Sergio Busquets

Barcelona has now resumed their normal training session after the weekend victory of the club over the Sevilla with five points clear of their second-place rivals Real Madrid in the Spanish La Liga table.

Barcelona will now be missing the services of Sergio Busquets, their Spanish international, who will not be turning up for the next weekend’s Primera Division trip to Valladolid because he had bruised his kidney in Barcelona’s 4-0 win over Sevilla on Saturday. Busquets, 21-year-old, has been a regular under coach Pep Guardiola, making 24 appearances this season.

The absence of Sergio Busquets and also of Yaya Toure and Seydou Keita because of the Africa Cup of Nations, may give a push to Pep Guardiola on relying on a substitute in the defensive midfield and youth product Jonathan dos Santos or else the Mexican international Rafa Marquez seem to fit the bill.

Well, it may be known to the clearly what will happen, whether it will rely on substitute or have its own defensive midfield, but football bets are on the high of this unpredictable situation.

World Cup

A game unparalleled in the history of mankind, lavishly and lovingly nurtured to what it is today; football has ventured into popularity unprecedented. How can one miss the excitement that is bound to take the breath away from the layman to the ardent fan? It is only the way the whole surrounding has been shaped with the flavor of the game that is played in about 195 nations of the world. Madness is written all over the sheerness of the game and that has been in the roots for men and women around the world who worship the game as if god existed in the form of football.

The variations of the game now have heightened the viewership and popularity with the league football tournaments that is constantly revealing newer and newer tension and excitement. The world cup, the country specific league football, the champions’ league, and many other small and big tournaments have taken the game into a global up gradation that was lacking until the recent past. What comes with every good thing is a flipside, though.

The economic recession has hit many centers around the world including the whole football arena. The price of football tickets therefore have been remarked and priced with higher tags. This has come as an unpleasant experience for the hardcore fans. The world cup qualification tickets that are priced in a moderate range have been immaculately hiked following the need to ensure the smooth flow of the particular tournament. Football tickets are stuff that dreams are made of for almost all the hardcore fans around the world. The basic happiness of a Manchester United fan would lie in getting the tickets for a league game or the champions’ league match of their team. But with the new pricing system, the costlier tickets are difficult to acquire for a fan of the moderate class.

The ticketing system must be thought about properly in order to understand the inability on the part of the sponsors to provide money for the team itself and their training. The champions’ league tickets are twice the price of league games. Barcelona tickets for their league games are around 130 euro max but for the champions’ league match against Bayern Munich, the prices are around 260 euro. The popularity of the game is directly proportional to the ticketing system and the outcome can only be defended as a necessary step for the team one supports to play well.

Sergio Busquets is very proud to be the son of Carles Busquets (goalkeeper for Barca- 1988-98). As a kid, he went to see his dad at the Camp Nou. He believes that he has gained his own identity and not been known because of his dad.

This young player is flabbergasted right now. It’s like a dream for him. Guardiola was important and he worked hard for him. He tells him that the faster we move the ball, the faster the rival gets tired.

He grew up in a determined environment. He is aware of the fact that he should work hard and not lose head or be overconfident. The advise he gets from his dad is not to lose yourself, to stay in the moment and the most important to think about the day-to-day, because you do not know the tomorrow. He always likes to play touching the ball, quickly, from the start. He is the player in his team that makes most of the fouls. He probably thinks so because of his long legs. He aspires nothing right now as he is living his dream. He just believes to work for the team.

Sergio Busquets is a Spanish footballer. He is currently playing for FC Barcelona in the defensive midfielder position. He is the son of the ‘mythical’ Carles Busquets, who played goalkeeper for the ‘Dream Team’ of Cruyff, during the 1990s.

FC Barcelona is famous for producing young football talents. It has proved this through years by the renowned football players. Another name added to this list is of Sergio Busquets. This young player of 20 years is just beginning to build his personality, inside and outside the field. He is becoming the player of the season and is catching the interest of the big European clubs. Sergio seems to retain the talent of the classic ‘4’ of the house, i.e. the quite time to get the ball, vision and touch to the first game.

He is a player filled with passion and determination. He want’s to be known by his name, ‘Sergio’. His jersey also says ‘Sergio B.’ and not Busquets. His jersey number is 28. He is also playing for the national team Spain-U21 and Catalonia.

Javier Fernandez has been left alone coaching the Badia Juvenil team this season. The team, that’s a fact, is doing great. Just like a poker pro, the team’s strategy has earned them a reputation of being great in the sport.They are the leaders of their league. But Sergio, his nephew, can not help as he had promised at the start of the season. “I will be your assistant,” said Sergio excited. The young boy, 20 years old, responsible, a fanatical football fan and a die-hard culé – he loved Figo until he betrayed him to dress in white – is the who idolized Xavi since he was a child and who is now playing at his side. Sergio Busquets, Javier’s nephew, can not go to his own town every weekend because eight months ago he embarked on a dizzying journey from Badia to the Spanish national team.

And, of course, he has no time for anything. A year and a half ago, Sergio didn’t play in the Tercera because he began the season injured. He did not want to put his family name on the shirt and so he decided to only use the letter B, from Busquets, for his father, and from Burgos, for his mother. A year ago, Guardiola opened the door of Barcelona B and six months ago, that of Barça. Every day is busier than the last. “If you stop and think calmly, you cannot understand what has happened. Since he was a child one could see that he was going to be a professional football player”, said Javier Fernandez on a cold winter’s night after coaching his team.

“Intuitive and simple”
Alongside Javier, leaving an anonymous lonely field in Badia, is Aitor Busquets. He is the brother of Sergio, the other son of Busi, the “goalkeeper without hands”, as he was defined by the French newspaper L’Equipe. None of them have followed the path of their father. Aitor is a left-winger and plays at Badia. Sergio is a skilled midfielder. And he amazes everyone. Guardiola was the first. “He is intuitive, he knows what he needs to do, his game is simple, he doesn’t lose the ball… But he has room for improvement,” says the coach.

In September, the day that he debuted with a tie at the Camp Nou against Racing (1-1), Cruyff’s eyes were illuminated. Hours later, his article in the newspaper announced something big. “Technically superior to Toure and Keita. Positionally, he seems like a veteran. With or without the ball. With the ball he made what is difficult look easy: he disposes of the ball with one or two touches. Without the ball, he gives us another lesson: that of being in the right place to intercept and running just to recover the ball. And all that while being young and inexperienced. The same sins of his coach”, wrote Johan. Back then, nobody believed in Sergio or in the young and inexperienced Guardiola.

Rejected in a test
Sergio, as a child, and despite being the son of, did not pass a test at Barça. And so he left for other fields (Badia, Barberà, Lleida and Jabac Terrassa). There, Rodri, ex-blaugrana player and ex-blaugrana coach, a wise men with a hoarse voice, tortured the ears of Barcelona youth coach Quique Costas every week. “Come, you have to see the son of Busi! You have to see him!” Finally, after much insistence, he went to see him and brought him back to play with the Juvenil team. From being a child that no one wanted, now they were going out to look for him. He rose from the earth to heaven.

The rest is known: he graduated to the first team, his contract has been renewed until 2013, with a buy-out clause of €80 million, he plays defensive pivot, a position that he revolutionized. In the past, small, imaginative and creative players came out of La Masia (Xavi, Iniesta, Cesc …). Now it is him. Tall (1.89 m = 6’2), powerful, capable of fusing the Barça style (thinking before you touch the ball) with the football of the neighborhood, of the street: he has provoked 18 yellow cards and two expulsions from his rivals.