According to the Barcelona website Miami will be graced with a wonderful soccer game that will involve Barcelona of Spain versus A.C. Milan! Game is said to be scheduled for August 3, 2011.
Two of the best teams in the world in our backyard!
A.C. Milan's current roster includes
Italians Massimo Ambrosini,Gennaro Iván Gattuso, Andrea Pirlo, Alessandro Nesta, Filippo Inzaghi, German Kevin-Prince Boateng, Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, American Oguchi Onyewu Brazilians Alexandre Pato, Robinho, Ronaldinho, Dutch star Clarence Seedorf and Colombian Mario Yepes just to name a few.

Sin duda una de las peores humillaciones que se tenga memoria para el Real Madrid y para cualquier equipo en cualquier parte del mundo, de hecho 400 millones de personas vieron uno de los mejores partidos de la historia del F.C. Barcelona ante un sobrevalorado Real Madrid.

Sin duda una de las peores humillaciones que se tenga memoria para el Real Madrid y para cualquier equipo en cualquier parte del mundo, de hecho 400 millones de personas vieron uno de los mejores partidos de la historia del F.C. Barcelona ante un sobrevalorado Real Madrid.

Pass masters Barcelona set a new world record for most passes in a football match as they demolished Real Sociedad 5-0 yesterday. The free-scoring La Liga champions strung together an impressive 938 passes during the rout. Not only is that the most passes in a match since Opta records began in 2006, it also smashes [.

Xavi's pure brilliance in the midfield has been rewarded as the Spanish playmaker has been honored with the World Soccer Player of the Year for 2010. Xavi received 25.8% of the votes and edged out Lionel Messi for the award. Messi wasn't far behind however as he received 24.1% percent.

As for Barcelona, they were rated the third best team in the world.

It's that time of year when thoughts should ineffably turn to those less fortunate than ourselves, 'tis the season of 'goodwill to all men' and all that jazz.

However, me being a stingy son of a gun, I felt the clamour to turn my thoughts to those far more fortunate than ourselves, and produce a list of some of the luckiest, gummy-grinned chancers the modern game has offered up to date.

News today that three Premier League clubs have been contacted to see if they are interested in taking Barcelona's 19 year old defensive midfielder Oriol Romeu on loan. The clubs contacted are said to be Newcastle United (of course), Everton and Blackburn Rovers, and the news is being broadcast by Spanish station Com Radio.

The Argentina football federation have announced that they will play Portugal in a friendly at in London early next year. The match is scheduled to take place on February 9. The last time the two countries played each other was back in 1972 when Portugal beat Argentina 3-1 in Rio de Janeiro.

Remember the young girl who was distraught when she didn't get to meet Xavi at the Spain World Cup victory parade? A clever Catalan TV station has come up with the brilliant idea of bringing here along to the studio and making her dream come true. Emotional? Xavi certainly seems to think so. The Barca [.

By Chris Wright

Reports emanating from Israel (namely the Ma'ariv newspaper) are claiming that Barcelona's historic shirt sponsorship deal with the Qatar Foundation is in jeopardy as the Arab organisation have been accused of forging direct links with Islamic (and, for the record, Palestinian) terrorist group Hamas.

Friday, December 24, 2010 - Haydon's Soccer Pitch by John Haydon
John Haydon of Haydons Soccer Pitch has reported the following story:
A huge soccer game is coming to the D.C. region.
Spanish giant Barcelona is scheduled to play legendary English club Manchester United at 91,000 capacity FedEx Field in Landover, Md.

Real Madrid is already a dominate team in La Liga but despite having already crushed through a number of teams, except Barcelona of course, they have done this without the services of Kaka.

Although Jose Mourinho has stated that he is looking forward to seeing Kaka take the pitch with the team he has been building, Jorge Valdano looks like he has other plans for the 28-year old.

By Ollie Irish

Barcelona's famous shirt, sans sponsor's logo until now

Barcelona have signed the most lucrative shirt sponsorship deal in football history, with the Qatar Foundation (a non-profiit organisation founded by the Emir of Qatar in 1995).

By Ollie Irish

Barcelona's famous shirt, sans sponsor's logo until now

Barcelona have signed the most lucrative shirt sponsorship deal in football history, with the Qatar Foundation (a non-profiit organisation founded by the Emir of Qatar in 1995).

By Ollie Irish

It's just WRONG.

Spotted on Reddit

Well, we have only ourselves to blame. We made a proper mess of the easiest group and somehow contrived to finish second, and will get a purple-and-blue gift wrapped Jack-in-the-box on Valentine's Day as a result. Arsenal have had more than decent luck in Champions League draws over the past few years, but good luck today would have meant getting Schalke, who topped their group and have Raul and Huntelaar playing up front.

Arsenal's frozen assets are in the form of key players returning to fitness and form if everything goes our way, we may see the loss of yesterday's game as a bonus in that it gives us a little more time to get closer to full strength. The return of Cesc, Vermaelen, Ramsey and Diaby would make us a force to be reckoned with capable of fighting on many fronts and yes, beating Barcelona why not?

Sorry we're late to this.

This past weekend Heart Attack Ray Hudson issued an opine (2nd video) on Lionel Messi during Barcelona's 5-1 thrashing of Espanyol....and recommended a little YouTube ditty on the star from Catalan country (1st video) showcasing Messi's refusal to go down.

We would be remiss not to give Messi and Ray Hudson their just due, especially after we witnessed Carlos Tevez and Mario Balotelli yesterday seemingly get blown over by the wind on multiple occasions.

I've suggested this before (with a nice diagram), but if we have no fit centre-forward worthy of the name we need to make the most of what we do have, namely attacking midfielder types.

Jonathan Wilson's review of the tactical year.

Barcelona also show the effectiveness of two of the other tactical trends in club football: the false nine and the inverted winger.

Interesting news from the United States where the US Sports Academy has awarded FC BARCELONA forward & Spanish International DAVID VILLA the "Best Sportsman in the World" for 2010, tipping in second place Spanish Tennis ace RAFAEL NADAL David Villa The votes came in via the webs of NBC Sports & USA Today which prized the performance of David Villa during this years World Cup with his goals &

Lorenzo Caudevilla es un excelente ilustrador y artista grafico que a mediados de este año saco de su imaginación y del pensamiento colectivo una caricatura futbolera llamada Calderón de la banda, a mi me ha gustado mucho, así que espero y la disfrutes tu tambien.

En esta ocasión te traemos la segunda entrega, y tiene muchísimo que ver con lo que vemos cada final de temporada con los promotores principalmente en el fútbol mexicano,con los traspasos,fichajes y demás cambalaches futboleros.

Lionel Messi has been compared to some of the greatest in the world. He is considered to be one of today's top players but few have seen him before Barcelona's youth program. This clip of one of his game's from when he was just five years old show's his true talent. Quick and swift, there's [...]

By Ollie Irish

Here's a brilliantly edited HD video of last Monday's Clasico, when Barcelona demolished rivals Real Madrid with football from another planet (Planet Football?). Enjoy...

Something for Barca fans to watch again and again.

By Ollie Irish

Here's a brilliantly edited HD video of last Monday's Clasico, when Barcelona demolished rivals Real Madrid with football from another planet (Planet Football?). Enjoy...

Something for Barca fans to watch again and again.

By Chris Wright

Salt and indeed pepper

The agent of Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola has rubbished rumours that his client is being courted by most of European football's biggest fish, claiming that no contact has been made with any club be it Inter Milan, Chelsea or Manchester United.

By Chris Wright

Salt and indeed pepper

The agent of Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola has rubbished rumours that his client is being courted by most of European football's biggest fish, claiming that no contact has been made with any club be it Inter Milan, Chelsea or Manchester United.

A nostalgic look back at Barcelona's Lionel Messi scoring 47 Goals last season.

Cristiano Ronaldo's stunning free-kick in Real Madrid's 3-1 win over Real Zaragoza has put his side top of La Liga for two hours at least with Barcelona set to return too the top with a win ove Real Sociedad expected. It was Ronaldo's 17th League goal of the season and another one to add to his 2010 Goal Collection

By Chris Wright

Allow Pies to sum up Barcelona's 5-0 tanking of Real Sociedad at the weekend in concise, 'video essay' format.

A goal apiece from David Villa, Andres Iniesta and Bojan Krkic coupled with a pair of intricate pearlers from Leo Messi ensured that Barca's day contained several elements of 'the sublime' .

By Chris Wright

Allow Pies to sum up Barcelona's 5-0 tanking of Real Sociedad at the weekend in concise, 'video essay' format.

A goal apiece from David Villa, Andres Iniesta and Bojan Krkic coupled with a pair of intricate pearlers from Leo Messi ensured that Barca's day contained several elements of 'the sublime' .

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Derbies in Spain and Holland, top of the table clashes around Europe and the Club World Cup final feature on this week's predictions. Listen to our predictions on the weekly languagecaster.

A pocos días para finalizar el año los goles de esta semana tienen un muy ben nivel de arriba abajo, TVGolo nos presenta los mejores goles de la semana pasada , hay un poco de todo, golazos al por mayor. Cuanta joya nos perdemos del fútbol internacional.

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A pocos días para finalizar el año los goles de esta semana tienen un muy ben nivel de arriba abajo, TVGolo nos presenta los mejores goles de la semana pasada , hay un poco de todo, golazos al por mayor. Cuanta joya nos perdemos del fútbol internacional.

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There's been a small furor since Monday, when Andy Gray opened his mouth and...well, that's it that's all he really needs to do. I'm convinced he's one of football commentary's three most blinding idiots, and the sentiment that Barcelona couldn't hack it in the Premiership does nothing to alter that stance for the good.

Netherlands international winger Ibrahim Afellay was officially presented as an FC Barcelona player on Friday following his 3 million euro move from Dutch Eredivisie side PSV Eindhoven. The four and a half year deal will see PSV receive a percentage of any fee that Afellay is sold for and Barça play them in their centenary [.

In a surprising return (Ok not really), the ‘Special One' Jose Mourinho is back into his old ways boosting his own self-ego. As Moruinho feels that he should be the front-runner for al the major [Individual] accolades for 2010, the Portuguese coach went on to remind the people all he has done for Inter Milan in the 2009-2010 season.

Effing Hell Classico One thing is for certain, Barcelona are the form team in world football. The pomp and verve displayed on Monday night will not have sent shockwaves through Surope, but only because their dominance and class is utterly accepted. But less about the winners; what of the losers? What went wrong?

Effing Hell Clasico One thing is for certain, Barcelona are the form team in world football. The pomp and verve displayed on Monday night will not have sent shockwaves through Surope, but only because their dominance and class is utterly accepted. But less about the winners; what of the losers? What went wrong?

Any Barcelona fans thinking about ordering a DVD of Monday's El Clásico? Well, don't bother. This compilation has everything you need from Sergio Ramos kiss-blowing to dramatic views from the stands of the Camp Nou to the intricate touches of Lionel Messi to the despair on Iker Casillas' face.

Originally from Goal.com I just like the photos, which I've only just found...

Former Brazil, Barcelona and Milan star Rivaldo will make a return to Brazilian football in the 2011 Paulista for tiny club Mogi Mirim, of whom the player is also president.

The 38 year-old has not played competitive football since leaving Uzbekistani outfit Bunyodkor in August, and it has been seven years since he has played for a Brazilian club.