After 19 long years of shoring up the defence, tending to his heroic lion's mane, stapling up his own head wounds and dressing Gerard Pique at Barcelona, club legend Carles Puyol called time on his envious career at the tail-end of last season.
As far as his retirement goes, we think it's safe to sa...
Luis Enrique and his Barcelona players arrived in England on Monday for a short team practice at the English FA's new state of the art training headquarters with both short and long term concerns on his mind.
The manager is concentrating this week on getting his players into the correct physical sta...
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Spain's superpowers seem to be getting stronger and stronger. Based on the players currently at each club, who makes your Real Madrid / Barcelona XI? Plus, who should manage this select side?
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Having called time on his playing days at the tail end of last season with Fluminense, Friday night saw Deco play his farewell testimonial game in Lisbon as Porto's 2004 Champions League-winning side took on Barcelona's Class of '06 at the Estadio do Dragao.
A raft of Deco's former teammates turned ...
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Barcelona have officially confirmed the signing of Jeremy Mathieu from Valencia for a reported fee of 20 million euros. Newly appointed coach Luis Enrique and Andoni Zubizarreta both agree that the 30-year-old defender will improve the team's defensive capabilities thanks to his height, experience...
Even though it was a policy that exploded into life as far back as the 1950s, seeding the first-ever era of complete European domination, and even though Version 2.0 reinvigorated Real Madrid and won them domestic, European and world titles, there was a stage when it looked not only like the "gala...
