(The following is an excerpt from an article appearing in The Football Pink, Issue 17) Iloilo City, the Philippines in 1896 was a tumultuous place. Though the Philippine Revolution was underway, many of the local Ilonggo population had a favorable relationship with the Spanish colonizers and initially discouraged the insurgency. Iloilo City had…Read more Paulino Alcántara – Barça’s Original Superstar Net Breaker (excerpt from The Football Pink)
The Deficit
Barcelona's 5-1 AGG loss to Real Madrid in the Supercopa de España has signaled a palpable shift in the power dynamic in Spanish football. Any talk that the two sides maintaining parity in spite of Madrid's recent la Liga title and three Champions leagues in the last four years has been, for the time being,…Read more The Deficit
Tata, Tito, Sandro & Luis
And that style of jetting the ball up to the front three and waiting for the magic to happen proved to be a solution of sorts. For a while...
