CHAMPIONS LEAGUE LAST 16 CLASH

MANCHESTER CITY VS BARCELONA

AUGEURO VS MESSI  24 FEBRUARY 2015 2145 LOCAL TIME

ONE of  the  most spectacular with high intensity and interesting  is the next week champions  league last 16 tie as http://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/season=2015/clubs/club=52919/ Manchester city  host Barcelona in England; Etihad stadium. The clash has attracted  the whole globe with soccer fanatics expressing that they cannot  wait  to see the South American gods delivering in the  South American style. IN  comparison, Europe may be beaming to be the best in terms of soccer infrastructural development, so is  AFRICA when it comes  to defensive qualities, but as  for the South American world it is  where football legends are born, the likes of  PELLE the great, Diego Maradona Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Diego Forlan and the present stars such as Lionel Messi, Sergio Aguero,Di Maria, Neymar da Silva and Luis Suarez.-goal.com

SUAREZ, NEYMAR &MESSI David Ramos/ Getty Images

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However, the Barcelona   Manchester  City tie will be  Arguero and  company vs Messi  alongside  Suarez and Neymar. The  way  European matches attract global attention is by and  large a true testimony that African soccer  is still falling short in terms  of  quality of football itself. Many African soccer analysts argue that Africa is behind European football mainly because of economic issues that vex the whole continent of Africa. The greener pastures offered by European football clubs have become a major hook that fish few African talented players at their youngest age. Even without comparing football at continental level, in Zimbabwe alone , when Highlanders play Dynamos and  at  the  same  time Barcelona  play Real Madrid, many Zimbabweans will opt for Barca Madrid  clash on television  than watching their local teams.

African football  therefore need redemption economically to preserve talents from being fished by the Europeans who make their football sport so unique because they get talents from various corners of  the world. The Europe's hegemony therefore does not end  and  cannot  cease since  it is  the  economic power house of  the whole world.


Update 
Machester city lost at home 1 :2 with all goals fired by Luis Suarez with Auguero firing a late consolation.  uefa champions league .comhttp://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/feb/24/manchester-city-v-barcelona-five-things-we-learned-from-champions-league-first-leghttp://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/feb/24/manchester-city-v-barcelona-five-things-we-learned-from-champions-league-first-leg