As is usual for slow weeks, international breaks and such, the Madrid papers like to dredge up old stories, like nudging Joan Laporta awake with an attack on Barca or writing a piece to bury or praise Raul Gonzalez Blanco, but recently the one constant has been to write about the Galactico that got away: Cesc Fabregas. Here’s Cesc, Catalan by culture and either, or, or neither, Spanish by birth, who willfully plays for Spain’s red fury, who left the [...]
One of my friends from the Bay Area was coming to town for a few days, and mistakenly asked me what we should do. Why, Barca is playing int he Champions League, of course! He didn’t stand a chance. While there are a large number of quite brilliant things to do in this wonderful city, I could only steer him to the Camp Nou and the unparalleled adventure that comes with going to a Champions League match. Ok, maybe a [...]
I’m really not sure if it matters if the whole video is in Portuguese, but there are obvious questions that were answered here on this video. The kid can sell shirts for Madrid, he can make them Ronaldo-dependent in the same way that Barcelona are Messi-dependent, but ultimately he’s human. I am better than Ronaldo in one more thing in this world, and that my friends is in singing. He’ll need a lot of technological help to sell Romantic ballads [...]
You may all have heard, but I’ll reiterate, Fabio Cannavaro Azzurri captain and ex-Real Madrid and current and former defender for Juventus has been suspended for testing positive for a banned substance (cortisone). The websites start buzzing with activity and the anti-Italian segment reply with the “now we all know how they won the last World Cup” but is it really? Some reports state that the guy was stung by a bee or a wasp (which explains the buzzing I [...]
