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From Cristiano-Messi to Mbappé-Haaland
Both Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi defined the global game over the past decade or so with both players almost exclusively winning the Ballon d'Or award year after year.
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Both Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi defined the global game over the past decade or so with both players almost exclusively winning the Ballon d'Or award year after year.
Football
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It's a fact, fewer goals are being scored in LaLiga. Not so long ago we were seeing an average of 3 goals per game in Spain's top flight and now we have the lowest average of the top five European leagues
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AS columnist Alfredo Relaño gives his take on the resignation of Barcelona president Josep Bartomeu.
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We already knew Iker Casillas wasn’t likely to play again, but the end of his career was officially confirmed yesterday when he announced the beginning of a new chapter in his life...
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For me, one of the abiding images of Sunday's Clásico is that of Casemiro beating the turf in reaction to Vinicius Júnior's goal...
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Quique Setién's Barça produced more than a thousand passes during Sunday's game but looking closely at this data, more than 70% of these combinations were backwards...
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Style is non-negotiable, something sovereign… This is often heard in football and hangs on the lips and keyboards of the many Barcelona journalists that monitor the life of the club.
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The world of football is still coming to terms from the aftershock following Barcelona's loss to Atlético Madrid in Jeddah last week in the Spanish Super Cup ...
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At the end of a year and a decade, France Football have selected their best XI of the last 10 years - a team which recognises Spain's LaLiga, notes Alfredo Relaño.
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Football is, among other things, part of the entertainment industry. For that reason, it's a business that depends on fresh stars coming through...
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A steady game, neither fast nor slow, a kind of ‘allegro ma non tropo’ in contrast to the moderately slow ‘andante’ of those happy years of Xavi, Iniesta and co.
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A goal is like gold dust for the away team at this stage of the Champions League and for Barça last night it came as quick as the twelfth minute...
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The Ballon d'Or gala brought recognition for a team player in Luka Modric; for an indefatigable midfielder...
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The ten year duopoly on the Ballon d'Or has been broken by Modric, which is praise indeed for a model player who conducts the team from midfield.
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I was speaking with a friend of mine yesterday about Sergio Ramos playing with the Spanish national team and it reminded me of the joke about the two Basques who went out early to pick mushrooms.
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A more direct style of football, lots of goals scored from set-pieces, basketball-style blocks from high balls into the box and less of an emphasis on ...
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Spain’s Tiqui-taca high-possession passing brand of football was never intended to be like this - the drawn-out, overbaked version we saw of it in Moscow on ...
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