FC Barcelona and Lionel Messi Nominated for Laureus Award

The nomination list for the prestigious Laureus award, often referred as the OSCAR of Sports has been revealed. FC Barcelona and Lionel Messi has made into the final five nomination for their respective category. Lionel Messi is nominated for the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year Award along with last year's winner Usain Bolt, four time winner Roger Federer, long distance runner Kenenisa Bekele, Tour de France winner Alberto Contador and MotoGP champion Valentino Rossi. FC Barcelona has been nominated for the Laureus World Team of the Year Award along with Los Angeles Lakers, New York Yankees, Germany Women's Football Team, Brawn Formula One and the South Africa Rugby Team. The nominees for Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year Award are Serena Williams, Federica Pellegrini, Britta Steffen, Sanya Richards and Lindsey Vonn. Current Bundesliga Champion Wolfsburg has been nominated in the Laureus World Breakthrough of the Year. In 2006 FC Barcelona has won the Spirit of Sport Award.

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Chygrynskiy Set To Miss Atletico Madrid Match

Guardiola's defensive problems are increasing by the minute. Now Chygrynskiy is out for a week with a slight thigh problem. Chygrynskiy noticed some discomfort in his left thigh in training, the scans revealed a 1.5cm tear. Now with that we have almost all of our defensive players in the squad in the injury list. Plus both Marquez and Pique both are suspended. Now the only option left to Guardiola is to use Keita at left back, Puyol and Milito in defense and Maxwell at right. Another option is to have Muniesa or Fontas as Centre defender and use Puyol as Right Back. But against the likes of Forlan and Aguero that could be suicidal.

Verbal Agreement Reached with Cesc Fabregas

Barcelona based Sports daily Sport and MundoDeportivo both has reported a story about FC Barcelona and Cesc Fabregas reaching an agreement about the players transfer. Joan Laporta, before his tenure expires is expected to bring the Catalan star back to the club. There were reports emerging from England about Arsenal writing to FC Barcelona to stop pursuing their Captain in public. Now the club has to negotiate with Arsenal for the players transfer in the summer. Arsenal is reported to be offering Cesc an improved deal which will see him becoming one of the highest earners in English football. Nobody knows which story is true and we may have to wait till the end of this summer to get an answer. Cesc Fabregas is reported to be increasingly frustrated about the lack of silverware at Arsenal.

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Abidal Out For Two Months

Guardiola will have some sleeples night after his preferred left-back Abidal has been ruled out of action for two months due to a thigh injury. Already Barca will be missing Alves, Toure due to injury and Pique and Marquez due to suspension in Sunday's visit to Atletico Madrid. This put Guardiola in a very tight spot as he has to organise the defense with Milito, Puyol, Chygrynskiy and Maxwell. The injury come to Abidal in a very unfortunate time as he has been in excellent form recently. Maxwell's performance last week at Right back gave an assurance that we may not be missing Alves that much. Now it's all back to square one. Iniesta also returned early from training after suffering a knock on his leg, but the club assured that it was a precautionary step. Marc Bartra and Andreu Fontas from Barca Atletic has been called up as cover for the injuries.

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