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Samuel Eto’o's agent has hastened to dispel rumors that the Cameroonian located in the orbit of Real Madrid.

In what would be a huge bombshell, the hero of the last Champions Barca could go to the White House.

However, unlike other major betrayal that would be special.
While Mourinho has always recognized that he would like to have the striker, the fact that Madrid has neglected to Cameroon at the time makes things much more complicated.

Samuel will recall the discipline began in Madrid but was loaned to Mallorca after not having opportunities. Years later, with the elastic FC Barcelona won everything a footballer could dream of and more.

José María Mesalles, Cameroon agent was clear: “This is just journalistic inventions. Samuel has not spoken to any Spanish journalist. He is happy to stay in Inter Milan and wants to respect his contract until the end in 2014. ” Read the rest of this entry »

Ibrahim Afellay has become the new and apparently unique incorporation of FC Barcelona for the winter market.

The center-of PSV Eindhoven comes with a palm that includes four major leagues, a Dutch Cup and Super Cup the same country.

To reach Spanish territory the player did not hide his anxiety. “I’m a little nervous, but it’s normal, I’m in the best club in the world, is an awesome club. All players dream of playing for Barca. Ask any player in the world and will tell anyone who wants to play here, where we practice the best football in the world. ”

Afellay was with the Dutch in South Africa 2010 as being sub-world champion.

The 24 year old talks with Pep Guardiola and it is clear that is what is sought on how they move in the field. Read the rest of this entry »

The fact that he spent his childhood in Europe, Kobe Bryant made to develop a special taste for football.

The Los Angeles Lakers player is a known supporter of FC Barcelona. In statements given to the Catalan regional channel, TV3 in which he spoke of the boat, and Leo Messi Ballon d’Or

The crack was agreed especially the little hand that the club gave him to Real Madrid, “The truth is that I enjoyed the match and, of course, with the result, “a KONBA Bryant lamented that “I can not always watch the games Barca is a shame. ”

Kobe polemicized pass on the issue of individual snow time. The crack of the Lakers said with regard to the delivery of the Golden Ball, who choose Andrés Iniesta, Xavi Hernández and Lionel Messi. For Kobe no doubt “Leo is the best player in the world and if you have to choose will give the prize to him. Xavi and Iniesta are two great players, but Leo is the best. “

In today’s session was released as planned, the list of candidates for the FIFA Golden Ball 2010. As it had advanced the publication popular Italian Corriere dello Sport, the three players Barca Messi, Iniesta and Xavi, who will decide the top award, something that surely must be filled with pride to the team FC Barcelona.

Jean Pierre Papin, Marseille striker once selected and Gallo, who opened the envelope and provided the information (filtered for days) under the watchful gaze of the general secretary of FIFA, Jerome Valcke, the general director of the prestigious France Football Francoise Moriniere and one of the world champions in 1998, Christian Karembeu, who said about … “They are a great tribute to World Champion”

On 10 January will be the official ceremony to determine who will be the winner of the ball, but Iniesta has all the tickets purchased to take the title.

The physical workload planned for next week that the club will get the classic in a state of optimal form

Barçelona template is still not a hundred percent physically, but will be in late November, coinciding with the arrival of Real Madrid at Camp Nou.

In a year with a preseason absolutely conditioned by the presence of eight players from Barca in the World Cup final, physical load cycles produced by Lorenzo Buenaventura and Paco Seirul.lo contemplate that the staff enjoy one of their peaks form, provided from a strictly physical point of view, in the last weeks of November, when the team must certify your pass to the knockout stages of the Champions League and above all, face Real Madrid in the league. Read the rest of this entry »

From this year the couple most Catalans may see his dream, to marry the Nou Camp as a backdrop

At a time when divorces and separations in the thousands, professing eternal love to the Catalans club remains intact over the years. But the club has been proposed to serve as Barca talisman for couples and has made its facilities available to all fans from this year and may get married in the temple of Barcelona.

The Camp Nou will be the setting for the wedding ceremony and banquet for the couple over Catalans. An unprecedented initiative has been warmly received. As reported in the club, 24 hours after making public the new service, more than 25 couples had been contacted for information. There are budgets to suit everyone and especially all budgets. Read the rest of this entry »

Zlatan Ibrahimovic‘s signing meant not only crazy by Barca the previous board, but ultimately ended up being, with his move to Milan, a ruinous business (worse than Roberto and goats), with the overriding need to find a computer (Guardiola did not want to see or painting) that not only wanted, but also willing to pay the 12 million annual net and it was stipulated in his contract that bound him to FC Barcelona 2014. Read the rest of this entry »

Argentina‘s Javier Mascherano was presented at the Nou Camp as a new player of FC Barcelona after passing medical checks this morning at which he was subjected, for five hours at the Hospital de Barcelona.

Albiceleste captain jumped on the Camp Nou turf 19.30, Barça dress, and took his first touch before some 5,000 fans waited anxiously, the presentation in the stadium bleachers.

Later, at a press conference, former Liverpool midfielder claimed to be aware of the great competition within the team and what their role in Pep Guardiola’s orders.

“It would be a fool if you think I come here to play it all, we should respect people who are doing well and has won everything. In positions where I can play me there are three world champions. It is an honor to learn of them and grow with them, “he said. Read the rest of this entry »

Arsenal midfielder Cesc Fabregas has pointed out that feel “colors” of FC Barcelona from very small, because their stay in the farmhouse and below the Catalans club, and has openly stated that he supports Barca Catalan and feels even to have been consecrated in England and Arsenal.

“I’m from Barcelona. I am a partner, and my grandfather, my uncle, my cousin … I feel these colors since childhood, I am Catalan, I am of Arenys, I left the farmhouse … However, I am the master of Arsenal, a ‘gunner’ and there I made player and I have matured as a person, “he said in an interview with the magazine DIR Emotions.
Cesc stressed the importance it has had in his career his current coach, Arsene Wenger, who signed him when he was 16 years and gradually he was giving confidence to become the master of the London team. “It is a second father to me, the most important person in my life after my father. It has been very good to me and welcomed me like a son, I am part of his family,” he said. Read the rest of this entry »

Sandro Rosell is the new president of FC Barcelona. The employer forcefully Barcelona has won the election with 61.35% of the vote, ahead of Agustí Benedito, which eventually became the second candidate with a percentage of 14.09%. Marc Ingla got 12.29% of the votes and Ferrer, the candidate of Laporta, 10.80%.

The partners have chosen Barcelona as the new president Sandro Rosell after a historic election day, where members voted 57 088 Barca, record participation in elections of the club. With 35,021 votes, Rosell is the president who has received the most votes in the history of Barcelona in an election. Although it was speculated that there was a 40% undecided, Rosell catch over from Joan Laporta with almost unanimously and with the support of the social mass Barça. Culé The new president will begin his term of 6 years old on July 1, a day after he leaves office Laporta.

100% of votes counted
Rosell: 61.41%
Benedito: 14.06%
Ingla: 12.24%
Ferrer: 10.81%