Barcelona labored on Saturday to achieve a 2-2 draw on their visit to Real Betis. With this result, Barcelona dropped a 10 game winning streak, and saw its point lead reduced to an still impressive 10 points ahead of Real Madrid.
1-0 Alessandro Melli (18)
2-0 Mark Gonzalez (25)
2-1 Samuel Eto’o (45+2)
2-2 Samuel Eto’o (88)
Cameroonian Samuel Eto’o [...]
Real Madrid is now the solely owner of the second place on La Liga, after their narrow victory yesterday 1-0 against Deportivo La Coruna, nevertheless, they have yet to make a 12 points gap againts the leader FC Barcelona, after completing the 20th round of the tournament. Playing at home, Raul scored the lonely goal [...]
21′ Lionel Messi
27′ Thierry Henry
41′ Samuel Eto’o
82′ Thierry Henry
86′ Samuel Eto’o (pen)
Manchester United and Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo was on Monday named FIFA World Footballer of the Year for 2008.
Ronaldo, who is also holder of the Ballon d’Or for the European Footballer of the Year, beat off competition from 2007 winner Kaka (Brazil AC Milan), Lionel Messi (Argentina – Barcelona), Fernando Torres (Spain – [...]
Spain Primera Division – Round 18, Jan 11:
Two goals in the last ten minutes saved Barcelona from a shock defeat against Osasuna.
Samuel Eto‘o put Barca in front with a low drive late in the first half after the leaders had completely dominated the first 45 minutes.
Miguel Flano equalised with a [...]
Spain Copa del Rey – 8th Finals, Jan 6:
A lacklustre Atletico was bested by a superb Barcelona, headed by a brilliantly star Lionel Messi, who used the match as a platform to make his case as the worlds best player. Bara take a 1-3 result to the Vicente Caldern without such stars [...]
It is almost certain that Bayern Munich striker Lukas Podolski will leave the Bundesliga champions next summer, as the Bavarians have already captured Croatian international Ivica Olic, whose contract with Hamburg will expire this year.
Podolski is on the short list of several European sides, with AS Roma leading the chase in Italy, but the [...]
Real Madrid newly arrived striker almost marked his La Liga debut with a goal last night and he was annoyed not to have taken his chance.
While the other winter signing, Lassana Diarra had a typically solid debut as a defensive midfielder, Huntelaar was slightly disappointed with himself for missing a golden opportunity to score [...]
Reports suggest that Manchester City will blow half their January budget on Barcelona’s hitman.
Sport claims that the Cameroon striker will be offered 12 million-a-year deal at Eastlands, so long as Barcelona accept the 50m (52.1m) bid.
The striker has less that 18 months left to run on his current contract, so such an offer would [...]
Barcelona’s stars have been spending Christmas with their families with many of them jetting around the globe to be close to their loved ones before reporting back to training on Monday.
Lionel Messi is in Argentina, Eidur Gudjohnsen headed north to spend the festive period in Iceland and Dani Alves went back to Brazil to [...]