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BarcaBlood:
Amazing it is. We're making more history this season by defending d champions league

BarcaBlood:
The FC Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu
revealed that in Monaco there was a “great Barça
atmosphere”. The tribute to the Club for its five
Champions League wins with the presence of Andoni
Zubizarreta, Juliano Belletti, Carles Puyol, Éric
Abidal and Andrés Iniesta , the awards of UEFA
Best Player in Europe and Best Goal of the
Champions League for Leo Messi and the award for
Save of the Season for Ter Stegen meant there was a
blaugrana tinge to proceedings at the draw.
“I am very happy. UEFA have paid tribute to Barça
and its fans, something we have been working and
fighting towards for a long time. It’s ten years now
that we have been at the forefront of European
Football and to receive recognition for that is very
satisfying,” declared Bartomeu.
The Barça president also gave his thoughts on the
draw that saw Barça placed in Group E alongside
Bayer Leverkusen, AS Roma and BATE Borisov: “It’s
fine, it is an interesting group for Barça fans.”
Nevertheless, he added that “nothing is easy” and
that “it will be hard work” to get through to the knock
out stages of the Champions League.
UEFA paid tribute on Thursday to FC Barcelona’s five
victories in the Champions League. During the gala
for the draw for the group stage of this season’s
competition in which Leo Messi was also awarded
the prize for Best Player of the Year, there was
recognition for the Club as they now have earned the
UEFA ‘Badge of Honour’, awarded to teams who have
won the competition on five separate occasions or
three consecutive occasions.


There was a Barça representative for each of the
trophies won: Juliano Belletti, Carles Puyol, Éric
Abidal and Andrés Iniesta, the latter taking the stage
with the famous trophy following on from the
blaugranes’ most recent win in 2015. The other four
representatives played a part in the draw for the
group phase of the 2015/16 competition.


Of the five win in the Champions League, a total of
four have been won in the last decade. Since 2006,
FC Barcelona have been the dominant force in
European Football. Aside from those four victories in
the continent’s most important club competition, a
total of three European Super Cups and two World
Club Cups have to be added. In total, nine trophies in
ten years, their nearest rival Sevilla have won five in
that time.

In their recent UEFA Super Cup victory in Tbilisi over
Sevilla, FC Barcelona wore a logo on their left sleeve
in honour of their five Champions League successes.

bykebyke:
Guy abeg,slow down small.

bykebyke:
Mehn...Messi won this award with a lot of votes sha oo

http://www.uefa.org/uefa-best-player-award/season=2015/index.html

dmcdad:
Ohh you mean the lob match.

dmcdad:
Yeah... Its only fair to say our group is relatively easy. I mean, one couldn't have asked for an easier group.

onuwaje:
[size=50pt]Happy birthday to me[/size]

Businessnaija:
look well, they truely kissed....

UrennaNkoli:
Comm shield no be trophy abeg.

mencade4:
make i help u carry some seats na.

UniqueGem:
Fowlcow have taken over the offside mantle while a search party have been dispatched to find Ikedia.

naijadeyhia:
What many of you do not realise is that mourinho is a tactician and hates being predictable. He is obviously trying out something new in this match and has seen all that he needs to see in the first half. Now watch him make reforms in the second half...and arsenal just might put in an own goal due to pressure from Chelsea and Chelsea will gladly accept that and tap in 1 or 2 more goals just for the fun of it.

Awesome01:
Wipe or no wipe, they won and won't allow us hear word o.

Their fans no dey care whether na preseason friendly or not. All they want is bragging rights.

dmcdad:
I am very much satisfied with the team's display thus far. The team has been playing well, even without some key players. If you watch our games against Man Utd and Chelsea, then you would know that we are good to go.

Of course these games are pre-season friendlies one would say. But, they go a long way in showing what our team is capable of. We played Chelsea's arguably best 11 with half our starters and showed them what we were capable of with or without the likes of Messi and co.

Aside some few mistakes and inconsistencies here and there, I will join Lucho to say we are doing great. Really sorry for Lord Douglas. His game is really improving, and I would have loved to see him play more, thereby, giving him more confidence and morale boost. Well, it's a good thing Sergi Roberto is making himself useful somewhere other than his preferred position in midfield. Glad he could play just about anywhere he is asked to and do it with aplomb.

Overall, our pre-season has been good. Of course there is always room for improvements.