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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Espanyol Football Club
1. RCD Espanyol de Barcelona is said to be the sixth most successful football team in Spain, despite being continually overshadowed by the ever-popular FC Barcelona. 2. This was the first club to be formed exclusively by Spanish fans, unlike clubs like FC Barcelona, which were founded by immigrants. Ángel Rodríguez founded the club with [...]
Barcelona Football Club – The New Line Up For 2007-2008
Players in: Thierry Henry, Arsenal (£16.1m) Yaya Toure, Monaco (£6.1m) Eric Abidal, Lyon (£10m) Gabi Milito, Real Zaragoza (£12.1m) Players Out: Giovanni Van Bronckhorst, Feyenoord (Free) Maxi Lopez, FC Moscow (£1.3m) Javier Saviola, Real Madrid (Free) Ludovic Giuly, Roma (£2m) Belletti, Chelsea (£3.7m) Motta, Atletico Madrid (undisclosed) The summer transfer window saw some interesting activity [...]
History & Progress of FC Barcelona Football Club
You can visit the fantastic city of Barcelona, if you want to have wonderful football vacation in Europe. The fabulous capital of Catalonia certainly is one of the top venues to enjoy football in Europe. Located on the mouths of Llobregat & Besòs Rivers on the Mediterranean coast, Barcelona surely is a perfect destination for [...]
FC Barcelona Players: Carles Puyol
With thighs the size of tree trunks and spirals of uncontrollably spiralling hair, Carles Puyol has the very last attributes you would imagine if you were thinking about Barcelona legends. He’s not a forward player; he doesn’t possess silky skills; he’s certainly not in the least flamboyant, despite his hairstyle. And yet a legend is [...]
FC Barcelona vs. Real Madrid Matches through a Cules Eyes
Fondly called the “El Classico”, the matches between Real Madrid and FC Barcelona in Spain is one of the fiercest clashes between rivals. To understand the importance of these matches, one should understand the history behind both these clubs. It is not simply a clash between two of the biggest clubs in Spain; but to [...]
FC Barcelona Players: Thierry Henry
Thierry Henry, who was born in Les Ulis, France in August of 1977, is a star footballer for FC Barcelona as well as the French national team. All well-known sporting face, he has fronted ad campaigns for some of the biggest sportswear manufacturers on the planet. Not content to be merely a sports superstar he [...]
Sport in Barcelona
Barcelona has always been a city that lives and breathes sport and today there’s no shortage of sports in Barcelona! Thanks to the 1992 Olympics Games, facilities have improved drastically to offer all types of athletic activities. A quarter of the city’s population now regularly is doing some type of sport and have included physical [...]
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