Barcelona Blog

Just reading that Ibrahimovic has been unveiled with his new Barcelona Ibrahimovic 9 shirt He is Barca’s biggest signing of the summer so far with Samuel Eto’o heading in the other direction. The news is that as well as Samuel Eto’o and 40 million Euros, subject to personal terms Alexander Hleb is going to Italy [...]

As Real Madrid are seemingly attempting to repeat their Galactio era with record breaking money signings, close rivals Barcelona have been somewhat overshadowed when it comes to talking about potential transfers. Nevertheless, that’s hardly surprising as why would you want to make mass changes to a team that has just won La Liga, the Copa Del Rey and the [...]

Real Madrid v FC Barcelona Saturday, May 2, 2009 Estadio Santiago Bernabéu Kick Off – 20.00 CET Barcelona visit the Bernabéu on Saturday evening, 360 days since last season’s humiliating 4-1 defeat when they had to applaud Real on to the pitch in the traditional tribute to the newly-crowned league champions. A year ago at [...]

Negative Chelsea Earn Goalless Draw Chelsea arrived for the game with  Barcelona with Guss Hiddink ordering his team to attack the Catalan’s and go for the throat and also the promise of an explosive battle. Instead it was a negative ultra-defensive performance from the Blues as they became the first team this season to stop [...]

FC Barcelona v Chelsea UEFA Champions League Semi-Final 1st Leg Camp Nou, Barcelona Kick 0ff – 20.45 CET Barcelona welcome Chelsea to the Camp Nou tonight for the Champions League semi-final 1st leg and will be hoping to produce another performance like the quarter-final 1st leg  display against Bayern Munich, which saw the Catalan’s score [...]

Barcelona 4 Bayern Munich 0 Barcelona have one foot in the semi finals of the Champions League following a hugely impressive 4-0 victory over Bayern Munich in  the  quarter final first leg on Wednesday night. In front of a crowd of over 93,000, Barcelona gave a masterclass in technique and attacking football and in the [...]

Barcelona v Bayern Munich Champions League 1/4 Final – 1st Leg Camp Nou, Barcelona Kick Off – 20.45 CET Bayern Munich face Barcelona tonight in the knowledge that they have never lost to the Catalans. Tonight however they return to the scene of their heartbreaking Champions League Final defeat against Manchester United 10 years ago [...]

Barcelona continued their pursuit of three trophies with a 1-0 win over Real Valladolid, thanks to a sublime goal by Samuel Eto’o, his 26th of the season. The Catalan’s, having lost three out of four matches following FIFA World Cup and international breaks this season, knew they could not afford to drop points and with this in [...]

Real Valladolid v Barcelona Saturday, April 4, 2009 Nuevo Zorilla Kick Off: 20:00 CET Captain Carles Puyol and Andrés Iniesta have both recovered from injury and are named in Pep Guardiola’s 18 man squad for Saturday nights visit to Real Valladolid. The Barcelona coach is expected to rotate his squad and Messi, having played in Argentina‘s [...]

Barcelona had nine players on International duty last weekend and apart from Sergi Busquets, who was an unused substitute for Spain, all featured for their respective countries. Pique and  Xavi were key players in Spain’s 1-0 victory over Turkey with Pique scoring the only goal of the game in the 60th minute, scoring from close [...]