Atlantic Compass Spring 2015

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The Atlantic Compass

Spring 2015

Sports Barcelona Wins Spanish Title By Nick DeMelo The title race was tight, even though only 2 teams really competed against each other, Real Madrid and Barcelona. Atletico Madrid was the third, lagging behind with 77 points even after winning the title last season. Barcelona had many players that contributed to the title this year. Messi scored a total of 41 goals, Suarez with 16, and Neymar with 22. That is a total of 79 goals between just those three players! They scored approximately 73% of all the goals for the team! Messi also leads the team

Vengthlang FC Fatal Celebration Bethlehem died on Sunday, October 19,

By Ben Armour

The 23-year-old soccer player, Peter Biaksangzula, who played for

2014, five days after he scored a goal and tried to somersault and snapped his neck. It was the sixty-second

Photo: Getty

with assists with 18, Suarez with 14, and Xavi with 8. Messi, as you can see has been a huge contributor to the team with 57 goals in all competitions this year. Ronaldo has yet again upped minute when Biaksangzula started a string of somersaults; he awkwardly fell on his neck. He was rushed to the intensive care unit where he was pronounced dead five

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Barcelona yet again wins another league title. Even though Real Madrid was closing on them, they still prevailed. Even though Cristiano Ronaldo got his hattrick against Espanyol, it was still not enough. Barcelona finished the gap on the title with a 1-0 win against Atletico Madrid, and Lionel Messi scored in the 69th minute. They finished with 30 wins, 3 draws, and 4 losses. They only allowed 19 goals, the fewest in the league, and scored 108 goals, which means they had a total goal difference of +89.

Messi with 58. Barcelona are yet still trailing Real, this title makes it their 23 while Real Madrid have won 32.

days later. The team retired his jersey, number 21, and eventually sent out a statement to his family, in honor of him.


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