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A Site For Hagia Sophia Museum

2010-11-14T22:53:00.000-08:00

This site about Hagia Sophia Museum.This Turkish Cultural Place was a Church in Byzantium.But Fatih Sultan Mehmet changed it.Hagia Sophia Mosque

Hagia Sophia was chosen as World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1985.Rebuilt by the orders of Emperor Justinian in 537, 900 years Hagia Sophia in the center of Orthodox Christianity was true until 1453 when the city from the Ottomans. 500 years after the conquest of the Muslims, it was a jewel for the Muslim world and the great mosque of the Sultan.In 1935, the Hagia Sophia was in a museum of Turkish Republic by Atatürk, the orders have been converted, and became one of the most important monuments not only in Turkey but in the world with its architectural and historical wealth. hagia sophia museum

Camp Nou Stadium

2007-08-29T01:20:00.000-07:00

The “Camp Nou” is the stadium of Football Club Barcelona. “Camp Nou”, name in Catalan that means “New Field”, is a common name, since the official denomination of the stage is “Stadium Football Club Barcelona”. Formerly, in its inauguration, the stage received the name of “Nou Camp”.With his present capacity of 98,787 spectators, one is the soccer stage with more capacity of Europe. It is located in the avenue Arístides Maillol, in the Barcelonian district of Cortes, closely together of the avenue Diagonal, one of the main arteries of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

History

It was constructed during the mandate of the president of the FC Barcelona Francesc Watch, that also impelled the project by the problems of capacity of the old field of Them Corts and by the rivalry with the Real Madrid, that shortly before habia constructed its new stadium, the one of Chamartín, at the moment Santiago Bernabéu. The project was ordered to the architect Francisco Mitjans, cousin brother of Watch and neighbor his, since they inhabited in he himself imueble of the street Friend of Barcelona, also constructed by Mitjans. The first stone was placed in March of 1953, with an initial budget of 67 million euros. Nevertheless, problems in the construction, mainly derived from unexpected anomalies of the subsoil, expanded the accomplishment and mainly they increased in price it until 290 million that finally cost, to which also contributed the acquisition of lands to his around. The club trusted supporting the cost with the sale of the land of the field of Cortes, but the City council of Barcelona took ten years in recalificar it, giving rise to a period of certain economic scarcity. The stadium was inaugurated the 24 of September (Day of the Favor, pattern of Barcelona) of 1957. That year the FC Barcelona left their old stadium of Cortes to release a “new field” that gave capacity to the thousands of fans whom they loved to attend in direct the parties of Barcelona de Kubala and company, and did not fit in the old stadium, although it counted on 60,000 localities. The “Camp Nou” was inaugurated with a capacity near the 90,000 localities, becoming already 1957 in one of greatest and majestic of the world.
In spite of the diverse initiatives that have had throughout the years to change to the official name of the stadium, baptizing it with the name of some historical player or leader, the partners of the FC Barcelona always have preferred to maintain the name popular of the stadium, and not to personalize it.
In season 2007-2008 the t-shirts of the FC Barcelona will take around the shield of the equipment a legend commemorating the 50 anniversary of the stadium.

Inauguration

The Camp Nou was inaugurated the 24 of September of 1957. A series of commemorative acts and a friendly soccer match between the FC Barcelona and the Selection of Warsaw were organized (Legia Warszawa), that concluded with victory of the local set by 4:2. The first goal of the party and, therefore, the first goal in the history of the Camp Nou marked to the Barcelonist Eulogio Martinez to it.
The first official party that welcomed the Camp Nou took place the 6 of October of 1957 and faced the FC Barcelona and the Real Jaén, in party corresponding to the second day of Spanish Liga of soccer of season 1957-1958. The result was of 6:1 in favor of the premises, with goals of Villaverde (that in minute 3 the first goal in the history of the Camp Nou in official party marked), Tiled, Kubala and the three of Eulogio Martinez. The goal of the honor of the Real Jaén marked Sara to it in minute 68, and supposed 5:1.

Facilities

The Camp Nou has been object of diverse remodelings. First it took place in 1981, in which the stadium with views to the World-wide Glass of football of 1982 was extended which it was disputed in Spain. The gauging of the stadium was located then in 115.000 spectators. The second remodeling took place in 1998, to adapt it to the norms of the UEFA, that forces to that all the localities are of seat. That forced to reduce the level of the turf so that, with the disappearance of the zones of on foot, the stadium lost the smaller possible number of localities. The gauging was located in present the 98,600 localities, all of seat. The dimensions of the game land are of 105x68 meters.
In September of 2007, agreeing with the 50 anniversary of the inauguration, is hoped to begin a new remodeling, as much of extension of gauging as of modernization of the facilities. For it proposals of a public aid of 2 projects will study.
He is at the moment one of the few catalogued European stadiums as “Five Stars” by the UEFA, and one of the four of Spain, along with the Olympic stadium Lluis Companys, also of Barcelona, the Olympic stadium of the Cartuja of Sevilla, the stadium Santiago Bernabéu and the stadium Vicente Calderón; both in Madrid.
In the facilities of the Camp Nou is the official seat of Football Club Barcelona, the offices of administration, and the “Museu of the FC Barcelona”, the museum of the club, that is visited of Catalonia. In addition, the Camp Nou is the main piece of a complex that also acoje the “Mini Estadi”, a stadium of football with 20,000 localities where they dispute to his parties the equipment of the quarry of the club: “The Masía”, calls to account where the youngest sportsmen on the club, and the “Palau Blaugrana” live, a pavilion multipurpose of 8,000 spectators where they train and they play the equipment of the basketball sections, handball, hoquey skids and football room of the club.

Scene of important sport events

In addition to being scene of all the local parties of the first equipment of the FC Barcelona, the “Camp Nou” has been scene of diverse events, sport as social and as much cultural.

Eurocopa of football

The Camp Nou was, next to the Stadium Santiago Bernabéu of Madrid, one of both Spanish stadiums where the final phase of the Eurocopa of football 1964 was disputed. The Camp Nou welcomed a total of two encounter: a semifinal and the party by the third and fourth position. The encounter were:17 of June of 1964. Semifinal: USSR, 3:0 Denmark. They attended 38,556 spectators. 20 of June of 1964. Party by the third position: Hungary, 3:1 Denmark. They attended 3,869 spectators.

World-wide of football

In the occasion of the World-wide Glass of Soccer of 1982 it welcomed, the 13 of June of 1982, the ceremony of inauguration and the inaugural party between Argentina and Belgium (0: 1). In those world-wide ones also it was scene of all the parties of the initial phase of the group C, in which Argentina, Belgium, Hungary and El Salvador competed. In the phase of quarterfinals it was the seat of the Group 1, in which they competed Poland, the USSR and Belgium. Finally it welcomed, the 8 of 1982 July, one of both started off of semifinals between Italy and Poland, that the Italians by two to zero gained.Altogether, five parties were disputed in which seven goals were marked. There was a total attendance of 320,000 spectators, with an average of 64,000 by party. The encounter were:13 of June of 1982. First round: Argentina, 0 - Belgium, 1. Attendance: 95,000 spectators. 28 of June of 1982. Second round: Poland, 3 - Belgium, 0. Attendance: 65,000 spectators. 1 of 1982 July. Second round: Belgium, 0 - USSR, 1. Attendance: 45,000 spectators. 4 of 1982 July. Second round: Poland, 0 - USSR, 0. Attendance: 65,000 spectators. 8 of 1982 July. Semifinals: Poland, 0 - Italy, 2. Attendance: 50,000 spectators.

Olympic games

The 8 of August of 1992, in the occasion of the celebrated Olympic Games of 1992 in Barcelona, welcomed the end of the football match, in which Spain defeated to Poland by 3-2.

European Finals

It has welcomed the end of the Glass of Europe of soccer, now called League of Champions, in two occasions: the 24 of May of 1989, when Milan de Frank Rijkaard, Ruud Gullit and Marco van Basten defeated to the Steaua of Bucharest by 4-0, and the 26 of May of 1999, when the Manchester United defeated to the Bayern de Munich by 2-1.

Also it has welcomed in two occasions the end of the Recopa of Europe. The first occasion was the 24 of May of 1972, when the Glasgow Rangers prevailed by three goals to two to the Dynamo of Moscow. In the second occasion, the 12 of May of 1982, the own FC Barcelona defeated to the Standard one of Lieja by 2-1.

As neutral field also were scene of a end of the Glass of the UEFA, when the end of this competition was disputed to unique party: he was the 24 of June of 1964, and the Real Zaragoza defeated to Valencia CF by 2 goals to 1.

The Camp Nou also has been witness of five end of Supercopa of Europe, when this one was disputed to double party, and the FC Barcelona disputed their parties like the premises. The encounter were:

1979. FC Barcelona, 1-Nottingham Forest, 1. N.Forest ended up proclaiming champion.

1982. FC Barcelona, 1-Aston Villa, 0. A.Villa ended up proclaiming champion.

1989. FC Barcelona, 1-AC Milan, 1. AC Milan ended up proclaiming champion.

1992. FC Barcelona, to 2-Werder Bremen, 1. FC Barcelona ended up proclaiming champion. 1997. FC Barcelona, 2-Borussia Dortmund, 0. The FC Barcelona ended up proclaiming champion.

Spanish Finals

1963: End of the Glass of Spain of soccer: FC Barcelona 3-Real Zaragoza 1.

1970: End of the Glass of Spain of soccer: Real Madrid 3-Valencia CF 0.

Parties of the Spanish selection of football

13 of March of 1960: Spain 3 Italy 1 (Friendly)

9 of January of 1963 Spain 0 France 0 (Friendly)

30 of April of 1969: Spain 2 Yugoslavia 1 (Classification IX Championship of the World)

23 of February of 1974: Federal Spain 1 Germany 0 (Friendly)

12 of October of 1975: Spain 2 Denmark 0 (V Eurocopa)

26 of March of 1980: Spain 0 England 2 (Friendly)

12 of November of 1980: Spain 1 Poland 2 (Friendly)

21 of January of 1987: Spain 1 the Netherlands 1 (Friendly)

Parties of the Catalan selection of football

1966, 8 of December. Catalonia-Selection of foreigners: 3-3. 15,000 spectators.

1968, 7 of November. Catalonia-Atlante Mexico: 2-0. 8,000 spectators. Beneficial party Red pro-Cross.

1976, 9 of June. Catalonia-Russia: 1-1. 35,000 spectators.

2000, 22 of December. Catalonia-Lituania: 5-0. 47,000 spectators.

2001, 28 of December. Catalonia-Chile: 1-0. 57,000 spectators.

2002, 18 of May. Catalonia-Brazil: 1-3. 96,700 spectators.

2002, 28 of December. Catalonia-China: 2-0. 63,416 spectators.

2003, 28 of December. Catalonia-Ecuador: 4-2. 67,100 spectators.

2004, 25 of May. Catalonia-Brazil: 2-5. 80,000 spectators.

2004, 29 of December. Catalonia-Argentina. 65,320 spectators.

2005, 28 of December. Catalonia-Paraguay: 1-1. 32,300 spectators.

2006, 8 of October. Catalonia-Euskadi: 2-2. 56,354 spectators.

Beneficial parties

The Camp Nou has welcomed diverse beneficial organized friendly parties with Finn.

1968, 7 of November. Party between the selection of Catalonia and the Atlante Mexico, in benefit of the Red Cross. It overcomes Catalonia by 2-0, before 8,000 spectators.

1980, 17 of December: Friendly party that faces the FC Barcelona and international star combining denominated “Human Stars”. They attend the party 120,000 spectators and 35 million pesetas in UNICEF benefit are collected.

1993, 25 of May: Football match “Drugs No! ”, that faces the FC Barcelona and a selection of players of Spanish Liga. The collection of the party destines to the fight against the drug of the “Project Man”.

1995, 7 of November: Friendly soccer match that faces a selection of America against one of Europe. They attend the party 50,000 spectators. The collection was destined, through UNICEF, to help the children who had been victims of the war of Bosnia.

1998, 27 of January: Soccer match “Drugs No! ”, that faces the FC Barcelona and a selection of players of Spanish Liga. The collection of the party destines to the fight against the drug of the “Project Man”.

2000, 29 of November: The Camp Nou welcomes the celebration of a soccer match “Drugs No! ”, that faces the FC Barcelona and a selection of players of Spanish Liga. The collection of the party destines to the fight against the drug of the “Project Man”.

2005, 29 of November: Celebration in the Camp Nou of the denominated “Party by La Paz”, a friendly encounter, organized by the Foundation Ernest Lluch, who faces the FC Barcelona a selection in which, for the first time, plays together Israeli and Palestinian football players.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer - Manchester United Legend

2007-08-29T00:49:00.000-07:00

Adiós Puerta

2007-08-28T11:29:00.000-07:00

The football player of Sevilla Antonio Puerta has passed away as a result of a “postanóxica encefalopatía” to the 14,30 hours in the Virgin hospital of the Dew. The sevillista player was entered in the UCI of the hospital after the party of the first day between Seville and the Getafe and its situation were very critical, according to the last medical report.The death of the soccer player Antonio Puerta has been caused by “secondary the postaxónica encefalopatía and the multiorganic failure to the shutdown cardiac”, that motivates its hospitable entrance Saturday the past. In a medical report signed by Jose Miguel Blacksmiths, medical director of the Virgin Hospital of the Dew in which he was taken care of, needs that the cardiac shutdown that he underwent Door in the field of Seville FC displasia of the right ventricle was consequence of arritmogénica a ventricular arrhythmia caused by one.Door was in a very critical situation and had followed an unfavorable clinical evolution in the last hours, according to the last medical report that the medical service of the hospital has facilitated to the today 13:07. The situation of Door was had considerably agravated in relation to the last medical report that was facilitated yesterday at noon, as a result of the “signs of postanóxico cerebral suffering and of the multiorganic disfunción caused by the cardiac shutdown that motivated its entrance”.The drama began in the first party of League of the Seville of the Saturday last before the Getafe, when to the 29 minutes of game it fell on the turf of Sanchez Pizjuán. Moments later the player rose by his propie foot to go to vesturio, where once he underwent a new cardiac shutdown there that the doctors of the club managed to recover their vital constants thanks to the desfibrilador. In the transfer subsequent to the hospital in ambulance, the sevillista returned to undergo two new crises, before being stabilized in the unit of intensive cares of the Virgin Hospital of the Dew.

On the verge of being father

Antonio Puerta was for the first time on the verge of being father. Puerta had pair and within month and means it is predicted that her fiancèe leaves accounts.

Ardent chapel installed in the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuán

Seville FC and the family of Antonio Puerta have decided in common agreement to establish from the twelve of tonight, in schedules that already will be specified, the ardent chapel in the “noble zone” of the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuán, has informed the club. The soccer player “will be shrouded with a flag of Seville, and also a flag of Spain will be placed, that will symbolize its internationality, and, on its feet, all the titles that it conquered with the equipment that it loved since it had conscience use”, adds the club in a note.The Seville has informed, also, that the chapel will be closed to the public of momentary form to the arrival from the equipment to Seville, anticipated stops after the one of the dawn, for the celebration of an intimate mass for group, technicians, advice and close friends.

Tomorrow Wednesday, the burial

The burial is predicted for morning to the 14,00 hours in the Cemetery of San Fernando, after tribute to the soccer player in the ardent chapel installed in antepalco of the stage surrenders Sanchez Pizjuán, according to informs the club Andalusian.

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Pelé Biographie - Black Pearl - Veteran Footballers

2007-08-28T09:45:00.000-07:00

Edson Arantes C Nascimento, known as Pelé, born on October 23, 1940 in Três Corações (Brazil, State of Mined Managed), is a former Brazilian professional footballer and who evolved/moved at the station of attacker.Droitier, it is generally regarded as the largest footballer of all times, at least, that which was more advances some over its time. Rapid, technique, opportunist, intelligent and powerful, it had this flash of genius which make the mark of the large players.

Life

Pelé is the son of a poor province soccer player and a Wäscherin. In order to through-bring the family, Pelé in the road shop of its father cooperated. As a small boy it inspired for the Torwart of the crew of its father named “Bilé” and explained themselves that it wanted to also play like “Pilé”. From this the pointed name “Pelé” developed, which annoyed it first. The civil first name reads “Edson”, what is expressed in Brazil about like “Edison”. The name refers to the American inventor Thomas Edison. Today Pelé in Brazil “O Rei” (the king) is also called.Pelés exception position in the football is justified among other things with the fact that he could recognize immediately and instinktiv, how and in which direction the opponent would move. Thus it had developed a body feeling, how only few other sportsmen have it.

FC Santos and national team

Its soccer player career began with 16 years with the FC Santos. Only ten months later it arose for the first time internationally with the national team. With the world championship 1958 in Sweden it became with the Brazilian national soccer team world champion. At that time it was straight 17 years old; the record as youngest football world champions of all times he stops still. It won still two further world championships, i.e. the WM 1962 and the WM with Brazil 1970. 1962 was missing it injury with some plays of the WM. Also in the WM-tournament 1966, when Brazil already separated in the Vorrunde, injuries put it occasionally out of action.It played until 1974 with the FC Santos and shot for the club 1,088 gates in 1.114 plays. On 19 November 1969 it shot its thousandth gate, which it could transform public-effectively as eleven-meters in the Maracanã stadium. From cause of this record the bells rang and a Brazilian special stamp were given change in completely Brazil. President Médici approved a holiday.In the good list of the WM-goal scorers it occupies with 12 gates the 4. Place. As only players became he with its crew three times world champion. Likewise it succeeded to it to register itself with all 4 WM-tournaments into the goal scorer list an achievement, which succeeded to Uwe Seeler except it only.At the end of its career (1977) it had obtained altogether 1,283 gates in 1.363 plays. In the 92 employments for the Brazilian national team it obtained 77 gates. The only possibility of switching Pelé off existed for the defenders in the Foulspiel. Constant attacks led also with the world championship in England 1966 to premature separating Pelés and the Brazilian crew. However the English federation chairman had given to the arbitrators the instruction, the plays against Brazil „runs“to leave, which meant permission for the Foulspiel of any kind.

Economic commitment

Pelés commitments in economic regard ended several times with a Fiasko. First it entrusted his fortune a friend, who had defrauded however its entire money. After the fraud of its business partners in a real estate business at the beginning of the 1970er years was forced it to take up its for terminated avowed soccer player career again in order to be able to pay its debts off. He signed a contract annually with the New York Cosmos for several millions dollar, which to date highest transfer sum had been. In New York it had acquired itself the methods of a professional management also for the first time.It played for the club New York Cosmos from 1974 to 1977 and terminated then finally its career.On 2 January 1995 the freshly selected president of Brazil Fernando Henrique Cardoso appointed it the extraordinary sport Minister. In this characteristic it tried above all to fight the corruption of its domestic football functionaries. 1998 separated Pelé from the office.Pelé uses its exception status for advertising contracts of all kinds. Thus it recruited Viagra approximately in the year 2002 for the power means.

Family

On 21 February 1966 Pelé Rosemeri DOS rice Cholby married. The daughters Kelly Cristina (* 13 January 1967) and Jennifer (* 1978) as well as the son Edson (“Edinho” come of to the marriage - small Edson, * 27 August 1970). This marriage became 1978 divorced.A heavy personal stroke of fate was for it the repeated arrest of its oldest son Edinho because of drug trade in the year 2005.Into the 1990er years recognized Pelé the paternity for two illegitimate daughters on: Sandra Regina Machado (* 24 August 1964) from the relationship with a Hausangestellten, and Flávia Kurtz (* 1970), from the connection with a journalism student. With Sandra Pelé had to undergo in one legal proceedings of an DNA analysis; with Flávia it recognized the paternity voluntarily on.Since April 1994 is Pelé with the Psychologin and Gospelsängerin Assíria Lemos Seixas marries, which bore the twins Joshua and Celeste after artificial fertilization on 28 September 1996 by emergency emperor cut.

Honours

1999 appointed it the FIFA the world soccer player 20. Century.

1999 selected it the international olympic committee to the sportsman of the century.

He is an Ambassador of the UNESCO.

In November 2005 Pelé became honour member of the soccer association red white meal. With award of the member document Pelé said: „It is for me a large honour to belong now to the association in which ‚the Boss played `Helmut Rahn. “

Film

Pelé played together with many other former professional football players in the film escape ton Victory also. It took the role of an allied player and showed in the film also its dribbling arts. In addition it provided the Choreographie for the football scenes in the film.

Legend: Pelé, documentation, 45 min., book and direction: Christian way fount, production: Pool of broadcasting corporations, Erstausstrahlung: 29. May 2006

Just Fontaine Biography - Story of 13 goals - Veteran Footballers

2007-08-28T08:03:00.000-07:00

Just Fontaine (18 August 1933 in Marrakesch, Morocco) is a former French football player and - coaches.

Association Career
Fontaine, which was usually affectionately only called by the public “Justo”, was from 1949 to 1962 active professional. With the football it began with US Marocaine Casablanca (1950-1953); then it changed to France, played first for the OGC Nice (1953-1956) and afterwards for Stade Reims (1956-1962). With this club it (as in the national team) played several years with hochkarätigen offensive players (Piantoni, Vincent and Bliard) together, per season between 80 and 90 hits in the division the 1 obtained, in the year of Kopas return (1959/60) even 109 of gates in 38 plays. In France Just Fontaine became four times master and twice Cup winner; in addition it was twice goal scorer king in the highest play class. With Reims it stood besides in the final of the European Cup of the national masters 1959 approximately material Madrid.A complicated leg break (1960), from which it despite several approaches recovered never more correct, already terminated 1962 - “Justo” was only 28 years old - its player career.At the end of of 1961 was selected the contentious Goalgetter to the first president of the French player trade union and held this function until 1964.
The French national player
The Stürmer was appointed between 1953 and 1960 altogether 21mal into the Équipe Tricolore; it obtained 30 gates, thus a sayful cut of 1,43 hits per play - four times thereby a “three-luggage” succeeded to it, once (1958 against Germany in the play around place 3 with the WM) even four gates in a play. Just Fontaine holds also the torr cord with a soccer world championship: with the final round it obtained 1958 in Sweden to today valid Bestmarke of 13 hits - it moved at all only thereby in the quantity of the Frenchmen that his Reimser crew comrade René Bliard in the apron of the WM had hurt itself and for Sweden to call off had.
The coach
1962 had to terminate Fontaine its active career; thereupon it, as the class-best, completed the coach training. In January 1967 it was already replaced French national coach, but after two home defeats in friendship games against Romania and the USSR in July by Louis Dugauguez. Afterwards it trained among other things four years long Paris Saint Germain, with which it ascended 1974 into the highest play class, as well as Toulouse FC (1978/79). It was at the beginning of the 1980er in addition coach of the Moroccan national team.Subsequently, also with the title “knight of the Ehrenlegion” dedicated itself as well as from the technical periodical L'Équipe in the year 2000 as a fifth-best French soccer player of the century excellent Just Fontaine to its sports article business (Justo sport).
Successes
French football master: 1956 (with Nice), 1958, 1960 and 1962 (with Reims)
French Cup winner: 1954 (Nice), 1958 (Reims)
Goal scorer king in of France highest play class: 1958, 1960 (as well as secondarybest contactors 1957 and 1959)
Employments and gate successes in the division 1:200 plays and 165 gates (69/43 for Nice, 131/122 for Reims)
21 A-international matches (one for Nice, 20 for Reims) with 30 gates
World championship third 1958, there also WM-Torschützenkönig (13 hits)
Fontaine belongs also to the best soccer players of all times, the FIFA 100, and 2004 it was selected as a best Frenchman into the UEFA Jubilee 52 golden Players
As coaches
National coach (1967), however the shortest selectionneur of France of all times

Bulent Korkmaz - NoFear Turk - Veteran Footballers

2007-08-28T07:46:00.000-07:00

Bulent Korkmaz (born 24 November 1968) is to retired Turkish football to player. There am played for Istanbul club for Galatasaray SK his whole to career from 1987 until 2005, despite offers from several top clubs. There am was nicknamed “Büyük Kaptan” (the Great Captain) by Galatasaray fans. There am is renowned for his loyalty, leadership and passion.There am is arguably the most successful sportsmen in Turkish history. During his 18 years AT Galatasaray, Bülent won to massive 29 trophies, including one the UEFA Cup, the Super one UEFA Cup, 8 League titles and 6 Turkish Cup championships. Internationally, there am was the first international Turkish to reach 100 caps. There am was also part of the Turkish squad that finished 3rd AT the Fifa World Cup in 2002.Before the 2005-2006 season, there am retired from playing profession football and on 30 August 2005 signed ace assistant to manager for Turkish football team Gençlerbirliği, which I have there are since resigned from duty. In January 2007, Bulent took on to new job ace head coach of Turkish club Kayseri Erciyesspor, which was AT the bottom of the league. Despite the successful football and to better scores in the second half of Turkish Premiere Division, Kayseri Erciyesspor were relegated from Super Turkcell lig, to Turkish League To, to however, succeded in reaching the final round in the Turkish Cup (Fortis Türkiye Kupasi), losing 0-1 AET against Besiktas JK. Bülent Korkmaz agreed with Bursaspor to become to their head coach on June 2007.To moment that will to never leave the hearts of the Galatasaray faithful was during the the UEFA final Cup of 2000 between Galatasaray and Arsenal F.C. Bülent's to shoulder was dislocated and doctors strongly urged him to leave the Park. Bülent declined and doctors strapped his to shoulder to his chest and fought to most memorable battle, in which Galatasaray triumphed in their greatest achievement in Turkish football at club level.Towards the end of his to career, Bulent was honoured by the UEFA on his birthday.

Versión Española

Bülent Korkmaz (llevado el 24 de noviembre de 1968) es un jugador turco jubilado del balompié. Él jugó para el club Galatasaray SK de Estambul para su carrera entera a partir de 1987 hasta 2005, a pesar de ofertas de varios clubs superiores. Los ventiladores de Galatasaray lo apodó “Büyük Kaptan” (el gran capitán). Él es renombrado para su lealtad, dirección y pasión.Él es discutible los sportsmen más acertados de la historia turca. Durante sus 18 años en Galatasaray, Bülent ganó los 29 trofeos masivos, incluyendo una taza de UEFA, una taza estupenda de UEFA, 8 títulos de la liga y 6 campeonatos turcos de la taza. Internacionalmente, él era el primer internacional turco para alcanzar 100 casquillos. Él era también parte de la escuadrilla turca que acabó 3ro en la taza del mundo de Fifa en 2002.Antes de la estación 2005-2006, él se retiró de jugar al balompié de la profesión y firmó el 30 de agosto de 2005 como encargado auxiliar para el equipo turco Gençlerbirliği del balompié, que él ha dimitido desde entonces de deber. En enero de 2007, Bulent adquirió un nuevo trabajo como coche principal del club turco Kayseri Erciyesspor, que estaba en el fondo de la liga. A pesar de el balompié acertado y las cuentas mejores por la mitad segundo de la división turca de la premier, Kayseri Erciyesspor fue relegado del lig estupendo de Turkcell, a la liga turca A, sin embargo, succeded en alcanzar el final redondo en la taza turca (Fortis Türkiye Kupasi), perdiendo 0-1 AET contra Besiktas JK. Bülent Korkmaz acordó con Bursaspor convertirse en su coche principal en junio de 2007.Un momento que nunca saldrá de los corazones del Galatasaray fieles estaba durante el final de taza de UEFA de 2000 entre Galatasaray y hombro del arsenal F.C. Bülent fue dislocado y los doctores lo impulsaron fuertemente salir del parque. Bülent declinó y los doctores ataron con correa su hombro a su pecho y lucharon una batalla más memorable, en la cual Galatasaray triunfó en su logro más grande del balompié turco en el nivel del club.Hacia el final de su carrera, Bulent fue honrado por UEFA en su cumpleaños.

Legend Squads 1

2007-08-28T05:26:00.000-07:00

1973-74 La Liga Champion Barcelona.Franco died after the 1973-1974 football season.
Sadurni, Rife, Torres, Michels (manager), Costas, De la Cruz and Juan Carlos. Agachados:
Reixach, Asensi, Cruyff, Sotil, Marcial Legend Bayern Munich won Atletico Madrid with 4-0 score. Maier, Hansen, Breitner, Schwartzenbeck, Beckenbauer, Roth, Torstensson, Zobel, Gerd Müller, Hoeness, Kapellmann.

President: We Want The Old Deco Back

2007-08-28T02:53:00.000-07:00

Barcelona president Joan Laporta insisted in an interview that he is "not worried" about Los Culers' start to the season - before reiterating his intention not to sell Deco...

In an interview with Catalunya Radio, Barcelona president Joan Laporta (pictured) joined three members of his squad in saying that there is no reason to panic.Following the blaugrana's 0-0 draw at Racing Santander, much of the fanbase is upset - but Laporta sought to allay their fears.He admitted, though, that the performance left much to be desired."The performance didn't please me," he fumed. "It was the result of pressure created by the excess praise given to the team and certain players."I do not believe in the 'fantastic four.' I want a fantastic team. Without the team, one player alone is nothing."Personally, I am not worried - but I am alert to the situation. If we think something's wrong, we'll act quickly."Laporta moved his attention to Deco, the Portuguese midfielder who has seemingly been displaced from the starting lineup by Yaya Toure.Amidst rumours that Deco is unhappy, Laporta, again, offered reassurance."I'm not at all worried about this subject. Deco is a professional, focused on his work, and that work contains a year of challenges."In this sense, I like the declarations of Rijkaard when he said that this season is a question of honour. He knows that last season is bad and everyone needs to assume responsibilities."Laporta then reiterated that Barca will not entertain any offers for Deco - before saying that he wished he had the Deco of two years ago."We've already said that we won't sell him," he added. "We've spoken to him and his agent, and while he has a release clause in his contract, he wants to remain with Barca."Certainly, though, I'd prefer the Deco of two years ago. And he's asked if he's going to regularly be a substitute, but I calmed him down."Barca face Inter in the Gamper trophy midweek.

Solskjaer Retires

2007-08-28T00:58:00.000-07:00

Manchester United striker Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has reportedly decided to hang up his boots due to injury.

The fans favourite has struggled with injury for a number of years, but has remained at Old Trafford where he has stamped his name in United's history during an eleven year spell at the club.
The Norwegian international netted well over 100 goals for United following his arrival from Molde, but one goal stands out above them all - the dramatic winner in the 1999 Champions League final against Bayern Munich.
The 34-year-old managed to recover from a lengthy injury lay-off to play a fringe role in United's title winning campaign last season, scoring 11 goals in all competitions.
However, Solskjaer did not feature during the pre-season campaign after undergoing a knee operation over the summer.
It was expected that the player would retire at the end of the season, but his struggles with injury appear to have forced himself into making an early decision, which may prompt Sir Alex Ferguson into entering the transfer market this week.

Samuel Eto'o Biography

2007-08-27T07:19:00.000-07:00

Samuel Eto'o is a Cameroun football player. It is at the moment front center of the FC Barcelona and the selection of Cameroun, and has been awarded with the prize “African Soccer player of the year” of years 2003, 2004 and 2005, being the only player in it to have obtained in three occasions.

His history in the clubs

Its race in an equipment of its country began, the UCB Douala and in 1996 fichó by Real Madrid B. After descending with the white branch to Second Division B in his first season, the club decided to yield the Sport Club to him Leganés.
The following year it returns to Real Madrid. With this equipment Real Madrid makes debut in the first Spanish division the 5 of December of 1998 in Spanish party RCD 0 - 0. Although to half of season march in quality of yielded to the Spanish RCD, that is the only party of league that would dispute to Eto'o that season, since in the Spanish RCD it would only dispute friendly parties. In spite of everything, that Eto'o season was able to proclaim champion of the Intercontinental Glass with Real Madrid.
In 1999 it returned to Real Madrid, where almost it did not have opportunities to play. To half of season it decided to go away to the rows of the Real Majorca. With this Eto'o equipment it begins to play and to occur to know in Spanish football. Every time played more starting off until, finally, a hollow in the eleven became initial of its club.
She was the author of two of the three goals of the Real Majorca in the end of the Glass of the King of the season 2002-2003, in which the Majorca defeated by three to zero to the Recreational one of Huelva. It dedicated to the goals and the title to him to the Cameroun Marc-Vivien Foé, intimate friend and companion of selection, deceased tragically 48 hours before the end of Glass, when the Glass played in Paris Confederations.
Eto'o thus remained in the Real Majorca five seasons disputing 133 parties of league, in which it marked 54 goals, becoming the maximum goleador of the history of the Real Majorca in league. With the Majorca also it disputed Liga de Campeones (although already it had made debut with Real Madrid), and its two goals in the competition, also it is the maximum goleador of the Majorca in League of Champions. All it served to him to be named African football player of the year in 2003, for the first time.

In 2004, being object of desire of several clubs, among them Valencia CF, the Chelsea or Real Madrid, decided to file by the FC Barcelona. That season was the titular forward of its new equipment. A goal his, the goal of the tie (minute 60), marked the 14 of May of the 2005 in the party East 1 - 1 FC Barcelona meant the title of champion of Spanish Liga of football for the FC Barcelona. According to the official data of the LFP it was the maximum goleador of the league in season 04-05 with 24 goals, next to the Uruguayan Diego Forlán, but the Pichichi trophy was adjudged in solitaire to the player of Villarreal CF, since the daily Mark, organizer of the prize, did not enter one of the goals of Eto'o. Also it returned to be named better player of Africa for the second time, in front of the native from Ivory Coast Didier Drogba.
It obtained the European Bronze Boot in season 2004-2005 with his 24 goals, one less than Diego Forlán and Thierry Henry and in season 2005-2006 with 26 goals, behind Luca Toni with 31 and Thierry Henry with 27.
In 2005 Eto'o champion of Supercopa of Spain proclaimed itself. The 20 of December of that same year were chosen by the FIFA like third better player of the year, behind Lampard, second, and of their teammate Ronaldinho. In addition it was including in the “Ideal Equipment of the for the second time consecutive FIFA”. And by third consecutive time, it was crowned like the best African player of year 2005, becoming the player who in more occasions has received the prize.
In February of 2006, in the Real party Zaragoza - FC Barcelona of the Spanish league, threatened retire of the game land to listen to simiescos racist shouts, in reference to his African origin, but she could be calmed by his companions, trainer and be colegiado so that she continued disputing the party. This incident returned to him to place to him of numerous discussions in center, after to have escupido to a rival and being alluded to controversialally by the trainer Javier Clemente (“those who escupen are those that lowers of the tree”). During season 2005-06 it was able to raise itself with the trophy of maximum producer of Spanish Liga with 26 so many, thus helping to that Barcelona obtained its second consecutive liguero championship. That season also raised with Liga de Campeones before Arsenal FC, in a party in which it managed to mark the goal that gave the momentary tie to Barcelona. It was named by the UEFA like the best player of the end, disputed in the Stade de France of Paris, and like the best forward of the competition, in front of his Ronaldinho companion, and of the Thierry French Henry.
In season 2006-07, in a party of League of Champions as opposed to the Werder Bremen, it underwent a breakage of menisco in his right knee, his more serious injury until the moment. The doctors of the FC Barcelona considered their recovery in about five months, thus losing great part of the season, when to pains a month of her had been disputed.
The terms of five months were fulfilled, and finally it could reincorporar itself to the equipment in the month of February, to face the final straight line of the season.

National selection

Participation in World Cup

He has been international with the Selection of football of Cameroun in 60 occasions. Its debut as international Cameroun took place the 9 of March of 1997 in the party Costa Rica 5 - 0.
Eto'o runner-up of the Glass Confederaciones 2003 has twice conquered the African Glass of Nations and had left. It has marked a total of 28 goals with his selection.
Participation in Glasses of the World [to publish] has participated with the Selection of football of Cameroun in the World-wide Glass of football of France of 1998 disputing an encounter against Italy in which Eto'o was substitute.
It has also participated in the World-wide Glass of football of Korea and Japan of 2002 disputing three encounter against Ireland, Saudi Arabia and Germany.
Eto'o was holder in all the parties of that World-wide one and marked a goal against Saudi Arabia.

Clubs

UCB Douala - (Cameroon) 1995 - 1996

Real Madrid Castilla - (Spain) 1996 - 1997

Club Deportivo Leganés - (Spain) 1997 - 1998

Real Madrid - (Spain) 1998

RCD Espanyol - (Spain) 1999

Real Madrid - (Spain) 1999

Real Club Deportivo Mallorca - (Spain) 2000 - 2004

FC Barcelona - (Spain) 2004 - At the moment

Thierry 'Titi' Henry Biography

2007-08-27T05:57:00.000-07:00

Thierry Henry is undoubtedly one of the French attackers most known in the world. French footballer originating in the French West Indies (inhabitant of Guadeloupe more particularly of Désirade from his/her father and inhabitant of Martinique from its mother), Thierry Henry, born on August 17, 1977 in Ulis (the Essonne, France), is as of his youth a wonder of the round balloon.

It's beginnings and it's confirmation

Thierry Henry begins in the club from his birthplace then integrates the center of preformation of Clairefontaine. In 1990, it joined the center of formation of the ACE Monaco. It plays its first match in the first division of the French championship on August 31, 1994 against Nice, whereas it is just 17 years old. One then presents it like the greatest hope of French football. On October 11, 1997, it is selected for the first time in team of France, where it counts today 40 goals in 93 selections [1]. It takes part in the World cup of football of 1998 in France which it gains and of which it finishes better French striker with 3 achievements.In January 1999, it signs in the Italian club of Juventus of Turin. The Italian experiment is not very conclusive for Henry, used in the left and constrained corridor to yield with defensive tasks little in adequacy with its qualities. It registers only one doubled against Lazio and in August of the same year, it joined the rows of the English club of Arsenal where it evolved/moved until June 2007. But it is in Arsenal, under the direction of Arsene Wenger, that Henry crosses a stage. Hitherto regarded as a winger of overflow, Henry evolves/moves from now on in the axis of the attack and becomes a frightening hunter of goals.Become titular in team of France, it gains the Championship of Europe of the nations in 2000.Since October 19, 2005, Thierry Henry became the best striker of the club of Arsenal (all confused competitions) with 186 achievements, preceding the English Ian Wright (185).During the inauguration of the new stage of Gunners, Emirates Stadium, in July 2006, Titi registers the very first goal of the history of the stage.In March 2007, Henry is wounded with the supply mains and the abdominal wall. It is learned that the captain of Arsenal will miss for “at least three months”. The season is thus finished for Titi. A hard blow for Arsenal but also for the team of France from the point of view of the qualifications for the Euro 2008.On June 25, 2007, after eight seasons spent to Gunners and an incredible total of 226 goals in 369 matches, the French attacker signs with the FC Barcelona for four years, the amount of the transfer rising to 24 million euros. Henry will carry the same number of shirt as that which it had in Arsenal, the number 14.

2006 World Cup Germany

In form, it is selected by Raymond Domenech to take part in the world cup 2006. With Louis Saha, it forms a very powerful offensive system. Besides Henry marks a goal in friendly match vis-a-vis Denmark (2-0, final score) on May 31, 2006 and vis-a-vis in China at the end of the match (3-1, final score) on June 7, 2006, then on June 18 vis-a-vis in South Korea, the first tower of the world cup. He is the author of the second French goal on June 23, at the time of the match France-Togo (final score 2-0), victory which makes it possible Blue to dispute the eighth of finale of the World cup 2006. Vis-a-vis in Spain, it is of a fault made on him that comes the frank blow from Zidane, which will make it possible Vieira to change the score to 2-1 (final score 3-1). In quarterfinal, vis-a-vis Brazil, it registers the single goal of the meeting. In semi-final vis-a-vis Portugal, it is hung by the leg by a defender in the penalty area what makes it possible to concede a pénalty in France, is transformed by Zinédine Zidane and single goal of the meeting. On July 9, 2006, it is dissociated at the time the final of the World cup, with several attempts. But its team nevertheless is demolished by Italy at the time of the meeting of shootings to the goal.

226 goals with Arsenal in 369 matches (average of 0,61 goal by match), of which:

First League: 174 goals in 254 matches;

League champions: 35 goals in 77 matches;

Cut UEFA: 7 goals in 8 matches;

Cup: 7 goals of 24 matches;

League Cup: 2 goals in 3 matches;

Community Shield: 1 goal in 4 matches.

It's characteristics

It has been considered for several years one of the best players in the world: Thierry Henry can show a very great realism vis-a-vis the goal (it can mark by far like near). Its play of attack is very complete, it is regarded as one of the best specialists at his station. Its capacity to be very at ease ball with the foot, its speed of execution, its swiftness, its technique and its direction of the master key make an exceptional player of it. It occupies almost each year the first place with the classification of the strikers of First League (the English championship). Nevertheless, its play of head remains its weak point even if at the time of its last season with Arsenal it seemed to fill this gap.Its mentality makes for it a player very appreciated and a large person in charge on the ground, this is why there remained the leader of the attack of Arsenal since many years and that the French hopes rest on him. Like all large striker, Thierry Henry has a trademark (technique of the “dead sheet”): its strike brushed dish of the right foot are from now on dreaded by all the guards of the world.Thierry Henry, at 30 years, is often regarded as the best player of Arsenal of all times. He is in any case the best striker since the creation of the club.

Personal distinctions

Player of team UEFA.

Named with the FIFA 100 (Signal 100 of the best alive players of all times) in 2004.

Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1998.

Shoe of gold European 2004 (30 goals) and in 2005 (25 goals).

Eleven of gold 2003 and 2006.

Eleven of money in 2004.

Eleven of bronze in 2000 and 2005.

French player of the year in 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006.

Revelation France Football of the year 1996.

Oscar of young footballer UNFP 1997.

Better French strikers of the World cup 1998.

Better French strikers of the World cup 2006.

Better players and better striker of the Cut of the Confederations 2003.

Elected official better player of the International Festival Hopes of Toulon in 1997.

Better striker of the International Festival Hopes of Toulon in 1997.

Better striker of the championship of England in 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2006.

Better player of the year in England (trophy of Football Writers' Association) in 2003, 2004 and 2006.

Better French striker of all times in Champion' S League with Arsenal

Others

With carried out the 1600e goal of World cup.

Captain of Arsenal of 2005 to 2007.

He is currently the 7th best European striker in activity in club (without counting the goals out of national cuts) with 239 achievements.

Better striker in activity of the team of France with 40 goals (2nd of all times behind Michel Platini - 41 goals).

Better striker of the history of the Arsenal Football Club (226 goals all confused competitions). Second better striker of the team of France in final phase of world cup with 6 goals (behind Just Fountain - 13 goals).

Better foreign striker of the history of England.

Only attacker of First League to have registered more than 20 goals per season of championship more than five seasons of at a stretch.

First player of the history of First League to have marked more than 100 times on the lawn of its club.

Only foreign player of the history of England which was 3 times better striker consecutive.

He is the last player has to have marked in the old stage of Arsenal, Highbury.

He is the first striker of the history has to have registered the very first goal of the very new stage Emirates Stadium.

The only French player of all time has to have had the gold shoe.

The only player in the world has to have had 2 gold shoes of sharpened, in 2004 and 2005.

The French player who has more selections out of cut of Europe of all times.

He is the best French striker of all times in league of the champions He makes party of the team of Arsenal FC record of all unconquered times of match 49 unconquered matches.

Ronaldinho Biography

2007-08-27T04:23:00.000-07:00

Ronaldo de Assis Moreira, better well-known by Ronaldinho Gaucho, or simply Ronaldinho, is a popular Spanish nationalized Brazilian football player. It was born in Glad Porto (Been of River Grande do Sul). Normally it plays like average end, and its first equipment was the Glad Grêmio de Porto. At the moment it plays in the FC Barcelona.

Trajectory

Ronaldinho began in the rows of the Gremio, happening through the inferior categories from the 12 years, playing in the championship Glad Sub-13 de Porto. It made debut like professional player in 1997, like the substitute of his brother Robert of Assis Moreira (who retired of soccer by knee injury), ídolo of the liking of the Union. Robert later became the representative of the Brazilian star.The World-wide Sub-17 disputed, after which several European clubs bid up by him, like the PSV Dutch Eindhoven, that offered for their crossing a number near the 7 million dollars. Also an interest from Spanish Barcelona arose, but then president Josep Lluís Núñez and the trainer neerlandés Louis van Gaal misestimated their draftee.Later, Dinho announces its draftee by Paris Saint-Germain of France. This crossing was very controversial, since the Union did not give the approval so that the player signed by another equipment. The case arrived at the FIFA, that considered that the Brazilian club would have to receive 5 million dollars. In addition, Ronaldinho could not play during approximately four months (129 days, in particular). Passed this, the Brazilian attacker could to the aim make debut by the Gallic set, and she did it in the tie to a goal before the AJ Auxerre, in a party pertaining to French Liga of soccer. Indeed before this club it would lose the end of the Glass of France, in 2003. In his two years and means in France, it only could gain the Intertoto Glass.After the World-wide one of Korea-Japan, of year 2002, the things were not between the player and Luis well Fernandez, their trainer in Paris Saint-Germain. Thus, in 2003, the club decided to sell to Ronaldinho, and three great clubs of Europe were interested in their hiring: real Madrid, the Manchester United and the FC Barcelona. Real Madrid wanted to leave yielded it in Paris Saint-Germain by one more season, but Ronnie refused to return to play in French soccer. The Manchester also was discarded after failing in its attempts of negotiation the presidents of both institutions.

Thus, Barcelona obtained its objective: it bought to the player by a number near the 30 million euros, and was presented/displayed by new president Joan Laporta and Frank Rijkaard, the trainer. Its debut did it in the triumph of its new equipment before the Athletic Bilbao, by resutado of 0 - 1. In his first season (2003/04) the equipment obtained the subchampionship, finishing behind Valencia CF, and Ronaldinho marked 14 goals in 32 parties of league. Its characteristic way to play immediately turned ídolo of the liking culé and Spanish to him in general, condition that although has maintained with time its yield has been sometimes more irregular and it already counts on detractors (less numerous, in any case) between the launching slip culé. The following season (2004/05) the FC Barcelona obtained the league title after six years without no title of league. The offensive soccer of the equipment made him locate itself between the favorites in the houses of bets to conquer Liga de Campeones of Europe but despite, the FC Barcelona was eliminated in eighth of end by the English Chelsea, eliminatory in whom Ronaldinho would mark a goal that would be chosen in the end like the best goal of the match in that edition. In the following season (2005/06), the equipment conquered Supercopa of Spain, the league again, and, this time yes, second Liga de Campeones of Europe of the history of the club, winning in the end to Arsenal FC of England by 2 - 1.At individual level, Ronaldinho has gained the Gold Ball, distinction that the French magazine France Football grants. Also it has been chosen like Better Player of the Year according to the FIFA in two occasions. Between its remembered parties more (by fans and means of press) is that in which the FC Barcelona defeated to Real Madrid by 0 - 3 in the Stage Santiago Bernabéu. That party both had a great social relevance between the fans to soccer thanks among other things to goals of Ronaldinho, after one of which part of the madridista liking was put still on to applaud the Brazilian star, something certainly infrequent between two traditionally faced likings and with as much rivalry as is those of these two equipment. The sport journalists also found like precedent a goal obtained by Diego Armando Maradona in front of the club merengue, and after which the Argentine player also was applauded on the part of the launching slip.The 27 of August of 2007 swore the Spanish constitution obtaining the double nationality.

National selection

He has been international with the Selection of football of Brazil in 62 occasions. Its debut as international Latvia took place the 26 of June of 1999 in the party Brazil 3 - 0.Ronaldinho has marked a total of 27 goals with its selection. Tripletes, one against Saudi Arabia and another one against Haiti has obtained two.

Participation in World Cup

It participated with the Selection of soccer of Brazil in the World-wide Glass of Soccer of Korea and Japan of 2002 disputing five encounter against Turkey, China, Belgium, England and Germany. It wrote down two goals, one of penalti in front of China in first stage, and the free second from direct front to England in quarterfinals. In 2006 it played in the World-wide Glass of Soccer of 2006 in Germany. It disputed five encounter against the Croatia, Australia, Japan, Ghana and France. It could not help to its equipment with any goal in the match, being eliminated in quarterfinals by 0-1 against France. A post-World-wide anecdote, is that when verdeamarelha was eliminated at the hands of the French in the World-wide one of Germany 2006, the Brazilian fans demolished a statue in its honor, in its native city, Glad Porto.

Ronaldinho: Touch of Gold

2007-08-27T04:06:00.000-07:00

Barcelona Dismiss Ronaldinho Rumours

2007-08-27T03:59:00.000-07:00

Officials from Spanish giants Barcelona have been quick to refute speculation that superstar Ronaldinho is poised to make a shock move to Chelsea.

Reports in the morning press suggested Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich would make a ‘money no object’ bid for the Brazilian after meeting with his brother and agent Roberto de Assis Moreira twice recently.
It was suggested that Abramovich would consider it money well spent as Chelsea continue to play effective functional football, rather than effective entertaining football.
Ronaldinho has twice won the World Player of the Year and is widely regarded as one of the most technically gifted players on the planet, and would add a touch of entertainment to any team.
But Txiki Berguiristain, Barcelona’s sport director has moved quickly to deny the speculation.
"We do not want to sell him," Berguiristain told Catalunya Radio. "Ronaldinho is our player and I am totally convinced that he will remain at the club.
"In this aspect the decision of Barcelona is clear."
Berguiristain is not surprised that clubs such as Chelsea are interested in the forward, but is adamant that until his contract expires in three years, Ronaldinho is not going anywhere.
"It is normal that any of the big clubs in the world desires Ronaldinho, but he has signed a deal with us," added Berguiristain.
Begiristain didn’t seem concerned that Chelsea owner Abramovich held meetings with Ronaldinho’s agent: "This is a subject that does not interest me."

Real Madrid: Higuaín will reappear in the Bernabéu Trophy

2007-08-27T03:23:00.000-07:00

The Argentinean is recovered of the breakage to fibrilar that sufrio in the right knee.

Gonzalo Higuaín will reappear east Wednesday in the Bernabéu Trophy that will face Real Madrid the Sporting of Lisbon. The Argentinean, who is lost part of preseason and the first party of League before the Athletic one, will have some minutes to be taking rate. The Argentinean injured itself three weeks ago in the Match of the Railroads disputed in Moscow. There, Higuaín underwent a breakage to fibrilar as opposed to in the party the PSV and since then it has exercised itself accompanied by a masajista of the equipment. After the arrivals of Sneijder and Robben, the Pipita has remained without site in the eleven to title and will have to gain a position from the bench. If it shows more effectiveness of the shown one until now, will have minutes. Otherwise, it will have it difficult…

Betis: The equipment verdiblanco visited Puerta

2007-08-27T03:06:00.000-07:00

The president and the captains lowered of the bus to visit the footballer of Sevilla.

The Betis and Sevilla will have been many quarrels in the last years old and in all their history in general, but this Sunday, the set verdiblanco had a good detail with the hispalense equipment and more in particular with Antonio Puerta, who continues in the UCI.
The equipment of Heliópolis returned to Sevilla after to have tied (1-1) before the Recreational one, when the bus verdiblanco was stopped in the Virgin Hospital of the Dew. Pepe Leon and the captains lowered of the bus and they were interested in the health of the lateral sevillista.
In the room it amiably received the vice-president to them of Sevilla and char it between Leon, the captains and the vice-president lasted five minutes. The rest of members of the betico establishment hoped in the bus, although the idea to visit Puerta was supported by all. A great detail.

Football Club Barcelona

2007-08-26T10:13:00.000-07:00

Football Barcelona Club is a sport organization of the city of Barcelona, (Spain). It was founded like Football club the 20 of November of 1899 by twelve young become fond of Football players, led by the Swiss Hans Gamper. The FC Barcelona is known popularly like Barça, abbreviation of the pronunciación of "Barcelona" and their followers like "culés" (adaptation of Catalan culers). It is possible to make notice that the official name of the club is "Football Barcelona Club", written in Catalan, reason why the letter "or" of "Football" does not take orthographic accent.One of the main characteristics of the FC Barcelona is its polideportivo character. In addition to its main section, the one of Football, the club counts on other four professional sections: those of basketball, handball, hockey on skids and Football room, in which one of the best clubs of Europe is considered. Between the five professional sections, the FC Barcelona adds 27 Glasses of Europe.In addition to these five professional sections, the club counts on sections amateurs in other sport disciplines: hockey on grass, athletics, skating, ice hockey, baseball, volleyball, rugby and cycling.Another one of its distinguishing facts is its enormous social mass of partners and fans. The club escaped in 2006 the 150,000 partners, which turns to him the club of Football with more associate of the world, followed of the Bayern de German Múnich .They exist, in addition, more than 1,800 Barcelonist rocks distributed everywhere. It is possible to write down that the FC Barcelona is one of the four only clubs of Spain (next to Real Madrid, Athletic of Bilbao and Osasuna) that is not joint-stock company, so that the property of the club falls to its partners.

Barcelona History

Football Barcelona Club was founded the 29 of November of 1899 by a group of twelve fans to Football, summoned by the Swiss Hans Gamper by means of an announcement published in the magazine Deportes the 22 of October of he himself year. Between the twelve founders of the club there were six Spaniards, three English, two Swiss and a German. The selected original name was "Football Barcelona Club", in English, and it was designated to English Walter Wild like first president of the club for being the person of more age of between the presents.At the end of his first decade obtained his first titles, a Glass of Spain and a Glass of the Pyrenees.During years 1910 the club gave a great jump, sport as as much social: it gained two Glasses of Spain and three Glasses of the Pyrenees, and arrived already at the 3,000 associate, becoming one of the most popular societies of Catalonia. In those years it was when the name of "culés" became popular referring to the fans of the club. The equipment played its parties in a field located in the street Industry of Barcelona, that filled massively when Barcelona played, and from the street it was seen how they were seated, of backs, the fans located in the highest part of graderío. The image from the street was the one of a great amount of buttocks (asses), for that reason, to the fans of Barcelona it was begun to them to call "culés". Of that decade also it is possible to write down that, in 1914, the club created his first polideportiva section, the one of athletics.Years 1920 happened to history like the first golden time of the club. One went of 3,000 to 11,000 partners and, in 1922, the first great stage of the Club was released, Them Corts, with capacity for 30,000 spectators. They were years in which the club gained four Glasses of Spain and, in 1929, first Spanish Liga of history. Also it is possible to write down the incidents happened in 1925 when the government of the dictatorship of Cousin of Creek closed the stage of Them Corts during six months and forced to resign to president Hans Gamper because of the whistles with which the Barcelonist liking received the interpretation of the Real March in the prolegómenos of an encounter. Of that decade it is possible to emphasize that the club advanced in the line to extend its polideportivo character, and created the hockey sections grass, basketball and rugby.Years 1930 were of great crisis for the club. The decade with the suicide of Hans Gamper began, probably due to the catastrophic economic situation in which 1929 were sunk after the collapse of stock-market of Wall ßstreet in [mentions required]. Later, with the coming of the Second Republic a reduction of the number of partners took place that worsened with the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. That year, in addition, the president of the club Josep Sunyol, who was politician of Republican Esquerra of Catalunya, was assassinated at the hands of the pro-Franco troops in an ambush in the Mountain range of Guadarrama. The club finished the decade with only 2,500 partners.During years 1940 the club was surpassing its social and sport crisis little by little. The club was taken by the authorities of the new pro-Franco regime that, in ahead and until 1953, they would directly designate to the president of the club. The new directors hispanicized all the estates of the club, eliminating any catalanista or Anglo-Saxon connotation. In 1940 the club happened to denominate "Club of Barcelona Football" instead of "Football Barcelona Club", and the shield was modified: the four were suppressed I sweep of the Catalan flag to place in their place the Spanish flag, although in 1949, in the occasion of the golden wedding of the club, the government authorized the reinstauración of the Catalan flag. In the sport plane the equipment recomposed after the crisis of the war, and they were ended up conquering three Spanish leagues, a Glass of Spain and two Glasses Eva Duarte. In addition, in years 40 new polideportivas sections were created between which they emphasized those of handball and hockey on skids. All it contributed to that, when finalizing the decade, agreeing with the golden wedding of the club, the 25,000 partners surpassed themselves.Years 1950 were one of the best decades of the history of the club, as much in the sport plane as social. The draftee of Ladislao Kubala, in 1950, was the angular stone on which an equipment was constructed that, in that decade, obtained 3 Spanish leagues, 5 Glasses of Spain, 4 glasses Eva Duarte, 3 Duward Glass, 1 Latin Glass, 2 Martini Glass Rossi, and 1 Small Glass of the World of Clubs. The social mass grew until the 38,000 partners who left the field of Them Corts small, so that a new stage was constructed, the Camp Nou, inaugurated in September of 1957. Other outstanding facts of that decade were the celebration of the first semi-democratic elections (the partners voted only men) to the presidency of the club, in 1953. That same year took place contentious with Real Madrid by the draftee of Alfredo Di Stefano.

It is possible to say that during almost the 40 years of the dictatorship of Francisco Franco in Spain, when the Catalan political institutions were prohibited and repressed, the club became one of the symbols of the antifrancoist fight in Catalonia and the resistance against the centralism that represented the pro-Franco regime. The stage of the F.C. Barcelona became one of the few scenes public where the fans expressed themselves freely, and the club became the best ambassador of Catalonia in the outside. It was in those years when one said that, by its symbolism, Barcelona was more "than a club".After the successes of years 50 the crisis arrived from the years 1960, in which the football team only managed to gain 2 Glasses of Spain and 2 Glasses of Fairs. These titles, nevertheless, did not manage to compensate the defeat in the end of the Glass of Europe of 1961, the social crisis generated by the marches of Helenio Herrera and Luis Suárez to the Inter of Milan (with which the Italian set would gain two Glasses of Europe), nor the European successes of the great Barcelonist rival, Real Madrid. In spite of everything, the number of partners increased from the 39,000 to the 55,000 during that decade.During years 1970 it continued the unstoppable increase of partners of the club: one went from the 55,000 to the 80.000. They were the years in which Spanish Football opened the doors to the foreigners, and the club fichó to players like Johan Cruyff, Johan Neeskens, Hugo Sotil, Krankl or Simonsen. The football team conquered in that decade Spanish Liga, two Glasses of the King, 1 Glass of Champions of Fairs and one Recopa of Europe. In 1978 Josep Lluís Núñez arrived at the presidency, who would direct to the club following the two decades.Years 1980 were of great investments in the star draftee great like Maradona, Schuster or Lineker, but the football team only could gain in Spain a league, three Glasses of the King, Supercopa and two Glasses of Liga. At European level two gained Recopas, but it became to lose a end of the Glass of Europe, the disputed one in Seville in 1986. After one it burdens sport and social crisis, in 1988 the club contracted Johan Cruyff like trainer, a fact that would mark the destiny of the club during the following decade. Most positive of years 80 it was the extension of the Camp Nou, the increase of partners, whom the number of the 100,000 surpassed, the economic revitalización of the club, and the successes of the basketball sections, handball and hockey on skids, that conquered important Spanish and European titles.

The decade of years 1990 was the best decade of the history of Soccer Barcelona Club. They were ten years of successes for the club in all the orders, as much in the soccer land as in the sport sections. The football team, trained by Johan Cruyff, and with figures like four Koeman, Guardiola, Stoichkov, Romário, Laudrup, Zubizarreta or consecutive Bakero gained Ligas between 1991 and 1994, and the 20 of May of 1992 conquered the appraised title more of the club: the Glass of Europe, in the mythical stage of Wembley, before the Italian Sampdoria. During these years, the equipment carried out a great game and was known popularly with the name “Dream Team”, imitating the terminology that was used with the equipment of basketball of the U.S.A. in the JJOO of 1992. After the defeat in the end of the Glass of Europe of 1994 in front of Milan by 4-0 in Athens, one occurred by closed the era of the “Dream Team” and the sport situation of the equipment was deteriorated until the point of a deep social division between those in favor of the trainer, Johan Cruyff and those in favor of president, Josep Lluís Núñez. The traumatic goodbye of Cruyff created a great social crisis in the club, that not desaparecerió in spite of the titles obtained by Bobby Robson and Louis van Gaal, and ended up ending at the resignation of Josep Lluís Núñez in 2000. Years 1990 were also a great decade for the sport sections. The basketball equipment consolidated in the elite of the Spanish and European basketball, although it was not able to gain the Glass of Europe, whose end disputed in four occasions in this decade. The handball equipment became the best equipment of handball of the world: it gained all the titles, between which they emphasize six Glasses of Europe.

Years 2000 can be divided clearly in two stages. After the resignation of Núñez in 2000, president Joan Gaspart was chosen. Its three years as president settled itself without soccer titles in spite of the investment of 180 million euros that became in draftees. The only sport successes contributed the sections to them, specially the basketball equipment that in the 2003 was able to gain the Euroliga. After the resignation of Gaspart Joan Laporta, who confronted a deep sport renovation, economic and social arrived at the presidency. Fichó to players like Ronaldinho, Eto'o, Rafael Márquez and Deco and the equipment, trained by Frank Rijkaard, was able to gain two consecutive Spanish leagues and second Liga de Campeones, and the social mass of the club surpassed for the first time in history the number of the 140,000 partners.

Sociopolítica dimension of the club

At the moment the FC Barcelona agglutinates to partners and fans of all the political ideologies, religious beliefs and geographic origins. Nevertheless, according to most of historians and sociologists, the enormous social mass of the club has not responded historically to exclusively sport reasons, but also to the representative character that, for many fans, the club in the social and political land has had and has.The club, considered like the more well-known social organization of Catalonia in the outside, has fulfilled throughout its history, for many fans, a representative function of defense of the catalanistas values, that the club has defended publicly in multiple occasions, as Jimmy points the English journalist Burns in his Barça book, the passion of a town. The club always has meant by activities and gestures in defense of the culture and the Catalan language, that always has been the official language of all documents of the club, safe in the years of pro-Franco dictatorship. Except in that same period, the captain of the equipment always has shone the Catalan flag like distinguishing bracelet. The club, in addition, also has been pronounced formal and publicly in support of the vindications of greater autonomy for Catalonia, and signed manifestos of support to the statutes of autonomy as much in 1931 as in 1979 and, recently, 2005.That trajectory of defense of the Catalan values was recognized the 21 of December of 1992 when the Majority of Catalonia, presided over by Jordi Pujol, granted the Creu to him de Sant Jordi, the Maxima distinction that the government of Catalonia grants.Some historians and ensayistas, like Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, got to aim that, for many Catalans, the FC Barcelona plays in Catalonia the role sustitutorio of the Catalan selection in the international concert, in spite of the long tradition of Spanish sportsmen of nonCatalan origin and foreigners that has had the club. These ensayistas aim that that one is one of the reasons by which the Barcelonist club account with equipment in so many different sport disciplines as the basketball, handball, hockey on skids, athletics, volleyball, et cetera.In that line, it is possible to write down that the FC Barcelona has been pronounced publicly in please the international recognition of the Catalan sport selections. In the last years not only it has promoted the organization of friendly parties between the selection of Catalonia and other international selections of first level like Brazil or Argentina, but that it has yielded gratuitously his facilities as host of the encounter and has lent all his sportsmen. In addition, the club has signed manifest public in please the cause. During the presidency of Joan Laporta, he himself and some player as Oleguer participated in an advertising campaign of Catalan the Pro-Selection Platform that, under eslogan “a nation, a selection”, occupied advertising in a great amount of mass media written and audio-visual spaces of Catalonia.In spite of its entailment with catalanistas ideas, the club are counted always with great amount of fans and even partners in all Spain, outside Catalonia, attracted by the sport values of the club. Some historians, nevertheless, have aimed who, in addition to the admiration by the sport values, many Spanish fans get along with Barcelona when seeing in the Catalan club the alternative ““the political centralism”” which they identify to Real Madrid, specially from the years of the pro-Franco dictatorship. He was in those years when the phrase was coined of which the FC Barcelona was more “than a club”, that became eslogan more well-known of the organization.On the other hand, and since they have pointed diverse historians, the club also agglutinated, specially during his first decades of life, to the supporters of the republicanism. From principles of century XX different facts point the complicity of the leaders of the club with the republican ideals. It is possible to make notice that, unlike most of Spanish clubs of the time, Barcelona never asked for the recognition of the Spanish monarchy nor the concession of the treatment of “Real”.

The moment of greater spacing between the club and the Spanish monarchy took place under the reign of Alfonso XIII, and during the dictatorship of Cousin of Creek. In the stage of Them Corts, the fans of Barcelona had showed critics to the dictatorship and exhibited some placards against the regime. Finally, the 14 of June of 1925 the 14,000 fans of the stage booed the Real March, interpreted by a band. Days later, the Commander in chief and Governing Civilian of Barcelona Joaquin Milans of the Bosch issued an order that closed the stage during six months, and forced to resign to Hans Gamper like president of the club and to exiliar itself to Switzerland during one season. The order of closing of the stage justified the measurement indicating that “in the mentioned society there are people who agree with opposite ideas to the good of the Mother country”, as she gathers the historian Jaume Sobrequés in his work FC Barcelona, One hundred years of history. It was the sanction harder than it has received the club in all his history. As it indicates the own Sobrequés, the culminating point of the commitment of the club with the republican principles mainly took place as of 1931, when the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed and, from the beginning of the Spanish Civil War when, 1936, the FC Barcelona voluntarily became “Organization to the service of the legitimate government of the Republic”.After the reestablishment of the democracy in Spain in 1977, the club has been losing that political connotation. It standardized its relations with the Spanish crown and in diverse occasions expeditions formed by leaders and sportsmen of the club they have offered its trophies in the Palace of the Zarzuela. The engagement and later marriage of Infant Cristina with the player of handball of the FC Barcelona Iñaki Urdangarín did frequents at the end of the years 1990 and principles of the years the 2000 presence of members of the Spanish Royal Family in the Palau Blaugrana, with King Juan Carlos I including. The last gesture of complicity between the club and the Real House took place the 17 of May of 2006, in the occasion of the end of Liga de Campeones of the UEFA 2005-06, when the Kings went to Paris to show their support the azulgrana set and, concluded the encounter, lowered to the turf to congratulate to the players of the equipment next to the president of the Spanish government Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, declared following of the Barcelonist set, and the president of the Majority of Catalonia Pasqual Maragall.In the religious land, and although the founder of the club, Hans Gamper, and his first leaders were protestant, the club it acquired as of years 1940, after the Spanish Civil War, a noticeably catholic character. The offerings from the club were habitual to the Monastery of Montserrat, and the stage of the Camp Nou even counts on a chapel next to clothes, with a reproduction of the Virgin of Montserrat. In 1982, even, the Pope Juan Pablo II received the partner membership card number 108,000 of the club, in the occasion of a multitudinal mass that celebrated in the Camp Nou.Lately the club has been meant by its shared in common gestures. To principle of years 1980 already it organized a friendly party in UNICEF benefit, in which the Barça faced in the Camp Nou the equipment “Human Stars”, a selection of the best soccer players of the world. In the middle of years 90 the experience returned to repeat itself. Also in that decade the club implied in the fight against the drug, organizing diverse parties in collaboration with the Foundation of Aid against the Drug, whose benefits destined to the “Project Man”.With the arrival of Joan Laporta to the presidency, the club showed its intention to increase its implication in social causes, expressing the desire of which the club is recognized world-wide by their shared in common will. In that sense, at the end of year 2005, the FC Barcelona organized a friendly party in the Camp Nou before a joint selection of Israeli and Palestinian players, who shared equipment for the first time. In the last years the club has signed diverse agreements of collaboration with ONGs, giving economic aids for the development of Third World Countries.As of 2006, the club will donate every year the 0.7 percent of the annual budget of the club to the UNICEF, so that this one destines it to improve the conditions of life of the children worldwide. In addition it has placed the name of the organization in the central space of his first luggage, being the first time that publicita this way.

Presidency

The present president of the FC Barcelona is Joan Laporta, a Catalan lawyer who was reelected in his position the 22 of August of 2006 with no need to go to the ballot boxes since he was the unique one of the four precandidates who fully surpassed the 1,804 companies of partners who are necessary to aspire to the presidency of the club. Laporta initiated thus its second mandate that will finalize in the 2010.The 20 of 2006 July, judge Roberto Garci'a Ash trays dictated a sentence in which she commited the present director to summon elections of immediate way, according to demanded the partner of the organization Joan March Torné, since therefore they gathered the statutes of the club. Joan Laporta interpreted that the elections had to be celebrated in the 2007 when being fulfilled, according to him, the 4 years of mandate. The error of a year of difference came in which the present director initiated her first mandate the 22 of June of 2003, date that supposed to initiate the mandate before taking place the closing of the economic exercise of season 2002-03, reason why the partner plaintiff aimed that the meeting of Laporta had to stop the 30 of June of 2006, since the eight previous days to the closing had to be counted like a year of mandate.The FC Barcelona has had 38 presidents and 4 managing commissions throughout their history. The founder of the club, the Swiss Hans Gamper, was not, paradoxicalally, the first president: he was it English Walter Wild since she was the person of greater age of the eleven that participated in the original assembly of the club. Gamper, nevertheless, was later president until in five stages different from the club. The president longevo of the history of the club was more Josep Lluís Núñez, who showed the position during 22 years, between 1978 and 2000.The presidency of the FC Barcelona is chosen by its partners, by means of elections by universal suffrage, celebrated each four seasons, in which they must right to choose and to being chosen all the partners and greater partners of the club of 18 years, with a year of antiquity like partners of the club.The president chooses to the members of his Board of directors, that are ratified by an assembly of “compromisarios partners”: 300 greater partners of 18 years chosen by drawing and that, during a period of two years, participates in the annual assemblies of partners, with voice and vote, in representation of all the partners of the club.

Hymn

The official hymn of the FC Barcelona, denominated officially Cant of the Barça (in Castilian, Song of the Barça) was created and released in 1974, in the occasion of the acts of the 75 celebration of anniversary of the club. The letter was written by Jaume Picas and Josep Maria Espinàs, and music was composed by Manuel Valls. Completely it is written in Catalan language, and in the official version it is interpreted by the Chorale Sant Jordi.In the last years it has been interpreted by recognized singing like Joan Manuel Serrat, in the occasion of different acts like the commemoration from the centenary of the club. In addition, the director presided over by Joan Laporta has stimulated who varied musical interpreters and sets interpreted it in the stage of the Camp Nou, in the prolegómenos of the soccers match, versionando it and adapting it to the most varied musical styles: pop, rock, rap, samba, rumba, among others.One of the details that characterize to the hymn is the reference to the open and integrating character of the club, that does not differentiate the geographic origin from the followers; as it says one of estrofas, “as much it gives from where we come, if of the south or the north, a flag us sister”.

Shield

The shield of Football Barcelona Club has form of “pot”, within which they are the cross of Sant Jordi, the flag of Catalonia, a ball, the colors and the initials of the club.Two versions exist on the origins of the shield of the club. The first version tells that in 1900, a year after the foundation of the club, there was a meeting to decide the shield (until then, Barcelona had used the shield of the city). It seems to be that there was no agreement on the form and the content of the shield and in a while of the meeting the secretary, Luis d´Ossó, visibly gotten upset, exclaimed “this is a pot”, which gave the idea to Hans Gamper to propose the shield with form of “pot”.The other version affirms that Gamper, of Swiss origin, was based on some shields of equipment of its country to propose the famous “pot”.

Colors

The distinguishing colors of the FC Barcelona are blue and the garnet. Diverse theories exist on the causes that took to the founders of the club to choose these colors.The extended version more indicates that she was the own Hans Gamper, founder of the club, that decided the colors. In fact, it is verified which in the first soccer match that Gamper disputed in the city of Barcelona before the foundation of the club, already it dressed these colors. One has always affirmed that Gamper chose these colors for being those that they identified to the FC Basel, Swiss equipment in which it thinks that Gamper had played before arriving at Barcelona. Also it is speculated on with the possibility that Gamper chose these colors for being those of the shield of the Swiss corner of Tesino, although the only relation of Gamper with that corner was that there her Pink sister resided.Another version indicates that the colors were proposed by Otto Maier, one of the founders of the club, in honor to the colors of the shield of the German population of Heidenheim, its native locality.

Uniform

The first luggage of the equipment, in season 2006-2007 is of t-shirt navy blue and seeds, formed by four vertical strips (two of each color) and trousers navy blue. The averages are blue with borders you seed. Of the combination of the colors blue and it seeds comes the sobrename from “azulgrana” whereupon one knows the players and fans the club. The trousers seed of the last season supposed all a newness in the history of the azulgrana club, since it had never dressed it this color. Historically the trousers had been navy blue and even, in the Twenties, of white color and, later, black. The change of color had to commercial reasons.The second luggage, in season 2006-2007, is made up of t-shirt and trousers color orange, in tribute to the second luggage with which the first Glass of Europe of the club gained. The averages are also oranges. The FC Barcelona has changed the colors of their second luggage in diverse occasions. The second t-shirt has been, throughout history, of white, yellow, blue color sure red, green, gray, navy blue, brown orange, clear (beige or “Chinese color”), and fosforito yellow.

Curiosities

The first football team of the FC Barcelona was one of the few equipment that did not take publicity in the central space of the t-shirt, until the agreement in 2006 with Unicef. This form of sponsorship is unusual in professional soccer, since it does not perceive any type of benefit economic in return (yes an image) to shine logotipo, all the opposite, destines a million and average one of annual euros to projects promoted and organized by Unicef. Yes it receives numerous income to shine the logotipos of Nike in the t-shirt and trousers, and logotipo of TV3 in one of the sleeves of the t-shirt. In season 2003-2004, the first football team, took to the publicity of the Fòrum of cultures, that was celebrated them in 2004 in Barcelona, in a sleeve of the t-shirt. The equipment of basketball, handball and hockey on skids yes shine publicity in the central space of their t-shirts.

Stadium - Camp Nou

The stadium of the FC Barcelona is the Camp Nou, property of the own club. Inaugurated in 1957, it has a capacity of 98,787 spectators, all seated. He is one of the four stages of catalogued Spain as “Stadium Five Stars” by the UEFA, which qualifies it to welcome end of Liga de Campeones, Supercopa of Europe and Copa of the UEFA, since it has happened in 15 occasions. One is in the district of Them Corts of Barcelona, next to other facilities of the club, like the Mini Estadi (stadium of Barcelona B) and the Palau Blaugrana, field of the basketball equipment. In the facilities of the Camp Nou is the Museum of the FC Barcelona, the visited museum more of Catalonia. Prior to the Camp Nou, the FC Barcelona had two stages. Between 1909 and 1922 Industry of Barcelona played in a field of the street, vulgarly called “the Escopidora”. Between 1922 and 1957 it disputed his parties in the Field of Them Corts, inaugurated to welcome in 30,000 spectators, and who got to have a capacity of 60,000 people. One of the versions about the etimología of the word “culés” comes from this stage, because the launching slips allowed to see from outside the enclosure the innkeepers of the fans.

Football

Football, reason for the foundation of the club, continues being the main sport of the FC Barcelona, and the activity that monopolizes more of the 75 percent of the budget of the club.The first football team plays in the First Spanish division; in season 2006/07, the equipment finalized runner-up. In the Maxima European competition, Liga de Campeones of the UEFA has been able to prevail in two occasions, 1992 and 2006.The FC Barcelona shows the record of being the only European football team that has participated in uninterrupted form in the continental competitions from its creation in 1955. Also it is the equipment with more titles in the extinct Recopa of Europe (4 titles), and the one that has more triumphs in the Glass of Spain in its different denominations (24 titles).The club counts on an important quarry of players, from the category of alevines. The branch of the first football team is the Barcelona B, that militates in the Third Spanish division.The FC Barcelona organizes, from 1966, a match of annual friendly soccer, the Trophy Joan Gamper, who disputes itself habitually in the month of August.

Players

More than 1,000 football players they have dressed the t-shirt the first equipment of football Barcelona Club throughout its 107 years of history.The players of foreign origin (although some, nationalized Spanish) have always had a great weight in the history of the club, and have marked the times most shining of the Catalan set. Founded by a group of settled down foreigners on Barcelona, initially the equipment was formed by players of mainly English, Swiss and German origin. Most of historians they consider that the Hungarian Ladislao Kubala was, in 1950, the first great figure of international stature that it militated in the Barcelonist set. But it was as of years 70, when Spanish football regularized the participation of foreign players, when the club began to file to great international figures. The FC Barcelona has counted since then with diverse players who, militating in the azulgrana club, have conquered the most prestigious individual trophies of world-wide football.Four players of the club were awarded with the prize of the World-wide Player of the FIFA that credited them like the best football players of the world (Romário, Ronaldo, Rivaldo and Ronaldinho), and five were awarded with the Gold Ball that credited them like the best players of European football (Luis Suárez, Johan Cruyff, Hristo Stoitchkov, Rivaldo and Ronaldinho). In addition, the FC Barcelona are counted with players possessors of other great international distinctions: Allan Simonsen, Hansi Krankl, Diego Armando Maradona, Gary Lineker, Michael Laudrup, Luis Figo and Samuel Eto'o are some examples.The FC Barcelona has been historically, next to Real Madrid, the club that are counted with the best football players of Spain, and one of the sets that have more contributed to nourish to the Selection of football of Spain. The player of the FC Barcelona that more starting off has played with the selection is the guardameta Andoni Zubizarreta that, with 126 parties, is in addition the Spanish player who has participated in more starting off of the selection. Luis Enrique and Nadal is, with 62 encounter each one, the other two Barcelonist players with more international entorchados.The players who more divided officials have played in the FC Barcelona are Migueli (670), Carles Rexach (665), and Guillermo Love (564). Those that more official titles have won are Guillermo Love (19), Jose Ramon Alexanko (17), Albert Ferrer (17), and Josep Guardiola (16). And the players who more goals have marked are Paulino Alcántara (374), Josep Samitier (319), and Caesar Rodriguez (301).

Trainers

The FC Barcelona has had a total of 49 trainers of soccer throughout their history. The first trainer who had the club was the English John Barrow, who directed to the equipment 19 parties in 1917. Until 1917 the club did not have trainer. Was practical habitual in football teams that, until half-full years 10, the group was made by the president and the board of directors, who decided the discharges, the losses and, in most of the cases, the alignments of the parties. Training, that then was few because soccer was not professional, used to self-manage them the own players.Like John Barrow, most of trainers whom it has had the FC Barcelona has been foreign. Of the 49 trainers of the club, only 22 have been Spanish (14 of Catalan them). In most of the cases, the Spanish trainers have been ex--players of the club who acceded to the position after the cease of the titular trainer. Two cases of Spanish trainers have only occurred that they had not previously dressed the t-shirt the club like player: Luis Aragonés and Lorenzo Serra Ferrer.The main nationalities of the nonSpanish trainers have been the English (8 technicians), neerlandesa (4), Hungarian Argentinean (3) and (3). The club also has had two trainers German, a French, a Croatian, a Serb, an Irish, a Czech and an Italian. There have only been four nonEuropean trainers in the history of the club: three Argentineans (Helenio Herrera, Roque Olsen and Caesar Luis Menotti), and a Uruguayan (Enrique Fernandez).The technician longevo was more Johan Cruyff, who stayed eight years consecutive in the position, between 1988 and 1996. Cruyff is, in addition, the trainer who have directed to the equipment in more starting off (602), and the one that more titles has obtained. The second technician longevo was more the English Jack Greenwell, who directed to the equipment in 492 parties, two different periods, between 1917 and 1924, and between 1931 and 1933. The third trainer in number of directed parties is neerlandés Rinus Michels, that directed to the equipment in 361 in two stages: between 1971 and 1975, and 1976 and 1978.

Torneos regionales (27)

Copa Cataluña (27) 1902, 1905, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1913, 1916, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1935, 1936, 1938, 1991, 1993, 2000, 2004, 2005, 2007

Torneos nacionales (49)

Liga española de fútbol (18) 1928-1929, 1944-1945, 1947-1948, 1948-1949, 1951-1952, 1952-1953, 1958-1959, 1959-1960, 1973-1974, 1984-1985, 1990-1991, 1991-1992, 1992-1993, 1993-1994, 1997-1998, 1998-1999, 2004-2005, 2005-2006.

Copa del Rey de Fútbol (24): 1910, 1912, 1913, 1920, 1922, 1925, 1926, 1928, 1942, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1957, 1959, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1978, 1981, 1983, 1988, 1990, 1997, 1998. Supercopa de España (7): 1983, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 2005, 2006.

Otros torneos nacionales (7)

Copa Eva Duarte (3): 1949, 1952, 1953.

Copa de la Liga (2): 1982, 1986.

Copa de Oro Argentina (1): 1945.

Liga Mediterránea (1): 1937.

Torneos internacionales (8)

Liga de Campeones de la UEFA (2): 1992, 2006.

Recopa de Europa (4): 1979, 1982, 1989, 1997.

Supercopa de Europa (2): 1992, 1997.

Otros torneos internacionales(13)

Copa Latina (2): 1949, 1952.

Copa de Ferias (1): 1971.

Pequeña Copa del Mundo de Clubes (1): 1957.

Copa Martini Rossi (2): 1952, 1953.

Copa de los Pirineos (4): 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913.

Torneos amistosos

Trofeo Joan Gamper (31): 1966; 1967; 1968; 1969; 1971; 1973; 1974; 1975; 1976; 1977; 1979; 1980; 1983; 1984; 1985; 1986; 1988; 1990; 1991; 1992; 1995; 1996; 1997; 1998; 1999; 2000; 2001; 2002; 2003; 2004 and 2006.

Trofeo Ramón de Carranza (3): 1962; 1963; 2005.

Trofeo Costa del Sol (1): 1977.

Trofeo Ciutat de Barcelona (1): 1989.

Trofeo Teresa Herrera (5): 1948; 1951; 1972; 1990 and 1993

Other data of interest

Seasons in 1ª: 77 (all) Better position in the league: 1st18 times)

Worse position in the league: 12ndseason 41/42)

Historical position: 2nd

Greater made goals to favor: Temp. 1949-1950 FC Barcelona 10 - Gimnàstic de Tarragona 1

Greater made goals against: Temp. 1930-1931. Athletic of Bilbao 12 - FC Barcelona 1

Player with more disputed starting off: Migueli (670)

Player with more goals: Alcántara (357)

Player with more titles: Love: 19

Made goals doorman less: Antoni Ramallets

Filial equipment: Barcelona B

Sport sections

Football Club Barcelona is a polideportivo club that, in addition to football teams, counts more on equipment in twelve sport disciplines. These disciplines are structured like “sport sections” within the club. The FC Barcelona distinguishes, from a structural point of view, between the professional masculine sections, masculine the nonprofessional ones, and the feminine sections.

Professional masculine sections

The professional sections are three, those of basketball, handball and hockey on skids. They are the three professionalized and prestigious sections more, and that participate in the competitions of greater category of their respective disciplines in Spain. In addition, the masculine equipment of these three sections comprises of the elite of the best clubs of Europe, by the amount of titles of continental character that have obtained. Between these three sections the FC Barcelona adds 24 Glasses of Europe. The equipment of these three sections has their seat and disputes their encounter in the Palau Blaugrana, annexed polideportivo pavilion to the Camp Nou with capacity for 8,500 spectators.The FC Barcelona of basketball (Section created in 1926) is the second club of Spain in basketball in number of obtained titles, and one of those of greater prestige of Europe. The basketball section lived its better years in the decades on the 80 and 90, in which it obtained diverse Spanish and European titles. Its appraised title more, nevertheless, the Euroliga (or Glass of Europe), did not obtain it until season 2002-2003, when it gained the celebrated final phase in the own city of Barcelona. The present technical director of the basketball section is Zoran Savic, and the trainer of the equipment is Dusko Ivanovic.The handball section was founded on 1942, and is the one that more titles it has given to the club. The equipment of handball of the Barça is the set that accumulates more titles of Spain and Europe, with 7 Glasses of Europe. In 2005 his returned to crown itself like the best European equipment when conquering seventh Glass of Europe. The present technical director of the handball section is Xesco Espar.The section of hockey on Skids of the FC Barcelona also was created in 1942, and is considered the best club of the world of hockey on skids, is honored of Europe and first in the world-wide ranking. Accumulating 17 Glasses of Europe, competition of which is the present champion. The present technical director of the hockey section is Quim Paüls.

Nonprofessional masculine sections

In addition to the professional masculine sections, the club counts on sections amateurs in other nine sport disciplines: athletics, skating, soccer room, ice hockey, baseball, volleyball, rugby and cycling. The director of the nonprofessional sections of the club is the Argentine ex--player of hockey on skids Gaby Cairo.The section of athletics of the club has the honor of being, after the one of soccer, the first section created in the history of the club. It was formed officially in 1915, although the chronicles tell that in the club already athletics practiced from year 1900. The masculine equipment of athletics of the FC Barcelona has been always considered one of the best ones of Spain as they testify the numerous obtained titles, as much in national competitions as international. In his palmarés emphasizes more than 30 championships of Spain by clubs in different modalities. The equipment has historically counted with some of the best athletes of Spain, like the Olympic medallistas Jose Manuel Abascal and Javier Garci'a-Boy, and champions of Spain like Red Gregorio, Antonio Corgos, Javier Moracho or Joined Colomán.The section rugby of the FC Barcelona is one of oldest of the club: it was created in 1924. It has his playground in the “Ciutat Esportiva of the F.C. Barcelona”. The senior equipment To will compete next season 2006/2007 in the Spanish Division of Honor, after the arrival to an agreement and fusion with the USAP Barcelona, occupying the seat that this equipment had in the Maxima category of rugby Spanish, thus returning, after many years to the category. One is one of the clubs more honored of Spain thanks to the titles conquered between years 1940 and 1960. Between the titles gained by the section of rugby they emphasize 15 championships of Spain, 2 Ligas Spanish and 1 Supercopa of Spain.In 1941 the club created a baseball section that, in spite of to be one of less the most known the club, has never let exist. The section counts on masculine equipment in all the categories, from alevines to séniors, that have their land of game in the Stage Perez de Rozas, located in the mountain of Montjuic of Barcelona. The senior equipment competes in the Maxima category of the Spanish baseball, the Division of Honor.

Other nonprofessional sections of the club are:

Basketball in Wheelchair: FC Barcelona-Institut Guttman.

Cycling: Created in 1928. Recovered in 2004.

Soccer Room: Created in 1978. The first equipment competes in the Division of Honor. Pavilion of game: Palau Blaugrana.

Ice hockey: Created in 1972. Pavilion of game: Palau de Gel.

Hockey grass: Created in season 1923-1924. The first equipment competes in the Division of Honor A. Figure skating on ice. Created the 25 of January of 1972.

Feminine sections

The FC Barcelona has been harnessing in the last years their feminine sections, given the participation flood of the women in the sport, and the profesionalización of the competitive structures. The more important feminine sections of the club are those of soccer, basketball, athletics and figure skating, disciplines in which count on equipment that participates in the maximum Spanish competitions. Until 2007 tapeworm also section of feminine basketballThe feminine football team competes in Feminine Superliga, the Maxima category of Spanish feminine soccer. The section enjoyed an ephemeral popularity season 2004/05, as a result of the draftee of the Mexican Maribel Domínguez [3]. The only title of the feminine equipment is the Glass of Reina de Fútbol conquered in 1994.The equipment of feminine basketball was denominated UB-Barça, since it was the result of the association between the FC Barcelona and the equipment of basketball of the University of Barcelona. Competia in Spanish Liga of feminine basketball, that it conquered in two occasions.The equipment of feminine athletics of the FC Barcelona competes in the Division of Honor, the Maxima category of Spanish athletics. The main athletes of the equipment at the present time are the international Spaniards Montse But, specialist in 800 meters smooth, and Rosa Morató, campeona of Europe of cros in 2005. To the equipment the 2006 marchista belonged until the year Maria Vasco, bronze medal in the Olympic Games of Sydney 2000.The feminine equipment of figure skating was founded, like the masculine one, the 25 of January of 1972, agreeing with the inauguration of the Palau de Gel, the ice track of the club, annexed to the Palau Blaugrana, and that is host of the equipment. The equipment has given numerous successes to the club, between which they emphasize 10 titles of the Championship of Spain of clubs. One of the maximum figures of the section was Marta Andrade, considered the greater figure of the history of the Spanish figure skating, and that was finalist in the Olympic Games of Winter of Lillehammer and Nagano.

Missing sections

In addition to all the mentioned sections, Soccer Barcelona Club has had equipment in up to eight sport disciplines more throughout its history. They are sections that, by one or another reason, dissolved. Between 1924 and 1928 the club had an equipment of greco-Roman fight whose figure was the Olympic champion Emili Ardèvol. Another one of the great Spanish sportsmen who belonged to the discipline of the club was Joaquin Blume, member of the gymnastics section that the club had between 1957 and 1976.The Barça also had tennis sections (1926-1936), swimming (1942), figure skating on cement (1952-1956) and judo (1961-1976).The last ones of the sections in disappearing have been the one of american football, that comprised of the club between the years 2001 and 2003, after the integration of Barcelona Dragons, equipment that competed in the European division of NFL (National Football League), and the one of cycling that, after reappearing in 2004, has returned to be extinguished at the end of 2006 before the lack in agreement in the form to direct this sport by the diverse international federations.

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Lionel Andrés Messi, better well-known by Leo Messi, or simply Messi, is an Argentine soccer player who plays like mediapunta or forward by the right in the FC Barcelona of the First Division of Spain and the selection of Argentina. He was born in (Rosary, Santa Fe, Argentina, 24 of June of 1987).

Beginnings With hardly five years, took his first steps in soccer in the club of their district, Grandoli, where it had like trainer his father, Jorge. Two years later it began to train in the inferior divisions of Newell's Old Boys, where it played until 2000. Enrique Domínguez, who was his trainer, declared time later: “I directed it in 1999, but he knew it from the school soccer, when it was seven or eight years old. And with the ball pibe made things against the physics. To only that I saw him make the plays thus it went to Maradona”.To the eleven years it was rejected in River Plate, since a hormonal disease was detected to him that it affected its growth and whose treatment cost nothing less than 900 dollars monthly by three years. During a year and means, the social work of the company in which his father worked helped to resolve the expenses, although soon the economic panorama complicó. He was then which Jorge spoke with relatives who live in Lérida and decided to leave to Catalonia to make more money.With thirteen years, Lionel Messi went to prove itself to the FC Barcelona, under the glance of Carles Rexach. In spite of playing with children two years greater than he, he generated a great impression, which was doubly valueable considering its problems of growth and the important physical difference that to that age this supposes. The Catalan club was offered then to pay the expensive treatment in exchange for which the soccer player was built-in to the infantile equipment, where quickly began to emphasize. Trajectory with the FC Barcelona [to publish] After happening through the different youthful categories from the FC Barcelona, Messi made debut in the first equipment the 16 of December of 2003, in a friendly party against the FC Porto. Its official party arrived the following year, the 16 of October of 2004 in a party of league against the RCD Espanyol.Messi wrote down its first goal like professional the 1 of May of season 2004/2005 against the Albacete Soccer football, to the 17 years, 10 months and 7 days, of petroleum jelly, becoming thus the youngest player in turning for Barcelona Spanish Liga of soccer.After being the great protagonist in the World-wide Glass of Sub-20 Soccer of 2005 that obtained the Argentina selection, reason by which it granted the Ball and the Boot to him of Gold, Barcelona extended its contract until 2010 and it thus established a clause to him of 150 million euros, becoming the quoted player more of history. Shortly after, the contract was extended to him until 2014 because many powerful clubs were interested in his happens after a great party that Joan Gamper the Juventus as opposed to made in the Trophy.The 25 of September of 2005 obtained the Spanish citizenship and thus Barcelona made level his fitted of extracommunitarian players (that is to say, been born outside the European Union), whom it had exceeded. Two days later de made debut in Liga Campeones as opposed to the Italian Udinese in the Camp Nou. In December, the Italian magazine Tuttosport granted the prize to him Golden Boy to the best young player of Europe, surpassing to Wayne Rooney and Ronaldo Christian. In March of 2006 it in front of suffered an injury during the return of the eighth of end of Liga de Campeones the Chelsea FC, fact that separated to him from the equipment until end of season. Until that moment, it took written down 6 goals in 17 parties in league and one in Champions, besides to be able to gain these two competitions. Very their performances against Real Madrid were remembered and in the away game of League of Champions against Chelsea FC, where Asier Of the numerous Furnace committed fouls to him does violence to systematically and.At the beginning of season 2006-2007 it made goals very important, like the one of the 27 of September as opposed to the Werder Bremen, in the second party of the phase of groups of Liga de Campeones: to a minute of the end of the prescribed time, Messi indicated the equality. Nevertheless, the 12 of November as opposed to the Real Zaragozasufrió an injury in the fifth metatarsiano that left it outside game lands during several months.Already recovered from the injury, he returned to the fields the 11 of February and the 10 of March of 2007 hat-trick in tie 3-3 became the hero of the day when completing before the Real Madrid, disputed in the Camp Nou. With Barcelona always underneath in the marker, Messi obtained the equality in minute 90, after to have played the complement with a man less due to the expulsion of Oleguer Imprisoned at the end of first half. 12 years ago that no player marked to three goals in the Spanish Derbi (the last one she had been Iván Zamorano in a 5-0 of Madrid) and thirteen years since a player did not do of Barcelona (Romário in a 5-0 of the Barça).The season followed ahead and Barcelona did not obtain any title, nevertheless would be the best season of Messi since it was marked by golazo in the Glass of the King before the Getafe, related more down. Few days after the liguera competition finalized, Messi was chosen Me jor Jugador Iberoamericano de la Liga española de fútbol.

Maradonianos Goals

In the last season Leo Messi were able to both emulate goals of Maradona against England in World-wide the 86 ', related next:The 18 of April of 2007, during the semifinals of

the Glass of the King against the Getafe in the Camp Nou, eluded to five players, including the guardameta, and marked the second goal of their equipment, that immediately was compared by 2 the world-wide press with the “Goal of the Century”, builds of their compatriot Diego Maradona in World-wide of 3 Mexico 1986. In fact, Messi dedicated to its annotation to the distant soccer player. Finally, Barcelona ended up prevailing by 5-2, with another goal his. Some think that the goal of Maradona is better than the one of Messi, since Maradona played against England and Messi against the Getafe (an equipment that does not have great level). [5]In 37ª day of Spanish Liga, the FC Barcelona faced to the Espanyol. In minute 43 of the first time the player Gianluca Zambrotta sends a center that bounces on a defender so that soon Lionel Messi, when not arriving with its head, the goal in the opposite arc of Carlos Kameni with its left hand, emulating the goal of Maradona before England, the famous “Hand of God”. After the players of the Espanyol complained with the referee Rodriguez Santiago and one their assistants Valle's Mazariegos, the referee decided to admonish to two players of the Espanyol by the protest and the goal occurred like valid. In the second Messi time it would put the 2-1 but the party would finish finally in tie.

Trajectory with the national Selection Selection of soccer of Argentina Sub-20

In 2004 declined the supply to represent the Spanish selection and decided to be player of the Argentina selection. [mentions required] In June of 2004 had his first appearance with the albiceleste t-shirt in the category of sub-20 playing a friendly party against Paraguay. I participate in the qualifying phase imposing its quality and its goals with which Argentina I classify to the match celebrated in the Netherlands. In June of 2005 it participated in the triumph of the Argentine selection in the World-wide Glass of Sub-20 Soccer of 2005 being the Gold Boot of the competition with 6 goals, and the Gold Ball like better player of the World-wide one, thus beginning its comparison with Maradona.

World-wide glass of Soccer of 2006

After its impressive World-wide sub-20, Messi was called by the Argentine selector Jose Pekerman to make debut with the absolute selection. It went in front of Hungary the 17 of August of 2005; he left to the field in minute 63 and only 47 seconds later Markus Merk was expelled by the referee to replace to a Hungarian defense after quarrels. the 3 of September would again arrive its opportunity when facing Paraguay in the phase of classification for the World-wide one of 2006.In this World-wide Messi it came after recently surpassing an injury that dragged from March. It made debut in a Glass of the World in the second party of Argentina that faced to him Serbia and Montenegro, leaving to the field in minute 73 with 3-0 in favor of the albiceleste; with the already resolute party and boring Messi an attendance of goal to Hernán Crespo revolutionized Carlos Tévez along with giving five minutes after leaving and marking the 6-0 end in the 88, becoming the sixth younger player in writing down a goal in the history of the World-wide ones. Messi returned to play against the Netherlands (0-0) and in eighth of end against Mexico leaving in minute 84 and playing all the prorogation in a the one that overcame Argentina. In quarterfinals against Germany a single minute did not play nor and Argentina was eliminated in penaltis.

Copa América 2007

Its first party was against the United States in where Argentina gained 4-1 and Messi gave an attendance of goal to Hernán Crespo and was replaced by Tévez the 79 minutes. Against Colombia it caused penalti of the 1-1 and participated in the second goal of Riquelme and was replaced by Tévez again. The party would end 4-2 in favor of Argentina. The third party against this time Paraguay Messi it entered the field the 64 replacing Esteban Cambiasso and revolutionized the party that ended 1-0 in favor of the albiceleste with goal of Javier Mascherano after a play created by the own Messi.But the best thing still of Messi would arrive to apartir of the quarterfinals in where Argentina gained 4-0 to Peru and Messi marked the second goal of the party after happens of Riquelme. In the Messi semifinals it again demonstrated his class after marking a magnificent petroleum jelly goal, very similar to first that it marked in the FC Barcelona, before Mexico in the Argentine victory by 3-0 that it gave them happens to the end of the competition. Argentine technician Alfio Basile pronucnicó that “only the geniuses are able to make a goal like which Messi did. It was necessary to close the stage”. Nevertheless Argentina lost by 3-0 the end of the America Glass in front of the Brazilians. Messi in spite of the defeat was of the best ones of the albiceleste where frame a goal that was invalidado.Goals in the Selection: 6 (to the 12 of 2007 July). International parties: 18 (to the 12 of 2006 July). Debut in the Selection: Hungary versus. Argentina the 17 of August of 2005.

Clubs

Newell's Old Boys Argentina 1995-2000
Barcelona B España 2003-2004

FC Barcelona España 2004- ?