BBC Sport - Football/Soccer Champions League final statistics. FC Barcelona - Manchester United 3-1. Also, I show you personalized stamps (USA) about great footballers from Spain (it's a Xavi stamp), and Argentina (it's a...Messi. Love is messy, but who needs squeaky cleanliness?)

Please read: BBC Sport - Champions League final statistics

Also:

"Full-back Patrice Evra paid tribute to Barca's almost telepathic style play which saw them win the European Cup for a second time at Wembley.

"We have to accept that for the last four years Barcelona have been the best team in the world, and United the second," admitted the Frenchman.

"We know each other, but they know each other so well, so perfectly.

"Every time Messi gets the ball he knows Xavi is going to be there, Pedro is going to be there, or Iniesta.

"It was very difficult, Barcelona keep the ball really well.""

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/13587100.stm

http://www.delcampe.com/page/item/id,0041792465,language,E.html

http://www.delcampe.com/page/item/id,0060177030,language,E.html

Please see older posts with label/tag "soccer":

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http://www.zazzle.com/messi_stamp_misspelling_of_messy_postage-172267884447570079?rf=238693463283865848

"Lionel Andrés "Leo" Messi^[3] (Spanish pronunciation: [ljoˈnel anˈdɾes ˈmesi]; born 24 June 1987 in Rosario) is an Argentine footballer who currently plays for FC Barcelona and the Argentina national team as a forward or winger. Considered one of the best football players of his generation,^[4][5][6] Messi received several Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Yearnominations by the age of 21 and won both by the age of 22.^{[7][8][9][10]} He also won the 2010FIFA Ballon d'Or at the age of 23.^[11] His playing style and ability have drawn comparisons to Diego Maradona, who himself declared Messi as his "successor".^[12][13]"

Lionel Messi

Personal information
Full name	Lionel Andrés Messi[1][2]
Date of birth	24 June 1987 (age 23)
Place of birth	Rosario, Argentina
Height	1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Playing position	Forward / Winger
Club information
Current club	Barcelona
Number	10
Youth career
1995–2000	Newell's Old Boys
2000–2004	Barcelona
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2004–2005	Barcelona B	22	(6)
2004–	Barcelona	177	(119)
National team‡
2005	Argentina U20	7	(6)
2008	Argentina U23	5	(2)
2005–	Argentina	55	(16)
Honours[show]
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 21:36, 11 May 2011 (UTC). † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 23:05, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_messi

"Futbol Club Barcelona (Catalan pronunciation: [fubˈbɔɫ ˈkɫub bərsəˈɫonə], Spanish: [ˈfuðβol kluβ βarθeˈlona]), (often known simply as Barcelona and familiarly as Barça (Catalan: [ˈbarsə],Spanish: [ˈbarsa])), is a Spanish professional football club, based in Barcelona, Spain. They play in La Liga, and is one of the only three clubs to have never been relegated, along with Athletic Bilbao and rival Real Madrid. They are the current Spanish and European football champions."

Barcelona

Full name	Futbol Club Barcelona
Nickname(s)	L'equip blaugrana(team) Culers or Culos(supporters) Blaugranes orAzulgranas(supporters)
Founded	November 29, 1899(111 years ago) as Foot-Ball Club Barcelona
Ground	Camp Nou, Barcelona (Capacity: 99,354[1])
President	Sandro Rosell
Manager	Josep Guardiola
League	La Liga
2010–11	1st
Website	Club home page
All-time top scorer	César Rodríguez (235)
Home colours Away colours
Current season

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Barcelona

"Manchester United Football Club is an English professional football club, based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, that plays in the Premier League. Founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, the club changed its name to Manchester United in 1902 and moved to Old Trafford in 1910.

In 1968, under the management of Matt Busby, Manchester United was the first English football club to win the European Cup, ten years after the Munich air disaster that claimed the lives of eight players. The current manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, is the most successful manager in English football history, having won 27 major honours since he took over in November 1986.^[3][4]

Manchester United is the most successful club in English football, having won a record 19 league titles, a record 11 FA Cups ^[5] and four League Cups. The club has also won three European Cups and is the only English club to have been world champions, in 1999 and 2008.

Manchester United is one of the wealthiest and most widely supported football teams in the world.^[6][7][8][9] The club is said to be worth £1.13 billion, making it the most valuable football club in the world.^[10] After being floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1991, the club was purchased by Malcolm Glazer in May 2005 in a deal valuing the club at almost £800 million.^[11]"

Manchester United

Full name	Manchester United Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Red Devils[1]
Founded	1878, as Newton Heath LYR F.C.
Ground	Old Trafford (Capacity: 75,957[2])
Owner	Glazer family
Co-chairmen	Joel & Avram Glazer
Manager	Alex Ferguson
League	Premier League
2010–11	Premier League, 1st
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_United_F.C.

Hot tiger in frigid weather. My UNICATE/UNIKAT maximum card (with my custom postcard from winkflash.com) that I created with the Amur Tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) superb stamp from UK (50th anniversary of WWF). Also, I got on it a world-class (PAD PRINTED) pictorial postmark (tiger), FDOI 22 March 2011, from Dunkeld, Perthshire, UK

That code on the divider line indicates a custom postcard, that I created at winkflash.com.

The mailing address belongs to my friend Ian Billings, my most favorite stamp dealer from UK.

http://www.norphil.co.uk/2011/03b-worldwide_fund_for_nature_wwf.htm

http://www.norphil.co.uk/

http://www.norphil.co.uk/catalog/

I had to provide a UK valid address to comply with the rules of the Royal Mail UK - so it looks like a valid postcard. Then I got from RM the superb postmark on it.

"The Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), also known as the Amur, Altaic, Korean, North Chinese or Ussuri tiger, is a subspecies of tiger which once ranged throughout Western Asia, Central Asia and eastern Russia, and as far east as Alaska during prehistoric times, though it is now completely confined to the Amur-Ussuri region of Primorsky Krai andKhabarovsk Krai in far eastern Siberia, where it is now protected. It is the biggest of the eight recent tiger subspecies and the largest living felid, attaining 320 kg (710 lb) in an exceptional specimen.^[2] Genetic research in 2009 revealed that the current Siberian tiger population is almost identical to the Caspian tiger, a now extinct western population once thought to have been a distinct subspecies."

PR China has many more billionaires in US$ (115), than it has Amur tigers in the wild (20)!

"China says it has nearly 6,000 tigers (of all species) in captivity, but just 50 to 60 are left in the wild, including about 20 Siberian tigers"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amur_tiger

"Based on the Forbes report released on March 2011, there are 1,210 billionaires boasting worth of $4,500 billion as of February 14, 2011. The United States had 413 billionaires with a total net worth of $1,500 billion; Asia had 332 (nearly three times the number two years previously), 115 of whom were in the People's Republic of China); Europe had 300; and the rest of the world had 165."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billionaire

Comrades, comrades!...save the tigers! :)

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