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Barcelona Benefit From Maybe The Worst Own Goal Of All Time

How...? So he... but then... huh? Jesus Christ, that was terrible....

Messi Obliterates Defense And Scores In First Start Since Injury

Uh, yeah. Messi Back....

Neymar Exits Copa del Rey Match With Gruesome-Looking Injury [UPDATE]

Barcelona star Neymar has been forced off the pitch after suffering a first-half injury in today's Copa del Rey match against Getafe that looks really, really bad....

Translated Neymar Interviews Are A Gift [Updated]

Barcelona forward Neymar's play has people calling him a genius, but if recent interviews are any indication, we may have been selling the guy short by limiting that descriptor to his athletic ability....

This Alexis Sánchez Golazo Just Sealed El Clásico For Barcelona

Holy shit!...

Young Superstars Neymar And Gareth Bale Are The Future Of El Clásico

Tomorrow is El Clásico, a matchup between two of the biggest, most storied clubs in the world: Real Madrid and Barcelona. It's the best rivalry in sports because it's the best kind of rivalry in sports. For 90 minutes, decades of shared history, clashing politics and nationalism will intersect with ...

Facebook Map: The Manchester United States Of America

Champions League action resumes today, but who is America rooting for? The map above, using data provided by Facebook, shows which of the qualifying teams have the most "likes," by state. While Americans like to make fun of all the people overseas who randomly wear Yankees caps, it's a clean sweep i...

Messi, Messi, Messi, Messi, Messi....

Why Lionel Messi Is Even Better Than You Think

One of the key findings of The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong is that soccer, more than any other team sport, is a weak link game: matches are won and lost, and championships and relegation are secured, by the genius and quality of a club's superstars, but even more so b...

David Villa Just Scored A Golazo In His First Match Against Barcelona

Barcelona sold David Villa to Atlético Madrid this summer, partly because he's old and he never quite recovered after breaking his leg two years ago, and partly to make room for new signing Neymar. But David Villa is a legend, and he's a legend because he's long been one of the best finishers in the...

Barcelona President Escapes Media By Hiding In Women's Bathroom

Sandro Rosell really did not feel like answering questions about David Villa. [Dirty Tackle]...

Lionel Messi Accused Of Tax Fraud

A Spanish prosecutor has formally filed a complaint against Barcelona striker Lionel Messi and his father, accusing the two of submitting fraudulent tax returns for four years....

Messi Back From Injury, Scores On His First Touch, Is Still Pretty Good

It's probably safe to say that hammy's not bothering Lionel Messi too much anymore. After being held out of last week's Champions League match against Bayern Munich, Messi returned today in the 56th minute just as Barcelona were thinking about maybe not beating La Liga foes Real Betis. He quickly pu...

Messi Back To Scoring Ridiculous Goals, Bringing Ray Hudson To Orgasm

While Barcelona fell short of seizing La Liga today—they needed a win, and only got a draw, at Atletico Bilbao—it's hard to argue any viewer didn't get their money's worth when Lionel Messi danced amongst defenders in a demonstration of ball control that reminds anyone who might have forgotten that...

Bayern Demolish Barcelona In A Changing Of The Guard

In the first leg of last night's Champions League semifinal, the world witnessed a coup that was anything but graceful. For Barcelona, it was painful, tragic, vaguely horrifying. It was violent. After five years of undisputed domination, Barça were not allowed to simply fade away, to retire back to ...

Enjoy David Villa's Goal From Yesterday's Barça-Milan Game, As It Was Seen From The Stands

Fan-made clips of big sports moments are always a raucous delight. This one, shot during yesterday's Champions League match between Barcelona and AC Milan, is no exception. Come for the high-quality camera work, stay for the screaming Spaniards. ...

How The 3-4-3 Beat Milan And Rethroned Barcelona As The World's Most Dangerous Team

Well, this is awkward. Just two weeks ago many outlets, us sheepishly included, were shoveling dirt on top of Barça's reign as the world's best team. But following a string of terrible results—three losses in 11 days, once to Italian upstarts AC Milan and twice to bitter rivals Real Madrid—Barcelona...

Watch An Italian TV Presenter Lose His Mind Over Milan's Loss To Barcelona

Tiziano Crudeli is a cult figure for his demonstrative commentary, and he's also a huge AC Milan fan. So naturally, an Italian TV station had a camera on him as he watched Milan squander a two-goal aggregate lead, falling to Barcelona in the second leg of their Champions League tie yesterday....

Messi....

Here Are All Of Lionel Messi's 91 Goals In 2012

On Saturday, Lionel Messi scored another beauty—a dribble through the defender's legs, finished with a left-footed strike into the far corner. It was the 91st and final goal of his calendar year, an all-time record. A crack Youtuber has put together a compilation of every single one, so let Messi ...