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Fc Barcelona Start 2017 With Defeat At Nine-man Athletic Bilbao In Copa Del Rey

... defender Yeray Alvarez who was recently diagnosed with testicular cancer, the hosts struck again when Williams smashed home a volley from Aduriz’s neat backheeled layoff. Alvarez was in the crowd and the club announced earlier on Thursday he will return to training in the next few weeks after undergoing successful surgery. “I think in the first-half we were much better than them,” Williams told Gol TV. “The referee left us with nine men, but that is football and we have to suffer. We will go to the Camp Nou and do our best to reach the next round.”. The match was then dogged by refereeing controversy as Aduriz escaped unpunished for an elbow on Samuel Umtiti. Barca were even more incensed in first-half stoppage time when David Fernandez Borbalan somehow failed to point to the spot when Neymar was chopped down by Borja Etxeita. Andres Iniesta, ...

Cristiano Ronaldo Taunts Lionel Messi & Absent Fc Barcelona Stars

... Portuguese won The Best Men’s Player 2016 award – the predecessor of the FIFA World Player of the Year – on Monday evening in Zurich, Switzerland. While Ronaldo, Antoine Griezmann and the other players of the FIFA FIFPro World XI attended the awards gala, Messi and his FC Barcelona teammates did not travel to Zurich. A club statement had announced that their players – Messi, Luis Suarez, Gerard Pique and Andres Iniesta also made the World XI – would not attend in order to focus on their Copa del Rey clash against Athletic Bilbao, who won the first leg 2-1, on Wednesday. Ronaldo, who himself did not appear at the FIFA awards ceremony in 2012 for a similar reason, had a sly dig at the absentees during his acceptance speech. "I'm just very happy. I'm sorry some people from Barcelona aren't here, but that's understandable," ...

Fcbarcelona Photo Awards Submission Period Extended

... for developing the concept Crossing Bridges, becoming a platform where Art, Sports and Photography can interact, communicate and start collaborating for possible future synergies. To give life to the concept, specialists of both sides were brought together in New York, with the aim of finding out how to build bridges, breakdown barriers and overcome the prejudices that nowadays separate the worlds of Art and Sports. Following this principle, priority will be given to the photographs and photographic project ideas which will illustrate the positive intrinsic values of sports for the society, shown through non-professional sports practiced anywhere in the world, rather than photography of professional sports. The Awards are not about sports performance photography, but about the positive values related to the practice of sports. This allows the participation of not only sports photographers, but of all professional photographers, photojournalists and artists, who may demonstrate high quality photographic Works that depict these values. The Awards have interesting monetary prizes. ...

I'll Never Be Barcelona President

... adverse effects on his team. Jermain Defoe rings in the new year scoring more goals while Pep Guardiola starts off 2017 unhappy in The Sweeper. Shaka Hislop contends that Pep Guardiola isn't cut from the same cloth as career-oriented managers like Sir Alex Ferguson. The guys answer your tweets on Pep Guardiola's spats with English journalists, refereeing choices, and resolutions for 2017. Craig Burley looks to see how Pep Guardiola handles the newly added challenge of losing Fernandinho to red card suspension. Pep Guardiola has closed the door on a return to Barcelona, saying he will never become the Catalan club's president. After the Manchester City boss said earlier this week that he felt he was "approaching the end" of his coaching career, Fabio Capello suggested the 45-year-old may already be thinking of a return to Barca. However, Guardiola - who ...

Fc Barcelona Ivan Rakitic Joining Manchester City Very Soon

... , Manchester City has expressed interest in signing the Croatian midfielder. The report noted that City looks at Rakitic as the successor to Yaya Toure. Pep Guardiola's club has been linked with Monaco's Tiemoué Bakayoko but rivals Manchester United are favored to land him. That leaves them the opportunity to sign Rakitic, who joined Barcelona in 2014 but has been left on the bench by Luis Enrique this season. Enrique has favored summer signings Andre Gomes and Denis Suarez over the 28-year-old midfielder. It has led Rakitic to make his fondness with Guardiola public. He claimed last November that he wore the No. 4 jersey because of the former Barcelona player and manager, per The Sun. Local newspapers in Croatia have been hinting that Rakitic will move to Manchester City soon. And to add fuel to the transfer rumors, Enrique benched Rakitic in their game against Villarreal on Sunday because of "technical reasons.". However, the Barcelona manager played down the ...

Fc Barcelona Reveals Training Tracks, Player Faves Via Deezer

... Barcelona and RCD Espanyol at Camp Nou on Dec. 7, 2014 in Barcelona, Spain. Star soccer team and streaming service announce partnership with “Sound of Barça” channel, stadium presence. The Who ’s “My Generation,” Jennifer Lopez ’s “Ain’t Your Mama,” and Daddy Yankee ’s “Shaky Shaky” are among the tracks that give Barcelona’s star soccer team its edge. That’s according to an FC Barcelona warmup playlist posted on “The Sound of Barça,” the team’s official music channel on Deezer, part of a new partnership between the soccer club and the streaming service. The team’s channel also currently features a halftime playlist, the Barça club theme, and picks by some of the Barça players. They include five favorite tracks from midfielder Andrés Iniesta (Spanish pop and Michael Jackson ) and a list from Portuguese player André Gomes that ...

The Day Cristiano Ronaldo Almost Joined Messi At Fc Barcelona

... in the squad. “There are more Spaniards at Liverpool than at Real Madrid,” he said. He added, ‘Cristiano is one of the best players in the world, but Manchester United are asking a lot for him and with that money we can sign two players from the Spain national team.“. “We’ll have to see how advanced the deal is and what the coach wants. We also need to evaluate how responsible such an investment is, as it could put the club’s solvency at risk. Maybe it would be wiser to invest €100 million in several players rather than just one. “And Spaniards, if possible,” he went on. Now while Fernández de Blas was supposedly independent, the problem was that his statements to groups from the media and club members were very much in tune with views held by Florentino Perez who was planning his electoral campaign. In fact Fernández de Blas ended up as vice-president on Pérez’s board a few months later. Whatever reaction ensued, De Blas sitcking his head above the parapet would give a kick-start to Perez’s campaign who could ...

Villarreal 1-1 Barça

... Santos, but Lucas Digne was on hand to make a last ditch tackle and take the ball away from the Mexican’s feet. Sansone did brilliantly at the 20’ mark, to get past Javier Mascherano’s diving challenge, before he took a stinging shot at Barca’s goal, but the shot was straight at the keeper. After an adrenaline-fueled half hour, the game began to settle into a steady rhythm of end-to-end dynamic; Every time Barcelona carved the yellow submarine open, the opposition retaliated with a dangerous counter-attack. It was only a matter of time before one team broke the dead-lock. Despite both teams taking a proactive approach, the finishing was lacking on both sides. However, neither team was backing down, as they continued to play the game their way, and create a galore of chances. As the half ...