FC Barcelona (Barça or Blaugrana) | Special Thread

My prediction Man 3-1 Barca.....scorers Man UTD.......................Park (10'), Valencia (37') and nani (67')......................................Barca ................Sergio Busquets (85')..........................Ball possession Barca 58%...................................Man 42%..................enjoy the game............................................and we will compare the notes, thereafter............................
 
Why cult of Catalonia gives Barca a Champions League edge
By Steve Anglesey in Laptop with Martin Lipton
Published 11:08 24/05/11







It is easy, very easy, to mock and deride them for their pretentiousness.
You only have to enter the Nou Camp, that huge, imposing, but slightly run-down symbol of Catalan defiance, to be confronted by the legend.
It is one that every player who signs for Barcelona learns as a rite of passage.
"Mes que un club" - More than a club.And yet, for all the desire to insist that is just romantic twaddle, an effort to justify whatever they might get up to on the pitch out of a sense of victimhood, it is that very essence of Barcelona that Manchester United must conquer at Wembley on Saturday if they are to realise Sir Alex Ferguson's dreams of a third Champions League crown.
Of course, what matters most is events on the pitch.
United have to find a way of making Lionel Messi less effective in the killer areas than we all know he can be, neutralise David Villa and Pedro, too. Above all, discover the method which can shut down the "carousel" powered by Xavi and Andres Iniesta and impose their own brand of high-quality football on the game.
But Fergie does not need reminding that, for all he rightly speaks of the spirit of his side - something keenly acknowledged by Barca coach Pep Guardiola, desperate to prevent his men succumbing to the perils of over-confidence - the Blaugrana are powered by that belief that, truly, they stand for more than just a club.
It was a theme Guardiola was happy to revisit as he sat down for his grand set-piece inquisition in the bowels of the Nou Camp.
"What we have is a long history," said Guardiola. "We need a long time to explain that, not just one press conference.
"But we are more than a club because of the cultural and historic meaning of FC Barcelona.
"It is just a football team. It goes back into history a long time ago with the problems we had to defend our rights.
"People came here to express their opinions and their freedom without any problems.
"That is why we are so proud to play in this team and defend what the club means."
Guardiola, a product of the famous "La Masia" academy, founded barely a stone's throw from the Nou Camp, does not just buy into that legend. He lives it - and expects his players to do so as well.
He doesn't have to explain to his audience, either, when he talks about the people defending their rights.
Most of those who lived through the Spanish Civil War are now dead. But none of them need to be told how Franco's Falangists did their best to wipe out Catalan statehood, forcing the population to speak Castilian rather than their native tongue.
Or how Barcelona was one of the last redoubts of the Republicans before they were routed despite the many from throughout the European Left - the likes of Michael Foot - who flocked to their standard, who saw what was happening in Spain as a likely fore-runner for what was to happen throughout the continent less than a decade later.
That is all history, all part of the fabric of the club and the city, part of what makes a Catalan a Catalan.
And while there have been foreign influences on Barcelona - not least the running thread of how the game should be played that was given birth anew when Johan Cruyff's team won their first European Cup at the old Wembley in 1992 - there has always, too, been that determination to field their own.
Guardiola's team exemplifies that perhaps more than any other. Sergio Busquets still lives in the tough, working class district of the city where his father Carlos - a goalkeeper but also viewed by the dressing room as the man who knew where the car radios had gone - grew up.
Carlos Puyol comes from the mountains near Andorra, Xavi, Pedro and Iniesta, as well as Gerard Pique, are sons of the city. All of them embody and epitomise everything the Nou Camp fans what their team to be.
Not that United have anything to be frightened off. They might be confronted by an idea but their direct opponents are still flesh and blood. Prone to play-acting, even more likely to rant and rave about decisions that don't go their way as United, vulnerable as well as captivating.
That was why Guardiola opted to talk up United, although the idea that he "fears everything" about Fergie's men is fanciful.
The Barca boss, however, believes that his team have that extra something in their make-up, because, simply, of what they stand for.
Mes que un club is not just a theory. It is a religion. And it is something United must withstand as well as all the rest of it
 
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Baadae msiingie mitini tu kwa wale wote mnaoitakia MAU U ifungwe maana itakuwa aibu kwenu......
 
Alafu nina swali,hivi defence ya ARSENAL,CHELSEA na BARCELONA hivi ni defence gani nzuri kati ya hizo timu tatu???
 
SHETANI vs MASSIAH.....!
Ni vita vinavyotoa ishara ya mapigano kati ya majeshi ya MUNGU na ya SHETANI...!
Naweza nisieleweke lakini ingia kiundani!
 
This could be best European Cup final for years - Fergie

Published 23:01 27/05/11 By Oliver Holt




These are the days of our lives. These are the golden days, the precious days, the days that have the power to live with a team and its supporters forever.
When Manchester United play the mighty Barcelona for the biggest club prize, these are the kind of occasions that burn *themselves into the history of a club and sit in the pantheon of its proudest moments.
Think of what has happened on days like this: think of Wembley 1968, Rome 1977, Barcelona 1999 and Istanbul 2005 and feel the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end.
These are the days that define players and managers and decide whether they are good, great or greatest.When Sir Alex Ferguson strolled out on to the Wembley turf with Michael Owen in the gentle sunlight of early evening yesterday, the ghosts of Sir Matt Busby and George Best danced out with him.
In our minds' eye, we saw Best dummying the Benfica keeper 43 years ago at the old Wembley and sliding the ball into an empty net. And Bobby Charlton fighting his way through a jubilant crowd to embrace Busby as United celebrated their first European Cup triumph and grieved again for those who died on the snowy runway in Munich and later at the Rechts der Isar hospital.
Paddy Crerand, one of the United heroes of 1968, crowded into a stadium lift with journalists and smiled wistfully when he *remembered that night.
"It only seems like yesterday," he said.
"It is certainly not Hampden Park, is it Paddy," Ferguson said to Crerand with a glint in his eye as he sat down for his pre-match press conference. "But this is a symbol of English football. This is the right place for a final."
Tonight could be a night to rival all those great nights in European Cup history.
It could be one of the special matches, a match between England's most successful side and a Barcelona team some say is the best club side the world has ever seen.
It is not a fight for the soul of the game because both sides represent so much that is good and beautiful about football but if United win, they will have a claim to be the most successful club in the world, with two Champions League triumphs in the last four years.
It will be a night when United have to try to stop Lionel Messi, the best player in the world, from casting his spell upon them.
A night when Wayne Rooney has to step up and atone for his failure to perform at the World Cup, a night when Ryan Giggs can add another glittering chapter to his remarkable career.
They do not get much bigger or much more eagerly anticipated than Manchester United v *Barcelona.
"It could be the best final of the decade," Sir Alex said. "It has the attraction of teams with great history and it's an appealing final in terms of what could happen. There could be a lot of goals, a lot of good football and a lot of *excitement. Hopefully it will turn out that way."
For Ferguson, tonight represents the chance to establish himself alongside Liverpool's Bob Paisley as the only manager to have won three European Cups.
What an accolade that would be. What an achievement.
The man who has a sign saying ‘Hacumfigovan' in his office, the son of a Clydeside shipyard worker, acknowledged as the greatest there has ever been.
But Barcelona and their brilliant young manager, Pep Guardiola, *represent a formidable obstacle to the reaching of that goal.
Logic suggests they are the most likely winners.
They beat United comfortably in the 2009 final in Rome and they have improved since then whilst United have lost Cristiano Ronaldo, their best player at the time.
But Rome was a strange night for United, a stilted night when Ferguson compromised his attacking instincts to try to contain his possession-hungry *opponents and Ronaldo tried to win the match on his own.
Ferguson has spoken often of having his learned his lesson from that night and the hope is that rather than packing his midfield, he will play Javier Hernandez as well as Wayne Rooney in attack.
All that will happen if he plays a midfield five is that he will limit the damage.
Sooner or later, Barcelona's midfield magicians, Xavi and Andres Iniesta, will find a way to free Messi, however many players United have behind the ball.
But with Rooney and Hernandez in the team, Ji-Sung Park tracking Messi and Giggs and Michael Carrick prompting the front two, United should be able to give the Barcelona defence an *uncomfortable evening.
Barcelona, won their first European Cup at the old Wembley when they beat Sampdoria in 1992.
But Wembley holds so many more memories for the English game that it cannot help but give United *encouragement.
 
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Papizo said:
Alafu nina swali,hivi defence ya ARSENAL,CHELSEA na BARCELONA hivi ni defence gani nzuri kati ya hizo timu tatu???
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Mkuu unajifanya mjanja sio na maswali yako ya ajabu? kaangalie statistics zinasema alfu utuletee jibu.
 
Papizo said:
Alafu nina swali,hivi defence ya ARSENAL,CHELSEA na BARCELONA hivi ni defence gani nzuri kati ya hizo timu tatu???
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Well, you can use statistics to arrive to your conclusion, but the fact that Barcelona plays in different league acts as a confounding factor that you can't ignore in your analysis....we all know who has a better defence between Chelsea and Arsenal.
 
The winners of this final are Manchester United and FC Barcelona teams. though they will differ in the sum as the one scores more than the other will get £109m and the one scores less than the other will get £53M. Though fans like me would like Man U to go away with £109m. To be on a safe side approach the match with the losing mentality otherwise would hurt you the most if you go for the winning one.
 
Sio wote wanaotumia simu wana unlimited data package sasa unapoweka post ndefu kama hapo wanajikuta wanatumia muda mrefu kuscroll, also kama huna touch screen phone ni mzozo zaidi (speaking from experience).

Back to the game...na approach hii mechi kama ninavyoapproach mechi yoyote kubwa.
 
Here's that Man Utd line-up in full, then: Van Der Sar, Fabio ,Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra, Valencia, Carrick, Giggs, Park, Rooney, Hernandez. Subs: Kuszczak, Smalling, Fletcher, Scholes, Anderson, Nani, Owen. Rumours abound, too, that Barcelona have gone with Carles Puyol at centre-half, Eric Abidal at left-back, with no room for Javier Mascherano. That is unconfirmed as yet, though.
 
Barca bado wataendelea kucheza art football. Roney na Hernandez kuanza. Abidal baada ya kuumwa anaanza kucheza beki ya kushoto.
 
Man United watacheza counter attacking football, mtindo wanaoutumia wachezapo na Arsenal. Bila shaka mzee Ferguson amepata ushauri wa kitaalam kutoka kwa Jose Mourihno.
 
The Barcelona line-up in full, then: Valdes; Alves Mascherano Pique Abidal; Xavi Busquets Iniesta; Pedro Messi Villa. Subs: Oier, Puyol, Bojan, Keita, Afellay, Adriano, Thiago
 
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