Barcelona defeated Real Valladolid in the 36th round of Primera Division and continuing struggle to equal the record of 100 points set by Real Madrid last year.
Already champions of Spain, the Catalans have opened the scoring after 21 minutes, when Xavi recovered a ball in the visitors are, passed to Pedro and Barcelona striker easily beat Jaime.
Iniesta came close to make it 2-0 (34), but the goal came three minutes before the halt time. Former Barcelona player Marc Valiente sent the ball into his own goal after a corner executed by Xavi.
After the interval, Pedro came close by a double, but his shot from outside the box hit the crossbar (63). The Catalans forced at the final, but Montoya and Fabregas missed two occasions after 80 minutes. Two minutes later, Jaime rejected Villa’s shot, and Pedro missed with the goal free.
In end of the game, Real Valladolid reduced the difference. Montoya fouled on Manucho in the box and Victor Valdes, who was at the match with the number 500 for Barcelona could do anything to the penalty executed by Victor Perez.
After the match, Tito Vilanova and Eric Abidal raised together the trophy of champion in Spain, handed by the Spanish Football Federation president Angel Maria Villar, to Puyol and gave by the captain to the two winners in the fight against cancer.

Sevilla lost Saturday night the home game against the Basque team Real Sociedad and with this the opportunity to occupy a place that ensure European football next season.
The team coached by the French tactician Montanier won 2-1 and continues to be ranked No. 4, which provides the access to the UEFA Champions League. Sociedad will take a close fight with Valencia, team that is on par with two rounds before the end of the season.
The most important phase of the game occurred after 58 minutes when Gary Medel escaped alone in opposing half and was in a great position to score. However, the referee signaled an outrageous offside even though the Chilean player from Sevilla was a few feet behind the last defender from Real Sociedad.
Extremely nervous after the linesman’s error, Jose Antonio Reyes has lost his temper on the sidelines and was eliminated, even if not yet entered the game.
Sociedad won the match 2-1 and thus prolonged the fight for the last position that qualify in the Champions League play-offs, being in direct race with Valencia, team in great shape in the last stages of the Primera Division.

Real Madrid missed the chance to win another trophy this season, Copa del Rey, after an amazing final against Atletico Madrid on Santiago Bernabeu, and lost 1-2.
Even if they played in front of their fans, with the stands full of supporters, Jose Mourinho’s players missed opportunities after opportunities, but in the end were defeated by their rivals Madrid.
As has happened in the current season, Real started very well the match against Atletico. Ronaldo’s goal from the 14th minute of the match seemed to unleashing the Galactics to a safe victory. What followed, however, turned into a nightmare for Madrid grouping.
First came the equalizer, managed by the top scorer of the competition, Diego Costa, then Real Madrid players put their own hindrance.
Two minutes before the break, Ozil received a good pass from Coentrao, but his shot from outside the box hit the left post of Atletico goal.
After 61 minutes, Real exasperated their fans. Benzema shot wide from six yards after a great pass from Ronaldo. The ball returned to Ozil, and he shot on target, but Juanfran rejected from the goal line, Courtois being defeated.
After only seven minutes, Real ticked the third bar! This time it was the turn of Ronaldo, who delivered a good free kick from 20 meters, but the ball crashed into the left bar. And this time, it returned to Essien who fired over the crossbar.
Real’s opportunities continued, but those who scored were Atletico, by Miranda, who has resumed with a header from inside the area. It was the 98th minute of the first half of extra time, and Real felt like losing the final.
In the minute 108, Ozil missed another big chance to restore parity, when he targeted the Belgian goalkeeper.
Finally, Real remained with the failures and Atletico with the Copa del Rey trophy.

David Beckham surprised everyone with the announcement of his withdrawal from activity. The Paris Saint-Germain player will give up to football career at the end of this season, when his contract with the French ends.
PSG chiefs say they have received with regret the news. Khelaïfi Al-Nasser, President of France champion, said he would have liked Beckham to play at PSG for one more year. But the club’s boss thanked for having accepted to play at the Parisiens and speaked only in praised terms about David Beckham.
“David Beckham announced that he had decided to end his brilliant career. I’m very upset, I would have liked to see him another year in the colors of PSG. I want to wish him personally and on behalf of the club good things for his future projects.
“It was a tremendous honor to convince him to come to PSG in January, to see his exceptional talent and know that our shirt it was the last he wore in his career. We discussed the possibility of working together on PSG. ”
“On Saturday, at his last game at Parc des Princes, we count on you all to show him the joy that you’ve seen in Paris, in PSG’s colors, and with the whole team to celebrate the fantastic victory in Ligue 1″, was the message posted by Nasser Al-Khelaïfi on the club’s official website.

Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund will play a 100% German Champions League final at Wembley on May 25. After a devastating 7-0 against Barcelona, the Bavarians are credited by most specialists as the main favorite. This is the case of Ottmar Hitzfeld, the coach who trained both teams in the past.
The current tactician of the Swiss national football team believes that Jupp Heynckes’ players have the first chance, but is more reserved, warning that the Dortmund have nothing to lose in the final which will take place in London.
“The fact that two Bundesliga teams reached the Champions League final is like a dream for German football. Especially for me, especially because I have prepared both teams over time. I think that Bayern is slightly favorite, but must also take into account the fact that Dortmund has won more matches against them in the last three years. The most important factor that will influence the final result will be their shape in the final day,” said Hitzfeld for Bild.
“Dortmund has absolutely nothing to lose, the pressure is on Munich. They realized this season much more than expected in the beginning, so that what happens now is a bonus. In the quarters, fans resigned themselves with the elimination in the return leg with Malaga, but what happened in overtime was a miracle. For Bayern things are different. Their goal is winning the League after losing two finals. It’s time that Schweinsteiger and Lahm’s generation to be rewarded with a European trophy. Only with a continental or world title you could go down in history.”
“In addition, Bayern succeeded a great season in which broke all records. That helps them a lot psychically, but a possible missing of the trophy can produce much disappointment, and the team may fail in the future. If win the League, Bayern has the potential to dominate the European football in the coming years, especially since the summer comes Pep Guardiola, who already has the experience with Barcelona behind, with whom he did the same thing, ” added Hitzfeld.

The elimination from the Champions League gave food for thought to Real Madrid bosses. Jose Mourinho’s fate will soon be unveiled, and the squad will undergo significant changes. First, it will leave some players who will not take part in the new project. The first official announcement is the 25-year-old striker Gonzalo Higuain.
The news was made public by the club’s general manager, Jose Angel Sanchez, for the newspaper Le 10 Sport. The Argentinian striker has not convinced this season, missed a great opportunity against Borussia Dortmund and has found out the sentence. On his address there has been speculation about a transfer to PSG even last winter.
“At a big club like Real Madrid, it is assumed that there is room for two or three strikers to join Benzema and Higuain. But four attackers are sufficient. Higuain will leave, Benzema will stay, and two other players will arrive” said the club official who revealed the main priorities for the summer transfer window: Gareth Bale and Sergio Aguero. About the Gaelic is spoken extensively, and the return of Aguero to Madrid not seems very unlikely.
Higuain had a poor season, despite the 15 goals in 38 appearances in official competitions. A strong striker with good statistics in seven seasons at Real, the Argentinean has a chance to reinvent itself to another club, leaving behind many goals and six trophies. About Higuain’s services are strongly interested and Tottenham, which could make a complex business, with Bale taking the road to Santiago Bernabeu.
On the ‘black list’ of the Real would find Di Maria, Carvalho and Coentrao. The transfer amount for Gonzalo Higuain could be ciphered around 20 million euros.

Bayern Munich qualified for the UEFA Champions League final after a memorable triumph against FC Barcelona. After they won 4-0 in the first leg, the Bavarians did not reduce speed on the Camp Nou and administered another defeat to the leader from Primera Division.
The last act will be held at Wembley on May 25, and will record the first UCL final between two teams from Germany. The other games that were played with the trophy on the table between two teams from the same country were Real Madrid – FC Valencia (2000), AC Milan – Juventus (2003) and Manchester United – Chelsea (2008).
Although at the draw was hoping for a balanced double leg, Bayern imposed through a devastating 7-0 score overall. The last time Barcelona failed to score in a double in the Champions League was in 2008, also in the semifinals, when was eliminated by Manchester United. At Camp Nou was 0-0 and in return the Red Devils won 1-0.
However, it was the toughest defeat of Barcelona in a double leg in the European Cups. Previous counterper dated for more than half a century, when losing 2-6 with the rivals Real Madrid in 1960.
Although twisted in a thrilling way the first leg with AC Milan, then Barcelona has not won any match in this edition. In the quarters, against PSG, ended in a draw twice, but qualified due to the goals scored away, and in the semifinals suffered two setbacks with Bayern. Barcelona never had a series of four consecutive matches without a win in the European Cups from the 2001/2002 season.
At the same time, for more than a decade the Catalans have not lost at home at a difference of three goals. It happened in December 2002 in the Primera Division, with Sevilla (0-3).

Javier Zanetti has vowed to return to football after he tore his Achilles tendon in Sunday’s match against Palermo. Zanetti has played 1,101 games in career so far.
Inter Milan’s supporters had hoped until the last moment that Zanetti’s injury in the match against Palermo is not as bad as rumored. But the Milanese football club’s official announcement that came yesterday morning has not left room for doubt! The 39-year-old Argentinian defender suffered a ruptured at the Achilles tendon and will miss at least eight months from the pitch. On the lips of supporters, but also in the Italian press, appeared the same words: “end of career”.
But Zanetti does not want to hear it. The player who played at Palermo the game with the number 1.101 in his career decided to return to the field, even if the experts give no chance of success, given the age he has. And the fact that suffered the worst injury of his career at 39 years old! “I want to be Inter the captain once. In fact, at least once! My dream is to come back in the grass and nothing can stop me. I don’t know when the surgery will take place, but never mind that. What is important is that I have to recover myself 100%.” said Zanetti, who has collected 602 appearances in Serie A.
Immediately after the injury has been officially confirmed, messages of encouragement for the Argentine defender started coming. The most emotional was that of Francesco Totti, AS Roma captain. “Javier, I wait you at Roma – Inter. There is no another player that I want to change the pennant! I hope you recover quickly.” wrote Totti on his blog.

Having secured the signature of Mario Gotze, player came from rival Borussia Dortmund, Bayern Munich is about to transfer another big football player with a brilliant future in the Germany’s squad. It is the midfielder Sebastian Rode (22 years) from Eintracht Frankfurt.
Eintracht has part of an exciting season, but performances from Bundesliga does not help them to keep the major players. CEO Heribert Bruchhagen revealed in Bild that Rode is about to sign a contract with the Bavarians:
“Why Jan Kirchhoff goes to Bayern? Why goes and Sebastian (Rode)? Oh God! They are young players. Can earn four times more money to Bayern, the story is very simple. Eintracht has a budget of 30 million euros, while Bayern 150. We can not withstand, because they are very strong financially. Comparisons stop here. ”
Jan Kirchhoff from Mainz has already signed a pre-contract with Bayern and will join the team coached by Pep Guardiola this summer. Rode could also reach in summer at the Allianz Arena, but it is even possible to wait until 2014 to sign, when will be free agent.

Borussia Dortmund was not far behind rivals Bayern and also scored 4 times in the Real Madrid’s goal in the first leg of the Champions League semifinals, final score 4-1.
Jose Mourinho, for many the best coach in the world, has a problem with German teams. And the problem is that the Lusitania is unable to decipher the game when playing on German ground. Even if defeated Bayern with Inter in the UEFA Champions League in 2010, but the match was played in Madrid, at the Santiago Bernabeu.
For Mourinho the defeat from yesterday was not something new. Germany is terra incognita for the Portuguese tactician. In six games played in the Bundesrepublik, Mourinho recorded the following assessment: 0 wins, 0 draws, 6 losses, six goals scored and 14 goals conceded. The Special One reached to 10 official defeats this season, an absolute negative record in his career.
Neither Real Madrid had no more success on German ground. In 25 games in Germany, the group from Santiago Bernabeu lost 18 games, drew 6 times and won only once. They scored 23 goals and received 60.
Moreover, Borussia Dortmund is the only team that played against Real Madrid and Mourinho has never defeated (one draw and two defeats). In addition, Jurgen Klopp’s team provoked Jose Mourinho the most drastic defeat in career in the European cups. Never the teams led by the Portuguese lost so definitely in Europe. Generally, only one team managed to beat so bad the Lusitanian: Barcelona (5-0) in the Primera Division.
Of the 15 defeats of Real Madrid in the European Cups in which the opponents have scored at least 4 goals, 7 were against German teams (almost half).
The bad news for Galacticos is that although they are champions at historical comebacks, they have never won the Champions League / Cup after losing in the first leg of the semifinals.