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Very quite these days on the SPANISH FOOTBALL front, as the Liga returns with action this weekend after International friendly & qualifying games.

The "little" news to mention today comes out of Barcelona today, from FC BARCELONA & from DAVID VILLA, which lifts an eyebrow after his press conference today. The player was back at his Club after returning with the Spanish Football National Team &

The second uniform for FC BARCELONA for season 2013 - 2014 has been "leaked" as the below image highlights. For the first time in the Clubs 113 years founded by Swiss , English & local Spaniards, the Club takes literally its "recent history objetive" of representating the "Region of Catalunya". The colours & print are the same as the "Senyera", the name given to the flag of Cataluña. 



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Yes, months back it was written here that FC BARCELONA had a "pre-agreement" with SANTOS of 60M€ for the transfer of NEYMAR.

Yesterday a Spanish media source - a popular late night footy programme - let known that this pre-deal may have got more complex. That is,  that it may not go through at all & that the deal maybe in danger. Why?


Neymar

The Brazilian Club SANTOS is asking Barça to lift

UEFA has announced tonight that FC BARCELONA & Spanish International ANDRES INIESTA is the winner of the "UEFA Best European Player" season 2011 - 2012. The Spaniard won ahead of team-mate Lionel Messi & Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo, to be awarded possibly Iniesta´s biggest individual prize to date.The players Euro 2012 performance was determinate as he won the MVP of that tournament & 

Spanish Sports & Barcelona based paper "Mundo Deportivo" add their humour today to yesterdays 2 - 1 defeat by FC BARCELONA at the "hands " of REAL MADRID in the SPANISH SUPER CUP.



Barça Coach Tito Vilanova


The cartoonist "KAP" elaborated this piece of satirical art to depict the whole game & night for Barça. With 10 men down /red card to Adriano) Barcelona was at a disadvantage from the 27th

REAL MADRID has defeated FC BARCELONA 2 -1 in the return leg of the SPANISH SUPER CUP to claim the first title of the 2012-2013 season. The Madrid Club wins & takes away a psychological boost for the upcoming matches & for the next time these two giants of World Football meet again. The final score on aggregate was 4 - 4 with Real Madrid the winner over the two games with double away goals

The Argentine International JAVIER MASCHERANO came over from Liverpool FC to FC BARCELONA as a midfielder way back 2010. Since then the player has matured, vastly improved & has consolidated himself as a central defender, one of the Best in Europe. The decision by ex-Barça Coach Guardiola to give defensive responsibilities to the Argentine has changed the whole Football career of the player,

Last Thursday there was a meeting at a Barcelona Hotel between "representatives" of Italian Club JUVENTUS & persons close to FC BARCELONA forward DAVID VILLA. According to Spanish paper "El Comercio", which has been picked up by "Sport", "Mundo Deportivo" & "Marca", the Italians wanted to know the Villa situation & his thoughts.From this the Barcelona Sports papers speculate that nothing will

First "Round" of the SPANISH SUPER CUP 2012-2013 goes to FC BARCELONA 3 - 2 over REAL MADRID. Deserved & just victory by Barça which was superior in play & is in much better form. At least it was clearly this way in the first half for Barça with 75% ball possesion on average & an out of sync Real Madrid that still has way too go to find its best form.



FC Barcelona

Said all this, lets not

The SPANISH FOOTBALL 2012 - 2013 season is just days in & we already have already a FC BARCELONA - REAL MADRID CF clash tonight at 22.30 local time. The reason is the 1ºst leg of the SPANISH SUPER CUP title. Both teams have played down the importance of the match &, in some respects, the actual title, but with these two Clubs & the rivalry between both I don´t believe it.



Courtesy of SPORT.ES

The SPANISH SUPERCUP is played at the beginning of each season, & matches up the Spanish League ( La Liga ) Champion with the Spanish Cup Champion of the previous season. It´s a two leg ( away-return) affair that will match REAL MADRID CF & FC BARCELONA tomorrow. The 1 st leg will be played tomorrow night at the "Camp Nou" Stadium, thus giving all Football fans an early in the new season "Clasico

FC BARCELONA has announced via the Clubs "Twitter" account the signing of ARSENAL midfielder ALEX SONG for 19M€. The player signs with Barça for the next 5 years



Song

Barça has been looking for a versatile midfielder that could in an emergency also act as a defender. The idea behind the Song signing is to have a "back-up" player for Busquets &/or Mascherano. Barça has placed a 80M€ contract

This post goes out to all the readers & FC BARCELONA fans who have asked for the latest TEAM PHOTO for the new 2012-2013.Below is the very latest from the Dynamo Bucharest friendly match this weekend. The only two players missing are Andres Iniesta & David Villa, but its very complete as it has new signing Jordi Alba. The below team line-up is just as strong as without the two mentioned names &

The SPANISH
FOOTBALL LEAGUE – LA LIGA – kicks off next Saturday 18 th of August for season
2012 – 2013. The favourites beforehand are as always FC BARCELONA & REAL
MADRID with all the rest of the Clubs working hard & attempting to lift in level. 



To get a glimpse at the Football levels of the favourites so early into the season, Real Madrid
& FC Barcelona will be fighting it out for the

The main objective to fill the "defensive midfielder" position left open by the departure of Keita is Spanish International & Athletic Bibao player Javi Martinez. However the price is 40M€ plus taxes & that is too steep for FC BARCELONA, & Bilbao will not negotiate. 



Alex Song


The rumour mill is making louder sounds at "Camp Barça" & the midfielder that could be Option B is ARSENAL player 24

FC BARCELONA has made public the shirt numbers of its 25 players which will make up the season 2012 - 2013 squad. This also tells us that if Barcelona signs another player someone will have to give up their assigned number for this season to the newcomer. 

Here is a image with all the players & their assigned numbers.




Players & their shirt numbers

The Spanish Football Clubs are playing diverse pre-season friendly games locally & around the World. One of the more interesting games was played yesterday in Paris when PARIS ST GERMAIN hosted FC BARCELONA. The end result was 2 - 2 full time, but FC Barcelona won the penalty shoot-out 1 - 4 with goalie Pinto making two saves during the shoot-out.



Messi scores penalty vs PSG

The highlights 

Been letting this particular transfer rumour slip these days but the intensity is & has  picked up locally. It is said that FC BARCELONA has on its signing agenda LIVERPOOL FC Danish Central Defender DANIEL AGGER.



Aggar 


The rumour grabs strength because Liverpool did not call up the player for yesterdays Europa League qualification game. This is a sign that an imminent transfer is about to

As written here some days back, 20 year old Brazilian sensation NEYMAR is well inside the FC BARCELONA bag. That is, barring last moment strange happenings, the SANTOS Brazilian Football sensation will be dressing the Barça uniform. The rumored cost for the Spanish Football Club is a "chunky" 60M€.

Also asked here on that same post was the question:  when will Neymar arrive?




Neymar



Today

Pre-season games are just that pre-season fine-tuning with Clubs testing players, especially their youngsters. Yesterday FC BARCELONA ( without their  Spanish Internationals ) travelled to Morocco to play RAJA CASABLANCA. The Spanish Football Club won 0 - 8 & the news - or no news - was that LIONEL MESSI scored a HAT-TRICK with two goals from ALEXIS & one each from ALVES, SERGI GOMEZ & DEUFOLEU.