Big newspaper coverage: Barcelona vs. Milan

Sorry to lie like this. The page space may be big, but I didn’t find anything new other than the information I found in the clubs web site. One of the biggest newspaper here, ‘O Globo’ from Rio, came up today with nothing more than what you can read in the club sites. Globo is a huge media conglomerate that started with a TV station, but it grew to the #1 status in our country, with radio and printed media as well. I can’t believe that with so many Brazilian stars, they didn’t send reporters to go after exclusive news. What came up in their newspaper I already wrote earlier today. If this media empire were in my hands (mwa, ha, ha, ha, haaa) my reporters - and camera crews - would be hunting statements, images, scoops and between-the-lines messages.

Another big newspaper in Rio is the ‘Jornal do Brasil’ and they were more creative when writing the issue, mentioning facts from the past, but they surely were not creative when choosing the photos to illustrate the big confrontation. It’s just the exact same images on both newspapers. That’s just sad. How expensive would be for the mighty ‘Globo’ to send one photographer? Thank God we have cable TV and internet these days!

Read my earlier post here. Barcelona site here and Milan site here.

Messi will play? No word on him ’till now, unfortunately.