Fernando “Barcelona Can Call Me Daddy” Torres scored and then was booked twice all in a span of 10 minutes before Barca came back to beat Atletico Madrid 2-1 in the first leg of their Champions League quarterfinal.
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Watch this little kid score a free kick from an absurd distance for Atletico Madrid
Nearly at the halfway line and with the score even late in the match, 11-year-old Joao, son of former Atletico Madrid midfielder Paulo Assunçao, decided to UNLEASH THE POWER and booted a monstrous free kick.
Transfer rumor industry in panic as Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid given transfer bans
FIFA has given both Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid one-year ban on registering new players in what is believed to be the most severe blow to the transfer rumor industry ever.
Football Shirt Friday: Bayern, Atletico, Inter, Aston Villa and Zenit being fancy
If Thomas Müller is primping his collar, it must be time for more football shirts.
Football Shirt Friday: Atletico Madrid, Monaco, Eintracht Frankfurt, and Porto’s ugly brown
A footballer turned pundit’s guide to criticizing everything
Chicharito’s late winner against Atletico Madrid to put Real Madrid in the Champions League semifinals was a special triumph for him after spending most of the season as the forgotten man. It moved him to tears. But Thierry Henry thinks he celebrated wrong.
Chicharito’s three stages of emotion after scoring a late winner against Atletico
With Karim Benzema unavailable to play the second leg of Real Madrid’s scoreless Champions League quarterfinal against Atletico, Chicharito was finally given another chance to show what he can do on the on the biggest stages.
Real Madrid treated Mario Mandzukic like a human pinata
The first leg of the Atletico Madrid-Real Madrid Champions League quarterfinal ended in a rather drab 0-0 draw, but this being a Madrid derby and a rematch of last season’s Champions League final, there was still blood. Mostly spurting from Mario Mandzukic’s face.
Always an instigator, Mandzukic was at the center of most of the night’s conflicts and ended up worse for wear after taking a Sergio Ramos elbow to the face.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s expert analysis of the Champions League quarterfinal draw
Gianni Infantino has stopped talking long enough to do the Champions League quarterfinal draw and I must say I am disappointed. First, because UEFA only reduced my ban for that stupid red card against Chelsea to one game instead of wiping it completely and begging for my forgiveness. Second, because they said that my idea to open the draw by using a French referee as a human Zlacrifice to acknowledge that PSG are too good for France was “inappropriate.” And third because I must wait even longer to get my revenge on Pep Guardiola, who gets super lucky again.
Arda Turan given appropriate birthday cake days after throwing boot at linesman
Atlético Madrid hero Arda Turan turns 28 today…looks like he celebrated with a somewhat appropriate ‘boot’ cake pic.twitter.com/5MUe3JltsD
— AS English (@English_AS) January 30, 2015
During Wednesday’s action-packed Copa del Rey tie between Atletico Madrid and Barcelona, Arda Turan was so enraged by a refereeing decision that he threw one of his own boots at the referee. Amazingly, the Turkish midfielder was only given a yellow card for this heinous misappropriation of sporting apparel.