Cate confirmed his resignation while speaking to the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) website after Qatari side Al Sadd trashed United Arab Emirates team Al Ahli by 5 – 0 in an Asian Champions League fixture.
Unconfirmed reports are claiming that Tottenham Hotspur loan-out and Queens Park Rangers star Adel Taarabt (20) was being watched by Barcelona scouts on Tuesday night.
“90 minutes in Bernabéu is such a long time”
Laporta “I hope that for Lyon time will just fly by, then”
Laporta: “Now we’ve expelled Giralt, I’ve had a better idea…” “Let’s expel all the opposition candidates!”
“When I won the Champions League, there was a time when we raised the trophy, I was standing next to Carles Puyol and I will never forget that. It is an image that will always be in my head!”
Former Barcelona legend Ronaldinho during an interview with UEFA’s official website.
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KO: THE GREAT FAILURE
Champions League: Madrid 1-1 Lyon
Madrid, eliminated in the knock-out stage for the sixth consecutive time
Florentino, broken — 300 million thrown in the trash
Pellegrini, sentenced –The Bernabéu ask for his head
Cristiano, humiliated — promised all the titles and already lost two
Kaká, the next problem — He left the field insulting the coach
Barça’s dream of achieving their fourth Champions League title grows
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KO
R. Madrid 1 -1 O. Lyon
Madrid will not be in the final at the Bernabéu
Failure of the Florentino Project, incapable of moving past the knockout stage of the Champions League for the sixth straight year
Guti criticizes: “We have to be more a team and less individuals”
FC Barcelona continued preparations for the next league game against Valencia on Tuesday, without French international Thierry Henry, who had discomfort in his Achilles tendon in his left foot.
Spain’s national team coach, Vicente del Bosque, conscious of the luxury of leaving out one of the best of his kind, has decided it might be worth including FC Barcelona goalkeeper Víctor Valdés (28) in his list of players for the World Cup.
For the first time in the history of FC Barcelona, a player will become a worldwide Unicef ambassador. As reported on the club’s official website, Lionel Messi will be presented with this new distinction on Thursday in the Sala Paris at the Nou Camp.
Spanish football club FC Barcelona tops the world ranking of clubs in the latest release by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS).
The Liga Comité de Competición has punished Pep Guardiola and Zlatan Ibrahimovic with one match bans for the red cards that both men received during last week’s match against Almeria, according to all major Spanish news outlets. Read more »
Despite his indisputable contribution to last year’s treble winning quest and his current goal scoring form in the Spanish League with 19 goals, Lionel Messi (22) is not considered the Most Valuable Player of the league. In the classification of MVP, Messi finished “only” third behind FC Valencia striker David Villa (28), who leads the ranking, and Real Madrid forward Gonzalo Higuain (22), who is only 2 points ahead of the Barcelona star.
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