David Villa

[El Flaco]

David Villa: "The key moment of my transfer to Barça was a call from Guardiola. He said he wanted me in his team, explained where I would play. When I put down the phone, I told my agent: 'I want to play at Barça, salary or contract duration don't matter'."

 

[La Furia]

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[Barcaman]

Don't like it when they take pictures when they do it.

 

[Flavia]

It wasn't Villa taking the pics.

 

[Barcaman]

Obviously Villa didn't take it as he is in the pic. Makes no difference. He is in the picture.

 

[Flavia]

It wasn't from anyone related to him. The guy recognized him and took the pics. He didn't buy food for them to get attention.

 

[Aryagorn]

Yes.... Stupid pics of someone doing a good deed actually take the shine off it!

 

[Barcaman]

What?

Good on Villa for doing it. I just hate it when they make it public like that as if wanting pat on the back.

 

[Flavia]

It wasn't Villa who made it public. He didn't do it to get pats on his back.

 

[khaled_a_d]

What?

Good on Villa for doing it. I just hate it when they make it public like that as if wanting pat on the back.

I am not sure ,are you blaming Villa or blaming the guy for invading his privacy and posting such a picture which made it look like that?

 

[Barcaman]

I'm not blaming anyone. I just don't like when they make public stunts of act of charity. It's poor taste. And now that you mention it, yes. For some it is also invading privacy.

 

[Darko]

Miss this guy, glad he's tearing it up in the states.

 

[Trickykid]

Miss this guy, glad he's tearing it up in the states.

I'm glad he's doing well too (well, at least he's enjoying his retirement in the States), but do I miss him? Not really, no.

I've always felt he was a bit of a disappointment in Barça. Sure, that injury really messed it up for him, but even so I expected more from him. I wonder what his legacy here would be, had it not been for those goals against Los Merengues and the one in the ChL final.

 

[BarcaOG]

Nothing about that picture suggests it was Villa's intention to have the moment photographed.

Let's face it: people will always follow stars like him around (even if they try to be coy, like Villa is doing in that picture with his hood up). What he did is good--and if people (you can tell there are 3-5 people around) are taking pictures, well, Villa can't do anything about that.

I live in Vancouver and, when Villa and NYFC came to play the Vancouver Whitecaps, they trained in a field five minutes from where I live. Literally hundreds of people came out to watch them, take pictures and to ask for autographs. If that was here in Vancouver, imagine what it would be like in a city like New York.

 

[CuleLife4Life]

The pic looks like someone caught Villa doing it. Doesn't look like it was his team that released it or else they'd get a better shot.