The 32-year-old believes the youngsters coming through will have to be successful soon, as he recalls the “awful” years when the club did not win the league before golden period Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand believes that the impact of success and a winning mentality cannot be underestimated on a young player’s career. With the likes of Phil Jones, Chris Smalling and David de Gea among others, the side is perhaps the club’s least experienced since the class of ’92, [...]
The Catalans led twice, but were pegged back on each occasion by the Brazilian outfit before prevailing in a shoot-out. Thiago and Jonathan dos Santos scored for the Spanish side Barcelona beat Brazilian outfit Internacional to reach the final of the 2011 Audi Cup in Munich on Tuesday evening, following an entertaining 2-2 draw between the two sides. Barca had twice led, in the first half through Thiago Alcantara and in the second period thanks to Jonathan dos Santos, but [...]
Superstars like Kaka and Robin van Persie will sport the new footwear during the 2011-12 campaign, which is the latest in the iconic series launched by the sports brand As the 2011-2012 campaign approaches, adidas have released their new adipower Predator boots which will be worn by some of the world’s top players this coming season. The likes of Xavi, Kaka, Nani, Steven Gerrard and Robin van Persie all took part in the testing in the development of the boots [...]
Barcelona capped off a 0-0 draw against Deportivo La Coruna at the Camp Nou by lifting the league trophy two days after their open-top bus parade, and once they tired of lugging that thing around for the third straight season, the players started throwing red peppers at the fans. Wait, what? Yes, they threw peppers. And why would they ever do that? Well, according to the excellent @BarcaStuff, “‘amb dos pebrots’ (with two peppers) is the Catalan, civilized version of [...]
When football fans are jumping around, screaming, swearing and revelling in the nervous energy of a football match, it is highly unlikely that the psychology of branding is on their minds. They are just as unlikely to be analysing the colour scheme of their club football kits and how it affects the brand identity, but more importantly the performance of the club players. They are likely however to subliminally connect with these colours when they see them in other environments, [...]
Atmosphere “All the players who go to England to play come back saying wonderful things about it (Anfield), the fans, the people. I think I would have liked it.” – Iniesta February 2011 Anfield is legendary for its atmosphere they don’t call it the twelfth man for nothing. If Liverpool do move to a new Stadium despite everyone’s best efforts I’m sure the atmosphere will loose that little magic that Anfield has conjured in countless games throughout the decades. Opposition [...]
