The last two times Barca returned from international break, we failed to win our away games and subsequently had a bad result in the Champions League encounters. We always have struggled after an international break, but this time it is a make or break time for Barca. We cannot afford to lose or draw against Bilbao as it will definitely show in our all important encounter against Inter on Tuesday. Click to continue reading...

Everyone's sure to be happy with last night's result – we know we are. The boys came out to win and they did it, attacking well from the very beginning, with Pedro being surprisingly awesome. Pep was resting several starters for this match, with Xavi, Messi, Dani, Iniesta, Bojan, and Pinto on the bench. Click to continue reading...

After the team's run of poor results lately, we're really looking to this match for a boost. Barca leads the Liga with a single shaky point, and we can't afford anything less than a win if we are to keep our first place position.
But we have a feeling this match will be a turnaround point for the boys, and they'll go back to their winning ways. Click to continue reading...

The freezing cold is what worries us most about this match, as Barca face Rubin Kazan in the snowy, below-zero temeperatures that are the norm in Ruissia this time fo year. Rubin are used to it, but some of our boys have never played in such extreme cold. The oppositon themselvs are no piece of cake either, on top of that; they're the only team that has beaten us so far this season. Click to continue reading...

Barca's next Liga match has them facing Osasuna, as they look for another win to maintain their lead at the top of the table. Previous matches between the two teams have been pretty tight, so let's hope Barca come off with a comfortable result tonight.
Theirry Hnery is cleared to play, and has been included in the squad: Valdés, Pinto, Puyol, Piqué, Chygrynskiy, Márquez, Abidal, Maxwell, Keita, Touré, Sergio, Iniesta, Jeffren, Xavi, Messi, Ibrahimovic, Pedro, Henry and Bojan. Click to continue reading...

Manchester City's Emmanuel Adebayor was interviewed on CNN International by the sports correspondent Pedro Pinto. He spoke about his early months at Eastlands, how they can get into the top four and why the attitude of former team-mates hurts. Click to continue reading...

El Barça gana en León por 0-2 ante la Cultural Leonesa y le deja el pase a octavos de la Copa del Rey encarrilado. Los culés no quisieron sustos como el del Alcorgol al Madrid y se llevaron el partido merced a dos goles de Pedro. El Barça empezó con un sorprendente Jeffren de lateral de derecho, con Pinto (el portero copero) y un Gai Assulin que apunta maneras. Click to continue reading...

• So The Dona has an ongoing fued with Carlos Bilardo as we all know but it looks like the matter has escalated to beyond childish. Yes, he is now accusing Bilardo of "trying to overthrow Argentinean Football President, Julio Grondona." Grandpa, you need to sit down.

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We're finally back! And just in time for Barca's first match in two weeks, following the international break. The boys head out to a clash with Valencia that's got us pretty excited, particularly about facing David Villa, the Liga's current top-scorer, who has been confirmed to participate tonight after doubts had been circulating about wether he'd be able to make it because of injury. Click to continue reading...

Imagem com história, João Vieira Pinto, marcador de um dos golos nesse jogo. Saliência também para o equipamento alternativo da Selecção Nacional, de grande beleza estética.
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Prémios de carreira atribuídos pelo CNID a Pauleta, João V. Pinto e Figo. Nada mais justo.

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1-0 S.Chahed 7'2-0 A.Bruggink 10'2-1 I.Banovic 35'3-1 K.Haggui 45'3-2 J.Schuster 82'4-2 D.Ya Konan 85'5-2 S.Pinto 90' DISCLAIMER: Calcioplus non hosta alcun video pubblicato su di esso. Tutti i video pubblicati sono caricati da amanti di calcio su siti di video hosting come Youtube e Dailymotion ed ubicati dunque su siti esterni a Calcioplus. Click to continue reading...

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The ankle injury sustained by Zlatan Ibrahimovic this past weekend against Racing Santander does not look to be as bad as originally feared. The Swedish striker was diagnosed with an ankle sprain following the team victory over Santander and was to miss this weekends match.

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1º plano: Paulinho Santos, Sá Pinto, Luís Figo, Secretário e João V. Pinto
Em pé: Dimas, Vitor Baía, Jorge Costa, Paulo Madeira, Paulo Bento e Rui Costa

Esta foi a equipa que em 6.9.1998, sob o comando técnico de Humberto Coelho, venceu a Hungria, por 3/1, em jogo de apuramento para o Euro 2000, realizado no mesmo estádio onde hoje iremos jogar, antes chamava-se Nepstadion, hoje Ferenc Puskás Stadion.

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Luis Pinto meta-se à frente do meu carro.. e ( nao se esqueça!) faça como o jornalista: sare as "feridas" e cale a boca.. a liberdade de opinião serve para quem usufrui dela correctamente não para morcões da segunda circular com a benfica tv.

Assiste-se hoje em blogs e sites, aos mais despudorados e incríveis comentários.

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Martin Petrov's goal gave Manchester City a victory in the Gamper Cup yesterday against a young FC Barcelona side. The goal came from Citizens' sole shot on target for the match. Barcelona dominated much of the match but were unable to find an equalizer in from of a home crowd of over 94,000. FC Barcelona: Pinto; Montoya (Alves, [. Click to continue reading...

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FC Barcelona dominated for most of the match but were unable to keep the Gamper Cup at the Camp Nou. Manager Pep Guardiola fielded a mostly B team with Bojan, Jeffren and Pedro starting up front for Barcelona. The team dominated possession for most of the first half but could not seem to get anything to fall.

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Today FC Barcelona will take on Athletic Club Bilbao in the Spanish Super Cup from Sam Memés. The match will mark the first official game of the 2009-2010 season. Notably absent from today's match is Lionel Messi who is still recovering from a thigh strain suffered during the week.

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In contrast to the other major leagues in Europe, the Spanish Super Cup is a two legged affair. The first leg will be held tonight at San Mamés ; the second leg will held at the Camp Nou next sunday. Guardiola has announced the squad which is travelling to face Athletic Bilbao - Valdés, Pinto, Alves, Maxwell, Abidal, Puyol, Piqué, Fontà s, Muniesa, Touré, Keita, Xavi, Gudjohnsen, Busquets, Bojan, Pedro, Jeffren, Henry and Jonathan Dos Santos. Click to continue reading...

With most of the players off with their national teams, Barca's sqaud is looking scanty with only Valdes, Pinto, Jorquera, Henrique, Maxwell, Victor Sanchez, Iniesta, Pedro, Bojan, Henry and Ibrahimovic left; along with B-teamers Fontas, Muniesa, Jonathan and Jeffren.
Training goes on however, and Ibrahimovic worked right along with the rest of the players for the first time, after recieving his greenlight from the medics. Click to continue reading...

The team held their last training session in Seattle yesterday, with the focus mainly on recovery following the match. Marquez and Iniesta alone couldn't train, because of their injuries, while Puyol and Jeffren trained apart from the rest.
Ibrahimovic continues to train with the group despite his injury, but apparently he's exerting himself a bit too much - his decision to do a bicycle kick ended badly when he came down on his injured hand, causing Pep to grab his head in his hands and yell out, "No Ibra, don't do that! Click to continue reading...

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Lionel Messi put on a performance in front of a sold out Qwest Field in Seattle on Wednesday night. The Argentine had to battle the bad pitch with the grass being overgrown and hindering ball movement but it took him 20 minutes to get the hang of things. He beat the Seattle keeper Keller in the 20th with a shot from the corner of the box, just after Keller had denied him just minutes earlier.

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Look at the gap between Titipo and Bojan..... awkward! And you know Dani Alves is checking out Pinto's abs instead of paying attention to this hastily assembled team photo. ATENÇÃO, GENTE!

Anyway, Barca played a friendly against Seattle Sounders yesterday and unsurprisingly, the Messiah stole the show and netted in a double for himself.

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FC Barcelona will still be without Andrés Iniesta and Zlatan Ibrahimovic in tonight's match against the Seattle Sounders. Added to tonight's list of injuries is also Yaya Toure and Victor Valdes. Andres Iniesta is still recovering from a virus which has resulted in the Spaniard loosing a lot of weight.

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A trademark free-kick from David Beckham was not enough to prevent LA Galaxy losing to an under-strength Barcelona side in front of 93,000 fans at the Rose Bowl in Los Angeles last night.
The England midfielder curled home a free-kick into the top corner on the stroke of half-time to level the scores, and silence the boo boys, after Pedro Rodriguez had fired Barca ahead following Lionel Messi's blocked shot. Click to continue reading...

It was Becks as we should remember him. A laser light of a free kick beats Jose Manuel Pinto all ends up.

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Here are the line-ups for today's CONCACAF Gold Cup final between the U.S. and Mexico at Giants Stadium. No changes for the home side...Perkins; Heaps, Marshall, Goodson, Pearce; Holden, Beckerman, Pause, Rogers; Arnaud, Ching (capt.)Bench: Busch, Evans, Cooper, Quaranta, Clark, Cronin, Parkhurst Ochoa; J. Click to continue reading...

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Head coach Pep Guardiola fielded a "B" team against Tottenham Hotspur in the first round of the Wembley Cup on Friday. During the match Guardiola was able to get 22 players on the field as starts Messi, Henry, Valdes, Marquez and Hleb watched from the stands.

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Arsenal striker Carlos Vela has returned for his native Mexico tonight, as Javier Aguirre's side won the semifinal encounter with Costa Rica after penalty shootout, so they could reach the final of the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup.

Vela has his comeback, as he entered the pitch after 81 minutes by replacing Cruz Azul defender Fausto Manuel Pinto.

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La Selección Mexicana sostendrá su primer partido de verdad en esta Copa de Oro cuando se mida a su similar de Costa Rica en el Soldier Fiel de Chicago, en el partido correspondiente a las semifinales de esta competencia.

Este renovado "Tri" ha sido muy menospreciado por los medios, pues la consideran una "selección B" cuando la idea central de Javier Aguirre es que este equipo sea la base para lo que resta del Hexagonal de la CONCACAF.

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"Começam demasiado novos e, na generalidade, têm demasiada soberba, actuando segundo uma lógica de poder e não de serviço público. É preocupante a dimensão antidemocrática do poder que têm na sociedade contemporânea" Marinho Pinto, Bastonário da Ordem dos Advogados, em entrevista ao Expresso e falando sobre os Juízes portugueses. Click to continue reading...

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FC Barcelona this evening completed a blockbuster move bringing Inter Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic to the Nou Camp in exchange for Samuel Eto'o plus 40 million euros and Alexander Hleb who will be with Inter on a one year loan.

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El recién ascendido Querétaro se hizo de los servicios del portero Argentino Carlos Bossio.

Carlos Bossio jugaba con el Lanús de Argentina y se une a los uruguayos Adrián Romero, Mauro Vila y Diego Chávez, como refuerzos del Gallos Blancos.

"Siempre me llamó mucho la atención el futbol mexicano, me gusta verlo, me gusta como se juega, me gustan los campos, me gusta mucho y siempre tuve la idea de tener una oportunidad acá y apareció la gente de Querétaro interesada y nos pusimos de acuerdo muy rápido", explicó.

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O ex-vice-presidente do Conselho de Arbitragem (CA) da Federação Portuguesa de Futebol (FPF), Francisco Tavares da Costa, foi suspenso por quatro anos por manipulação das classificações dos árbitros e observadores nas épocas 2002/2003 e 2003/2004.

Na reunião de 30 de Junho, o Conselho de Justiça da FPF puniu Francisco Tavares da Costa "com suspensão de todas as funções desportivo-dirigentes por um período de quatro anos", de acordo com o comunicado emitido na quarta-feira.

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Com o início da temporada prestes a começar para o nosso clube assistimos mais uma vez a um corropio geral dos jovens jogadores formados no clube azul e branco. A equipa de juniores do F.C. Porto acabou este ano em terceiro lugar e poucos foram os jovens que brilharam. Do plantel que terminou a época, subiram a seniores onze jogadores.

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