Uefa have chosen Barça’s Xavi Hernandez best player of Euro 2008. After his superb performances throughout the tournament, especially in the semi-final and final I believe that he thoroughly deserves it. Congratulations Xavi, let’s hope you can keep up the form for Barça next season. Uefa also named a list of the best 23 players which also includes […]

A goal after 33minutes from Fernando Torres was enough to give Spain a thoroughly deserved victory in tonight’s Euro 2008 final. A great through pass from Barça’s Xavi Hernandez gave Torres the chance to show his speed as he outpaced Phillip Lahm to nick the ball skillfully over the advancing Jens Lehmann. It was fitting […]

A magnificent second half display from the Spanish team blew away Russia by three goals to nil and Spain must now be fancied to beat Germany in Sunday’s final. Barça’s Xavi Hernandez put Spain on the road to victory when he met Iniesta’s cross to side foot the ball under the Russian keeper.

Day four began with a magnificent display from Spain who thoroughly outplayed Russia to win 4-1. There were good performances from Xavi, Puyol and Iniesta but the star of the game was David Villa who scored a hat-trick. Spain began with a 4-4-2 formation with Villa and Fernando Torres up front, I have to admit […]

If we discount Gianluca Zambrotta who played in Italy’s 3-1 win over Belgium on Friday, there were five Barça players involved in friendly internationals this weekend in preparation for Euro 2008. Puyol, Xavi and Iniesta all played in Spain’s 2-1 victory over Peru, Xavi set up Spain’s first goal with an excellent through ball to David […]

A little late perhaps, but I’ve finally decided on my player of the season. Some will say his stats are not great, but even so Leo Messi has to win the award because he is quite simply head and shoulders above the rest. Only three other players can really take much credit from a generally […]

No big surprises today as Luis Aragones named his squad for the European Championships which start on June 7 in Switzerland and Austria. Bojan has been allowed to rest and Victor Valdés has been ignored again. I will report on how all the Barça players get on at the tournament. Spain’s full squad is:

Gabi Milito and Andres Iniesta have both been ruled out of Barça’s next two games, at home to Valencia on Sunday and Wednesday’s Clasico against Real Madrid. Milito is suffering from a cartilage problem while Iniesta has had a recurrence of his meniscus problems which forced him to miss the game at Recreativo. Iniesta is […]

 
Another month where it seems there is little to smile about. However, as usual when the chips are down our very own Captain Marvel, Carles Puyol, raises his game, and he thoroughly deserves to be named April Player of the Month. He was excellent in the quarter final games with Schalke, and stayed at a […]

With important matches against Espanyol and Manchester United in the next seven days it is good to see that many of the players with physical problems are recovering in time. Deco who hasn’t played since the start of March looks ready to play after training well for the last three days. He may well start […]