When Barcelona announced in January they had signed Frenkie de Jong from Ajax, the midfielder became the latest in an illustrious pipeline of Dutch imports to the Catalan club.
Since Rinus Michels and Johan Cruyff brought Dutch 'Total Football' to (...)
Barcelona coach Ernesto Valverde is confident new signing Antoine Griezmann will have no problems linking up with strike partners Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez when the trio finally appear in the same team together.
Griezmann, who signed from La Liga (...)
Belgian defender Thomas Vermaelen was announced on Saturday as the fourth former Barcelona player to sign for Japanese side Vissel Kobe.
The 33-year-old joins former Barca players Andres Iniesta, David Villa and Sergi Samper at the club, who are (...)
Spanish great Andres Iniesta will have the strange sensation of playing against his boyhood club Barcelona, where he spent 16 trophy-filled years, in the colors of Japan's Vissel Kobe when the two sides meet on Saturday.
Iniesta, who won 31 trophies (...)
Barcelona's president Josep Maria Bartomeu says the club are working on a plan for when their talismanic forward Lionel Messi finally hangs up his boots.
Barcelona have been very active in the transfer market in recent years, with Bartomeu (...)
ahead fallaway jumper with 7.3 seconds left to give the Los Angeles Lakers a 90-89 victory over Boston Sunday and send the struggling Celtics to their sixth loss in eight games.
The Celtics, who led by 11 points in the fourth quarter, nursed a (...)
Hozumi Hasegawa successfully defended his World Boxing Council (WBC) bantamweight title Friday in the Japanese city of Kobe with a technical knock-out of Alvaro Perez.
The knock-out came two minutes 38 seconds into the fourth round when the (...)
Japan's Hozumi Hasegawa defeated American challenger Nestor Rocha by a technical knockout to retain his World Boxing Council (WBC) bantamweight title on Tuesday.
The knockout came just two minutes and 28 seconds into the first round. It was (...)
pointer over J.R. Smith to give Los Angeles a one-point lead with just over a minute remaining Saturday as the Lakers went on to win 103-97 over the Denver Nuggets for a 2-1 lead in the NBA Western Conference finals.
Bryant, who scored 41 points, (...)
Environment ministers from
rich countries and other major greenhouse gas emitters kicked
off talks on ways to curb emissions and save species as the
United States called for a global fund to develop clean
technologies.
Ministers and their (...)
Environment chiefs from top industrial
countries called Monday for an agreement on cutting
greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2050, declaring that
developed nations should take the lead in battling global
warming, the Associated Press (...)
The risk of AIDS spreading in Asia is higher than ever and there is a danger of an "explosion" of the deadly disease if prevention efforts are not intensified now, the top United Nations AIDS official said on Friday.
One in four new infections (...)
U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan urged the world on Tuesday to learn from the killer Asian tsunami, saying spending now could limit the loss of life and damage from inevitable natural disasters.
More than 175,000 people were killed and millions (...)
The U.N. should start development of an early warning system in the Indian Ocean, nations affected by the Asian tsunami agreed on Thursday at a disaster prevention conference in Kobe.
India, Thailand and Indonesia have all proposed establishing (...)
Experts and officials from around the world agreed to try to cut the number of deaths in disasters over the next decade and promised to set up a tsunami warning system at a conference that ended on Saturday.
But aid workers said the framework (...)
