My favourite team :)

After a post on my favourite sports-person, its time to write about my favourite teams. And if title of the blog isnt a give-away, that would be Barcelona FC, also known as Barca. A club with great history and a club for which worlds best have played(and are playing). I must admit I wasnt even a football fan until I joined my engineering and never heard of barca before champions league 2006 final, the match which barca won 2-1 against arsenal to become european champions for second time. Never knew the quality of Barca until i actually played with it in EA Sports FIFA 07. But believe me when i say that i was facinated by their squad more than anything. Ronaldinho, Messi, Eto'o, Xavi and many more. The event which completely transformed how i looked at the club was when Henry joined it in summer of 07. Supposedly the best forward premier league has seen in some time has joined the club. With four of the most fearsome forwards in the world Barca was expected to beat every team and were destined to spanish and european glory. But that was not to be, combination of complecency, bad luck some injuries meant that team finished third in spanish league and had to fight for champions league group stage by playing qualification. It was decided that some radical changes were needed and it started with axing of coach/manager Frank Rijkaad and appointment of Pep Guardiola.

New coach brought in fresh changes which included some tough decisions like selling Ronaldinho and Deco. He brought in new faces like Deni Alves from sevilla which turned out to be a well thought move. The start of season was less than ideal with a loss to Numencia. Then there was controversy of whether Messi should be allowed to play for his country in the Olympics. But as the team settled the results began to come in. Well fought 1-0 and 2-1 turned in to 4-0, 5-0 ,6-0 routs. The forwards found their form and back of the net on regular basis. All the three of them (Henry, Eto'o and Messi) got hatricks and are among the top scorers in legue.Young Lionel Messi stepped out of shadows of Ronaldinho and is showing true class he really is. The club has broken many records in this season till now most important being highest number of points in the first half of the league. And best part was the win agianst arch-rivals Real Madrid at home. The going may be tough for other La Liga teams but its abut to get tougher as season goes on because Barca dont look like they are going to loosen up any. Well as a fan i only hope barca continue this form trough out the season and beyond and end the season with treble.