Football Field

More popularly called as soccer, the game over the years has become one of the most popular contact sport in the world today. It’s a team game played between two teams of eleven players each and is played on a rectangular grass or artificial turf field and has a goal on each ends. The main objective of the game is to score by tackling the ball into the opponent’s goal and in the meanwhile protect from being scored upon; the one who has been able to maximum goals at the end of the game is said to be the winner. The game has two halves of 45 minute each, and if the score is tied at the end of the match, the game is decided at extra time and penalty shootout. The game knows no boundaries and is played in all the continents be it Argentina and Brazil in South America to Holland and Spain in Europe. The game is followed religiously all around the world and for many nothing is more delightful than to watch the ball passing between the two poles! The game has grown by leaps and bounds in the …

Apparently they have a total of approximately 260 youth players learning their trade here - Ninety percent of them are Spanish and more than 50 percent Catalans. In fact the current Barca team have 12 first team players who have come from the academy. There are several youngsters that had lived at La Masia have gone on to play for the first team, such as Josep “Pep” Guardiola (academy years 1984-90), Ivan De la Pe a (1991-94), Carles Puyol (1994-98), Andres Iniesta (1996-2001), V ctor Valdes (1996-2000) and Lionel Messi (2000-04). Pep was touted as La Masia’s greatest product. A charismatic player who played 43 caps for Spain and won a gold medal at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. He led the club to six La Liga titles, one Champions Cup in 1992 and two Spanish Cups. Puyol, a native Catalunyan, is the club current skipper and heading towards his 250th game for the club. However not all the graduates of La Masia established themselves at Barcelona and some have moved to other clubs to a …

It was believed by many that the Porugal international midfield maestro would be off on his way to Spain’s La Liga, where Real Madrid were expected to be Ronaldo’s third club. Cristiano Ronaldo ended all speculation by stating in a press-conference that he wants to stay with Manchester United, and that he is very happy living in Manchester. It is definitely believed that Ronaldo will go to Madrid in the future, but for now he will have at least one more sseason with United in England. Most people also believe that this will be his last season at Man Utd, with Real Madrid apparently still desperate to sign the young star. Reassuringly to Manchester United’s huge fanbase, Cristiano has gone on and reportedly stated that he sees the next season as being a huge one in the clubs history, and with the likes of Berbatov joining the club he feels that the team can go on to get even more success then last season, perhaps even by claiming another treble - matching the feat made by Sir Alex Ferg …