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    featurefootballa month ago

    La Furia Roja's fragilities represent a larger issue at play for Spanish football

    How far would you go? To battle for your principles, your way of doing things, standing still stubbornly while the world around you evolves and leaves the world you once knew behind? Would you still stand by your principle and tactics? The formation and methodology that once worked so well?
    Siddhant Lazar
    newsfootball5 months ago

    Marco Verratti really wanted to sign for Barcelona, claims Donato Di Campli

    Marco Verratti’s former agent Donato Di Campli has revealed that the Italian midfielder really wanted to sign for Barcelona at one stage in his career with the La Liga giants keen as well. The 28-year-old signed for Paris Saint-Germain in 2012 from Pescara and has become one of the best since then.
    SportsCafe Desk
    newsfootballa year ago

    Manchester United would have won six Champions League titles in another era, claims Paul Scholes

    Paul Scholes has claimed that Manchester United could have won five or six European Cups, but the great Barcelona and Real Madrid teams prevented them from doing domainating. Scholes spent his career at Old Trafford and won several trophies including the Champions League on a couple of occasions.
    SportsCafe Desk
    newsfootballa year ago

    Getting back to playing football now looks difficult, admits Andres Iniesta

    Vissel Kobe star and Barcelona legend Andres Iniesta has confessed that getting back to playing football will be a lot harder than letting it go. The Spanish midfielder currently plys his trade in Japan and is amongst many other footballers who’ve had to watch as their league seasons were suspended.
    SportsCafe Desk
    newsfootballa year ago

    Lionel Messi is extraordinary but Andres Iniesta is close second, proclaims Luis Enrique

    Former Barcelona boss Luis Enrique has confessed that while Lionel Messi is the player who has impressed him the most, only Andres Iniesta ever came close to the Argentine. Part of the 2010 World Cup winning Spanish squad, Iniesta made quite a name for himself at Barcelona before leaving.
    SportsCafe Desk
    featurefootball2 years ago

    2010's World Team of the Decade: Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Manuel Neuer make the cut

    It’s been a decade dominated by two men but with three World Cups, a gazillion Champions Leagues, even more league titles and over a million players, it’s been fun. That doesn’t make anybody’s job easy when it comes to picking a team of the decade because both Messi and Ronaldo have to be there.
    Siddhant Lazar
    featurefootball2 years ago

    SportsCafe’s Greatest International Footballing moments of the decade ft. Spain and Klose

    The end of what many have taken to calling football’s golden decade is nearly upon us and what a decade of international football it has been. Spain won a World Cup, Chile and Germany stopped Lionel Messi from hitting Maradona-esque heights, Iceland beat England, and France broke Croatia’s hearts.
    Siddhant Lazar
    newsfootball2 years ago

    I've always felt at home in Barcelona, says Lionel Messi

    Lionel Messi has been with Barcelona all his life, including his La Masia days, where it all started. The Catalans have been for a long time a club where big talents come out from their academy, including Xavi Hernandez, Andrés Iniesta, and Messi, leading them to multiple titles over the years.
    Miguel Coelho
    newsfootball2 years ago

    2010 World Cup winner Fernando Torres retires from football

    Fernando Torres has officially retired after playing his final game alongside Andres Iniesta and David Villa. The 35-year-old, who announced that he would be retiring earlier this year, finished his career in Japan after spells all over the world including Liverpool, AC Milan and Chelsea.
    SportsCafe Desk
    featurefootball2 years ago

    Sahal Abdul Samad – A needle in Igor Stimac’s haystack

    Before Ruben Neves became a household name in the West Midlands, he was a sensation with European giants FC Porto and his former manager, Julen Lopetegui, in one interview while praising the midfielder had said, “Being young is a condition, not a sin”. Igor Stimac had given us a familiar air.
    Subhayan Dutta