Barcelona: Tito Vilanova's step up from assistant to Barcelona coach for next season is a sign of continuity rather than the end of an era, the outgoing Pep Guardiola said after Friday's 3-0 King's Cup final triumph. Guardiola signed off the same way that he started at Barcelona, with a Cup final win over Athletic Bilbao, securing his 14th trophy from the 19 competitions he has competed in since taking...
04:05 PM, May 27, 2012
Barcelona: Barcelona have collected a record 26th Copa del Rey title, defeating Athletic Bilbao 3-0 at the Vicente Calderon as Pep Guardiola's illustrious era came to a close. The Blaugrana were ahead after three minutes thanks to Pedro's opportunistic finish following a corner. Lionel Messi, and a second from Pedro, put Guardiola's side three up inside the opening half hour to all but confirm the 14th trophy of a phenomenal...
08:25 AM, May 26, 2012
Barcelona: Barcelona can cap four illustrious years under Pep Guardiola with a 14th trophy when they play Athletic Bilbao in Friday's Copa del Rey final. The match at Atletico Madrid's Vicente Calderon stadium will be Guardiola's last in charge of the team, ending an unprecedented period of success for Barcelona since the former player took charge in 2008. The 41-year-old Guardiola will be looking to finish the way he started,...
05:42 PM, May 24, 2012
Madrid: Barcelona have the chance to end the Pep Guardiola era in precisely the same way it began, with a King's Cup final win over Athletic Bilbao on Friday. A drained Guardiola is to step aside and hand over the reins to his close friend and assistant Tito Vilanova for next season, but will hope to walk away with a 14th trophy from his glittering four-year spell in charge. The...
11:41 AM, May 24, 2012
Barcelona: Barcelona defender Dani Alves will be out of action for up to two months after having surgery on a fractured right collarbone sustained during training on Wednesday. "Dani fell after colliding with another player and fractured his collarbone," Barca doctor Ricard Pruna told a news conference. "The recovery period is six to eight weeks, with four weeks completely immobilised, so he will miss the King's Cup final and the...
04:20 AM, May 17, 2012
Barcelona: Real Madrid brushed aside Espanyol 5-0 on Sunday to march on toward their first Spanish league title in four seasons with their 10th consecutive win. Real dominated throughout, barely breaking a sweat in a commanding victory that restored their 10-point lead over defendings Barcelona. Cristiano Ronaldo took advantage of a defensive error by Espanyol to open the scoring with his league-leading 30th goal. Germany midfielder Sami Khedira added a...
08:05 AM, Mar 05, 2012
Barcelona: Cesc Fabregas scored one goal and set up another as Barcelona beat Valencia 2-0 on Wednesday to advance to the Copa del Rey final against Athletic Bilbao. Lionel Messi lobbed a long pass that Fabregas chased down and deftly chipped over goalkeeper Diego Alves for Barcelona's 15th-minute opener. And after Sofiane Feghouli left Valencia with 10 men late on after receiving his second booking, Fabregas set up Xavi Hernandez...
08:15 AM, Feb 09, 2012
Bilbao: Athletic Bilbao advanced to the final of the Copa del Rey with a 6-2 rout of Mirandes on Tuesday, bringing an emphatic end to the third-tier club's historic run. Goals by Iker Muniain, Markel Susaeta and defender Jon Aurtenetxe had Bilbao up 3-0 by the 22nd minute as Mirandes were finally outclassed by a topflight club after having eliminated three straight to make the semifinals. Bilbao striker Fernando Llorente...
11:58 AM, Feb 08, 2012
Valencia: Lionel Messi missed a penalty on Wednesday as Barcelona were held to a 1-1 draw at Valencia in the first leg of the Copa del Rey semi-finals. Brazilian goalkeeper Diego Alves dived to his left to stop Messi's 56th-minute spot kick after Barcelona midfielder Thiago Alcantara had been fouled inside the area. Valencia made a better start at their Mestalla stadium and scored first when Jeremy Mathieu sent a...
08:37 AM, Feb 02, 2012
Barcelona: Barcelona may finally be feeling the pressure that comes with being billed the world's best club, coach Pep Guardiola said on Tuesday. Guardiola spoke in rallying tones ahead of Wednesday's Copa del Rey semi-final at Valencia after the Spanish and European champions drew 0-0 at Villarreal to sit seven points behind league leaders Real Madrid. "Living with this constant pressure of having to win and win makes it hard,...
10:38 AM, Feb 01, 2012
Miranda de Ebro: Athletic Bilbao beat Mirandes 2-1 in the first leg of their Copa del Rey semi-final on Tuesday, yet conceded a stoppage-time goal to give the third-tier club some hope ahead of the second leg next week. Mirandes' partisan crowd of 8,000 spectators at Anduva stadium were silenced after 18 minutes when Fernando Llorente read Oscar de Marcos' run to head in the ensuing short cross at the...
08:32 AM, Feb 01, 2012
Madrid: Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho is reportedly on his way back to England after being booed by the club's fans recently. The former Inter Milan, Chelsea and Porto manager was heckled in the Galacticos home win against Athletic Bilbao last weekend, after his defensive tactics had come under fire during the 2-1 loss in the first leg of the Copa del Rey quarter-final. The second leg of the Copa...
04:58 PM, Jan 29, 2012
Barcelona: Barcelona midfielder Xavi Hernandez has labeled Real Madrid's players 'bad losers' and 'animals' after his club won their latest ill-tempered match-up and the fall-out that thrilling victory continued to dominate the sports headlines in Spain on Friday. Barcelona eliminated cup holders Real Madrid from the Copa del Rey quarter-finals with Wednesday's 2-2 draw at the Camp Nou, after a match full of disputed refereeing decisions. El Mundo newspaper's website...
02:41 AM, Jan 28, 2012
Barcelona: Barcelona midfielder Andres Iniesta will be sidelined for three weeks with a muscle tear in his left thigh. Iniesta was injured in the first half of Barcelona's 2-2 draw with Real Madrid in the Copa del Rey quarter-finals on Wednesday and had be replaced just before the half-hour mark by Pedro. Barcelona advanced 4-3 on aggregate score. Barca initially revealed via Twitter that the player had sustained a thigh...
03:27 AM, Jan 27, 2012
Barcelona: Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho claimed that his team were never likely to be allowed to triumph at Camp Nou, revealing that his players had deemed such an outcome 'impossible,' after his side's Copa del Rey elimination at the hands of Barcelona on Wednesday despite a 2-2 draw at the Camp Nou in the second leg. Madrid came back from a 2-0 first-half deficit, but a poor performance in...
10:30 PM, Jan 26, 2012
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