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Andres Iniesta To Leave Barcelona At End Of Season

Barcelona legend Andres Iniesta will leave the Spanish club at the end of the season.

The Spain midfielder, 33, has made 669 appearances in 16 seasons, winning 31 trophies with Barca and three major tournaments for Spain.

Iniesta, who has been linked to a move to the Chinese Super League, has not said where he will play next season.

"I said I would never play against Barca so it is not going to be in Europe," he said. 

"We will know at the end of the season - there are still things to talk about."

Iniesta has won the 2010 World Cup, Euro 2008 and Euro 2012 with Spain, as well as four Champions Leagues and eight La Liga titles - soon set to become nine - with Barcelona.

"It is a difficult day for me to be here saying goodbye when I've spent my whole life here," he said in an emotional news conference watched by his family, team-mates and manager Ernesto Valverde.

Fighting back tears, he added: "A great deal of who I am, is down to Barca and La Masia - I am very thankful to them.

Juventus Score Twice In Last Three Minutes To Stun Inter

Serie A leaders Juventus scored twice in the last three minutes to secure a dramatic win over 10-man Inter Milan and maintain control of the title race.

With just one minute remaining, the destination of the title looked to be in Napoli's hands, but Gonzalo Higuain headed home the winner for Juve.

He struck moments after Juan Cuadrado had levelled, as Inter overturned Douglas Costa's opener through Mauro Icardi and an Andrea Barzagli own goal.

Juve are now four points clear Napoli - who have four games to play - can reduce the deficit to one if they win at Fiorentina on Sunday.

But the manner of this Juve win could stun their challengers as the defending champions appeared to have thrown away the lead despite having a one-man advantage for over 75 minutes.

Nadal Claims 400th Clay-Court Win

Rafael Nadal will face Greek teenager Stefanos Tsitsipas in Sunday's Barcelona Open final after claiming his 400th career clay-court victory.
The Spaniard defeated world number 10 David Goffin of Belgium 6-4 6-0.

Tsitsipas, the world number 63, continued the most successful week of his career by beating Spanish fifth seed Pablo Carreno Busta 7-5 6-3.

He becomes the first Greek player to reach an ATP Tour final since Nicholas Kalogeropoulos in Des Moines in 1973.

Nadal, who was coming into the game on the back of 17 consecutive clay-court victories and 42 consecutive sets, lost his first service game to the Belgian, but quickly broke back to recover his composure and went on to ease to victory.

His way to an 11th title in the Spanish city is blocked by 19-year-old Tsistipas, who has yet to drop a set at the tournament and is the youngest Barcelona finalist since Nadal in 2005.

Cavs' NBA Play-Off Hopes In Balance

LeBron James' record of never losing in the first-round of the NBA play-offs is under threat after Cleveland Cavaliers were beaten by the Indiana Pacers.

The Pacers' 121-87 victory on Friday night leaves their best-of-seven series tied at 3-3.

Three-time NBA winner James suffered a cut above his left eye and sat out the third quarter but still hit 22 points.

He has never lost a first-round series but his side will need to win Sunday's home decider to advance.
"They just took it to us [in the third]," he said afterwards.

"They made shots. We missed shots. We didn't counter what they were doing defensively or offensively and it just turned the game wide open."

No other Cavs player scored more than 13 points while the Pacers had a more balanced attack with seven players scoring in double figures.

Victor Oladipo finished with 28 points, 13 rebounds and 10 assists for his first play-off triple double to help level the series.

from Bola Esho's Blog