Barcelona

Mata Of Time Till Juan Leaves?

The Huffington Post UK | Samuel Luckhurst | Posted 19.06.2013 | UK Sport

There may be little to like about Chelsea but there is little to dislike about Juan Mata, their outstanding player of last season. Yet for a club whos...

Cash and Rocket Tour, Day Two: Reaching the Right Cannes

Sarah Dean | Posted 16.06.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Sarah Dean

Six hours after setting off from Barcelona Team 6 reached a very sunny Cannes in the south of France. However, not everyone on the Cash and Rocket tour arrived in such good time... One team made it to Cannes swiftly, only it was the Cannes in the north of the country. It was when they started to see signs for Paris that they realised they might have gone awry.

Fàbregas Wants To Stay At Barça

The Huffington Post UK/PA | Posted 11.06.2013 | UK Sport

Barcelona midfielder Cesc Fàbregas wants to overcome the boo-boys and fight for his place at the Camp Nou. The Catalonia native has not enjoyed th...

Pérez Accuses Iniesta And Xavi Of Sour Grapes

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 11.06.2013 | UK Sport

Real Madrid president Florentino Pérez has joined José Mourinho in accusing Barcelona players Xavi and Andrés Iniesta of sour grapes after the pair...

Samuel Luckhurst

How Müller's Barge On Alba Signalled Bayern's Supremacy

HuffingtonPost.com | Samuel Luckhurst | Posted 06.06.2013 | UK Sport

It took three years for the wider world to acknowledge it, but the Bundesliga's rise as the best European domestic league was emphatically announced b...

Neymar Unveiled By Barça At Camp Nou (PICTURES)

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 04.06.2013 | UK Sport

Neymar says he feels like "one of the luckiest men in the world" after the Brazilian committed five years of his career to Barcelona. The 21-year-o...

Tottenham 'Open Talks' With David Villa

The Huffington Post UK | Samuel Luckhurst | Posted 28.05.2013 | UK Sport

David Villa has won it all despite a chequered three seasons with Barcelona and the time has apparently come for him to move to the Premier League. To...

Elies Ortiz: A Pioneer in Social Justice

Lorenzo Belenguer | Posted 27.05.2013 | UK
Lorenzo Belenguer

The Industrial Revolution brought migrants to the cities in search of a better future. They lived in slums in poor conditions. Many men and women, who...

The Stripes Are Back

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 05.06.2013 | UK Sport

Nike are showing signs of recovery after some woeful kits in recent years, and Barcelona's home strip for the 2013-14 season is one of the beneficiari...

Messi And Pelé Films Get Green Light

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 10.05.2013 | UK Sport

Lionel Messi and Pelé will be the subject of two separate films on the footballing legends' lives next year. Messi's life story is set to hit the ...

Planet Appetite: Sustainable Tourism in Catalonia, Spain

Rupert Parker | Posted 03.05.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Rupert Parker

The County of Berguedà in Catalonia, in the foothills of the Pyrenees, is leading the way in Spain in promoting Eco-Tourism - hotels, camping sites and restaurants already sport the EU Ecolabel. Organic food and wine are also on the menu.

Samuel Luckhurst

Sánchez And Fàbregas Signalled The End Of Barça's Dominance

HuffingtonPost.com | Samuel Luckhurst | Posted 02.05.2013 | UK Sport

Barcelona's merciful 3-1 thrashing of Manchester United in 2011, the greatest Champions League final performance since Johan Curyff's Dream Team was d...

Barcelona's Most Embarrassing Night?

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 02.05.2013 | UK Sport

Two clubs with four European Cups apiece, the champions of Germany versus the champions-elect of Spain, yet on May Day it was mayday for Barcelona, wh...

Bayern, Barcelona and the End of an Era in the Champions League?

James Hunt | Posted 25.04.2013 | UK Universities & Education
James Hunt

While this may have heralded the rise of Bayern - although it's worth remembering they reached the final in 2010 and 2012, so it's not exactly as though they've suddenly came from nowhere to usurp Barca's throne - it was not necessarily the 'end' of Barcelona.

Müllered!

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 24.04.2013 | UK Sport

Bayern Munich battered Barcelona in what will be remembered as one of the great Champions League semi-final performances. Goals from Thomas Müller...

Germany Vs Spain

The Huffington Post UK | Samuel Luckhurst | Posted 12.04.2013 | UK Sport

Real Madrid and Barcelona have avoided each other in the Champions League semi-finals, with the Catalans taking on Bayern Munich while Madrid face Bor...

Europe's Most Unlikeable Team?

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 11.04.2013 | UK Sport

Whenever Barcelona are playing and getting the run-around, you can gauge the universal schadenfreude just by a quick trawl through Twitter. Until Lion...

Are Barcelona Really the Best Team Ever?

Matt Clough | Posted 07.06.2013 | UK Sport
Matt Clough

Those same voices who so revelled in the inevitability of the the San Marino rout take it in turns to lavish praise on Barca, to turn to the bottomless well of superlatives and dub them "the greatest side ever". But are they?

Samuel Luckhurst

Beckham Shows He Wasted Five Years In The States

HuffingtonPost.com | Samuel Luckhurst | Posted 03.04.2013 | UK Sport

It may be springtime but Paris sizzled ahead of its team’s rendezvous with one of club football’s greatest sides. The more sophisticated Parisian ...

Adiós? Why Spanish Football May Be About to Implode

Matt Clough | Posted 29.05.2013 | UK Sport
Matt Clough

The upturn in Spanish football's fortunes has been little short of remarkable, having spent most of the '90s enviously watching the seemingly inexhaustible conveyor belt of talent playing in England and Italy. However, two crucial developments in recent weeks have threatened to plunge Spanish football, both at club level and internationally, into an unprecedented disaster.

Messi Has Tattoo Of Son Thiago's Handprints (PICTURES)

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 22.03.2013 | UK Sport

Lionel Messi has had the handprints of baby son Thiago inked onto his calves. The name of his four-month-old son and his overgrown hands no...

In His Place

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 20.03.2013 | UK Sport

As if Arjen Robben didn't have enough to fear about Pep Guardiola arriving at Bayern Munich and instructing him to pass the ball, he will now have to ...

Bayern Munich Draw Juventus In Pick Of The Champions League Draw

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 15.03.2013 | UK Sport

Bayern Munich have drawn Juventus in the stand out draw of the Champions League quarter-finals, with the other marquee clubs kept apart. Málaga dr...

Barça 4-0 AC Milan (PICTURES)

The Huffington Post UK | Samuel Luckhurst | Posted 13.03.2013 | UK Sport

"Good luck seeing a more dramatic match than this one," blurted ITV's beleaguered anchor Adrian Chiles. He had just witnessed Barcelona's 4-0 thumping...

Pictures Of The Day: 13th March 2013

Elliot Wagland, Tahira Mirza, Matthew Tucker | Posted 13.03.2013 | UK

The Huffington Post pictures of the day brings you the very best images from around the world chosen by our own photo editors, Elliot Wagland, Matthew...