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Preparation over, ready to go

With the USA tour over, and the dazzling appearance of the youngsters in all the 3 matches as well as the general positive image of the team, Barça have come to the point of competitive matches. The first up is the Spanish Super Cup against Athletic Bilbao. The Basques who have already played three matches [...]

Not so sweet

Hypocritical Laporta
After Real Madrid paid artificially inflated prices way over the market values for Kaka and Cristiano Ronaldo, Laporta mirrored the disapproval of many by claiming that their practices were distorting the market, and that FC Barcelona has a different philosophy. Instead of buying Golden Ball winners, Barça creates them – claimed Laporta – and [...]

Moving on

The 2008/09 is well over and Barça are still feeling the joy of that season. Winning all the trophies possible (the treble), playing vividly attacking football with a team overwhelmingly composed of players from the academy, scoring 157 goals, and beating Real Madrid 2-6 in Bernabeu has gold written all over it. It was [...]