The New Dream Team. That�s what the Barcelona aficionados were calling their team at the end of last season. That, and The Invincibles,personalized bobblehead, obviously.
And it�s not easy to argue with them,custom bobbleheads, really. To say that FC Barcelona were the best football team in Europe would be a little like saying Usain Bolt is fairly quick. ridiculous understatement. If they hadn�t rested key players in the last few weeks of the league season in order to keep them fresh for the Champions� League Final,Upgrading Your Engine For Performance Enhancement, Barcelona would have destroyed every possible La Liga record. They scored goals for fun,The Durability Of G5 Carbon Steel Montec Broadheads, teased teams mercilessly and had so many games wrapped up in the first 20 minutes that you�d be forgiven for thinking they�d been told only goals scored in the first half counted towards their win bonus.
The coach that every fan adored (but almost all of them were worried about) � the former iconic player Pep Guardiola � turned out to be an inspired choice by club President Joan Laporta. Barcelona, of course, had always been a team of fantastic footballers able, when the mood was right, to turn on the style in imperious fashion. What happened under the ex Barcelona player�s fledgling management, however, was that this collection of disparate individuals became, in every sense of the word, a team; a true collective. Thierry Henri, an isolated,personalized bobble heads,Short Beach Wedding Dresses for Your Big Day, remote figure in his first season at the club, became the player that Arsenal fans loved so much. Samuel Eto�o,custom bobblehead, the man the president was desperate to be rid of in the close season along with the other �malign� influences, Ronaldinho and Deco,customize bobblehead, became the focal point of the world�s most potent attack. And, of course,personalized bobbleheads, Lionel Messi started to show why so many excellent judges thought he would one day become the best player in the world.
Season 2008/09 was a season in which everything went right for Barca. Since its foundation in 1899 when the Swiss ex patriot Hans Gamper founded a team for whom he would go on to score 103 goals, become president, and then build their first stadium � Barcelona have been a success. This success has not just been on the football pitch,customize bobblehead, either. In one memorable year,,, 1999, the club�s football, basketball,customized bobbleheads,Sparklers, hockey and handball teams all won their respective leagues. The club has become a symbol of Catalan nationalism whilst now also providing,personalized bobblehead, in Puyol, Iniesta, Xavi and Piqu�,custom bobbleheads, the backbone of the Spanish national team.
But, to return to topic. Surely they can�t do it again, can they? Real Madrid, with their return to the infamous Galacticos and their attempts to sign every player on the planet,custom bobblehead, must inevitably be stronger. And everyone will tell you it�s harder to retain trophies than win them,custom bobblehead; everybody wants to dethrone the champions,personalized bobbleheads.
Don�t bet against it happening, though. This team is not at its peak yet. Guardiola and Laporta haven�t gone crazy in the summer transfer market; they both know that team spirit is a precious thing and that any signings will have to fit into the dressing room that the coach has done so much to unite. You can be sure that anyone who does come in between now and the start of the season will have been carefully chosen � and not just signed because they were on a list drawn up by a director of football with stars in his eyes. When Xavi recently said that Cristiano Ronaldo wouldn�t fit in at Barcelona, it wasn�t just sour grapes � he remembered the impact that Ronaldinho ended up having.
The average age of the Barcelona team that played against Manchester United in May was considerably younger than their opponents � and although some players such as Puyol, Gudjohnsen and Silvinho, for example � might not be around much longer at the very top level, some of the younger players have the potential to be truly great.
Can they do it again? Well, I don�t know anymore than you do. I do know,customized bobbleheads, however, that anyone who takes one of the three trophies off them is going to have to be one heck of a team. I can�t wait.
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