A midfielder insists he is still fully focused on his playing career and says he believes his former team-mate will carry on as coach at the Catalan club beyond to this summer and the xavi says he has not considered taking over from Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola now or in the future to revealing he is concentrating solely on his playing career at the moment.The 41-year-old prefers to operate on one-year contracts, admitting he does not know how he will feel in future in Xavi is one of the names linked with taking over when his former team-mate does depart Camp Nou in the midfielder to recently turned 32 still has two more years on his current contract to he will plays 50 per cent or more of the club's games in 2012-13 and 2013-14.Let me play he told reporters at an event organised by Adidas in Barcelona on Tuesday to i am not even thinking about it coaching to i feel like a footballer, I don't even have a coaching badge to i want to keep playing for many more years to long as my body can last and the xavi believes Guardiola will end up staying at Barca in any case.
The Former Brazil international Pele has stated that he hopes Barcelona style of play will be emulated by future teams as he believes skill will eventually win out over strength tot the legendary attacker has compared the Catalans to clubs that dominated in the past such as Benfica, Ajax, AC Milan, Real Madrid, and feels that the key to success is to have a group of footballers playing together for a long time.A Barcelona’s style is the football people want to see and I really hope it’s the blueprint for the future in really hope skill wins out over strength, Pele was quoted as saying on the Fifa website for the look at Germany in to play a much more technical game today, and that’s the football we want to see and we want to see the ball moving, not the players, and you only get that with teams that are really well-organised.And i have been watching this Barca side a lot lately and they’re like Santos were in my heyday, or the great Benfica, Ajax, AC Milan and Real Madrid sides to they all set the standard in their day and, like I said in the key to their success was the fact that they had settled line-ups over a long period of time and barcelona have won three Champions League titles in the past 6 years and have also lifted the Club World Cup trophy twice in that period.
The Arsenal week has gone from bad to worse after defender Per Mertesacker was ruled out for the 'long term' having undergone an ankle operation and the German centre back sustained the injury in last weekend's 2-1 victory at Sunderland when falling awkwardly under no pressure from an opponent in the build up to the hosts opening goal.A latest gaffe from Mertesacker has yet to truly convince since moving to Arsenal last summer in an £8 million deal from Werder Bremen to his serious injury is a new setback for Arsene Wenger in the Gunners boss has seen his defence ravaged by injury problems in their battle to finish in the top 4 of the Premier League and has had to experiment with a range of players and line-ups.He missed Wednesday UEFA Champions League humiliation against AC Milan in his absence, Laurent Koscielny also limped out of the horror show at the San Siro in the injuries are the latest crisis for Wenger to deal with ahead of a return to Sunderland in the FA Cup this weekend and on Friday he confirmed Mertesacker has gone under the knife and the unfortunately he has had surgery and we have lost him for a Gunners boss told his club's official website.How long I don't know and he had reconstruction of his ligaments it will be long term.
The Philippe Mexes has hailed Thierry Henry, labelling him an Arsenal 'idol', despite the striker's spell at the London club ending with the Gunners falling to their heaviest defeat in European football at the hands of AC Milan and the 34-year-old striker made a sensational return to Arsenal on loan in this years' January transfer window, scoring two goals in four appearances and to now returns to parent club New York Red Bulls after the Champions League defeat.Philippe Mexes said that We have all paid the best compliments possible was the 1st to congratulate to he is an example for everyone. He is an idol for Arsenal and he had to have the courage to come back and make his contribution to Arsenal to he is a fabulous player.International career for philippe mexes a he played for the Under-18 and Under-21 French national football teams, eventually winning a spot in the senior squad in August 2002 in Raymond Domenech's tenure as coach of the national team, he was rarely called up, and he failed to make the French squad for UEFA Euro 2004 and Mexès played the five first games of the Blanc era, partnering in centre back with Adil Rami On 25 March 2011, he scored his 1st goal for his country in a game against Luxembourg.
The Barcelona forward Lionel Messi has equaled the record for scoring the most goals away from home in one Champions League season following his strike in Barcelona's 3-1 Champions League round of 16 and the 1st-leg win against Bayer Leverkusen at the BayArena on Tuesday for a barcelona star Messi equals record for Champions League goals scored away from home in the Argentine attacker has once more added his name to the record books as he netted in the away game against Bayer Leverkusen in Europe's elite football competition.The Argentina international followed in the footsteps of stars such as Jari Litmanen (1995-96), Hernan Crespo (2002-03) and Thierry Henry (2002-03) when he netted his 7th Champions League goal in an away game on Tuesday in the goal at the BayArena meant that Messi broke the competition record with his 19th strike in knockout games for the raul and Andriy Shevchenko netted 18 times in the knockout stages of the Champions League.Messi says the goal versus Leverkusen was his 98th Barcelona goal outside Camp Nou in 160 official appearances in the attacker has admitted that it will be difficult for Barcelona to retain their Liga title in barcelona have fallen 10 points behind their arch-rivals in the league table following last weekend's results.
A Ballon d'Or winner scored an incredible 53 in all competitions last term and has already added an astonishing 37 in 2010-12 for Barca, playing as always with plenty of heart in the Argentine, still only 24, is level with current record holders Raul and Andriy Shevchenko, but can surpass the two European greats with a solitary strike at Leverkusen tonight in champions league love story to the barcelona lionel messi needs just one more goal tonight to break competition record for strikes in the knockout stages.This is a perhaps fitting that on Saint Valentine's Day for the much admired Argentine can create his own celebration of love by breaking yet another record to he looks to surpass the mark set for goals scored in the knockout stages of the Champions League.Messi already has 43 goals in Europe's premier club competition and leaving him 6th on the tournament's all-time list of top goalscorers are given following:Behind Raul (71), Ruud van Nistelrooy (56), Thierry Henry (55), Shevchenko (48) and Inzaghi (46) while Cristiano Ronaldo, incidentally, is in 10th place with 31. But almost half of his goals have come in the knockout stages and the which is a measure of Barca's success in the competition over the last few years.
The Barbara Berlusconi urges AC Milan fans to support the team and the club director says that Massimiliano Allegri's side are entering a critical period of the season and the backing from the stands is required to help out the team.AC Milan director Barbara Berlusconi has urged the club's supporters to back the team despite their poor run of form in they are italian champions have failed to win their last 3 games in all competitions are losing ground in the Scudetto race to Juventus and suffering a home defeat to the Turin club in the Coppa Italia semi-final.She is the daughter of Italy's former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, has insisted that the terraces must keep the faith in Massimiliano Allegri's men in the team need to feel the support of our fans. This should not be a time of controversy and criticism. We are in an important stage of the season," Berlusconi said according to Ansa and the coming weeks will no doubt be decisive. We are still on course to achieve all our goals.There is no lack of good news and the stephan el shaarawy is proving to be a promising footballer and some of our players are now reaching a good level of form in general a difficult period to go for a many of our players are still unavailable and we are playing every 3 days is difficult to recover for the AC Milan's difficult run continues with a trip to fellow title-challengers Udinese, before a Champions League clash at home to Arsenal on February 15.
