Xavi – A player of such ability, elegance and craftiness that fellow professionals are always flattering in their praise of a footballer who is arguably the finest midfielder in today’s game. A simple pass-and-move element to the game repeated each week with dynamism, resolve and precision is the…
United Arab Bank (UAB), the fastest growing bank in the UAE, yesterday announced its association with one of the world’s leading football clubs, FC Barcelona. The landmark alliance confirms UAB as FC Barcelona’s ‘Official Partner in the UAE’ and places the bank as the first and exclusive financial…
This new TV ad, featuring a fictional Barcelona island, was unveiled yesterday during the staging of the partnership between FC Barcelona and the fastest growing Middle Eastern airline – Qatar Airways. It was quite intriguing to see the players from a different light – from Iniesta producing a Barcelona…
Xavi is a regulator, growling whenever his teammate drifts outside the ‘zone’. This zone is the various triangles’ he forms with the 10 players on the pitch. If fame creeps into a player eventually disrupting the structure of the team, Xavi will remind him of his place. Take…
As disappointing as it is, Tito Vilanova’s reign with Barcelona has come to an end. He has called it a day due to the re-occurrence of the cancer he had been battling for a long time. Here is a translation of the letter that he had written to…
The trend of professional clubs moving for young players has increased over the years. The transfer season has not even got to full swing, yet we have seen the change of colors of Wilfried Zaha, Mario Gotze, Neymar, Luis Alberto along with the impending transfers of Thiago Alacantra…
According to numerology, wherein the basic notion is that “everything in the world is dependent upon the mystical properties of numbers”, the number 8 resonates with building (power) and at times with destruction (sacrifice). One could also say that the same would apply in football as well. A player wearing the…
A few Friday’s ago, the names of 8 clubs were curled up into miniature sphere-shaped structures, and entered into a glass bowl in Nyon, Switzerland. At the end of all that, the names of 8 clubs were called out. This season of Champions League has been a celebration…