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- Barca Blaugranes·3d ago·Both·opinion
What is your favorite ever Lionel Messi moment?
MADRID, SPAIN - APRIL 23: Lionel Messi of FC Barcelona celebrates after scoring his team's third goal during the La Liga match between Real Madrid CF and FC Barcelona at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium on April 23, 2017 in Madrid, Spain. (Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images) | Getty Images Lionel Messi was back stealing headlines at World Cup 2026 on Tuesday, scoring as Argentina sealed a memorable comeback win over Egypt to make it through to the quarter-finals of the tournament. The GOAT’s latest goal made it 2-2 for his side before Enzo Fernandez headed home a stoppage-time winner for the defending champions. There was no holding back the tears afterwards as Messi enjoyed yet another special day in his incredible career. At the grand old age of 39, Messi has delivered dozens of memorable moments, particularly in a Barcelona shirt. The GOAT scored countless eye-catching goals, has won everything the game has to offer, broken all kinds of records and dazzled fans throughout the world with his outrageous skill. So today’s Barca Blaugranes Question of the Day is: What is your favorite ever Lionel Messi moment? Now it’s over to you! Feel free to share your thoughts, predictions, opinions and answers in the comments section below!
- Barca Blaugranes·9d ago·Both·opinion
Lamine Yamal names his three favorite players of World Cup 2026 so far
ZAPOPAN, MEXICO - JUNE 26: Lamine Yamal #19 of Spain reacts during the FIFA World Cup 2026 Group H match between Uruguay and Spain at Guadalajara Stadium on June 26, 2026 in Zapopan, Mexico. (Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images) | Getty Images Lamine Yamal has given his verdict on the players that have impressed him most at World Cup 2026 so far. The Barcelona teenager has been watching the action while with the Spain squad and has picked out a few of his favorites. “Yes, I watch it. I watch the whole World Cup. The Netherlands game was more evenly matched, but the Germany game was more of a surprise,” he told Cope. “Of the stars, I am liking Vini a lot. Obviously Messi, and Saibari I think is doing very well in the World Cup. I think he’s a player who plays very good football. Not only scoring goals, but he’s also playing well.” Messi has shone once again for Argentina at the tournament, scoring six goals in three games for the defending champions to lead the Golden Boot standings along with Kylian Mbappe. Ismael Saibari has also impressed for Morocco, scoring the winning penalty to knock out the Netherlands in the Round of 32, and has just been announced as a new Bayern Munich player.
- Barca Blaugranes·16d ago·Both·opinion
The Barcelona Blaugranes World Cup 2026 Top Scorer Predictions Survey – The Results
DALLAS, UNITED STATES - JUNE 22: Lionel Messi of Argentina celebrates the victory during the World Cup match between Argentina v Austria at the Dallas Stadium on June 22, 2026 in Dallas United States (Photo by Rico Brouwer/Soccrates/Getty Images) | Getty Images The race to win the Golden Boot at World Cup 2026 is hotting up with Barcelona legend Lionel Messi leading the way ahead of France superstar Kylian Mbappe and Norway hotshot Erling Haaland. As part of the SB Nation Reacts series, we asked for your opinions on who will finish as the top scorer at the tournament in the USA, Mexico and Canada this summer. And while Lionel Messi may be busy celebrating his 39th birthday today, he’s also the clear winner after scooping 60% of the vote. Mbappe finishes a distant second on 36%, while Haaland, England captain Harry Kane and Spain striker Mikel Oyarzabal may want to look away now. Here are the results in full: Thanks again to everyone who took the time to take part in our survey. There may well be more to follow in the future. This poll and the graphics are sponsored by Fanduel.
- Managing Madrid·33d ago·Both·opinion
What is Beautiful Football?
PORTO, PORTUGAL - DECEMBER 7: Jose Mourinho manager of Chelsea and ex-manager of Porto during the Champions League Group H match between FC Porto and Chelsea at the Estadio Do Dragao on December 7, 2004 in Porto, Portugal. (Photo by Phil Cole/Getty Images) | Getty Images Between 2003 and 2018, in 14 completed seasons, José Mourinho finished outside the top two only twice. He won eight league titles and two Champions League titles. He won the Champions League with Porto and Inter Milan – both teams were deemed to have no right to win it. Mourinho’s career obviously took a steep dive after 2018. But even when he was successful, the verdict on him still hardened into something close to a moral charge – the antichrist – the enemy of the game. As if the winning had cost football something the rest of the sport was quietly guarding. Now he is back at Real Madrid. Which means it is only a matter of time before his methods, and Madrid’s willingness to live by them, get dragged back to the imaginary court of beautiful football for the usual sentence. So who sits on that court, and who gave them the court? Why does the taste of a Barcelona, Manchester City, or post-Klopp Liverpool admirer (fan, journalist, or author) outrank the taste of someone watching in Casablanca, Guadalajara, Buenos Aires, Montreal, or Madrid? By any honest measure, their taste does not outrank anyone’s. But the torchbearers of beautiful football got there first, planted in the press, then in your feed, and the idea seeped in anyway: that one way of playing is simply better than another. Mourinho was once asked which way he preferred to win. He said he just preferred to win. That was the whole answer. Modern football runs on exactly that. Every team plays to win, the match in front of them or the table at the end of it, and how they get there is their business. It stays their business even when they lose. Football exists to entertain the people watching it. There is no gospel that gets to tell a person what entertains them. The Getafe supporter who turns up every week to watch his team hold the ball less than anyone else in LaLiga is no less a fan than the one swooning over Lamine Yamal at Camp Nou or Vinícius Jr. at the Bernabéu. They want something different from the ninety minutes, and nobody appointed the other side to grade them on it. At the heart of this debate is this: the endorsers of winning never questioned the other side. They said, to each their own. The self-proclaimed guardians of beautiful football said, no, it is not to each their own. Only what is ours is true. What makes you content does not exist. What entertains us is the last word on our happiness and your happiness. In his new book The Greatest, Miguel Lourenço Pereira makes a simple point about Real Madrid – the obsession with winning that people call soulless was never soulless. It was survival. Madrid started as one of several clubs in the city, and the ones that didn’t win – didn’t last. Winning is the reason the club exists. A hundred years on, people hold it against the club. They question a club for being good at the exact thing it was built to do, and for doing it more than anyone else in Europe. It has parallels with Mourinho’s story. Mourinho ground through the ranks of Barcelona as the translator of Sir Bobby Robson and Louis Van Gaal. To stop being the translator forever, he had to win. And he won, a lot, before he stopped winning. Maybe he starts winning again now that he is at Real Madrid.
- Barca Blaugranes·33d ago·Both·opinion
‘Politically delusional and legally impossible’ – Expert issues verdict on report Real Madrid want Barcelona stripped of titles and given European ban
MADRID, SPAIN - JUNE 07: Florentino Perez speaks with the media after winning the Real Madrid’s presidential election day at Eurobuilding Hotel on June 07, 2026 in Madrid, Spain. (Photo By Oscar J. Barroso/Europa Press via Getty Images) | Europa Press via Getty Images Miguel Galan – the president of the CENAFE (the National Centre of Football Managers) – has given his verdict on a report from AS that claims Real Madrid want Barcelona stripped of their titles and banned from European football over the Negreira case. The 47-year-old is well-known for taking on the RFEF and notifying the Spanish government of wrong-doing. He’s written dozens of complaints during his career, including denouncing the decision to move the Spanish Supercopa to Saudi Arabia and in response to Luis Rubiales’ forced kiss on Jenni Hermoso. Galan has now issued a lengthy response on X to the report about Madrid sending a dossier to UEFA about Barcelona. He notes how Florentino Perez “is using Article 4 of UEFA’s disciplinary/competition framework as a political and legal lever to pressure for FC Barcelona to be excluded from European competitions over the “Negreira Case.” The CENAFE president runs through the argument, stating that: “In the case of FC Barcelona, neither in criminal proceedings nor in federal or international disciplinary venues has the existence of even a single manipulated match been declared, which leaves without basis the minimum factual prerequisite to activate the ineligibility clause.” Galan continues a little more before concluding that: “Claiming that UEFA strip titles from Barça, besides being politically delusional, is legally impossible due to prescription, lack of competitive typicality, and absence of concrete fixes to support it.”
- Barca Blaugranes·40d ago·Both·opinion
‘This team is going to win it’ – Inigo Martinez confident Barcelona can claim Champions League
KOBE, JAPAN - JULY 27: Iñigo Martínez of FC Barcelona looks on during the preseason friendly between Vissel Kobe and FC Barcelona at Noevir Stadium Kobe on July 27, 2025 in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan. (Photo by Koji Watanabe/Getty Images) | Getty Images Inigo Martinez says he’s confident Barcelona will win the Champions League after making it to the quarter-finals and semi-finals under Hansi Flick. The defender has also given his verdict on Barcelona’s season and has been impressed by how they managed to reel Real Madrid back in earlier in the campaign. “In a year that seemed to be going to be terrible, they have managed to turn it around. This is done by a team that is united to turn it around,” he told Sport. “The Champions League has been a shame because it has a lot of merit to take so many points from Madrid. They have won two titles this year and the Champions League has been missing, but it will come. This team is going to win it.” Martinez was also asked why it’s so hard to win the Champions League and shared his thoughts. “It is a competition that changes a lot,” he added. “Other teams enter the competition, your desire is equal and it depends on the day you have. Against Atlético de Madrid it was very complicated and it was a shame.” PSG beat Arsenal on penalties on Saturday to claim the title for a second straight season, but Barca will be hoping they can improve next season and go all the way.
- Barca Blaugranes·51d ago·Both·opinion
‘He made a mistake’ – Gavi gives his verdict on Fede Valverde and Aurelien Tchouameni’s bust-up at Real Madrid
BARCELONA, SPAIN - MAY 10: Gavi of FC Barcelona in action with Aurelien Tchouameni of Real Madrid CF during the LaLiga EA Sports match between FC Barcelona v Real Madrid at the Camp Nou on May 10, 2026 in Barcelona Spain (Photo by Adria Puig/Anadolu via Getty Images) | Anadolu via Getty Images Gavi has been asked to share his thoughts on the recent bust-up at Real Madrid that featured Fede Valverde and Aurelien Tchouameni reportedly coming to blows on the training ground. The incident happened before El Clasico and saw both players fined by the club. Valverde also had to miss the game due to a head injury, while manager Alvaro Arbeloa did call up Tchouameni for the match. Gavi, who is known for having a short fuse, says that clashes on the training ground aren’t unusual but feels Arbeloa erred by calling up Tchouameni for the match. “I’m one of those who thinks there are always going to be some clashes with your teammates during training at some point during the season, because that’s just how it is, it’s competitiveness, and that’s always good up to a point, obviously,” he told Mundo Deportivo. “But if it comes to blows, then the manager shouldn’t have played him. If it’s true that they came to blows, then in my opinion, he made a mistake calling him up (Tchouaméni) and playing him. But I don’t really know what happened.” The game ended in a 2-0 win for Barcelona that saw the Catalans secure another La Liga title and leave Madrid trophyless once again.