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The Barcelona Identity Crisis
You cannot talk about Barcelona without talking about Pep Guardiola. Still. This is a problem, because Pep Guardiola currently works at Bayern Munich. It’s been two seasons since he patrolled the...
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Barça Bluster: How Can a Team With Neymar, Messi, and Suárez Consider Itself...
What do you call a team that’s one point out of first with 20 games to play? A side that’s conceded six fewer goals than the second-stingiest defense in the country? A club that’s breezed through the...
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Haji Wright and the Next Big Thing: Should the USMNT Be Getting More From Its...
In late December, United States men’s national team supporters fell all over themselves with excitement when then-17-year-old Arsenal project Gedion Zelalem pledged his allegiance to the red, white,...
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Left Brain–Right Brain Champions League Preview: Manchester City vs....
Check back tomorrow for previews of Wednesday’s two fixtures. Here’s a look at Tuesday’s pair of matches. Manchester City vs. Barcelona Mike L. Goodman: Manchester City are, perhaps, the most...
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Winners and Losers: Barça’s Brilliance, Gerrard’s Gall, and a Sanity-Shaking...
Had Liverpool–Manchester United and Barcelona–Real Madrid happened on the same weekend, it would’ve been a lot to handle. But on the same day? Madness! While Barça and United both came out 2-1 winners,...
View ArticleTiki-Taka’s Trojan Horse: Luis Enrique Transformed Barcelona From Within
The shadow of Pep Guardiola still hangs over everything that happens at FC Barcelona, and for good reason. In 2009, Guardiola’s first season as manager, the club won the treble — league, league cup,...
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Juventus, Barcelona, and Beyond: How the Champions League Final Challenges...
Thanks to Sepp Blatter, the FBI, a hastily called FIFA press conference, and years and years of unchecked corruption, the state of the game has been the talk of the soccer town this week. Of course,...
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Chelsea’s Pedro Deal Makes Manchester United Look Weak
Pedro is coming to England, just not to the club we all expected. For weeks, there was a consensus that if the 28-year-old Barcelona winger was to leave the only club he has ever known for the Premier...
View ArticleHow Will Barcelona Replace Lionel Messi’s Omnipotence?
When you’ve been as good as Barcelona over the past decade, you don’t get any sympathy — not even when Lionel Messi tears a knee ligament and is set to miss seven to eight weeks. Fair or not, that’s...
View ArticleNo Messi, No Problem: Neymar Becomes a Superstar
Here, have a clip of Neymar being awesome. Sorry, Nacho. [protected-iframe id=”6af99e0ce2b412ee17c455dbc2a8f02d-60203239-11397879″ info=”https://streamable.com/e/39fu” width=”720″ height=”405″...
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