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Publish 16 December 2011 in Barcelona - 7324 views

Messi, nominated for the 3rd consecutive Laureus Award for Best International Athlete

Messi nominated for best male athlete of the year for the third consecutive Messi´s team, FC Barcelona, among the candidates for Best Team of the Year Abidal Award nominee for Best comeback after recovering from cancer The Laureus World Sports Awards will be held in London on February 6

The European champions, Barcelona, and two of their star players, Messi and Abidal have been nominated for the Laureus World Sports Awards (Laureus World Sports Awards) 2012.

Messi, Nominado por 3ra vez consecutiva al Premio Laureus al mejor deportista internacional

Messi, Nominado por 3ra vez consecutiva al Premio Laureus al mejor deportista internacional

Barca is among Laureus Award nominees for Best Team of the Year for the fourth time and Messi has been nominated for the third consecutive Laureus Award for Best International Male Athlete, while the Frenchman Abidal is a candidate for the Laureus Award Best international comeback year after recovering from cancer.

The Spanish golfer Sergio Garcia has also been nominated, along with Abidal, Laureus Award for Best comeback after putting an end to three years without being able to win with victories in two tournaments in a row.

A brilliant constellation of the best stars of the sport has been nominated for the Laureus World Sports Awards 2012, after the vote on the media around the world.

The Laureus World Sports Awards, which recognize sporting achievement of 2011, are the main prizes of the international sporting calendar. The names of the winners, voted by the Laureus World Sports Academy, a team of 47 supreme judges of the best sportsmen and sportswomen of all time, will be announced at a ceremony televised awards from London on Monday 6 of February.

The money raised directly benefits and supports the work of the Charity Foundation Laureus Sport for Good, which supports 89 community projects throughout the world sports. Since its inception, Laureus has raised over 40 million euros for projects that have improved the lives of over a million and half of young people.

In the category of Best Laureus international team of the year, Barcelona will face the New Zealand rugby, the All Blacks winning the Rugby World Cup, the winning team in the NBA, Dallas Mavericks, to the selection English cricket, the world´s No. 1, to the Japanese team that won women´s soccer Women´s World Cup and Formula 1 team Red Bull Formula, winning the constructors championship for the second consecutive year.

Messi will be the hope of becoming the first player in team history to win individual Laureus Award for Best international male athlete of the year. In this category are nominated Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, winner of two gold medals at the World Athletics Championships, the No. 1 tennis Novak Djokovic, winner of three Grand Slams (the Australia Open, Wimbledon, U.S. Open States), the Australian cyclist Cadel Evans, winner of the Tour de France, and German Dirk Nowitzki, the first European player voted MVP of the NBA Finals and Sebastian Vettel, who was proclaimed World Champion Formula 1 for the second time consecutively.

Both Eric Abidal and Sergio Garcia have been nominated for Laureus Award for Best Comeback of the Year International. Despite having been diagnosed with a liver tumor two months ago and being treated for combat, Eric Abidal played 90 minutes of the final against Manchester United in which Barca won the Champions League. In a touching gesture to celebrate his recovery, Carles Puyol handed the captain´s armband for the match and was the first team member to receive the trophy.

In October 2011, the Spanish golfer Sergio Garcia put an end to three years without winning two tournaments wins in a row. Along with Abidal and Garcia, the other nominees are the golfer Darren Clarke of Northern Ireland, who recovered from a slump after the death of his wife and managed to win the Open, the Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang, who won the silver medal in the World Athletics Championships, and the Crusaders and the Reds, two rugby teams that reached the final of the Super 15 despite having to cope with the earthquake in Christchurch and Queensland floods.

The full list of nominees for the Laureus World Sports Awards is:

Best international male athlete of the year

Usain Bolt- - Novak Djokovic - Cadel Evans - Lionel Messi - Dirk Nowitzki - Sebastian Vettel

Best international female athlete of the year

- Vivian Cheruiyot - Maria Riesch - Carmelita Jeter - Petra Kvitova - Homare Sawa - Yani Tseng

Best international team of the year

All Blacks Barcelona Dallas Mavericks England cricket Japanese women´s soccer selection Red Bull

Best International Breakthrough of the Year

- Yohan Blake - Mo Farah - Petra Kvitova - Rory McIlroy - Li Na - Oscar Pistorius

Best international comeback year

- Eric Abidal - Darren Clarke - Crusaders - Sergio Garcia - Liu Xiang - Queensland Reds

Disabled Sportsman of the Year International

- Daniel Dias - Terezinha Guilhermina - Oscar Pistorius - Esther Vergeer - David Weir - Irek Zaripov

Best athlete of the year international winger

- Jamie Bestwick - Philip Köster - Carissa Moore - Travis Rice - Kelly Slater - Shaun White

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Publish 25 May 2009 in Interviews - 125313 views

Messi: Touch vs Speed Who will win?

What party are expected? Looks to London with Chelsea or another?
I guess other than that because the style of Manchester is not Chelsea. I see them waiting at the counter. But not as much as Hiddink's team made in their field. And I hope to suffer less, eh!

Command azulgrana therefore.
Yes, the ball will take us longer. Is what we do and we will. They will try to steal it and leave it at speed because it is the best move: Cristiano and Rooney are very dangerous spaces. Also my friend Carlitos Tevez. They have fireworks and will turn up. We will have to be very careful. The final touch with our measured speed.

Do you play in band or in the middle as he did at the Bernabeu without going any further?
¡Hmmm! Where the coach tells me, ha, ha! We will not explain everything.

But surprises can be at this point?
Not much, really. It is when a player, the spark. We know too well to await developments.

Do we agree that it is the best that can be seen in Europe?
Probably. They are a winning machine. Revalidate the Premier, the defending Champions. My team played some of the best footballers in the world and in the United ... too.

It goes on insisting that the focus is on you and Cristiano Ronaldo. How do people live such a compromise?
The event is unique, it's motivation, anxiety ... It is clear that the game is special, but not for him and for myself but for everyone. It is said that the finals are to win, not who is going to decide. Send the team, in our case starting Valdés.

That was the key against Arsenal in the final in Paris.
In effect. Victor was fantastic compared to Arsenal ... goal and the victory marked him Belletti. That confirms what he said: When the team is not the individuals.

Today we know if Henry and Iniesta are expected throughout the club as a point.
Yes so much that we can and because we already have too many low: Alves, Márquez, Abidal ...

Iniesta no other party would, of course.
Yes, because Andrew is unique.

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Publish 19 February 2008 in Barcelona - 174748 views

Rijkaard could sit on the bench at Celtic Park to Messi

There will be revolution in Celtic Park if Rijkaard gives continuity to the tactic that tested yesterday behind closed doors.

Frank Rijkaard used yesterdays training behind closed doors to rehearse tactics without Leo Messi as the holder for the party tomorrow at Celtic Park. The body of technical Barcelona is assessing the possibility of submitting an alignment in Glasgow with more troops in the center of the field and ensure that the possession of the ball bearing in mind that always subtracted 90 minutes per play at the Camp Nou.

The alternative cover for the possible absence of Messi would be among the return to the team Iniesta, who was an alternate and did not dispute any time in the match last Saturday in Zaragoza or dotrar much more muscle to the team and give input to Eidur Gudjohnsen , as a surprise. Significantly, when Barcelona visited Glasgow last November to face the Rangers, and was the Icelandic player was used as a tool to compensate for the thrust of the British.

Messi, neither has been very lucid in recent matches of the Barcelona as a visitor and there has been some depletion of the Argentine, who since returning from his injury has not had an opportunity to make a gradual integration team. Proof of this is that it has been replaced in the final leg of the last meetings of Barcelona.

Therefore, if the tests conducted behind closed doors yesterday were satisfactory, Barcelona could appear at Celtic Park with a pattern more similar to 4-4-2 to 4-3-3 that when the front would be formed by Thierry Henry and Samuel Etoo, who thus returns to the team owner after his participation in the African Cup of Nations.

For the first time in a long time, Frank Rijkaard go to a meeting with the vast majority of their troops available, which increases the possible alignments. The fact that the meeting tomorrow will be the first act of an eliminatory scheduled to return merely increase the uncertainty concerning the possible team that could present the technician Dutch.

It seems certain that the defense, how well is carburando, is not going to vary. Valdes is untouchable as a goalkeeper in front of you will be aligned Puyol, Milito, Marquez and Abidal. A solid defence that can cope with the ordeal he intends to submit to the Celtic blaugrana through the air balls.

In this aspect of the game will be fundamental physical Yaya Toure in the centre of the field. When African fichó him to the stature in Europe and put Barcelona in the physical level of the great European teams.

The accompanying Yaya Toure depend largely on whether the evidence yesterday of a Barça without Leo Messi proved entirely satisfactory.

The substitution of Iniesta in La Romareda may suggest that Rijkaard thought in reserve to come to Scotland rested. If Rijkaard finally chooses to align four centrocampistas Deco and Xavi seems that they have more numbers, unless Guddy return to the team owner, rather than Deco.

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Publish 19 September 2007 in Barcelona - 235819 views

Attack of luxury with Leo Messi

En its debut in Liga de Campeones, the Barça cannot as opposed to be allowed the minimum slip a Olympique in forma

The Barça recovers for its opening in Liga de Campeones 2007-08 to the best attack of the one than it can arrange at the moment. Recovered Lionel Messi of his annoyances, the Argentinean will return to the end of attack next to Ronaldinho de Assis and Thierry Henry.

After the 0-0 in Pamplona, second in three days of League, the preoccupation of the liking around the equipment has gone off because the slips have arrived as opposed to equipment that by potential is clearly inferior to the Barça. Still it has worried plus the lack of powder far from the Camp Nou then, in spite of the losses of Samuel Eto´o and Leo Messi, the potential of the equipment is very great.

Frank Rijkaard and his players have an excellent opportunity tonight to clear these doubts. He is more, are forced to settle them because they receive to the Olympique de Lyon in the Champions and they cannot commit the minimum error. In a so demanding competition and with a so complicated group, he is forced to gain the three parties of the Camp Nou not to have difficulties and to make sure a seat in the eighth end.

For that reason it is so important that Messi has arrived in time for the duel from tonight. The Argentinean has marked to two goals in his twelve appearances in Europe, last the specially important one because he was the one that the last year was worth the tie in field of the Werder Bremen in the final straight line of the encounter.

Their two companions of attack have expanded trajectories in Europe more. Ronaldinho in the last led to the Barça years in the continental competitions, specially until the success in the end of Paris of the 2006. And in the case of Henry, we spoke more of an artilleryman than credited with 42 so many in the Maxima competition.

The Barça will present/display another newness in the axis of the defense. Márquez returns to form a tandem until now unpublished next to Gaby Milito. Zambrotta and Abidal will follow in the bands. Rijkaard also will have to choose, once again, two of three to accompany to Touré in the average. In theory it touched the rotation to him to Deco and to play Xavi and Iniesta but does not seem easy that Rijkaard does without him in an European duel.

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jhonny: hola messi :laugh:

tania: jajajajaja
Toni: Para los que extrañaban al goleador, ya está de regreso.
Felix: Así es Lio, bien.. a seguir ganando puntos.
JAVI IÑESTA: HOLA,SOY LA MAMA DE JAVIER DE CINCO AÑOS. MI HIJO ADORA A MESSI Y A INIESTA. POR DESGRACIA TENEMOS QUE HACER DESAPARECER SU PIE, PARA QUE ASI CAM ...
Ignacio: Vamos mi barcelona a dejar todo el esfuerzo en la cancha
Miguel: Esperemos que se de un resultado en contra del Madrid para acortar distancias.. lo necesitamos.
Margareth: Es Mio yo lo vi primero, así que Fuchi.. ji ji
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