El Clasico 2011

El Clasico 2011

When two of the most influential and popular sports teams in the world play each other, it is a game not to be missed. When two of those teams are from the Spanish League, La Liga, then it is certainly should not be missed. When the game between these two sporting giants has a title-El Clasico-then it must not be missed for any reason whatsoever. It goes without saying to every soccer aficionado, that this game is between Barcelona of Catalunya and Real Madrid of the capital, Madrid. These two heated rivals play each other twice a year within their league but is not limited to just two, because they might play for the Copa Del Rey and/or in the coveted UEFA Champions League, in which in 2011 seems to be the case.

On November 29, 2010 at Camp Nou in Barcelona, it was a game that Real and their supporters, Madridistas, want to put behind them. Barcelona imposed their style of play, which is ball possession or colloquially speaking, keep away from Real; as a result, Real got frustrated and started to lose their composure. An example of the frustration was when Cristiano Ronaldo pushed Pep Guardiola, Barcelona's coach, when he went to throw the ball back into play, after it went out-of-bounds. Within the first ten minutes of the game, Xavi scored for Barça, then Pedro scored in the 18th; feeling left out, David Villa scored two of his own in the 55th and 58th minute, and so did, Jeffren, in the 90th minute. Not only did Real feel embarrass for their performance and left the pitch with their heads down, certain players took out their frustration on Barça players, once the game was over. All throughout Camp Nu, Los Cules (Barcelona supporters) gave the TV audience-around the 200 million mark-the impression that five goals was not satisfying but enough to beat their bitter rivals.

Now on April 16, 2011 at Estadio Santiago Bernabéu in Madrid, the second game will be played between these two enormously popular soccer club teams. The players that will try to take over are the usual for both teams: Spearheading the attack for Barcelona are Messi, David Villa and Pedro and for Real Madrid are Benzema, Higuain and Cristiano Ronaldo. The players mention are not what a soccer aficionados would call usual, rather, call them the best soccer players in the world especially Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. The one thing that is for certain, the second game will provide a lot of fireworks from both teams and will be watched by hundreds of millions of people. Jose Mourihno, coach of Real Madrid, has stated "...that the 2nd leg will be different than the 1st", well for all Madridistas, this is music to their ears but as we all know, "talk is cheap."