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...Just as LeBron James in basketball has always measured himself against Michael Jordan, Messi battled the ghost of his compatriot....
...The turnout at Barca’s Camp Nou stadium has been widely heralded as a landmark for women’s football....
...Michael Murray, his prospective son-in-law, is being lined up to replace him....
...Just five years ago, in an Instagram photo, the 18-year-old De Jong and his girlfriend smile from the stands of the Camp Nou stadium: two tourists with tickets to see Barça....
...On Monday it arrived in Venice’s commercial port, crossed the Giudecca canal and entered the former Arsenale shipyard to become an art installation: Christoph Büchel’s project “Barca Nostra”, silent, ghostly...
...Email : michael.peel@ft.com Twitter : @mikepeeljourno Meanwhile in Poland 1....
...Because Rexach had no other paper to hand, Barça gave Messi a contract on a paper napkin....
...That’s the measure of how good Barca were in Rome. In games at this level, some very respected players get found out. It happened to United’s Ji-Sung Park and Michael Carrick, but also to Wayne Rooney....
...Barça have plenty of flair but coach Frank Rijkaard only depends on improvisation as a last resort. Osasuna are fearsomely fit, with Ludovic Delporte and Pierre Webó giving the attack genuine pace....
...Real narrowed the gap between them and Barca to six points with seven games remaining....
...Mention of the fact that he also wrote a book on Barça is relegated to the dust jacket's final line....
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