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 […]

Due to being out all day yesterday I was unable to bring you the latest news. First, in case you haven’t seen it, here is a link to Xavi’s fantastic goal for Spain against the USA on Wednesday, and also you can see Messi’s goal in Argentina’s 4-1 win over Mexico. Of the transfer stories the big news […]

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 […]

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:

 
Yes, I know some will say that nobody deserves the award after four defeats in seven games this month, and perhaps I should call it least bad player of the month. While some players were truly awful this month a handful saved themselves with some good performances. Due to the lack of candidates some players […]

 
Carles Puyol had to come off after 15 minutes with an ankle injury in Spain’s 1-0 win over Italy. The extent of the injury is not clear yet though it is not thought to be serious and he may be ok to play against Betis on Saturday. Andres Iniesta and Xavi Hernandez both completed the 90 […]

All in all it’s been a pretty good month for Barça. Undeafeted in six games with four victories and two draws. The month would have been a lot worse if it hadn’t been for the four goals scored by this month’s winner, Xavi Hernández. Xavi got a late winner at home to Osasuna and followed […]