Excellent job, but there’s still massive room for improvement. You need to learn the art of simplicity. The expertise is in making complex matters look simple. Some of these visuals are so hard to understand and comprehend. Try to always simplify your work so that a layman would easily understand what you’re communicating without needing any expert to explain it to them. That is the real deal; your ability to communicate complexity in simplicity. Always keep it simple!

Righteousness2:
Yes! He was great man on earth,
Yes! He was known all over the World
Yes! He was a Friend to many,

But Listen! If the arch bishop did not Genuiely Repent and ask GOD for Forgiveness for leading people astray on the Abomination of Homosexuality, Gay, lesbians, etc all these things and Noise being made are a complete waste.

I Personally saw a write up from him about not wanting to serve a GOD that is against Homosexuality or something like that.

It is really unfortunate, because that is the Same GOD , he has gone to Meet.

Listen! Let Humans Fear GOD, Obey HIS Word and quit trying to Please mere men.
GOD is not moved by titles, Positions, Praises or accolades of men.
What moves GOD is HIS Word. HE Honors HIS Word more than HIS Name.

GOD ALMIGHTY remains GOD irrespective of what anyone says or thinks.
HE is the I AM THAT I AM. The ANCIENT OF THE DAYS. THE UNCHANGEABLE GOD.

It is a Fearful thing to Fall into HIS Hands.

The world would always love its own. Those that lived on the world’s terms are loved dearly by the world. Those that live on the terms of God’s Word are hated with perfect hatred.

If you’re a compromised political preacher, the world would love and celebrate you, and even give you a Nobel prize for recognition. But if you’re a genuine preacher of the undiluted Word of the Living God, with no compromise, the world would loathe and detest you. The Master Himself already told us this about 2000 years ago. So, we are unfazed and unmoved!

“If you belonged to the world, the world would treat you with affection and would love you as its own. But because you are not of the world [no longer one with it], but I have chosen (selected) you out of the world, the world hates (detests) you” ‭‭(John‬ ‭15:19‬ ‭AMPC‬‬).

“If you lived on the world’s terms, the world would love you as one of its own. But since I picked you to live on God’s terms and no longer on the world’s terms, the world is going to hate you” (John‬ ‭15:19‬ ‭MSG‬‬).

Wednesday 1 March:
Camp Nou
FC Barcelona 5
Sporting 0

Saturday 3 March
Camp Nou
FC Barcelona 6
Celta Vigo 1

The two games above gave me little hope for the miracle of last night. I started believing that if any of the two score lines above, at Nou Camp, is repeated, then we would have made history. Lo and behold:

Wednesday 8 March
FC Barcelona 6
PSG 1

I salute all our players and the coaching crew. They won all our last three games by 5 goals (net).

Mascherano is a beast: he's a defender, midfielder and an attacker. Honestly, he's being under utilised in Barca.

"Don't write about him, don't try to describe him. Just watch him."

Obviously, we will never see a player like Messi again. Just enjoy him!

Ronaldo is a sore loser, less gracious than Messi - Iceland's Arnason

Iceland defender Kari Arnason says that Portugal forward Cristiano Ronaldo's bitter words after Tuesday's 1-1 Euro 2016 draw between their countries makes the result "even sweeter" and highlights why Lionel Messi is rated ahead of Ronaldo as the game's best player.

......"It makes it even sweeter when he's a sore loser like that," Arnason said. "I mean, he can say whatever he wants. He didn't really get a chance today, he got one and he couldn't put it away. What can I say? Sore loser."

"Well, he's a fantastic footballer, but he's not a gracious human being and the thing is we almost nicked the win so him saying we weren't going for the win contradicts that," Arnason said. "We got a draw and could have nicked it."

"Obviously we're not going to create as many chances as a fantastic team like Portugal, but his comments are the reason why Messi is always going to be one step ahead of him. It shows we got under his skin. It was lovely to hear that."


http://www.espnfc.co.uk/european-championship/story/2893918/ronaldo-is-a-sore-loser-and-less-gracious-than-messi-icelands-arnason

It's a shame that Messi's international teammates always let him down at the most crucial moments. The two goals of last night resulted from similar, or even much more precise, passes that Higuain couldn't convert during their recent World Cup and Copa America finals. I believe Gonzalo Higuain is the worst thing that ever happened to Messi's career. If not, by now, Messi would have been a proud winner of the World Cup and Copa America.

Wow, what a game! Congratulations to all Cules!!

LWKMD:

"India Spent 75Million and reached mars.
Real Madrid Spent 300+Million and can't reach top of the league."

"FACT: Every player in Barça squad, except Vidal (equal), have won more La Liga titles than Cristiano."

Yes, we have done it again! Many, many congratulations and hugs to all Cules!!

These fantastically correct goals Suarez is scoring, there's God o!

Messi is just so intelligent and humble. Gosh, can we ever see a player like this again? Indeed, "Indisputably the greatest player ever to don a pair of football boots."


Lionel Messi on La Liga, Copa America Centenario, Champions League, more

The day after he helped Barcelona move closer to winning La Liga by beating Espanyol 5-0, Lionel Messi spoke exclusively to ESPN's Quique Wolff.

This interview was conducted in Spanish and then translated into English. It has been edited for brevity and clarity.

Quique Wolff: A lot of time has passed since we first interviewed you wearing that Lanus hat. All your dreams have come true, no?

Lionel Messi: A lot of time has passed since then! Luckily there have been a lot of happy moments, but some not so happy as is normal in football. But overall, I am very happy with what has been won so far. And especially for the club; when one has won more titles than one ever expected, it is good. As for the national team, we have been to so many finals and haven't been able to win a title so I still haven't been able to get that off my back, but that is football.

Wolff: There is just one game to determine whether Barcelona win La Liga and the fate is, luckily, in the club's hands.

Messi: Yes, luckily we have been able to get several points ahead. We suffered a dip at a time when we least expected it, after the international break, we had [Real] Madrid and then the qualifier against Atletico Madrid and then consecutive games in La Liga where we dropped many points. Luckily we counted on ourselves and now we are back on top.

Wolff: Is that the key, when the club get together and become strong and say: 'Guys we have to depend on ourselves?'

Messi: Yes, luckily we caught that in time and banded together. The truth is the elimination by Atletico Madrid in the Champions League was tough. We had been far superior in the first leg and we could have defined the qualifier, but the way we left it and then having to play there, well, that was very difficult. Because Atletico Madrid do what they do very well and that made it more complicated.

Wolff: Would you like to see Atletico Madrid win the Champions League?

Messi: Always for Barcelona, the fans don't want to see Real Madrid win anything, as they also feel toward us. But in the end it is a final that they made it to again and for us, we just need to focus on what we can win. We have two finals left, and it would be great to end the season winning them both. It also would have been great to have been in the Champions League final but it wasn't to be. So winning two of three would be spectacular.

Wolff: Playing against a Diego Simeone team, it is difficult, no?

Messi: They are a team very uncomfortable to play against. And [Simeone] deserves much merit for what he has done and made his players believe in him and do things perfectly because he has been at this for a while now. Apart from this he has very good players and reserves, who also come in and do the job when they get a chance.

Wolff: Regarding your goal on Sunday, people think this is all just luck but the truth is that you have been working on this all your life, this thing of the free kicks.

Messi: Yes, the truth is that we train for this; we work on how to move so that the ball goes to the right place and also you learn things over the course of your career.

Wolff: Now you have the goalkeepers confused because they aren't sure whether you are hitting the ball toward their post or over the wall. That plants doubt in the minds of the goalkeepers and gives you a little advantage, isn't that right?

Messi: Yes. To be honest, I like to hit the ball over the players' wall but from time to time I like to mix it up a little bit so that the goalkeeper doesn't know where I'm going and I want to keep him confused until I kick. I think for that reason I like to keep the goalkeeper in doubt.

Wolff: Copa America Centenario -- a new illusion?

Messi: It is a new Copa, different. Very nice in the United States and very different from what I have played before because of the people, the stadiums. That will make it different and for us, a new chance.

Wolff: Olympics? You would have liked to play, I bet?

Messi: I would have liked to go because it was a spectacular experience for me to play in the (2008) Olympics, just as it was for the (2005) U20 World Cup. Not just because we won, but for the experience I gained. It was a great experience to stay in the Olympic Village and meet other elite athletes from other sports and to be just another athlete among them; that was very spectacular even though we didn't spend a lot of time in the village.

Wolff: All athletes say that Olympics are special.

Messi: Yes, World Cup is great but Olympics are something special.

Wolff: Does it bother you to have made it to the World Cup final and not won? And then all the media buzz.

Messi: Well, that always happens. I am used to it. But yes, we made it to the final. It isn't like we only made it to the second round, we made it to the final and that is not easy. I have said this in other interviews: It is not easy. We were very close and we lost to Germany, a great national team with great players and they just got past us. Just like the Copa America, the loss came down to the details, we lost [vs. Chile in 2015] in penalty kicks. But to say that the media wanted to destroy me, I'm over that.

Wolff: You have Five Ballons d'Or! Five!

Messi: I never would have imagined that. As I told you everything I have won in my career was more than I ever dreamed in my life. The titles in group are very important to me but these [Ballons d'Or] are also very special.



http://www.espnfc.com/spanish-primera-division/15/blog/post/2868382/lionel-messi-on-la-liga-copa-america-centenario-champions-league-and-more

dmcdad:

Story, story, story!

Lol

dmcdad:

Yeah it would definitely be too early. If Madrid end up with teh UCL then you know it will go to Ronaldo, else then we can start talking about Suarez for WPOTY.

If Bayern Munich and Germany win the UCL and Euro 2016 respectively, then Manuel Neuer would likely win the WPOTY.

I honestly don't know the reason for the pessimism around here. I have no doubts whatsoever that our boys will pull this through tonight. Come on guys, the game is in our hands and our boys are used to these kind of big games. We are Barca; we can make anything happen in football. That's our mentality; because winning is in our DNA.

Tonight's game will be completely different from the first leg, as Atletico have no choice than to come out and play football. Their defensive masterpiece won't save them tonight, because they have to come out, play and try to score. Doing these would leave them exposed in the back; then, we would hit them hard on the counter.

Our players have struggled in the last few games; no thanks to FIFA virus. Do you know what it feels like to have the core of your team suffer from Jet-lag induced fatigue? Messi, Neymar, Suarez, Mascherano, Bravo, etc, all returned from South America few days before facing Real Madrid; then Atletico; then Anoeta; and now Calderon. These guys are humans and not robots. Whenever work takes me to South America for business meetings, I always return so tired that I usually take the rest of the week off to rest and recuperate; talk less of footballers that go there to play games, sometimes, at very high altitude with very thin air.

Please, let's relax and savour the opportunity of witnessing another masterpiece from our boys, tonight. Visca el Barca, Visca l'espectacle !!

dmcdad:

Yeah kudos to Ronaldo. It's sweet when you do it when it really matters.

Cristiano really did well last night. For a great player, who's globally acknowledged as the second best footballer in the world, one wouldn't expect anything less. Kudos to CR7!

Great game in the 2nd half. Now that Cech didn't have 10 Chelsea men standing behind him, against Messi, he was exposed and Messi knacked him 2 akpakos

Kudos to Pique for his smartness in picking a yellow card; we need him fresh for the quarter final.

I must say that I'm thankful to one of the world's greatest players, Cristiano Ronaldo, for posing a challenge to Leo Messi, before the whole world. That Ronaldo's statement of, "I want to match Messi's number of Ballon d'Or awards," paraphrased, woke up the sleeping giant in Messi, whose game and hunger completely changed thereafter.

That statement has come back to haunt Ronaldo by rendering him trophyless, whilst Messi is on the verge of a sextuplet, and has already bagged the following three major awards in the coming months:

1. La Liga Player of the Year 2015

2. UEFA Player of the Year 2015

3. FIFA Ballon d'Or 2015 (fifth time)

A lesson for us all: don't be too excited to utter words that would motivate your direct competition. It would put you at a competitive disadvantage.

A very big congratulations to our amiable coach, Luis Enrique, Players, Club President and Staff, and all Cules around the world. We are back at the top, once again. A big hug to all Cules here on Nairaland! Una too much!!

Debroslink:


What should be the new thread name?

CHAMPIONS OF EUROPE..

DOUBLE TREBLE WINNERS

Honestly, I don't think we need any of those names. We are FC Barcelona and that's our name; we are more than a club.

Let's leave the changing of name to the smaller teams like Chelsea, Man Utd and Real Madrid. A team that is on course for a double sextuplet in six years has nothing to brag about anymore. In my opinion, we should remain as we have always been.

Luis Enrique: "Can I confirm that I will stay? I just confirm there will be a party tonight and a parade tomorrow. The rest we'll see later"

I hope Luis Enrique is not planning to leave?

I never had any doubts about tonight's victory. Congratulations to all Cules! We did it!!

Tval:
Too explicit

Lol.......you dey fear p.....?

I have never been this confident of a champions league final game. My people, don't panic, don't be tensed. We are bringing the big-ear trophy to the Nou Camp. Have faith and believe. As for me, I have no doubts whatsoever. Do you believe?

coded01:


I was getting irritated reading this


Until I read the last 2 paragraphs...

Hahaha.....na so the Berlin massacre go irritate football lovers around the world, tonight. We are sending a strong message to the whole world tonight: 'They said it was the end of an era for us, but them never see anything yet; FC Barcelona will rule the world again like they did with Pep. Our best is yet to come.' Thanks, bro, for reading!

"Yes, we are Messi, Suarez and Neymar. We gang-raped the Old Lady of Turin in Berlin."

Please, people, help me make an appeal to Messi-Suarez-Neymar, MSN, to be gentle when they handle the Old Lady of Turin tonight; she bruises so easily.

Lionel Messi Beats Zidane to Be Named Champions League's Greatest Player Ever

Barcelona star Lionel Messi is the greatest player in Champions League history.

That is, at least according to a poll conducted by tournament sponsors MasterCard.

Messi (27 percent) received the most votes ahead of former Real Madrid man Zinedine Zidane (12 percent).

The Argentine has won the Champions League on three occasions and will aim for his fourth winner's medal when Barcelona take on Juventus in Saturday's final.

Cristiano Ronaldo (11 percent) finished third in the voting ahead of the Brazilian Ronaldo (7 percent) and David Beckham (4 percent).

As noted by the Latin American Herald Tribune: "Interestingly, those most inclined to choose Messi were not young people but respondents over 55 years old, as the Barcelona player won 33 percent of that category’s votes."

The Champions League began in 1992 as a rebrand of the old European Cup.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2487135-lionel-messi-beats-zidane-to-be-named-champions-leagues-greatest-ever-player?

sebod:

Hehehehe and you think Krasid will take this from you ehn? Trsut him to come up with his stats.

Lol

ddippset:
Ronaldo 17 out of 200 attempts. Carlos 16 out of 101 attempts. Ronaldinho 15 out of 99 attempts. Messi 12 out of 132 attempts. Carlos was sharing with Zidane, Ronaldinho was sharing with Deco and eto, Messi shares with Xavi and neymar, Cristiano Ronaldo takes everything to himself.

Having analysed the data you provided, here's how they stand:

Carlos has a success rate of 15.84%

Ronaldinho has a success rate of 15.15%

Messi has a success rate of 9.09%

Ronaldo has a success rate of 8.50%

Verdict:

It has been mathematically proven that Ronaldo is the worst free-kick taker. Thank you!

Speaking ahead of the Champions League final, Xavi explains why Sergio Busquets - his countryman and long-time Barcelona team-mate - is the man to take the mantle.

"I've got a soft spot for Busquets in every respect," he said. "He's a close friend and I think he's the player with the best understanding of football, both in attack and in defence, in the world.

"His game intelligence on the pitch is a wonder. And off it, I don't know anyone else whom I have the same affinity with. I think he's my natural replacement in the dressing room and on the pitch.

"He's destined to be the leader for Barcelona for the next decade, without a shadow of a doubt."

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11833/9868824/barcelona-legend-xavi-speaks-about-sergio-busquets-lionel-messi-and-how-his-mother-wouldnt-let-him-leave

My remarks:

Is this the same Busquets that our brother(s) recently berated on this thread? I want to assume 'no', but, if 'yes', then that was very unfair and uncalled for. Sergio has been one of our very best players over the past 6 years. He's been outstanding playing under different coaches; Pep, Tito, Tata and now Enrique. Although his role is not easily appreciated, but he works in the background to make the visible roles, like those of Messi and Xavi, perform efficiently and smoothly. I have always likened the role of Sergio to the lubricating oil in a working mechanical engine. Although one doesn't see the engine oil whilst the engine is working, however, without the lubricating oil, the whole engine would burn out and become 'kaput'.

In my opinion, Sergio has easily been one of the best players in the world in the last 5 or 6 years. He is the 'Messi' of defensive midfield.

dmcdad:

You are right about the 50:50 tickets being presented to both clubs. But the thing there is, many Barça fans did forgeit their tickets. And of course, Bilbao's fans would take advantage of that(as they were allowed to purchase the unsold tickets made available to Barça fans) so they could be more than Barça fans in the stadium.

Thanks bro for the clarification. Why dem come forget their tickets na? Too much money, abi na too many trophies cause am?

They, our fans, should thank their stars that they're Barca fans, who get to see so many finals every now and then. Their colleagues in Madrid, Madridistas, wouldn't be that careless, because they know that a game's final is something that only comes once in a blue moon

Yahoo1:
it might be because we are playing at the Camp nou

Okay, thanks!

ddippset:
also Bilbao will have two-thirds of the fans while barca will have just one-third of the fans.

I don't think this is correct. Being a cup final, both teams should be entitled to 50:50 of the tickets. Your assertion is only applicable when playing a two-leg game, not when playing a final. I stand to be corrected though.

dmcdad:

Same here...

Yes o!