The Front: El Mundo Deportivo (21.05.2013)

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 END OF CYCLE

Florentino makes it official that Mourinho will leave, according to him by mutual consent and without compensation

The Madrid president, who will run for re-election, strongly pushes for Ancelotti

The next Barça – MD reveals the new ‘look’: a return to the origins, and an impressive second kit

The Front: El Mundo Deportivo (20.05.2013)

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 LA LIGA OF TITO AND ABI

All for 100 points! Barça beat Valladolid with a goal from Pedro and an own goal from Marc Valiente

Vilanova, “We had one year without it, but it’s here now”

The Camp Nou fully celebrated the fourth title in five years

The Front: El Mundo Deportivo (18.05.2013)

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 THE TENTH…IS FOR ATLÉTI

Real Madrid 1-2 Atlético Madrid 

Atlético left Real trophy-less after a typically hard fought final, and broke the 14 year old jinx

Dismal show from Mourinho, sent off; Ronaldo, sore loser, got a straight red for a premeditated attack on Gabi

War for Neymar

Barcelona counts on the wish of Neymar, which is to play with Messi

Money is the argument of Florentino, and Santos value the Real offer as twice as much

The Front: El Mundo Deportivo (17.05.2013)

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The Santos board sees in plain sight the offer from Barça and the negotiation takes a step forward

Reina / Ter Stegen – The Two

Barça plans on signing both keepers in June to replace Valdés

The Front: El Mundo Deportivo (16.05.2013)

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 NEYMAR, DONE DEAL

Total offensive from Barça, already in Brazil to finalise the transfer of the superstar

It is a difficult negotiation, but the club hopes to close the deal this week

Thiago Silva wants to come

The central defender from PSG likes Barcelona’s attacking football and wants titles

The Front: El Mundo Deportivo (15.05.2013)

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 THIAGO ON THE MARKET

The priority is that he stays, but if offers arrive, they will be heard

Guardiola’s Bayern is tracking the young, Barça product

Confirmed: Messi, out for 2-3 weeks

The Front: El Mundo Deportivo (14.05.2013)

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 CHAOS

The squad of Barça fully celebrated la Liga in a street parade

Thousands and thousands of followers filled the streets of Barcelona

Messi will not play the rest of the season

Deulofeu renews until 2017

The Front: El Mundo Deportivo (13.05.2013)

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 PASSAGE OF CHAMPIONS

Atlético 1-2 Barcelona

Barça come back with goals from Alexis and Gabi (own goal) and Messi gets injured again

The team hopes to equal the record of 100 points

The happiness of the dressing room is unleashed on twitter

The Front: El Mundo Deportivo (12.05.2013)

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CHAMPIONS!

Barça conquer La Liga of Tito and Messi after having a magnificient season, leading from beginning to end

This is league title no.22 for Barcelona, which will mean getting a corridor of applause from Atlético in Calderón

1-1 Espanyol draw against Madrid, meaning Barcelona win with four games left over

The Front: El Mundo Deportivo (11.05.2013)

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 BARÇA INTERESTED IN REUS

The club closely follows the attacking midfielder of Dortmund who likes Spanish football, and specifically, Barcelona

Hummels: Barça or nothing

Second match point – Barça can be champions today if Madrid slip up

The Front: El Mundo Deportivo (10.05.2013)

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 NEYMAR – “I’M LEAVING”

The superstar confessed to some of his team mates that he will leave Santos after the Confederations Cup

The Brazilian and Barça resist the 120 million offer from Madrid

Rooney, why not? He wants to leave United, Tito likes him and he likes Barça

The Front: El Mundo Deportivo (09.05.2013)

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 MATHIEU OFFERED

The French defender, 1.92m tall and plays full back as well as centre back, has said he only wants to leave for Barça or Madrid

Puyol stays – The captain refutes rumours that he will join Milan

Top Secret – Villa had one foot in Arsenal in December

The Front: El Mundo Deportivo (08.05.2013)

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 MOU FIRING ON ALL CYLINDERS

To Pepe – He is frustrated because Varane, a 20 year old, has ousted him

To Iker – While I am Madrid boss, I’ll play Diego López. I like him better

To Iniesta – He should worry about his own club because without Messi nothing happens

Barça Champions? Força Pellegrini

Barça could be champions today if Madrid fail to win

Untouchable – The club will not listen to offers for Piqué, Busquets, Xavi, Iniesta, Messi

Cuenca: “I would tell Sergi and Marc that Ajax is a great option”

Cuenca: “I would tell Sergi and Marc that Ajax is a great option”

In an interview with El Mundo Deportivo‘s Oriol Domenèch, Isaac Cuenca discussed his season, his future at the club, and the possible future of other Barcelona youngsters.

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The Front: El Mundo Deportivo (07.05.2013)

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 REINA AND MARQUINHOS ON THE HORIZON

Reina is chosen to replace Valdés and the Roma defender stands out over Thiago Silva

Hummels, Lewandowski and Iñigo Martínez – out of the picture

The defender and the no.9 from Dortmund, and the Basque are no longer targets

Messi, 26, equals the 345 goals scored by Maradona

There will be a street parade on 13th May if La Liga is wrapped up this week

The Front: El Mundo Deportivo (06.05.2013)

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MESSI, LIKE A CHAMPION

Champions on Wednesday if Madrid fail to beat Malaga

Barça 4-2 Betis

Messi, with two great goals, changed the game when he came on in the 56th minute with the score at 2-2

Champions! Champions!” was sang loudly in the Camp Nou

The Barcelona women’s team crowned champions in San Mamés

The Front: El Mundo Deportivo (05.05.2013)

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TIME TO SEW UP LA LIGA

Barça should get even closer to wrapping up the title today with a win against Betis

Messi, who trained fully yesterday, could be the big difference

100 million transfer kitty: The usual 50 million budget each year + 50 million from sales

Ticking-off from Tito to Piqué: “I suppose the player that asked for changes did not think it could be he himself that could be changed”

The Front: El Mundo Deportivo (04.05.2013)

 

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REINA FOR TWO YEARS

Barça think about Pepe as Valdés’ substitute while they look for a young and skilled goalkeeper

He would be the ideal goalkeeper for the transition: he knows the philosophy, is skilled, cheap and wants to come back

Madrid put pressure. Barça are waiting for a reply from Neymar as soon as possible

Mou, inflammatory. The coach showed his pride for having achieved the record Liga, attacked Casillas and said that Barça was the best team of the world

The Front: El Mundo Deportivo (02.05.2013)

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GREAT BAYERN

The Germans ran over a melted Barça

A goal by Robben ended the weak hope of a comeback

Messi was afraid of injury again and stayed on the bench

Barça 0 – 3 Bayern

The Front: El Mundo Deportivo (30.04.2013)

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TITO’S AIM: “2-0 AT HALF TIME”

Vilanova was watching the video of the match played in Munich for hours yesterday

He believes that the comeback should be achieved with football

Franz Beckenbauer expects “dirty tricks” at Camp Nou

Barça has scored 4 goals or more 59 times since 2008

The Front: El Mundo Deportivo (28.04.2013)

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HE’S BACK!

Athletic 2-2 Barça

Leo arrived in fine shape before the Bayern match and scored a golazo, but Athletic tied and the title will have to wait

The Front: El Mundo Deportivo (27.04.2013)

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LEADER TITO

“I feel strong and I’ll continue next year, I’m sure”

“Against Bayern we must create a great atmosphere and compete”

“Distance has made my relationship with Pep to cool off a bit, yes”

Barça: to win and wait. Athletic – Barça (18h)

The Front: El Mundo Deportivo (25.04.2013)

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SIX SIGNINGS

A goalkeeper

A central defender

2 midfielders

2 strikers

Barça want to sign 6 players on whom they can rely to play as a starters

The current squad is the essence but they want the players they sign to be competitive

Can Barça try to sign Lewandowski?

Today, ten questions for Tito

The Front: El Mundo Deportivo (23.04.2013)

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YESTERDAY

Messi, in Allianz Arena at 19.30

TODAY

Bayern – Barça at 20.45

Message by Tito to his men: “We must score, we cannot leave without scoring”

Xavi: “Their euphoria motivates us. We are not playing the victim role. We are Barça”

Gerard, Abi’s cousin, traveled to Munich

The Front: El Mundo Deportivo (22.04.2013)

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LET’S GET THE FIFTH CHAMPIONS

Messi and the captains of the rest of Barça teams plot to achieve the great dream

Barça travel today to Munich with Leo as the leader of the team

The Front: El Mundo Deportivo (21.04.2013)

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SUPER ABIDAL

And the first ‘match ball’ this Saturday

Barça 1-0 Levante

Abi, in first start after 14 months, showed he was in form and the plan before facing Bayern worked perfectly

Thanks to the goal from Cesc, Barça could be champions if they defeat Athetic and Real falls to Atlético

The Front: El Mundo Deportivo (20.04.2013)

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MESSI, AT 70%

Leo trained with the rest of the group and his evolution is positive but it is advisable not to play today

Roura corrects: “There’s no point in comparing with Guardiola”

Vilanova and Roura will make rotations and Barça will try to achieve a victory which would decide La Liga

Barça – Levante (20h)

The Front: El Mundo Deportivo (19.04.2013)

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“WE WANT TO BE BACK AT WEMBLEY”

Villa shows his ambition regarding the semifinals and assures that he wants to score again on this special stadium

Abidal, moving: “My cousin is the real star”

MD publishes the results of Barça’s report regarding Bayern

Rosell: “I will run in the elections” Sandro thinks that an increase of his term of office, which ends in 2016, would be good for Barça “because pending challenges could be fulfilled”

The Front: El Mundo Deportivo (17.04.2013)

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OPERATION GOAL

Apart from Neymar, Barça wants more goal potential and will sign another “9″

Options to cover this position are Rooney, Mario Gómez, Lewandovski and Luis Suárez

Messi will be ready to play against Bayern

The Front: El Mundo Deportivo (16.04.2013)

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NEYMAR AND GUAITA
HOT
Last sprint by Barça to sign Santos’s crack and Valencia’s goalkeeper

The striker does not hide his wish to come and the goalkeeper is tracked match by match

“Shock” Abidal: “It hurt so much that I asked the doctors if they could put me in a coma”