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Andres Iniesta

FC Barcelona Midfield Genius

An overview of Andres Iniesta during FC Barcelona's triple championship winning 2008-09 season.

Roman Abramovich was about to celebrate Chelsea reaching their second Champions League final on the trot, when Andrés Iniesta wiped the smile from his face.

A right foot shot from the edge of the 12-yard box stopped the Russian multimillionaire dead in his tracks.

'It was a good goal, wasn't it Dad?' asked the crack back home after becoming an overnight Barcelona living legend.

Iniesta only scored one goal in the 2008-09 Champions League campaign but it's already his best-remembered goal in seven seasons on the first team.

Andrés Iniesta - FC Barcelona Midfield Genius

Four days the Manchegan suffered a knee injury in the Camp Nou against Villarreal and his dreams of playing in a second Champions League Final seemed to have gone up in smoke.

But the next day - the day of his 25th birthday - the doctors brought back a smile to his face.

Andrés would be out for the Copa del Rey final but would be fit enough to play against Manchester United in Rome.

Iniesta had already paid the price of the Euro 2008 - two months out at the end of 2008 when he missed Barça's 2-0 victory against Real Madrid in Camp Nou and two more minor stops of two weeks in February and March.

Over the season he provoked 22 yellow cards and received 36 fouls in the Champions.

It seems that defenders think there's only one way to stop Andrés Iniesta.