New year full of surprises

It’s a new year and with it come very exciting events like the Copa Libertadores in South America, and the Concacaf female eliminatory rounds for countries like the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Guatemala, Mexico and Jamaica just to name a few which will make for a very interesting round of matches. Also many of the countries which will be hosted in the 2014 Brazil world cup will be playing their friendly matches for the due preparations. Last but not least are the matches for Copa Del Rey which has shown that even the 2^nd and 3^rd tier teams can give worthy performances against better funded teams like for Example in the matches between Albacete and Athletic Bilbao and matches involving teams like Santander, Atletico Madrid and others. Yesterday Barcelona beat Osasuna 4-0 in a game in which Messi did not intend to play due to catching the flu, but which he joined later in the game to score twice for the team.