Saturday, July 9, 2011

FC Barcelona Pictures and News

Posted by world's most popular artists at Saturday, July 09, 2011



Experience the glorious past and the vibrant present of FC Barcelona through pictures and news readily available online. Apart from the official club website, exciting and breathtaking FC Barcelona pictures are in abundance in several blogs, news sites, and websites dedicated to the club. Check out the latest FC Barcelona news in the top news sites in the world as well as in the official and other unofficial websites.
Futbol Club Barcelona, nicknamed Barça, is not as much as a football club as it is a Catalan institution. Founded in 1899, it is one of the best Spanish clubs with Real Madrid as its closest rival. At present, it home to other sports teams apart from the football club.
FC Barcelona is said to be the most popular football club in the whole of Europe. Some surveys show that it has a fan base of 44.2 million fans in the football-crazy continent alone. Hence, FC Barcelona news and Barça rumors are in great demand online. Fans are also racing to shoot photos of their beloved club during matches and sell them online. Online buyers are faced with several options.
Track Record
Barça is among the big three Spanish football club. Alongside Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid, it has never been relegated or demoted from the La Liga, the premier league in Spain. All in all, the club has lifted 18 La Liga titles, a record of 24 Spanish Cups, two League Cups, and seven Spanish Super Cups.
In European leagues, FC Barcelona has won four UEFA Cup Winners' Cups, two European Cups, two UEFA Super Cups, and three Inter-Cities Fairs Cups.
Camp Nou
The home stadium of Barça is Camp Nou, also referred to as "Nou Camp." Constructed in 1957, it has witnessed hundreds of football matches against visiting clubs since 1857. Camp Nou is rated by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) as a five-star stadium. It can hold up to 98,772 people and is the biggest European football stadium.
Camp Nou is one of the preferred hosts of UEFA Champions League Finals. The club won their very first game at their new stadium in 1957. They thrashed Legia Warsaw of Germany, 4-2.It was built from 1954 to 1957 and was designed by a group of three architects. The stadium has also been the venue for several major music events.
There are plenty of FC Barcelona pictures with Camp Nou as the background available to fans. They come in colored and black-and-white. Sometimes, the pictures are able to capture the club in their most intense action. There is drama, joy, love, and passion in pictures. You could also easily find group and individual photos.
Latest News
In the most recent Barça news, the club bulldozed Malaga in a pre-weekend La Liga match. The resounding win catapulted the club to the topmost position in the league standings, six points ahead Real Madrid. They are slated to next face Valladolid but their recent triumph over Malaga is bound to boost their spirits prior to their anticipated UEFA Champions League quarterfinal fixture against Germany's Bayern Munich. Browse online for photos and the latest news of the match.

 

A couple days after news broke that Ricky Rubio would be skipping out on the NBA to spend two more seasons in Spain, the 19-year old point guard was introduced by his new team, FC Barcelona, yesterday at a press conference.
“Going to Minnesota would have just complicated my life a lot. It was a risk and I didn’t see it so clearly,” Rubio said. “My priority was the NBA and it was impossible for the Minnesota Timberwolves to pay my buyout clause, so I wanted to stay home.”
He is seen here with Joan Laporta, president of FC Barcelona, one of the best known franchises on the planet.
Rubo comes off a injury-plagued season, but did play 25 games in the Spanish League, and averaged 9.8 points, 5.8 assists and 2.2 steals.
Ballyhooed as a possible number one selection in the 2009 NBA Draft, and frontrunner for the second overall pick, Rubio’s stock dropped as rumors that his buyout with his old club, DKV Joventut, would be difficult to reconcile.
Despite the hype and the great potential in becoming one of those rare franchise players, Rubio fell, and ended up being drafted fifth by the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Over the next few months, the Timberwolves, DKV Joventut, Rubio’s agent, and Ricky Rubio himself would all struggle dealing with the enormous buyout required by his Spanish club.  
DKV would eventually send his rights over to neighboring Barcelona, who agreed to pay $5.3 million to buy out his contract.
Rubio’s new six-year deal allows him to leave Barcelona for the NBA in two years time, but this time without a buyout clause.  So the earliest we will see Ricky Rubio in the NBA? The 2011-2012 NBA season.
The Timberwolves retain Rubio’s NBA rights as long as he continues playing professional basketball.
“I entered the draft with the intention of going to the NBA,” Rubio said Wednesday. “In the end it wasn’t to be.”

 

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