This is the official anthem of F. C. Barcelona. It's all in Catalan. Enjoy.
Himne
Tot el camp
és un clam
som la gent blau-grana
tant se val d´on venim,
si del sud o del nord,
ara estem d´acord, estem d´acord
una bandera ens agermana:
blau-grana al vent,
un crit valent,
tenim un nom,
el sap tothom:
Barça! Barça! Baaarça!
Jugadors
Seguidors
tots units fem força:
són molts anys piens d´afanys,
són molts gols que hem cridat,
i s´ha demostrat, s´ha demostrat,
que mai ningú no ens podrà tórcer:
Blau-grana al vent,
un crit valent,
tenim un nom,
el sap tothom:
Barça! Barça! Baaarça!
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
F.C. Barcelona, The Greatest Football Club in The World
My favourite football (soccer in American English) club, F. C. Barcelona is IMHO the greatest ever. Actually my first encounter with el Barca was when I played Championship Manager 97/98 Spanish league version. I still remember that there's still Hesp, Luis Enrigue, Guardiola, Stoichkov, Rivaldo, etc, in the roster. I never ever saw their play myself because La Liga hadn't been aired in my country (yet!). But it doesn't matter because I was owning in CM. The first time I saw them play was in the Champion's Cup. I still remember the beautiful play they showed. Unfortunately the fatal flaw in their defense (that still exist till now) made them pay the price.
My favourite player was Luis Enrigue at first. The reason was he can be positioned anywhere in the formation in CM. He can be a defender, midfield, or even attacker. But I usually played him as a second striker behind Kluivert. But now my favourite player is Carles Puyol. IMHO, the best defender in the world. At first when I saw him play in Champion's League, I thought "what the hell? who is this guy? where' Albert Ferrer?". And I also laughed when he missed kicking the ball. But then, when I saw more of him (and Barcelona), I was (and still am) in awe. Especially this one time when he faced the opponent's attacker (I think it was Juventus' Zalayeta, I forgot) alone in front of an empty goal. When the attacker shotted, Puyol just blocked it with his chest. A superb defending that was. And a superb defender he is.
IMHO, right now is Barca's Golden Era. They've got lots of superb players like Puyol, Xavi, Ronaldinho, Etoo, etc, and also the wonderkids like Iniesta, Messi, dos Santos, etc. The only one lacking are goalies. Barcelona always have bad experience when it comes to goalies. Hesp, Baia, all the way to the current Victor Valdez are actually good goalies. But in Barca, IMHO, they didn't show enough of what they actually can do. I can only comment on Valdez (and perhaps a little on Reina) because I haven't seen much of Hesp and Baia. Valdez is actually pretty good. He has made some important blocks. Yet, he has made mistakes and blunders as many as he made those blocks. Reina (now in Liverpool) is also good. But the habit of making blunders also affect him in Barca. The question is why does he play superbly in Liverpool.? Weird! Or is it maybe because Barca often neglected their defense so our main "scapegoat" is the goalie? Maybe.
This season, Barca didn't do too well. Fortunately, Madrid is going down also. Sigh. Dunno who's to blame. Bad luck maybe?
Viva Barca!
My favourite player was Luis Enrigue at first. The reason was he can be positioned anywhere in the formation in CM. He can be a defender, midfield, or even attacker. But I usually played him as a second striker behind Kluivert. But now my favourite player is Carles Puyol. IMHO, the best defender in the world. At first when I saw him play in Champion's League, I thought "what the hell? who is this guy? where' Albert Ferrer?". And I also laughed when he missed kicking the ball. But then, when I saw more of him (and Barcelona), I was (and still am) in awe. Especially this one time when he faced the opponent's attacker (I think it was Juventus' Zalayeta, I forgot) alone in front of an empty goal. When the attacker shotted, Puyol just blocked it with his chest. A superb defending that was. And a superb defender he is.
IMHO, right now is Barca's Golden Era. They've got lots of superb players like Puyol, Xavi, Ronaldinho, Etoo, etc, and also the wonderkids like Iniesta, Messi, dos Santos, etc. The only one lacking are goalies. Barcelona always have bad experience when it comes to goalies. Hesp, Baia, all the way to the current Victor Valdez are actually good goalies. But in Barca, IMHO, they didn't show enough of what they actually can do. I can only comment on Valdez (and perhaps a little on Reina) because I haven't seen much of Hesp and Baia. Valdez is actually pretty good. He has made some important blocks. Yet, he has made mistakes and blunders as many as he made those blocks. Reina (now in Liverpool) is also good. But the habit of making blunders also affect him in Barca. The question is why does he play superbly in Liverpool.? Weird! Or is it maybe because Barca often neglected their defense so our main "scapegoat" is the goalie? Maybe.
This season, Barca didn't do too well. Fortunately, Madrid is going down also. Sigh. Dunno who's to blame. Bad luck maybe?
Viva Barca!
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
The Ressurection
The blog is resurrected. Or, at least I planned it to. Dunno how much longer this enthusiasm to write will be. Hopefully long enough until I can fulfill my destiny. Harr... harr... harr...
I actually there's so much I wanted to write since the last (and only entry) in this blog. But lazyness struck me good. Also there were bunch of works in my office that needed to be done (I even had to make overtimes for approx. a month). Now I'm refreshed and felt the urge to blog.
My intentions are beside writing about my thoughts and such, to write a game development tutorials in Bahasa Indonesia (my mother tongue language). Although maybe many of the tutorials are taken from some other tutorials or maybe just the translation from other English tutorials. My experience in game development is also limited. Only a year doing a project with Linux and SDL. Also it was only in 2D. It's still a long way to achieve my goal. Nevertheless, hopefully it would spark some interest to those wanting to be game developer.
I actually there's so much I wanted to write since the last (and only entry) in this blog. But lazyness struck me good. Also there were bunch of works in my office that needed to be done (I even had to make overtimes for approx. a month). Now I'm refreshed and felt the urge to blog.
My intentions are beside writing about my thoughts and such, to write a game development tutorials in Bahasa Indonesia (my mother tongue language). Although maybe many of the tutorials are taken from some other tutorials or maybe just the translation from other English tutorials. My experience in game development is also limited. Only a year doing a project with Linux and SDL. Also it was only in 2D. It's still a long way to achieve my goal. Nevertheless, hopefully it would spark some interest to those wanting to be game developer.
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