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Inter Milan and Chelsea had dramatically less of the possession and passing than the tikki-takka of Barca but both managed to get over the top of Barca.

Mind you, Barca are one of the best club teams in the past 30 years at least.

That might be because reactive, kick long football has beaten Barca twice in Champion's League in the past 4 years.

Sir Bobby Robson spent a good deal of his management career at Sporting Lisbon, Porto, and Barca without speaking Portuguese or Spanish.

The Barca core that is also the core of Spain and they are phenomenal.

Bayern, Barca and Real, PSG, to a lesser degree Manchester City, have been absolutely dominant in their domestic leagues.

Inter and Pirelli, Barca and Unicef, Arsenal and O2, Newcastle and...

The psychological abilities and lifetime of training at Barca simply molded something that was already there, but there are hundreds of other footballers who trained at Barca the same time Messi did and none of them are Messi.

As a Barca fan I remember the very early compilations.

I have sympathies, grew up in edinburgh consumed by the festival for a month, imagine being a barca local consumed by insta princesses and bucks parties 365.

Although I'm sure Barca will have something equally wondrous.

Not much to add, just wanted to say I thought your presentation at wasm I/O in Barca a couple of weeks ago was amazing and it's great to see this work getting some attention!

A kind of Stone-Age version of Inception is "La Vida Es Sueño" by Pedro Calderón de la Barca written in 1635.

At least in Spanish, my rule of thumb is that "barco" is for bigger boats and "barca" is for smaller ones (and then you have Barça which is the football/soccer team).

From the article: "The main theme in the Spanish Golden Age playwright Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s La Vida es Sueño (Life is a Dream) from 1635 is the contrast between subjective and objective perceptions of reality." Huh?

Fun fact #2: that city was founded by Hasdrubal Barca, father of Hannibal Barca!

Barca built an entire system and slotted the greatest single-team field of all time players to play that system.

It should be noted that this is the oldest trick in the book and not one of Hannibal Barca's innovations.