Weekend Full of Silverware

Unfortunately I didn't get to catch ANY games or highlights of this weekends matches until just now. I was visiting some people in Chicago and was able to go to my first Cubs game. I always love seeing baseball games in different cities for a couple of reasons. I obviously like to see the stadium and compare it to other parks, i like to see what the atmosphere is like, and I like to see whats on the menu. Wrigley is a very cool place. Watching a game in a building that old was great. There was no player into music, no huge HD scoreboard to be seen, no crazy between inning games or kiss cams and everyone sang take me out to the ball game...it was the loudest I have ever heard it sung....and also, everyone there wears black North Face jackets. I mean, I get a kick out of all those things that Wrigley didn't have and it's fun to see those huge scoreboards and kiss cams, but it was nice to go to a game and actually not be distracted by large electronics.We are definitely spoiled with Target Field here in Minneapolis.

Anyways...back to this weekends football.

Barca was an absolute juggernaut this year. They bagged there second La Liga title in as many seasons in a 4-0 win over Real Vollodolid. They won in style only losing once in 38 league games racking up a record 99 total points out of a possible 114. Lionel Messi made defenses look like they were wearing cement shoes as he found the back of the net 47 times in 53 games in all competitions...making him the frontrunner for another FIFA World Player of the Year and Ballon d'Or winner. Absolutely untouchable. Barca also saw improvements with their D, allowing only 24 goals. That is an 11 goal improvement from last years 35. Is that a good season?

Jose Mourinho's Inter Milan is one more trophy away to winning the Treble as his side won their fifth successive Scudetto. They got the better of Roma again this season securing the league title and beating them 1-0 to win the Coppa Italia. To lock up the treble Inter will meet up with Bayern Munich this coming Saturday for the Champions League final at the Bernabeu in Madrid.  You can catch that game on FOX starting at 2:30pm EST. I will be looking forward to Mourinho's talk all summer about how he doesn't like Italy, how he is the greatest football mind, being able to win where ever he goes, and as annoying as it is....it's hard to argue with his resume.

Chelsea sealed their double after an awesome free kick from the Drog. He is a monster of human. ESPN's WC magazine has an awesome picture of him splitting two defenders...he looks 2x the size of them. He followed the goal with this dance.

I watched the highlights from the NSC Minnesota Stars game against Miami FC and Brian Cvilikas couldn't have been anymore unlucky. He'll get his though, he's a tremendous worker and it will pay off. I still haven't been able to make a Minnesota Stars game this year. I've always had other things going on but I'm looking forward to sitting in the beer garden on a nice summer night.

On a WC note, my heart goes to Michael Ballack. He suffered an ankle injury during the FA Cup final from a horrible challenge by Kevin Prince-Boateng. This was most likely be his last chance to win a World Cup and to top the 100 cap mark. He currently sits at 98.  Scheiße!