He also knows the Camp Nou well from his playing days and will not be fazed by the intense cup-tie atmosphere.
I also get the feeling that a belated return to form of three of their most important players, Tim Howard, Leighton Baines and Phil Jagielka, after an intense World Cup campaign has been crucial to their recent run of games.
As Europe's top leagues close down for the winter break, it's natural for England's Premier League stars to wonder whether they might benefit from something similar ahead of what promises to be an intense World Cup in Brazil next summer.
But there, on a seven-year odyssey, the president of Orlando City is relishing a success story thanks to the steady progress of Major League Soccer, a breakthrough World Cup, an intense local appetite for football and a booming local industry in attracting Brazilian tourists.
A curated group of tech's top early-stage startups will compete for the $50,000 (or about €42,600) grand prize, the coveted Disrupt Cup and intense media and investor interest.
Levein's position has come under intense scrutiny after World Cup qualifying defeats by Belgium and Wales all but ended Scotland's hopes of qualifying for the 2014 World Cup.
It will feature technologists, investors, entrepreneurs and media outlets; Startup Alley, where over 400 pre-Series A companies exhibit; Startup Battlefield, our premier startup pitch competition where a curated group of tech's top early-stage startups will compete for the $50,000 grand prize, the coveted Disrupt Cup and intense media and investor interest.
Between all the training you've done for the role, you've had this intense protein in a cup each show since you started!
Arriving on the west bank, I encounter bright-eyed teenagers giving it the soft sell: "Would you like to see our menu?" Several of the restaurants they're peddling have outdoor terraces clinging to the wall of the Neretva gorge, where patrons sip cups of intense Bosnian coffee while pondering the bridge as it changes colour with the day, from brilliant white to brooding bronze.
"Facing Tiger Woods on the opening morning of my first Ryder Cup was pretty intense.
The Solheim Cup, the most intense competition in women's golf, gets under way this morning at Barseback Golf and Country Club in Loddekopinge.
