Nachbar calls for children's voices to be heard

The Slovenian spent the summer on a Unicef mission to Chad, and made this video explaining his experiences in Africa 

He is using the visit to show what like life is like for children in the country as part of the Voices of Children campaign 
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Bostjan Nachbar spent this summer in the region of Sahel, in Chad, as a member of a Unicef mission to show the world what life is like for the children under 5 in that country that are suffering from chronic malnutrition. The Voices of Children project tells the story of little Batrene, who weighed 5.6 kg when he was 8 months old and in three weeks, after visiting the Mao Mosque Medical Centre, weighed 6.2 kg. “His health is clearly improving and he is heading towards complete recovery”, says Nachbar in the video.
The Barça player is highly committed to charity, and was awestruck by the medical centre. “It’s good to know that there are medical centres like this one at Mao and in the region, where they are helping underfed children and also saving lives” he says. In this video summary of his visit, Nachbar describes his feelings and experiences.

Malaga – FC Barcelona: going for the fifth win

Ten o'clock tonight: Barça look for their fifth straight win against Malaga at La Rosaleda

Just 72 hours after recording their fourth straight league win against Levante, Barça travel to Malaga on Wednesday looking to stretch their 100% start to the campaign.Alves and Mathieu restedLuis Enrique has chosen to take 19 players for the game, resting Alves and Mathieu, but takingNeymar and Rakitic, who both picked up knocks against Levante, and B team strikers Munir andSandro. The injured Masip (finger), Rafinha (thigh) and Vermaelen (hamstring) all miss the trip.Malaga unbeaten at La RosaledaMalaga are sitting safe in the middle of the table  in eleventh, having won four of their five points so far at La Rosaleda, where they’ve beaten Athletic Bilbao 1-0 and drawn 0-0 with Levante.Malaga have yet to concede at home, whilst Barça of course, have kept clean sheets in all their games so far this year – which record will go tonight?

Neymar and Rakitic in squad for Malaga

Alves and Mathieu drop out of the 19-man squad with the injured Rafinha, Masip and Vermaelen also missing.

Luis Enrique has named a 19-man squad for the game against Malaga this evening, with Neymar andRakitic both fit and included after picking up knocks in the game against Levante. B team youngstersMunir  and Sandro are again in the squad.

Alves  and Mathieu have both been omitted from the squad, whilst  the injured Rafinha, Masip andVermaelen, as well as the suspended Luis Suárez also miss out.

All-time record: Four games and four clean sheet

This is the first time ever that FC Barcelona have started a season with four straight wins without conceding a goal It's the tenth time that the team has taken the maximum points from its first four league fixtures.

Eleven goals for and none against. It’s been a remarkable start to the season for FC Barcelona, and it’s not just been about scoring goals but also stopping them at the other end. Since blowing Elche away to the tune of a 4-0 win, Barça have gone on to complete three further shutouts.
It all amounts to a historic situation. Barça have never come this far in a league season before without either dropping a point or conceding a goal.
It’s not unusual for them to win their four opening fixtures. They first time did that was way back in 1929/30, and they repeated the feat in 1960/61, 1972/73, 1984/85, 1990/91, 1997/98 and 2009/10, before doing it a remarkable three years in a row in 2012/13, 2013/14 and now 2014/15. That’s ten editions in total in which Barça have taken all twelve points from their first four matches (or eight as it was in the days of two points for a win).
In 1960/61 Barça had a 9-1 goal difference at this stage of the competition, and in 1984/85 the balance was 10-1. The highest goal difference after four games was 13-2 in 1929/30 until that +11 ratio was equalled in 2009/10 (14-3). Rinus Michels led Barça to their best ever start ever in terms of clean sheets, when Barça went for six games in 1977/78 without conceding a goal, but those matches included 0-0 draws.
Unbeaten keepers
The Barça keeper who has got the furthest into a season without leaking a goal is Pedro María Artola, who lasted for 560 minutes in 1977/78 (six games and twenty minutes). In the 1968/69 season, the legendary Salvador Sadurní went unbeaten for four matches, but let one in after 53 minutes of game five to total 413 minutes without picking the ball out of the back of the net.
Chile’s Claudio Bravo has kept goal for every game so far in the present campaign and has already amassed 360 minutes without conceding. But he’ll need to survive another 200 if he’s going to beat Artola.

Sergi Samper shows his knowledge of Sergio Busquets

09/19/2014

On Barça TV last season, Samper showed he'd been watching Busquets very carefully indeed.On the Barça TV programme “ADN”  a few months ago, Sergi Samper showed how closely he’d been studying Sergio Busquets style of play: “I always said that Xavi was my role model, but over the last few years, because of where I’ve been playing,  I’ve been focussing on Sergio Busquets”, he explained after his midweek debut and in this video he shows that he’s already learnt a lot from the Catalan midfielder.

Nine points in seven days

Nine points in seven days

09/19/2014

IBarça begin a decisive week on Sunday, with three Liga matches in seven days.

Luis Enrique's squad is set to visit Levante (Sunday 21) and Malaga (Wednesday 24), and then host Granada (Saturday 27) .This is going to be a key week for FC Barcelona as they will have three Liga matches in seven days. From Sunday 21 September through Saturday 27th Luis Enrique's squad will have nine points in play, the same number of points that were on the table through the entire first month of the season.

The first six points will be disputed away from the friendly confines of the Camp Nou. Their first match will be at Levante on Sunday, September 21 at 9.00 PM CET. Just 72 hours later on Wednesday 24 the club will face Malaga at 10.00 PM CET. Those will be their last two consecutive away Liga matches until the season's midpoint when they face Deportivo and Elche in weeks 19 and 20.

The third and final test of this week of intensive football will be on Saturday, 27 September at 6.00 PM CET when Barça take on Granada at teh Camp Nou. Champions League football returns following week.