Sandro Rosell, the FC Barcelona president, spoke categorically about where Barca would play, if Catalonia won independence today during a meeting with businesspeople at the Vallés Oriental delegation of the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce. “If Catalonia were independent one day, Barça would still play in the Spanish league. I have no doubt about it”. Rosell […]
Russia’s national coach, Fabio Capello has admitted that the Atletico Madrid striker impressed him the first day he saw him play: “during my entire career there’s only been one player who’s impressed as much as Messi the first time I saw him play and that’s Radamel Falcao. He’s an amazing striker and right now, he’s […]
Former Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon say that an unhappy player has no place in the team and believes the club should not be afraid to offload Cristiano Ronaldo. Calderon was replaced as Real Madrid President in 2009 by Florentino Pérez, and he has been critical of the Perez administration which has only recently managed […]
Love him or hate him, David Beckham is still the biggest star in Major League Soccer, at least if yo go by the number of jersey’s sold. Earlier this week, MLS released the list of the top-selling adidas player jerseys sold via either MLSGear.com, MLSGearCanada.ca, as well as MLS club websites. And surprise surprise, more […]
Real Madrid has announced record revenue of €514 million for the 2011-12 season, an increase of seven percent. Real said that this is the highest figure earned by an international sports institution and makes the club the first one to surpass the 500 million Euros barrier in the sports industry. That is simply an amazing […]
In a surprisingly move FIFA has decided to extend the ban handed to Juventus coach Antonio Conte to cover all matches, a move which rules out his involvement in his side’s Champions League campaign starting next week. Conte was suspended for ten months by the Italian Football Federation for allegedly not reporting a suspect fixture […]
When Zltan Ibrahimovic signed his monster deal with Paris Saint-Germain this summer, his contract became the global benchmark for the rest of the world’s football stars. An ironically, first in line to negotiate new deals after Ibra’s record breaking contract are the two best players in the world; Leo Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. Ibrahimovic’s agent […]
AC Milan head coach Massimiliano Allegri is pleased with the Rossoneri efforts to revolutionise their playing personnel during the summer. Milan made wholesale changes to their side during the summer,letting some of their high profile players like Gennaro Gattuso, Alessandro Nesta and Mark Van Bommel leave on a free, while players like Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva […]
Barcelona midfielder Andres Iniesta is set to be sidelined for the next fortnight after suffering a leg injury while on international duty with Spain. According to a Barca statement, Iniesta damaged the adductor muscle in his right leg during last night’s World Cup qualifying win over Georgia and will be out for between “10 to […]