I did a double take the first time we went to the restaurant at our hotel in Yokohama! My boys, my team, FC Barcelona stayed in this hotel for the FIFA Club World Cup in 2011. They had all their meals right in the restaurant where we were eating! For a fan like me that was downright exciting!!!
And they won! The final against Brazil's Santos was billed as the show down between the current king of football, Lionel Messi, and one of the pretenders to his throne Neymar.
As it was, even Neymar himself was gracious enough to admit that, for now at least, Lionel Messi and Barça are simply in a class of their own. "It's impossible to stop them, " reflected the teenager. "Today, the best team in the world showed us how to play football." Now Neymar and Messi play together for FC Barcelona!!!!
2011 was a great year for all of us Barça fans! In the words of their coach, "In the first half, the players were like artists, whatever they envisioned in their minds, it appeared on the pitch." This was FC Barcelona's 2nd Club World Cup in three years, with the highest number of overall goals and with a record winning margin in the final itself.
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