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Barca destroys the Naples and gives a new Trofeo Gamper their fans
FC Barcelona has given him a show to his fans at the 46th edition of the Trofeo Joan Gamper, played before a Naples that this year staged the Champions League, but could only helplessly witnessed the ‘little hand’ he endorsed a team full of young talent.
A four-day contest against Porto’s European Super Cup, Guardiola’s team measured a good test and the result was a pleasant feast to delight the home crowd, who had time to cheer the first goal of Cesc in his return home or a new double Messi friendly matches do not understand. With promises like Montoya or Kiko Femenía in the lineup and an angelic Iniesta, the Barca team just ten minutes it took to completely negate Naples, spectator and victim of a considerable beating.
Before the half hour, Fabregas finished off a pass from pleasure to the death of Adriano and immediately headed to the network Keita center Iniesta. The team continued Neapolitan spell after passage through the club changing rooms and sent the ball to the wood almost three times in succession, the latter through a free-kick by Messi whose rejection came Pedro Franco to head record.
The order was reversed on the next play, with the canary stepping line and putting a low pass to the Argentine score at will. In the absence of fifteen minutes, Messi picked up a pass in the front, stepped area and shot De Sanctis with a whip cross flush with grass. The fifth goal of closing a rout that illustrates the good form of a ship that never degenerates even homegrown unusual play as Sergi Gómez, Cuenca Bartra.
In Italy They Can Not Understand that Sneijder Is Not Alternated For Golden Ball
Outrage in Italy because Sneijder is alternated for Golden Ball
FIFA announced yesterday that the three chosen will compete for the Golden Ball 2010 is the Spanish Xavi and Iniesta and Lionel Messi, all players of FC Barcelona.
The nomination sparked outrage in Italy, which is understood as the Dutchman Wesley Sneijder short list, who plays for Inter Milan, which was great figure of his team last season and also had a big world with Holland.
“Obviously I’m very upset, but I can not do anything. All I ask you to say something, but the truth is that there is nothing I can say, “were the words of Sneijder, when asked by the Italian press after the news.
Another said that upset by this decision is captain of Inter, Javier Zanetti, who said as “absurd, that your partner has been left off the ballot.”
Inter President Massimo Moratti believes that it is “unfair that the award was granted to someone who has not had the same level of performance throughout the year. Sneijder had a phenomenal season and won everything he could to win at club level. ”
The truth is that it has been a year where there have been major players with the potential to take the trophy. Lionel Messi is considered by all the best in the world but not having a great world condemns him not to take the Golden Ball
Xavi and Iniesta are doing well to win the prize for some time, and I think they have had a turn, but we can not fail to recognize the great season of Sneijder and Milito at Inter, or the great world from Diego Forlan others
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Messi: “Five points is a major advantage, but Real will always be there”
Lionel Messi said that the current staffing of Barca do not have to prove “anything to anyone” in reference to the doubts created the environment for the elimination of copera Guardiola as the ‘Golden Ball’ claims that they want to “keep on winning things” . “We do not have to prove anything to anyone, not ourselves. We continue with the same mentality of last year, we continue to win things and I think we’ve shown,” said Messi told Barca TV.
On the five points that lead him to Madrid in the Primera Liga, Argentina believed to be a “significant advantage”. “It is an important advantage because they are already five points, but we also know that takes a lot of league, that this will be very long. It is all the second round and Real Madrid will still be there.” Moreover, Messi, who yesterday became the youngest player to reach 100 goals for Barcelona, stays with the “important goals.” “Beyond the great goals I stay with the major goals of the finals that I fill more beautiful,” he said.
“The truth is that, as in all the important things that have happened to me today I do not give too much weight or not I can tell. I live a quiet, normal and eager to do more things,” he said. One person that has helped him achieve this goal is Guardiola, for which the youth squad has only words of praise. “I always said that to me means a lot, every detail that has me and I am very grateful,” he said.
“He was obsessed with him Palop goal to”
“I have dreamed of Palop, but Cup soured me a bit. In Sevilla I won the game, because I got many side by side and yesterday I also had two or three. Make the goal was a liberation. I was not obsessed the goal itself but by the fact the goal to make Palop, since in the Cup did not succeed, “he said.
On the elimination copera, what most hurts the ’10 ‘is the “form” in which they fell. “In the second half we were totally superior and sometimes very clear we had to have been able to do one more goal,” he said. “It’s tough because we expected it. We were convinced that mount up and we would pass the qualifying round. It was a stick,” concluded the current top scorer in the league.
Puyol signs his new contract until 2013 with a clause of 10 million euros
FC Barcelona captain Carlos Puyol and the Catalan club signed a new defense contract last week after reaching a tentative agreement to renew, and thus end the rumors that placed the international entity outside the Blaugrana.
According to reports the club, the agreement between Puyol and Barcelona and is the official stamp of the signature, only fringe slope. Puyol, contract ending next June 30 and could have walked away free, will now have a buyout clause of 10 million, provided that 60% play games per season.
With this renewal, international ensures almost end his career at the club all his life thus fulfilled the terms, the new contract would end at the age of 35. Would, therefore, one of the few players that begins and ends his career at Barcelona, with the addition that Puyol and left of the farmhouse, factory Blaugrana players club.