Tag: Barcelona

8-year-old Japanese boy sings Barca anthem at club’s training session, melts your heart

Barcelona have arrived in Japan for the Club World Cup and eight-year-old Koshiro Yamashita welcomed them by belting out the club’s anthem at a training session while standing in the middle of a group of children. It was so adorable that it probably made Gerard Pique spontaneously bleed everywhere.

Koshiro did a truly spectacular job of confidently leading the clapping kids in the tune and was rewarded for his efforts with a special badge by the club’s vice president.

They probably would’ve brought him back to Spain to lead the singing at the Camp Nou, but FIFA had to go and crack down on their underage transfers.

If it continued… (Real Madrid v Barcelona)

The Santiago Bernabeu was pushed to the desperate act of waving of white handkerchiefs as Barcelona defeated Real Madrid 4-0. It was a show of complete domination from Barca that further weakened Rafa Benitez’s authority over Real Madrid and exposed a gulf in quality between the two rivals. When the final whistle charitably blew, it seemed to preempt further destruction that could have wrought untold hysteria. And so, it is our solemn duty to ask “What if it continued?”

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Everything you need to know about El Clasico

El Clasico is a match played several times per season between Team Messi (sometimes referred to as “FC Barcelona”) and Team Cristiano (sometimes referred to as “Real Madrid”). It is the biggest rivalry in world football thanks entirely to the existence of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, the only two footballers worth talking about.

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Barcelona players dumped fake blood all over Getafe bathroom

(AS)
(AS)

Following Barcelona’s official apology for their costumed players interrupting a Getafe player’s post-match press conference on Halloween, it has now been revealed that they also dumped a bunch of red paint all over the dressing room bathroom, according to AS.

Of course, given Gerard Pique’s propensity to bleed, there’s a good chance it wasn’t all paint…

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Barcelona apologize after costumed players interrupt wrong press conference

Following Barcelona’s 2-0 win at Getafe, several Barca players decided to get into the Halloween spirit and dress up in costumes. They then attempted to put those costumes to use by invading the press room to scare manager Luis Enrique only to find that Luis Enrique wasn’t there. Instead, a very confused Getafe player, Victor Rodriguez stared at them as they busted in screaming and yelling.

Quickly realizing their mistake the Barca players quietly hurried out the back of the room.

Later, the club issued an official apology on their website.

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Neymar’s hair is gone

Neymar, previously thought to be little more than a life support system for his talented hair, arrived for Barcelona’s match against Las Palmas bald. The shock of seeing him without his famous hair tore Lionel Messi’s MCL in the 10th minute of the game. He will be out seven to eight weeks.

Neymar’s hair disappearance has already proven disastrous as he missed a penalty in the 66th minute of Barca’s 2-0 win.

This comes just five days after Neymar was unveiled as a new spokesman for Gillette. It’s unclear if he was paid to go bald, but if he was he must now realize that no amount of money is worth living this type of nightmare.

Roma’s Alessandro Florenzi scores incredible goal from midfield against Barcelona

Down 1-0 to Barcelona at home in the Champions League, Roma’s Alessandro Florenzi (who you might remember from the time he celebrated a goal by hugging his grandmother) saw space between Marc-Andre ter Stegen and the goal, so he decided to let rip with a shot from a rather insane distance and angle that floated into the net to equalize in the 31st minute.

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Gerard Pique controversy proves the hypocrisy in demand for loyalty and passion

A lot is made about how modern football has been ruined by mercenaries. The incredibly talented athletes we love to watch are supposedly just doing their jobs for the astronomical sums of money we conspire to afford them. It’s said that they have no passion for the game to which they’ve devoted their lives and sacrificed their futures and hold no loyalty to the employers who demonstrate the same or the fans who are all too eager to turn on them with the weather. This is reason enough to despise and admonish them every chance we get.

If only these footballers truly cared, we say. If only they demonstrated the same passion that we do. Then they would be doing it right.

But as the current fog of idiocy that has surrounded Gerard Pique demonstrates, that’s not true either. In the minds of too many fans and pundits, footballers must live up to impossible and illogical standards and are only allowed to be wrong.

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