FC Barcelona expands US presence

The Spanish squad has announced and expansion in his projects in United State with a partnership with ISL Futbol. Thanks to this agreement, ISL Futbol and his new partner FCBEscola Florida will start to host soccer training camps in some North American cities.

FCBEscola is the soccer academy following the Barcelona model and aimed to boys and girls between 6 and 11 years.

They teach the boys and girls the basic concepts of soccer while teaching them the representative values of FC Barcelona such as tolerance, respect, solidarity, integration, effort and happiness. This concepts will allow the players to be able to deal with their sporting challenges in the future.

FCBEscola uses the same training methods as by the youth teams of the club, with exercises adapted to each training level or stage.

Coaches from the youth academy will travel to each city to teach this methodology that players such, Xavi, Andres Iniesta or Lionel Mess have learned.

Director Xavier Marcé said that he is delighted to view and be part of such a fast growing soccer community in America and that they will try to have a big impact on players development.

The camps will be held in Charlotte, Raleigh, Cincinnati and Virginia.

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Athletic Bilbao 2, Barcelona 5

Barcelona won, once again, their last La Liga match over a 10 men Athletic Bilbao on Sunday, with a  5-2 victory at San Mames and closed the gap with La Liga leaders Real Madrid to just one point.

The Catalans scored their first goal just 15 minutes after the start of the match, thanks again to an inspired Lionel Messi. Messi free Kick just outside of the box was deflected by Bilbao wall and wrong footed the goalkeeper.

Just eleven minutes later, Luis Suarez doubled the lead and again Messi out on the right received the ball after a usual stylish build for Barcelona and then the Argentinian laid the ball to Suarez who fired from outside of the box.

Fifteen minutes into the second half, Bilbao scored their first goal through Mikel Rico after a first save for Barcelona goalkeeper, and this started a crazy seven minutes of goal scoring action.

Two minutes after Bilbao’s score, Barcelona regained their two goal advantage through De Marcos own goal, Messi diverted a cross back across goal and the ball hit the chest of De Marcos.

Then Neymar scored the fourth just three minutes later with a typical move, Messi played the ball across the box to Neymar and he made no mistake. And Bilbao just two minutes after Neymar score was able to decrease Barcelona advantage thanks to Aduriz, beating Claudio Bravo and ending a goal period.

But the game was over just fifteen minutes before the end when Xavier Etxeita saw a deserved red card after stopping Luis Suarez at the center of the pitch.

But The Catalans still were able to score another goal, a sublime Messi jiggled at the 18 yard box and played to Sergio Busquets who then put the ball in Pedro’s feet who completed the scoring.

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Barcelona back in style

Early this January, Barcelona had a great deal of criticism after their defeat against Real Sociedad, but Luis Enrique has been able to turn the situation around and their last victory over Villarreal has extended the current streak to an impressive eight consecutive victories.

Most likely the change in Luis Enrique rotation policy has made the difference, after 28 different line-ups in the same number of matches.

While still there is a lot of work and tweaks to make, all the fans now know that the preferred starting eleven has a front line formed with Neymar, Mess and Suarez, a middle triangle with Andres Iniesta and Rakitic in front of Sergio Busquets, Alves and Alba as fullbacks and Mascherano and Pique at the heart of the defense; finally there is no doubt about the goalkeeper where Claudio Bravo has earned that position.

With all the minutes for this men, this is helping to tune up the game and put into play some tactical mechanisms and allowing individuals to bring their full potential in the pitch and bring the very best out of each other.

This was clearly seen in their last match against Villarreal and the team was able to work as a unit to overcome the visitors. They were facing a well organized rival and even took the lead twice at Camp Nou, but The Catalans where able to pull through and it was nice to see a team secure of themselves and able to keep the three points in this difficult fixture.

Two of the most notable players in 2015 have been Messi and Neymar and their contribution to the majority of the goals after the winter break. Their connection is growing week after week and are becoming more effective as time go on.

Even with 5 goals, there is a number of fans that are wondering if the 81 million euro payed for Luis Suarez are worth. While he is fighting and has a great generosity and winning attitude, his scoring results are far from what is expected from the last Golden Boot winner. But not everything is lost and the Uruguayan must keep working to regain his former composure as soon as possible.

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