Its supremacy Sunday bordered on the terrifying, especially since the Club World Cup title came just eight days after winning at Real Madrid, probably the only team in Europe that comes close to matching Pep Guardiola's team.
Barcelona boss Pep Guardiola insisted his team would maintain their attacking philosophy at Stamford Bridge and had no complaints about Messi.
In the end Andrei Iniesta's second-half goal -- inevitably set up by Messi -- gave the home side a comfortable buffer and left Pep Guardiola's team on course to defend their title.
Now the Red Foxes' home games are nearly sold out and the fans are entertained by a talented team and a spirited pep band.
Having dropped their first points in La Liga last weekend, Pep Guardiola's star-studded team were then surprisingly humbled 2-1 by Russian champions Rubin Kazan in the Champions League on Tuesday.
The oil cash of the Moratti family went into Inter Milan, the Lauros' ships built up the main Neapolitan team, and the Agnellis' Fiat fortune put pep into Juventus in Turin.
Here, a team of firemen clad in orange jumpsuits receive their last pep talk.
Laporta said the Cameroon striker and his Brazilian team-mate could leave the club as new coach Pep Guardiola looks to bring stability back to Barcelona next season.
Under some of the proposals being floated in the United Kingdom, fast-food giant McDonald's (nyse: MCD - news - people ) would face a ban on its sponsorship of the England football team, as would Pepsi-Cola (nyse: PEP - news - people ), its co-sponsor.
The early part of this century had the then Spain national team manger Jose Antonio Camacho caught between the elegance of players such as Juan Carlos Valeron and Pep Guardiola and more physically imposing players like Ivan Helguera, Ruben Baraja and David Albelda.
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