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The Better Side of Football

As Barcelona continues to wait on the news of Tito Vilanova regaining full fitness to take over the reigns of the club from a negative spiral, the Blaugrana are in need of some sort of a superior interjection to revive their fortunes. And it could very well come…

A Tribute To Barcelona

Name it total football, tiki-taka or joga bonita. Every club; not just in Europe but also in the world dreams of playing like Barcelona.  This is a brief dedication of cumulative moments of the various players in the club as they have faithfully entertained us with their concept…

The Politics Of The Golden Ball

I go back to Plato’s The Republic. He says the majority will never select the best leader because the masses have wrong priorities. This fundamental flaw of masses, almost never to see the bigger picture and the low threshold required to instigate them in petty matters has been…

Lionel And His Legacy

Gentle applause rippled throughout the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, as a delicate Argentinean figure strode towards the stage for an unprecedented fourth time. His face was dressed with a potent smile – a smile brimming with self-confidence and mesmerizing calm. In spite of carrying out such an astonishing…

Tito – The Silent One

When Tito Vilanova was appointed the manager of Barcelona FC after the departure of Pep Guardiola, I heard people mouth that word, which has sort of become a new internet trend, ‘meh’. I wouldn’t have blamed them too because I had my own apprehensions. Here was a man…