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BARCELONA NEWS
Liverpool sell midfielder Javier Mascherano to Barcelona for about £17.25m subject to a medical, BBC Sport understands.
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MILAN (Reuters) - AC Milan are battling to sign Barcelona's Zlatan Ibrahimovic after their disappointing pre-season but the Swede is unlikely to be on board for Sunday's Serie A opener at home to promoted Lecce.
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MILAN (Reuters) - AC Milan will try to sign forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic from Barcelona but the chances of landing the Swede look remote.
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Rafa Benitez won his first trophy in Italy on Saturday, thanks to two Samuel Eto'o goals. Inter had to come from behind against Roma in the Italian Super Cup and the former Barcelona striker, whom Benitez has promised a more central role, responded with a double to ensure a 3-1 victory.
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Barcelona will this week try to send Zlatan Ibrahimovic on loan back to Italy and complete the signing of Liverpool's Javier Mascherano. The Argentine midfielder's close friend Leo Messi has backed the signing and no one's opinion currently carries more weight at the Nou Camp than the man who scored 47 goals last season in all competitions and hit a hat-trick on Saturday to land Barça's first piece of silverware of the new season in the Spanish Super Cup.
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At just after 8pm last night, Jessica Ennis hurtled across the finish line, strides ahead of her competitors. The 800-metre race in the warm Barcelona evening was her final event in the European Athletic Championships – and secured the heptathlete both the gold medal and a championship record. Ennis consistently led the scoreboard over the seven events, beating Olympic champion Nataliya Dobrynska by 45 points, with a score of 6,823.
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Inspired by a Leo Messi hattrick, Barcelona landed the Spanish Super Cup on Saturday in thrashing Sevilla 4-0 to win the battle between Ligta and Spanish King's Cup winners 5-3 on aggregate.The Catalan club dominated the encounter at the Nou Camp once Abdoulay Konko had put through his own net on 13 minutes in attempting to clear a Pedro cross.Messi then took over as he netted on 24, 43 and 90 minutes - Xavi setting up the first with some astute dribbling - to clinch the win and erase the memory of a poor first-leg showing.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Lionel Messi scored a hat-trick to lead Barcelona to a 4-0 victory over Sevilla Saturday and a 5-3 aggregate win in the Spanish Super Cup.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Tottenham Hotspur's new recruit Sandro was named on Friday in a 22-man Brazil squad of European-based players for a training camp in Barcelona next month.
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Barcelona defender Gerard Pique believes his international team-mate Cesc Fabregas will sign for the Catalan club one day.
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Six-time Australian Olympian James Tomkins announced his retirement on Thursday from competitive rowing.Tomkins, who represented Australia at the Olympic Games between 1988 and 2008, winning three gold medals and one bronze, turned 45 on Thursday and said the time was right to focus on the next stage in his life.Tomkins won his first Olympic gold medal as part of the "Oarsome Foursome" in the men?s coxless four in 1992 in Barcelona, winning the same title four years later in Atlanta.
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Barcelona have dismissed rumours suggesting they are interested in bringing Manchester City striker Robinho to the Camp Nou.
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Passengers bound for Milan on an overnight train from Barcelona had a surprise when they woke up the following day.
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Passengers bound for the northern Italian city of Milan from Barcelona had a surprise when they woke up the following day.
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Pre-season games in Beijing, London, Milan, Paris, Barcelona, Guangzhou and Mexico City highlight an NBA exhibition slate for October confirmed Tuesday by the league.The NBA announced last week that it would play regular-season games in Europe for the first time when Toronto and New Jersey meet March 4-5 in London, which had hosted several prior pre-season games.NBA's pre-season play tips off October 3 in Italy when the New York Knicks visit Milan to face Armani Jeans Milano, the former club of Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni and Knicks standout forward Danillo Gallinari.
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Barcelona has declared war on its pigeon population after hiring contractors to catch and kill them using special net catapults and carbon dioxide gas.
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Wayne Rooney is the only Premier League player on the 12-man shortlist for Uefa's Club Footballer of the Year. Internazionale, who won the Champions League under Jose Mourinho, have five and Barcelona four.
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MADRID (Reuters) - The families of two Spanish aid workers kidnapped by a branch of al Qaeda have received proof that they are alive, the head of a Barcelona-based aid group said on Monday.
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Coach Pep Guardiola does not accept that the Supercopa is lost despite Barcelona losing 3-1 in Saturday's first leg of the traditional Spanish season opener.
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Barcelona sporting director Andoni Zubizarreta has denied making a bid for unsettled Liverpool midfielder Javier Mascherano.
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