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Cringeful Alex Song Mistakenly Believes He Has Been Chosen to Conduct La Liga Trophy Lift
Ooops. Barcelona clearly wanted to honour Eric Abidal's recovering from serious illness by affording him the honour of being the first player to lift the La Liga trophy but for some reason Alex Song thought he was the man for the jobCheck in ...
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Barcelona Wing-Back Dani Alves Refuses To Rule Out Move To France
Brazilian full back admits he could be tempted by move to PSG or Monaco. Check in to Transfer Window: Done Deal Alerts Barcelona full back Dani Alves has revealed he would be prepared to consider offers from France according to Sport24. The ...
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Great video Leo Messi talks about the Defining Moment in his career 101GG Exclusive
Audemars Piguet have sat down with their Ambassador Lionel Messi, and on the video below the Barcelona and Argentina superstar describes the defining moments of his career so far. The four-time World Player of the Year talks about his initial love ...
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Top Spain store chain juggles 5 bn euros debt
MADRID (AFP) - Spain's top department store chain El Corte Ingles must restructure five billion euros ($6.5 billion) of debt, the company said Tuesday, citing economic conditions as Spaniards shop less in the recession.El Corte Ingles, whose green logo is a familiar sight on Spanish high streets, employs 98,000 people, selling a variety of products including clothes, food and travel ...
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Neymar Will Play With Barcelona Says O Globo
Rio de Janeiro, May 21 (Prensa Latina) Brazilian forward Neymar da Silva Santos Junior will play for Barcelona next season, the local daily O Globo reported today. According to O Globo, the player signed a contract last week that obliges him to play at the Catalan club starting July 1, after the end of the Confederated Cup. This means Neymar could play his last game in the peixe jersey on ...
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Barcelonas new away jerseys just destroyed all other away jerseys
Barcelona unveiled their new jerseys for the 2013/14 season and while their home shirt is back to a traditional look, their new away kit is the best the club has had in ...
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Reina plays down Barcelona speculation
That has led to his Spain international colleague Reina - who joined Liverpool from Villarreal eight years ago - being linked with a return to Barcelona, but the 30-year-old has stated that he is content with life under Brendan Rodgers at ...
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Spain backs sending weapons to Syria rebels for defense
Spain said Tuesday it favors a partial lifting of sanctions against Syria that would allow the delivery of "defense material" -- that could include weapons to help protect the ...
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Spain’s Benat Intxausti wins Giro stage 16
The pack pedals through mountain landscape during the 16th stage of the Giro d'Italia, Tour of Italy cycling race, from Valloire, France, to Ivrea, Italy, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. (Fabio ...
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Real Madrid legend Raul reveals Barcelona tried to sign him twice
Barcelona on two occasions, but opted against a move to the Catalans as he did not want to join Madrid's arch-rivals.The experienced attacker spent nearly his entire career at the Santiago Bernabeu side after signing for the club from Atletico and he has stressed that a move to the Camp Nou side was never a serious option for him due to his strong ties with Madrid."Barcelona twice ...
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Barcelona hail exit of scourge Mourinho
Jose Mourinho led his Real Madrid players in training today as the Barcelona vice-president welcomed his impending exit, describing him as a "scourge" on Spanish football. Nothing more has been said by Madrid in the wake of last night's press conference with Florentino Perez in which the president confirmed the Portuguese boss - tipped to return to Chelsea - would depart the ...
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Spain Germany team up to fight youth employment
Samsung Galaxy S4 versus HTC One: Which is a better buy? The mobile giants step back into the ring for another round, as we referee the fight between ...
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Messi urges Barcelona not to change
Lionel Messi does not believe that Barcelona should change their way of playing just because they struggled in Europe this season.Barcelona's short 'tiki-taka' passing style had seen them dominate European competition in recent years but this season they were not at their fluent best.They struggled against Milan, Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich in the knockout stages of the ...
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Fears grow for volleyball player missing in Spain
Fears are growing for the safety of Dutch international volleyball player Ingrid Visser and her partner who have been missing in Spain for two weeks. The couple disappeared in Murcia and police have found no trace of them since they checked into their hotel two weeks ago. Their black rental car has also vanished and their luggage remains at the hotel. Her family alerted the police after the ...
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Illegal immigrants die trying to reach Spain
Rabat - At least five illegal migrants drowned off the coast of northern Morocco as they were attempting to reach Spain, the Moroccan authorities said late on ...
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Ilham Aliyev meets Spanish defence minister
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has today received the delegation led by Defence Minister of the Kingdom of Spain Pedro Morenes Alvaro de Eulate, 1news.az reports quoting the official website of the president. Noting high-level political ties between Azerbaijan and the Kingdom of Spain, President Ilham Aliyev noted that there is great potential to boost cooperation in economy, mutual ...
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Spanish opera protests austerity
MADRID , Spain -- David Alegre should have been a nervous wreck. Less than a week before the premiere of the opera he wrote and directed, one of his lead singers hadn't turned up for rehearsal. The energetic, wiry man of 36 nevertheless remained calm and good-humored. That's because everyone involved in the production, from the lead soprano to those building the scenery, were ...
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Lionel Messi Barcelona cant win everything - video
Lionel Messi looks back at a difficult year for Barcelona, albeit one in which the Catalan side won La Liga. Messi says the club cannot win every tournament they play in and describes Bayern Munich as a better team 'physically' after they beat Barcelona 7-0 on aggregate in the Champions League ...
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Spain sells short-term debt at higher costs
LONDON (ShareCast) - Spain managed to sell more short-term sovereign debt that it had originally predicted today but with mixed results on both demand and financing costs. The Spanish Treasury sold a total of EUR3.51bn in debt, above the EUR2.5bn-EUR3.5bn range announced on Monday. It issued EUR892m in three-month bills but the average yield moved up to 0.331% from the prior 0.120%. However, ...
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Spain jeers departing Mourinhos record
Spain's press bid a caustic farewell Tuesday to self-anointed Special One Jose Mourinho, jeering his divisive three-tear reign at Real Madrid and his failure to win more silverware. "The Special End" ran the front page headline of top-selling sports paper Marca, superimposed on a photograph of a football shirt being held up by Mourinho and club president Florentino Perez. ...
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Spanish media savour Mourinho’s exit
Fellow Catalan daily Sport ran a front-page photograph showing Mourinho from the back as he departed through a door marked ';Exit';. The paper quoted Carles Vallarubi, vice president of Barcelona as saying: ';Mou was a scar on Spanish ...
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Dortmunds Hummels dismisses Barcelona talk
Mats Hummels has looked to end speculation about his future by telling kicker he has not been in contact with Barcelona and intends to remain at Borussia ...
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Spain Meets Maximum Target at Bill Auction as Yields Increase
Spain met its upper goal at a sale of bills today as borrowing costs rose ahead of a meeting of European Union leaders. The Madrid-based Treasury sold 3.51 billion euros ($4.52 billion) of bills, compared with an upper target of 3.5 billion euros. It sold three-month bills at an average 0.331 percent today, compared with 0.12 percent on April 23. It sold nine-month debt at 0.789 percent, ...
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Import of Spanish poultry products banned
(27 mins ago) Poultry and products, including eggs, from Catalonia has been banned after a notification from the World Organization of Animal Health about an outbreak of low-pathogenic H7N1 avian influenza on a poultry farm in the Spanish province, the Center for Food Safety announced today. About 4,600 tonnes of frozen poultry meat was imported into Hong Kong from Spain last year, the center ...
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Spain gives Mourinho backhanded compliments
(1 hr 6 mins ago) Spain's press bid a caustic farewell Tuesday to self-anointed Special One Jose Mourinho, jeering his divisive three-tear reign at Real Madrid and his failure to win more silverware. "The Special End'' ran the front page headline of top-selling sports paper Marca, superimposed on a photograph of a football shirt being held up by Mourinho and club president ...
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Barcelona on the frontline in the cancer fight
Cancer has become the leading killer of the elderly in Europe; it is an awful, painful disease that has become something akin to a pandemic. Progress has been made in its diagnosis, and further progress is being made in its treatment, and Barcelona, by hosting the European Breast Cancer Conference, is playing a major part in the sharing of ideas and knowledge to facilitate improvements and new breakthroughs.
The city of Barcelona will play a significant role in the prevention and promotion of awareness of breast cancer when it hosts the annual European Breast Cancer Conference this year. Breast cancer is among the leading killers of women around the world, and although mortality has begun to drop worldwide, and especially in Europe, there is still much progress that can be made. Read more
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