FC Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola was critical after his team trounced Tenerife 0-5.
Leo Messi produced another of his world class performances by scoring a hat-trick assisted by Barca prodigy Bojan Krkic. Captain Carles Puyol netted a header and late sub Pedro cooked the 5th to close the scoresheet.
However, Guardiola wasn’t happy with Barca performance and the way his [...]
Catalan sports newspapers report that FC Barcelona forward, Lionel Messi, is close to recovering for upcoming clash with Real Madrid.
Ivorian international Yaya Toure, recovered from swine flu and attended the latest training session. Lionel Messi was also present but he was practicing alone as he is still undergoing his special recovery treatment.
Messi, Ibrahimovic and Dani Alves missed [...]
Sandro Rosell is finalizing the details of his 2010 Barca presidential bid.
Speaking for “Esport Club”, Rosell revealed some of the key points of his project. Rosell said that above all he would like to preserve the good image of FC Barcelona, include the ethical code for directors and to give Guardiola more power to decide [...]
Cesc Fabregas has returned to express his admiration for FC Barcelona manager, Pep Guardiola. In an interview for the “2o minutes” newspaper, Arsenal playmaker revealed: ”my reference has always been Guardiola. As a child I have seen all his games.”
Cesc, an open supporter of ‘Pep Team’, said however that he´s in no hurry to change [...]
Gerard Piqué is confident of repeating the magic success of the last season and is hoping to “lift the Champions League trophy at the Bernabeu.”
“We have a tremendous hope for winning the Champions League. It will be very complicated because now we’re the team to beat. It is normal that every team wants to beat the champion [...]
Barca manager, Pep Guardiola, warned that his team mustn`t lower their guard against Dynamo Kiev. The coach also reminded that in the Ukrainian league, Dynamo is in front of Shaktar, an opponent that FC Barcelona had troubles breaking in the European Super Cup.
During the press conference held at Camp Nou, Guardiola showed his respect towards [...]
FC Barcelona first team conducted the Sunday morning training session without injured Henry and Chygrynskiy and Ibrahimovic, Alves, Messi and Xavi, who stayed in the gym to do recovery work.
The team returned to Barcelona at around 1AM and as soon as 11AM, the first team was already in Ciudad Deportiva for their usual training. After [...]
After FC Barcelona’s 0-2 victory over Málaga tonight, coach Pep Guardiola has stated he feels this is the hardest his side has fought this season.
“On this day more than any other I want to congratulate the team [for its performance],” Guardiola said, while admitting that the Málaga side “are very physical”.
“Let’s see how we recover [...]
FC Barcelona manager, Pep Guardiola, hailed the start of the season of a player who has been one of the most positive surprises in the first matches – Seydou Keita.
“We can say that Keita has grown, but no, what happened is that he played less last year. He is a very tough player, strong physically, [...]
FC Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola brushed off the talk of La Liga being a two horse race and called it a lack of respect towards the rest of the teams.
“To talk only about Barca and Real after only four matches is a lack of respect. If we both won all our games up until now [...]