Barcelona won 2-1 at Atletico Madrid but lost their star player, Lionel Messi, who had to be stretchered off the pitch after a late tackle from Tomas Ujfalusi. The club stated that Messi has sprained the external ligament in his right ankle and will be out for three weeks. Barcelona will have four games to play during that period, against Sporting Gijon, Real Mallorca and Athletic Bilbao in the league plus the UEFA Champions League trip to Rubin Kazan. Will they manage to do well without him?
He won't be able to score until the end of the tournament.
Argentina are doing well, they won their first two games and are qualified for the round of sixteen. Lionel Messi played pretty well too but so far he failed to get his name on the score sheet. Will he have the opportunity to feel the joy of a World Cup goal?
That's all about poor goalkeeping, what was he doing out there?
The goal was scored from 61 meters out in the German Cup tie between third league Koblenz and Hertha Berlin. Michael Stahl scored it for the minnows who edged past Hertha but goalkeeper Marco Sejna might have had a big contribution to it.
David Beckham is to be invited to travel with the England squad to the World Cup finals and stay with them as a non-playing member of the party in South Africa, in an unprecedented move by Fabio Capello.
"Will I play in the Premier League one day? I have said that I want to be at Barcelona for life. I will be here for as long as they want me," he explains in the Daily Express.
"I owe Barcelona more than for giving me a chance - I owe them for changing my life."
That's what Messi declared when asked about his chances of playing in the Premier League. What do you think?
The 2010 FIFA World Cup starts in three weeks.
So far, all the talk is about Lionel Messi, Christiano Ronaldo, Xavi and other stars. But as they say, for every star, there is an underrated player out there.
