Real Madrid are hoping that Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho will agree to let Eden Hazard go in exchange for Gareth Bale. This deal would bring back the lost art of bartering.
Looking back at the first goal Lionel Messi ever scored for Barcelona, it seems thoroughly average. Why should we care about a simple lob that, in the grand pantheon of all the goals he has scored, is actually quite unremarkable. If he were any other player, no one would bat an eye. And that is exactly the point.
It looks like Thiago Messi is going to have another little rascal to run around with in a few months time.
Lionel Messi announced through Instagram today that he and his long time partner — and mother of Thiago — Antonella Roccuzzo are expecting another child.
After their utter demolition of Getafe in La Liga yesterday, Barcelona forwards Lionel Messi, Neymar Jr., and Luis Suarez have eclipsed 100 goals in all competitions. A respectable return to say the least, and one that few would argue justifies the huge pile of cash required to assemble the trio, with Neymar and Luis Suarez costing a reported 138 million Euros combined.
Bayern Munich better be afraid, very, very afraid. While they were busy losing to their arch rivals Borussia Dortmund on penalties, their upcoming opponents in the Champions League semi-finals were off destroying Getafe in La Liga.
Borussia Dortmund are obviously much, much better than Getafe, but the staggering part of Barcelona’s 6-0 victory over Getafe is not the fact that it came against Getafe. It is the fact that it happened at all.
The schedule for the annual International Champions Cup this summer has been released. The exhibition tournament will bring in some of the biggest teams from Europe, as well as some MLS and Liga MX sides, to compete in various friendlies from July 11th to August 5th. Manchester United, Barcelona, Paris Saint-Germain, and Chelsea are the headliners of the event, with the LA Galaxy, New York Red Bulls, and Club America adding some western hemisphere flair.
Norway and Real Madrid youth phenomenon Martin Odegaard will have a chance to make his senior Real Madrid debut against Almeria. Real Manader Carlo Ancelotti has announced that Odegaard, along with fellow youth prospects Borja Mayoral and Diego Llorente, will be selected to the team sheet as possible substitutes for the match tomorrow, Wednesday the 29th.
The draw for the UEFA Champions League semi-finals has been made official: Bayern Munich will face Barcelona and Real Madrid will face Juventus. Both matches will undoubtedly be thrilling to watch, but the choice of the two has to be Bayern Munich against Barcelona.
Well, I think we can say with confidence why Real Madrid won against Atletico Madrid on Wednesday, and it has nothing to do with what actually happened on the field during the match. Real won because Cristiano Ronaldo scored all of the karma possible before the match.
As he was practicing his shooting during warm ups, Ronaldo accidentally sent one of his tomahawk missiles into the stands…directly into a young boy’s face.
Most of the world never gave Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez a chance at Real Madrid. He was supposed to just be a stop-gap replacement for the departed Alvaro Morata. If anything, his loan was seen as a blessing for a player that had found himself cast out of Manchester United’s suddenly star studded strike force. Now, He had the opportunity to prove himself at the biggest club in the world, to show all of Manchester just how wrong Louis van Gaal was to send him away.