You might have caught wind of reports that the Portland Timbers were getting ready to sign 20 year-old left back Juan David Duque out of Colombia. Stumptown Footy had solid looking reports up on January 25 and February 1. Here we are on February 8 though and still no Juan David Duque inking a deal.

Personnel wise it's been a disastrous couple of days for the New England Revolution. Rajko Lekic is off in Denmark, Monsef Zerka has signed in India, Milton Caraglio is off in Chile, Re-entry Draft pick Danleigh Borman is in South Africa, and now news out of Columbia has told us that one of the Revs "big" offseason signings has changed his mind and will not suit up for Jay Heaps in Foxborough.

The New England Revolution thought that they had secured a prized piece to their attacking puzzle by announcing the signing of Colombian forward Jose "Pepe" Moreno on loan from Once Caldas last week. While that still may wind up being the case, there's something a bit awkward and unusual going on.

Welcome to the Friday Crackovia Club, the comedy club which welcomes every single one of you Futbolitinos! Of course, for the newbies, Crackovia is the best football sketch show from Catalonia (you'd be hard pressed to find a better one).

The New England Revolution have finally begun the process of solving their issues at forward this week with the acquisition of Colombian target man Jose "Pepe" Moreno. The 30-year old striker joins the Revs on loan after a short stop with Once Caldas, where he scored 7 goals and 4 assists in twenty matches during the second half of 2011.

Barcelona president Sandro Rosell has criticised the performance levels of Spanish referees this season.

Rosell's club felt aggrieved by the decision of the Spanish federation's competitions committee not to punish Real Madrid utility man Pepe for appearing to stamp on Barca forward Lionel Messi's hand earlier this month.

All the stuff being covered outside the unfriendly confines of the award-winning Dirty Tackle...

DirecTV Colombia inserts Atletico Madrid's Falcao into 300/the way Pepe actually sees football matches. [YouTube]

Speaking of Pepe, here's Crackovia's fake Pepe singing a parody of Michel Telo's "Ai Si Eu Te Pego" about stomping Messi.

Es la primera vez que un jugador de fútbol aparece en solitario en la portada de esta revista, de las mas importantes del mundo el TIME, ya han aparecido deportistas como Tiger Woods, Muhammad Alí, Bjön Borg o la super estrella Michael Jordan.

La revista estadounidense TIME ha elegido al jugador argentino del FC Barcelona Leo Messi como protagonista de su próxima portada.

foto por joseolano

Esta semana, por no decir el año completo el villano de la película de fútbol ha sido el portugués Pepe. Esa mala fama ha sido ganada a pulso, es mas muchos madridistas no lo quiere en su equipo, para no ir mas lejos los ejemplos del clásico pasado en el Santiago Bernabeu, mostraron un poco de sus acciones antifutbolisticas, marrullerías,reclamos,clavados,malas actuaciones y pisotón a Messi incluido.

foto por joseolano

Esta semana, por no decir el año completo el villano de la película de fútbol ha sido el portugués Pepe. Esa mala fama ha sido ganada a pulso, es mas muchos madridistas no lo quiere en su equipo, para no ir mas lejos los ejemplos del clásico pasado en el Santiago Bernabeu, mostraron un poco de sus acciones antifutbolisticas, marrullerías,reclamos,clavados,malas actuaciones y pisotón a Messi incluido.

For those of you who missed the Copa Del Rey matches between Barcelona and Real Madrid, you missed some of the best soccer the modern world has to offer. Unfortunately,... Read more »

Welcome to the Friday Crackovia Club your weekly special on the best comedy sketch show from Spain! This week, watch as Mourinho instructs Pepe on how to make a correct 'Live TV' apology. It's a little stab at last week's Leo Messi hand-stepping saga which was followed by an emotionless apology from the defender.

There were to be no historonics before Barcelona's Copa del Rey tie with Real Madrid after the first leg at the Bernabeu was marred by an intentional or not? stamp on Lionel Messi by Pepe as both Men showed their manliness with a good old customary handshake!

More than any other matchup, the coming together of Barcelona and Madrid forces apart the usually shared preferences of the cultfootball brain trust. So today's match was one where both sides could come away feeling they'd won some important battles, if not the war.

The game was not 90 minutes of pure flowing football.

By Darshan Joshi

One week, two alleged stamps. Both assailants bad-boys of their clubs' cities, further apart in distance than footballing heritage and seemingly now closer yet in terms of notoriety. One incident exponentially more temerarious than the other, and thus rightly so – relatively speaking –, one man went unpunished, and the other supplied with a four-match decapitation.

25.01.2012 - Con goles de Pedro (´43) y Dani Alves (´47), Barcelona empató (2-2) con Real Madrid (C.Ronaldo ´67 + Benzema ´71) en el Camp Nou y se clasificó a semifinales de la Copa del Rey 2012.
El más esperado, cotizado y comentado del mundo (120 medios de 27países acreditados) fue digno de la expectativa: altísima tensión, fútbol de primera jerarquía, dominios alternativos, carácter, esquemas y trifulcas en un atestado Camp Nou (95.

Antes de que los aficionados merengues me vayan aventar tomates, les aclaro que este monatje no lo hecho yo, me lo han mandado al buzón de este espacio,todo por lo que ha ocasionado el linchamiento del jugador Portugues Pepe y de las molestas declaraciones de Mourinho.

Siempre lo he dicho cine y futbol,una excelente combinación y este cartel se gana sus estrellas.

La edición 2012 de la Copa Libertadores de América celebrará el cincuentenario de un récord muy difícil de batir.
El 30 de agosto de 1962, Santos goleó 3-0 a Peñarol en el estadio Monumental de River Plate y logró el primero de sus tres títulos. Pero además, con esos 3 goles, el certamen sumaba 107 tantos en 26 encuentros, lo que redondeó un promedio de 4,12 goles por partido, el más alto en la historia de la Copa.

By Chris Wright

Seems like the apology worked as it's been confirmed by the Spanish FA that Real Madrid bottom-feeder Pepe won't be punished for stamping on Lionel Messi's hand during the most recent El Clasico tie last week not that the Real Madrid fans themselves are quite so ready to forgive and forget.

Se acerca el partido de vuelta de cuartos de final entre el Real Madrid contra el Barcelona , el mejor equipo del mundo en estos momentos ya lleva la delantera.
Pero de lo que mas se hablo en la semana despues de los goles y dominio del Barcelona fue del tremendo espectáculo que dio el portugués Pepe del Real Madrid , que es toda una caja llena de sorpresas violentas.

Se acerca el partido de vuelta de cuartos de final entre el Real Madrid contra el Barcelona , el mejor equipo del mundo en estos momentos ya lleva la delantera.
Pero de lo que mas se hablo en la semana despues de los goles y dominio del Barcelona fue del tremendo espectáculo que dio el portugués Pepe del Real Madrid , que es toda una caja llena de sorpresas violentas.

Real Madrid. Top of La Liga. In the second round of the Champions League. In the latter stages of the Copa del Ray. All for what? The crowd are not happy and the white flags are waving not in support but in defiance. Why? Because Real Madrid keep losing to Barcelona. The fans are not stupid, they know that even Real Madrid win La Liga it will most likely be a pyrrhic victory, with Barcelona recognised as the best team in the country who just so happened to not win La Liga.

Rumours are circulating of a serious training ground dispute between coach Jose Mourinho and vice-captain Sergio Ramos on Friday.

According to Madrid-based sports paper Marca, Mourinho accused his playing staff of betrayal following their post-match press reaction on Wednesday night.

We watched Wednesday's Clásico in its entirety with spirited company at WoodworkBK. We had the sense then that Barcelona slowly took control after the early goal by Cristiano Ronaldo, and that Pepe was terrible. Watch this extended highlight clip, which should reinforce the conclusions that (a) Barcelona completely dominated after about the 25′ mark, and (b) Pepe was a complete embarrassment and not only for the already-infamous Messi hand stamp:

Real Madrid v Barcelona by vynylr

Acting!

Real Madrid defender Pepe has given a distinctly half-arsed apology to Barcelona's Lionel Messi for blatantly stamping on his hand during Wednesday night's El Clasico. The Portugal international said: "I wish to say yesterday's incident with Leo Messi was unintentional, but I nevertheless want to apologise to him if he was offended because all I [.

By Chris Wright

Hallelujah! Saint Pepe has apologised for crushing Lionel Messi's fingers on Wednesday night and guess what? He didn't mean it, honest guv...

Here it is again in good ol' fashioned 'written down' format for posterity's sake using the PA's translation:

"I wish to say yesterday's incident with Leo Messi was unintentional, but I nevertheless want to apologise to him if he was offended because all I do is defend my team and this institution.

The Stomp Seen 'Round the World has taken front and center in the post-Clasico landscape, of course, and hanging on the fringes is one Wayne Rooney, who saw fit to call Pepe an idiot while Tweetering during the game last evening. This prompted a response from Guti, who's got nothing better to do because he's busy not playing football somewhere.

In this week's review of the footballing action we focus on swansea's rise, Inter Milan's unbeaten run and a bad week for Real Madrid's pepe.

Jose Mourinho's intentions were perfectly telegraphed as he consigned Mesut Oezil and Esteban Granero to anonymity. He started three holding midfielders with Lassana Diarra, Xabi Alonso, and Pepe in a deliberate park the bus tactics. The last mentioned was relocated to midfield from his usual centre back position with Sergio Ramos partnering Ricardo Carvalho.

They won 2-1. Imagine what Xavi would have done to celebrate winning the Balon D'or. Image via twitter.

Real talk: how many of you guestimated the measurements of Xavi's youknowwhat?

Copa Del Rey

Real Madrid 1-2 Barcelona

No Pepe, we couldn't believe our eyes either.

By Chris Wright

In which, during last night's Copa del Rey quarter-final first-leg El Clasico in Madrid, Real Madrid's in-house butcher Pepe indulged in a spot of what he loves to do the bestest stamping on Lionel Messi's hand as the Barca tyke sat on the turf after being barrelled over by Jose Callejon.

Pep'll make a Mess of your hand An El Clasico just isn't an El Clasico without Pepe proving that he's a nasty bar steward. During last night's Copa Del Rey clash, the Real Madrid man stayed true to form. The Portugal international stamped on Lionel Messi's hand after the Barcelona star has the temerity to [.

Real Madrid hard-nut Pepe was caught stamping on the hand of Lionel Messi during Real Madrid's 2-1 defeat to Barcelona in the Copa Del Rey Quarter-Final 1st leg. The notoriously tough-tackling Brazilian, who has a disciplinary rap sheet longer than Mike Tyson, took advantage of a foul on the current World Player of The Year [.

I don't think they come lower than Pepe. Even animals have a sense of fair play. This man if you can call him that should be banned from the sport for life. Leo Messi goes down after colliding with Callejon and while he's down, Pepe strolls casually over and deliberately plants his studs on Messi's hand.

Si no pudiste ver el partido de hoy el clásico español, el que paraliza al mundo futbolistico, te cuento lo siguiente,fue en resumen muy similar al partido anterior, error del portero al inicio del juego Real Madrid se adelanta, echa el camion atras y Barcelona en el segundo tiempo remonta y le pone un baile a los merengues en su propia casa.

Si no pudiste ver el partido de hoy el clásico español, el que paraliza al mundo futbolistico, te cuento lo siguiente,fue en resumen muy similar al partido anterior, error del portero al inicio del juego Real Madrid se adelanta, echa el camion atras y Barcelona en el segundo tiempo remonta y le pone un baile a los merengues en su propia casa.

Would anyone be opposed to a dawn execution for Pepe?

The first leg of the Copa del Rey saw Barcelona win (with goals by Puyol and Abidal, as expected) and Jose Mourinho likely lose the services of his molester-moustachioed defender through suspension, with Pepe seeing no card for what appears to be last segment a purposeful stamp on the hand of Leo Messi.

Antonio Conte has been the driving force of the Juventus revolution with his aggressive 4-3-3 formation. Essential to the attack are the wingers as not only do they offer more of a threat in the attack, they offer support for the striker as well as take attention away from the middle. Conte inherited one of his wingers in the form of Simone Pepe, but the other wing was left vacant.

Video Al Hilal vs Juventus 1-7 Highlights Friendly 2012 Goals Del Piero Elia Pepe is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter

Video Al Hilal vs Juventus 1-7 Highlights Friendly 2012 Goals Del Piero Elia Pepe is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter Al Hilal vs Juventus 2012 ( Al Hilal Juve friendly video below) Final score and result:- Al Hilal vs Juventus 1-7 ( Al Harthi/ Del Piero*2, Elia, Vidal, Chiellini, Pepe, [.

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