A team with two star midfielders like Xavi and Andrés Iniesta has a huge competitive advantage—they can dictate the terms of the game, leaving opponents at their mercy. Great strikers can score goals, ...
A timely trip to a famous amusement park proved the catalyst for one of the greatest signings in Barca history, scout Joan Martinez Vilaseca recalled Had it not been for a trip to a water park, Andres ...
There’s a great anecdote about a young Andres Iniesta, early in his Barcelona days, that is well known among the Barça faithful. It’s also a story that essentially describes the type of player he ...
There was a moment after the Barcelona vs. Real Madrid match earlier in May that said it all. It had been one of the nastiest Clasicos in recent memory. Almost half the players who started the game, ...
The French poet and writer Charles Baudelaire once said of dance that it “can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable." ...
It was under a full moon that football’s greatest ever story of passing had its genesis. On the island of Mallorca at 9.32pm on 21 December 2002, two minutes and ten seconds into that Saturday evening ...