SPANISH FOOTBALL SPORTS BLOG WISHES A HAPPY 2011 TO EVERYONE

To all the readers & visitors of Spanish Football Sports Blog, thank you for your support during 2010. My views, manners & ways may not serve & be in accord with everyone but at least I try to keep many people in far away shores & who can´t read Spanish up to date with all the Big Spanish Football & Sports news.

Will keep the stories coming in during 2011 & with your support it will be better. I

SPAIN | 2010 THE BIGGEST HISTORICAL YEAR IN SPANISH SPORTS

2010 has been a spectacular year for SPANISH SPORTS. There has been many moments with great & grand victories in team & individual competitions. For Spanish Football Sports Blog there has been three magical moments that comes immediately to mind: in Football the FIFA World Cup victory & World Championship in South Africa, in Tennis Rafael Nadal with his 3 Grand Slam victories (French, Wimbledon &

ACB SPANISH BASKETBALL | REGAL BARCELONA 95 - REAL MADRID 75

Big night of ACB SPANISH BASKETBALL action with REAL MADRID travelling to BARCELONA for the big Spanish Basketball Derby. Real Madrid went into this game as ACB Table leader & full of confidence to attempt to win in a traditional doom stadium & thus find revenge for past defeats.

The end result was a FC (REGAL) BARCELONA demolition job with a 95 - 75 win over Real Madrid that puts Barça sharing

ATLETICO DE MADRID PRESENTS NEW SIGNING ELIAS

Thought our Brazilian readers & global ATLETICO DE MADRID fans may be interested in seeing the new signing ELIAS MENDES from Corinthians with the Atletico shirt on. Although the players is already training with the squad the Club presented their new midfielder to the national media this afternoon. 



Elias presented as Atletico player
One wonders if Elias has a sense of humour when he commented

REAL MADRID | DANI PAREJO TO RETURN NEXT SEASON

DANI PAREJO was literally born, raised & educated at REAL MADRID. A young promise that has risen through all the junior sides of the Spanish National Team the player simply had too many "A" Internationals ahead of him at Madrid. The solution was to transfer the young man to GETAFE with a first buy-back option, to allow their promise to continue playing & gaining experience in the Spanish League.

SPANISH TENNIS | RAFAEL NADAL NAMED SPORTSMAN OF THE YEAR BY "L´EQUIPE"

Spanish Sports has had an incredible 2010 & now the individual Spanish Sportsman involved in the various disciplines are being recognized for their efforts. French media network "L´Equipe" ( web, magazine & TV ) has named 24 year old Spanish Tennis player RAFAEL NADAL "Champion of Champions" - "Best Sportsman of the Year" - for 2010. This is in recognition for his three Tennis Grand Slam

FC BARCELONA WINS THE XV FOOTBALL 7 - U/12 - INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT

FC Barcelona Champions U -12


FC BARCELONA proclaimed itself Champions of the XV Football 7 International Youth Tournament (12 year olds) after defeating REAL MADRID CF in the FINAL & in the penalty shoot-out. The Tournament was played in the Canary Islands & grouped the finest Youth Clubs from Spain & Europe.




Real Madrid U-12 Runners Up


Real Madrid played better during the 40 mins (two

REAL MADRID - INTER MILAN | KAKA IS NOT GOING ANYWHERE

Did not wish to get into this but the persistent rumours have made it that I would like to inform the global REAL MADRID fans that KAKA is NOT going anywhere fast. Yes, there has been news from Italy that INTER MILAN wanted the Brazilian on loan for the rest of the season & even a transfer was mentioned at some point by some Italian media source. Yes, the rumours are that Inter was sending "spies

VIDEO | BENJAMIN AGUERO MARADONA SHOWS HE HAS FOOTBALL IN HIS DNA

Seeing we are in the Christmas festive season. Here is a human story that is related to Spanish Football & Atletico de Madrid. Argentine star SERGIO AGUERO has placed on his official web site a video of his son BENJAMIN AGUERO MARADONA in action. 



Benjamin with dad Sergio Aguero
As you can see clearly in the video young Benjamin has the DNA of grandfather DIEGO MARADONA & his dads from the

UNITED STATES SPORTS ACADEMY NAMES DAVID VILLA SPORTSMAN OF THE YEAR

Interesting news from the United States where the US Sports Academy has awarded FC BARCELONA forward & Spanish International DAVID VILLA the "Best Sportsman in the World" for 2010, tipping in second place Spanish Tennis ace RAFAEL NADAL



David Villa
The votes came in via the webs of NBC Sports & USA Today which prized the performance of David Villa during this years World Cup with his goals &

SPANISH FOOTBALL | WINTER TRANSFER MARKET 2011

Back posting after a brief Christmas Break were I hope that you have had some wonderful days of relax, family warmth & lots of presents. The Spanish Football scene is relatively quiet as the Spanish League is enjoying their Xmas Break with news being generated by the rumours of new incorporations as of January 2011 



Affeley presented as new Barça player

The winter “Transfer Market” kicks in

SPANISH CUP 2010 - 2011 | WEDNESDAY NIGHT GAMES RESULTS | BIG SCORES HAT-TRICKS FROM BENZEMA CRISTIANO RONALDO ULLOA

Big night of SPANISH CUP action with the remaining five games scheduled with goals galore, multiple hat-tricks & a grand way for Spanish Soccer to go on its Xmas break. Here are quick summaries of the games, the results & the scorers.



Benzema hat-trick man

REAL MADRID won 8 -  0 LEVANTE to assure its pass to the next stage of the Spanish Cup & calm the waters at the Club after a tense couple

MALAGA FC | BAYERN MUNICH DEFENDER MARTIN DEMICHELIS ON LOAN UNTIL JUNE 2011

Having a look today through Spanish Sports daily "AS" I was taken back to see that BAYERN MUNICH & Argentine International defender MARTIN DEMICHELIS will be a MALAGA player after Christmas. The 30 year old come as a LOAN until the end of June 2011 & then Malaga has a 3M€ option to keep the defender with a buy if they choose to exercise the option.



Demichelis for Bayern Munich

The player is

SPANISH CUP 2010 - 2011 | TUESDAY NIGHT GAMES RESULTS | FC BARCELONA AT BILBAO VALENCIA CF VILLAREAL DEPOR CORDOBA

SPANISH CUP action tonight with three matches that all gave the same result. Here is a quick summary of the away leg games, the results & scorers.



Mata hits the wood-work


VALENCIA held out an "unrecognizable" VILLAREAL & threw everything at them in attack but only managed to finish with a 0 - 0 draw result. Valencia was the better team & even hit the "wood-work" apart from  "suffocating" the

REAL MADRID CF | MOURINHO vs VALDANO | THE AFTER SHOCKS OF A 5 - 0 DEFEAT AT BARCELONA

Hi guys. I realize that the apparent big story in SPANISH FOOTBALL is the José Mourinho Press Confrenece outburst last Sunday & that you maybe expecting a comment on this Blog. 


The Real Madrid Coach slammed the Club for not "defending" the team & himself against what he sees as blatant bias from the Spanish referees & Football Authorities. He stated that he doesn´t feel backed by the Club

SPANISH FOOTBALL | 2010 - 2011 SPANISH LEAGUE - LA LIGA | ROUND 16 | MONDAY NIGHT RESULT | RACING 0 HERCULES 0

The Spanish League concluded Round 16 & 2010 with the Monday night game between RACING DE SANTANDER & HERCULES FC with a final result of 0 - 0. Not much to add here except two sides relatively conservative with a balanced spread of chances that both didn´t take adavantage of & take the full 3 points. In fact, the draw was the just result.



Racing - Hercules conclude the Spanish League
for 2010.

VILLAREAL FC 2010 CHRISTMAS VIDEO

Did you know that Santa Claus was a VILLAREAL FC fan? The Father of Christmas also knows how to play a mean lounge Football.

This is a VIDEO whipped up by Villareal FC to wish everyone a Merry Christman with Rossi ( Pizzaman), Cazorla, Capdevila, Diego Lopez & Gonzalo.

SPANISH HANDBALL | CIUDAD REAL 34 FC BARCELONA 31 | ASOBAL CUP 2010 FINAL

I agree SPANISH HANDBALL doesn´t get the exposure it should, I am the first to criticise, but Football is so big & dominates so much the local scene that this happens. Plus the blog is a personal "hobby" with limited time in my hands & unfortunately for Handball fans I have to sway to what the majority wish to read. But Spanish has the strongest League & most of the Best Players in Europe

SPANISH FOOTBALL | 2010 - 2011 SPANISH LEAGUE - LA LIGA | ROUND 16 | SUNDAY GAMES RESULTS

SPANISH FOOTBALL & Round 16 Spanish League - La Liga action continued tonight with four intense games. Here is the habitual quick review of all four encounters with the results & the scorers.



Big game from Tiago tonight for Atletico

ATLETICO DE MADRID visited MALAGA & managed to get away with a 0 - 3 victory. A night of strategy & dead ball situtations which Atletico managed to exploit to the

LA LIGA - SPANISH LEAGUE - SPANISH FOOTBALL 2010 - 2011 | ROUND 16 | SATURDAY GAMES RESULTS

Spanish Football celebrated five Spanish League - La Liga matches tonight as part of the Round 16 schedule with plenty of goals & action. Here is a quick snap-shot view of the games played, results & scorers.



Nilmar back scoring

VILLAREAL shook off their surprise defeat last week to Getafe & got back into the winning groove with a comfortable 3 - 1 victory over MALORCA. It was CAZORLA who got

THE REAL MADRID CHRISTMAS PRESENT | KAKÁ

Kaka running today with group at
Real Madrid training.

KAKÁ is the Christmas present that Santa Claus has brought to REAL MADRID CF. The Brazilian is back training with the team & running. The training is light & no risks will be taken as the Club & the Brazilian star wish to come back in 100% conditions. If things keep going as scheduled Kaká will be able to sit on the Real Madrid bench end

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - EUROPA LEAGUE 2010-2011 DRAW | 5 SPANISH CLUBS Know their NEXT RIVAL

The last 16 Top European Clubs know their next opponent & their next match in the CHAMPIONS LEAGUE. The competition enters the "knock-out" stage & the draw has paired some very interesting clashes that begin with the away leg the 15-16 Feb 2011.


The three Spanish Football Teams have a "relative" easier draw than the other Clubs, with the exception of FC Barcelona who will meet a difficult

XAVI HERNANDEZ - JOSE MOURINHO - SPAIN FOOTBALL TEAM PRIZED BY "WORLD SOCCER" BEST OF 2010

Spanish Interenational & FC BARCELONA midfielder XAVI HERNANDEZ has been chosen by Soccer online Magazine "World Soccer" as the "World Player of the Year". He is joined by REAL MADRID Coach JOSE MOURINHO as the "Manager of The Year" & the SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM  as the "Team of the Year"



Xavi Hernandez
Here are the final standings:

World Player of the Year
% of votes
1 Xavi (

EUROPA LEAGUE 2010 - 2011 GROUP H RESULT | GETAFE 1 YOUNG BOYS 0

SPANISH FOOTBALL Team GETAFE had already said goodbye to the EUROPA LEAGUE before tonights Group H match against YOUNG BOYS. The Madrid Club utilized the game to give a run to four youngsters from the B team & the result was impressive with a 1 - 0 victory. The goal came in the 14th min via ADRIAN SARDINERO & the win at least smooth somewhat the disappointing exit from Europe for Getafe.

Getafe

EUROPA LEAGUE 2010 - 2011 GROUP B RESULT | BAYERN LEVERKUSEN 1 ATLETICO DE MADRID 1 | ATLETICO SAY GOODBYE TO EUROPE

A miracle was needed if ATLETICO DE MADRID was to continue in this seasons EUROPA LEAGUE. The current Champions needed to win at BAYERN LEVERKUSEN & have Greek team Aris Salonika draw or lose their clash against Rosenborg. In the end the Group B Bayern Leverkusen game with Atletico de Madrid finished in a 1 - 1 draw, while Aris Salonika defeated Rosenborg 2 - 0 thus knocking out the Spanish Club.

REAL MADRID TENSIONS 2010 | THE QUANTUM PHYSICS OF WINNING - "THE IRON LAW" OF FOOTBALL

We mentioned here that the 5 – 0 defeat of REAL MADRID at the hands of FC BARCELONA would have lasting “after-shocks” & lingering effects. Not only was the loss a setback classification wise, but a heavy blow on the Clubs moral & psychological levels, along with the coming to the surface of some in-house tensions that have been the talk of the press the last few days.


The Club has some

EUROPA LEAGUE 2010 - 2011 GROUP RESULTS | BRUGAS 1 VILLAREAL 2 SEVILLA FC 2 BORRUSIA DORTMUND 2

Two Spanish Clubs participated tonight in their respective EUROPA LEAGUE Groups with good news coming out of both. Here is a quick summary of the games, the results & the goal scorers.



Rossi scores for Villareal 

Belgium Club BRUGAS lost their Group D match against VILLAREAL 1 - 2. The Spanish Club with this victory finishes Top of the Group & assures its place in next Fridays UEFA draw for

VIDEO | ZINEDINE ZIDANE SKILLS | OLYMPIAKOS 2 ALL STARS 2

REAL MADRID CF Presidential Advisor, Ambassador & First Team  "Consultant"  ZINEDINE ZIDANE was in action last night alongside with ex Real Madrid team-mate RONALDO (side-lined) to play a fund-raiser against Greek team OLYMPIAKOS. The "All Star" Team raised funds against Hunger & finished 2 - 2 against the local side.

Here is a video piece of Zidane & his super skills. He did say he retired too

FIFA RANKING 2010 | SPAIN "TEAM OF THE YEAR" | 3RD YEAR IN A ROW

FIFA has handed in its final World Team Rankings for 2010 with SPAIN still Nº1 & finishing 2010 with the “National Football Team of the Year” title. That´s not the news, the highlight is that this honour goes to Spain for the third year running.



Spanish National Football Team 2010
Here are the Top 20 National Teams for 2010 according to FIFA:

1. Spain 1887 Pts
2. Holland 1723
3. Germany 1485

IKER CASILLAS - DIEGO FORLAN RECEIVE THEIR WORLD CUP 2010 AWARDS WITH MULLER

Spanish National Football Team International & Goalkeeper IKER CASILLAS was today awarded the “Golden Glove Award” as the “Best Goalkeeper in the World” after his impressive & decisive 2010 World Cup performance. At the same ceremony Uruguayian International Forward DIEGO FORLAN received his “Best Player of the World Cup 2010 Tournament” & German International THOMAS MULLER received his “Golden

VIDEO | THE 150 GOALS BY LIONEL MESSI FOR FC BARCELONA

A “YouTube” user from Argentina with the nik “youtuveXD3” has set up his channel & has posted so far only 3 videos. Two of those are part 1 & 2 of LIONEL MESSI scoring all his 150 goals for FC BARECLONA so far with the exception of last week. Here are both those videos for you.


If you have 30 minutes (difficult) you can see all the goals. Excellent goals most of them & a real good indicator of

SPANISH FOOTBALL | SPANISH LEAGUE - LIGA 2010 - 2011 | ROUND 15 | MONDAY GAME RESULT | VALENCIA 3 OSASUNA 3

One of the best games of Round 15 occurred tonight with the last scheduled match of the Spanish League - La Liga down between VALENCIA CF - OSASUNA with a total of 6 goals seen & a superb match to watch.


Stankevius scores for Valencia

The first half was all Valencia CF who started strong dominating affairs & opening the score line in the 24th min by SOLDADO from a Mata pass. Things were

VIDEO | FC BARCELONA 5 REAL SOCIEDAD 0 | LESSON: THE ART OF FOOTBALL

Please use this video to teach future Football-Soccer players the "art of the game". The match was yesterdays FC Barcelona 5 Real Sociedad 0. The commentator is close - if he has not already - to cuming...& I understand him perfectly. It´s possibly the highest level of Football-Soccer at this moment in the World & perhaps in History. Call the kids...



If "YouTube" takes this off, they don´t

ATLETICO DE MADRID | SIMAO LEAVES FOR BESIKTAS IN 2011 WINTER TRANSFER MARKET

Turkish Club BESIKTAS have announce & made official via their Web the Winter Market Transfer of ATLETICO DE MADRID player SIMAO. The charismatic midfielder finishes contract & Atletico wished to make some cash before Simao became a free agent at of the 1st of January. The economic details have not been made available & the Portuguese player will join ex Real Madrid player Guti & Coach Schuster.

VIDEO | CRISTIANO RONALDO FREE KICK GOAL AGAINST ZARAGOZA REACHES 105 KM/HR

Here is the VIDEO of the CRISTIANO RONALDO direct free-kick goal that put REAL MADRID two goals ahead against ZARAGOZA last night.

Spanish press has estimated the speed of the ball, a rapid 105 Km/ Hr. No wonder Zaragoza keeper Franco did not move, few would have & for what purpose. 

SPANISH FOOTBALL | SPANISH LEAGUE - LIGA 2010 - 2011 | ROUND 15 | SUNDAY GAMES RESULTS

SPANISH FOOTBALL Sunday Round 15 action with six games , & as Saturday, with some surprise results that keeps the Spanish League - La Liga bubbling with anticipation & talk. Here is a brief run down of events with the results & the scorers.



At. Bilbao stops the Espanyol run of wins

Playing a match at ATHLETIC DE BILBAO is always a difficult affair as the "Lions" roar with the support of their

SPANISH FOOTBALL | SPANISH LEAGUE - LIGA 2010 -2011 | ROUND 15 | SATURDAY GAMES RESULTS

Saturday night Round 15 Spanish League - La Liga action with three games & some eye lifting surprises. Here is a brief summary of the games, results & the scorers.



Almeria "knock out" Sevilla FC

Big surprise result at Sevilla with the local team going down 1 - 3 to lower table survivor  ALMERIA. SEVILLA FC confirmed their "downward spiral" as tonights match was one of their worst to date.

FC BARCELONA HISTORICAL - RECORD BREAKING SPONSORSHIP DEAL | WHERE DO I PLACE UNICEF NOW?

Not much "great impact" news today in reference to SPANISH FOOTBALL to transfer onto you, except with the news of Spanish Sports being "rocked" by the presumed "doping ring" with well known Athletic Sportsman being apparently involved with trafficking & doping. While an important issue & a news generator  I don´t wish to get into details here as I follow the "presume innocent until proven guilty"

REAL MADRID CF ALSO HAS YOUTH TEAMS & PROGRAMME

REAL MADRID has reacted to the comments & criticisms that they have left aside their youth teams & programme. The announcements that this years FIFA Golden Ball 2010 candidates are all FC Barcelona players – Iniesta, Xavi & Messi – of which all three were nourished in the Barça youth teams (La Masia) has lead to comments that puts in doubt Real Madrid capacity to breed new talent. Long missed are

SPANISH FOOTBALL SPORTS BLOG SURPASSES 1.500.000 UNIQUE VISITS

SPANISH FOOTBALL SPORTS BLOG has surpassed the 1.500.000 unique visitors. The readership stats show that it is popular in the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, Africa & bigger than big in Asia: THANK YOU!!!


I would never have imagined this "hobby" would get so far. There are people who dislike the blog - naturally, would not expect anything else - but the majority show their

FOOTBALL FINANCE | FC BARCELONA TO ACCEPT RECORD UNIFORM SPONSORSHIP DEAL

Money makes the World go around & in this case the Football World. FC Barcelona President was advised by his economic team that the Club was sacrificing 25M€ approx. per year for not accepting sponsorship on their uniform. The current “UNICEF” is a goodwill act that doesn’t report any cash inflow to the Club.


With the Barça balance sheet “dry” on the left side, Barcelona has decided to accept

ITALIAN SPORTS PAPER GIVES SPANISH COACH VICENTE DEL BOSQUE 2010 FIFA "BEST COACH" AWARD

Italian Sports daily “La Gazzetta dello Sport” picked beforehand & rightly the three candidates of the FIFA Golden Ball (Iniesta, Xavi & Messi) announcing that Wesley Sneijder would be left out. They have even published that due to “inside” information the winner of the 2010 FIFA Golden Ball would be Andres Iniesta.


Today the same Italian Sports paper publishes via their “inside” informer that

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2010 - 2011 | THE LAST 16 TEAMS

Champions League is now down to the last 16 teams & UEFA will celebrate the team match - up draw at Lyon (France) the 17th of December. The procedure is fairly simple: Top Group Clubs in one bowl & second Group placed teams in the other, with Clubs from the same country avoiding each other, ie neither Real Madrid nor Barça can play against Valencia CF



For the three Spanish Clubs (Real Madrid,

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GROUP G 2010 - 2011 RESULT | REAL MADRID 4 AUXERRE 0 | BENZEMA HAT-TRICK

The last Spanish Club with CHAMPIONS LEAGUE duties tonight was REAL MADRID hosting French team AUXERRE in their Group G match. The Spanish side lined up an "alternative team" to give some of the substitutes a run while Xabi & Ramos served suspensions  & Casillas, Ozil, Di Maria & Khedira had a rest. The opening 11 were:

Dudek; Arbeloa, Albiol, Carvalho, Marcelo; Lass, Granero, Diarra; Pedro León

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GROUP C D RESULTS | MANCHESTER UNITED 1 VALENCIA CF 1 - FC BARCELONA 2 RUBIN KAZIN 0

Two Spanish Clubs participated in their respective Champions League Group matches with relative good results. Both teams assured their presence in the next phase of the competition & will be in the draw on the 17th of December at Lyon (France) to match up the teams for the knock-out home & away legs/stages.



Pablo Hernandez scores


VALENCIA CF was looking for a victory in their Group C match

REAL MADRID 2010 | HIGUAIN TO AVOID SURGERY ON HIS BACK

Good news for the REAL MADRID Club, their many fans & for GONZALO HIGUAIN. The Argentine International will avoid surgery on his back & will recovery from a disc hernia with a more "conservative" treatment. After visiting medical specialists it has been decided that surgery can be discarded & thus reduce radically the recovery time. Higuain has began treatment & could be out of action as long as

FERNANDO TORRES A FATHER AGAIN - NAME OF SON IS LEO | 2010

Spanish Football International & Liverpool FC player FERNANDO TORRES is again Father. His wife Olalla gave birth to a healthy boy during the Liverpool Premier League match against Aston Villa.


The name of the new "Torres" is LEO. Torres already has a daughter named Nora which came into the "World" a year & half ago.



The Torres Family

From Spanish Football Sports Blog a huge congratulations

SPANISH FOOTBALL | SPANISH LEAGUE - LIGA 2010 -2011 | ROUND 14 | DEPORTIVO 1 HERCULES 0

The last match of Round 14 of the Spanish League - La Liga Football was played tonight between DEPORTIVO - HERCULES. A very tactical game which looked more like a chess match with each side moving & countering their set pieces in a dsiciplined fashion. The Goalkeepers were both busy tonight & their interventions were important.

However, it was a Deportivo strategic piece that gave them the

FIFA GOLDEN BALL 2010 | ANDRES INIESTA XAVI HERNANDEZ LIONEL MESSI THE THREE CANDIDATES

Now its official. FIFA has announced today the three candidates for the 2010 FIFA Golden Ball Award. All three currently play for FC BARCELONA, Andres Iniesta - Xavi Hernandez - Lionel Messi - with the winner to be announced on the 10th of Janaury 2011 in Zurich. 



Messi, Iniesta & Xavi


The big surprise was the non-inclusion of Inter Milan player Wesley Sneijder whos place was taken by Messi.

VIDEO | ELIAS - NEW ATLETICO DE MADRID SIGNING

Brazilian & Corinthians 25 year old midfielder ELIAS is headed to Atletico de Madrid & will arrive in the "Winter Market" this Juanuary 2011. Here is a taste of what the man can do & hoping he can transfer it to Atletico:

SPANISH FOOTBALL | SPANISH LEAGUE - LIGA 2010 -2011 | ROUND 14 | SUNDAY GAMES RESULTS

Big Sunday of Spanish Football with six games played of Round 14 in the Spanish League - La Liga. Here are all the results, a brief summary & the scorers.



Luis Garcia scores the winner for Espanyol

RCD ESPANYOL keep up their winning run & stay undefeated at home after winning 1 - 0 REAL SPORTING DE GIJON. It was a "controversial" match as a clear penalty to Gijon was not called. Espanyol

WINTER TRANSFER MARKET 2011 | ATLETICO DE MADRID CLOSE TO SIGNING CORINTHIANS MIDFIELDER ELIAS

According to Spanish Sports paper "AS", ATLETICO DE MADRID is on the verge of signing 25 year old Brazilian & CORINTHIANS midfielder ELIAS MENDES TRINIDADE for a price of around 7M€. The player has Portugueses Club Benfica asking & interested as well but it seems that the player will end up in Atletico as of this January 2011.



Elias for Corinthians
Corinthians is fighting with Fluminense for

ITALIAN PRESS GIVES FC BARCELONA PLAYER ANDRES INIESTA THE FIFA GOLDEN BALL 2010

Last Friday I posted ( see below ) news from Barcelona Sports paper "Mundo Deportivo" that mentioned that FC Barcelona midfielder XAVI HERNANDEZ would be the winner of the 2010 FIFA Golden Ball Award according to a survey done to 75 Football personalities. The second place was for team-mates Andres Iniesta & third place for Lionel Messi. The interesting news was that Inter Milan player Wesley

SPANISH FOOTBALL | SPANISH LEAGUE - LIGA 2010 -2011 | ROUND 14 | SATURDAY GAMES RESULTS

The SPANISH LEAGUE - LA LIGA celebrated three games tonight as part of Round 14. Here are all the results, a brief summary of each match & the scorers.



Out of place Atletico de Madrid

ATLETICO DE MADRID have entered a worrying downward spiral that saw them visit LEVANTE & lose 2 - 0. Something is not right at Atletico & proof is that they did not get to the opposition goal until the 46th min

SPAIN FOOTBALL TEAM PHOTO 2010

Here is the very latest SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM photo. Found it surfing the Web & thought many of the readers may wish to add it to their collection of images. 



Spain National Team 2010

L to R Top: Casillas, Sergio Ramos, Busquets, Pique, Capdevila & Xavi Alonso
L to R Bottom: Silva, Iniesta, Villa, Xavi Hernandez & Puyol

REAL MADRID | KAKA RUNNING & ON TRACK FOR 2011 RECOVERY

Good news & a great image below for Real Madrid fans & all World Football followers. Brazilian midfielder KAKA began running today at the Real Madrid training session as he takes his recovery onto the "next" level. Kaka had his knee operated last August & has been following very closely & with care his special therapy programme to which the specialist have given the "green light" to begin running

SPANISH PAPER PREDICTS XAVI HERNANDEZ WINNER OF FIFA GOLDEN BALL AWARD 2010

Barcelona based Sports Daily “Mundo Deportivo” has elaborated their own survey on which players are the favourites for this year FIFA Golden Ball Award 2010. According to the paper they have interviewed 75 World Football personalities; active players, international Coaches & retired prestigious players, to give an orientation of how things will go before FIFA announces officially the 3

EUROPA LEAGUE 2010 - 2011 GROUP MATCHES | VILLAREAL WINS SEVILLA FC LOSE

Mixed night for Spanish Teams playing their EUROPA LEAGUE group matches with a win & a loss. Here is a brief summary with the results & the scorers of the Villareal & Sevilla FC games.



Rossi : photo courtesy of marca.com

VILLAREAL took their great Spanish League form into their European Group D  participation with another solid performance defeating Croatian Club DYNAMO ZAGREB 3 - 0.

EUROPA LEAGUE 2010 - 2011 GROUP B H MATCHES | RESULTS | ATLETICO DE MADRID 2 ARIS SALONIKA 3 OB ODENSE 1 GETAFE 1

Not a good night for SPANISH FOOTBALL in the two games played of the EUROPA LEAGUE Group matches. Here are the results & the scorers from the already mentioned games.



Short lived joy for Aguero who scored.

ATLETICO DE MADRID hosted Greek side ARIS SALONIKA & needed a win to secure the second Group B spot to move on in the competition. Instead they lost 2 - 3 & have complicated seriously

REAL MADRID 2010 | HIGUAIN INJURY, RONALDO INJURY, RED CARD SUSPENSIONS, UEFA FINES... | BAD WEEK

How Football can change the course of Clubs & the life of persons is already well known. REAL MADRID is understanding the saying that goes “…when it rains it pours” as today was confirmed that Argentine forward GONZALO HIGUAIN has a back hernia that may put him out of action 3 months. The player was tested this morning & the injury was confirmed & now it has to be decided if he undergoes

FOOTBALL - SOCCER LESSONS | FC BARCELONA "EL CLASICO" | THE 2º GOAL XAVI HERNANDEZ | VIDEO

The Monday night Spanish League - Liga Round 13 match, otherwise known as "El Clasico", between FC BARCELONA & REAL MADRID  (5 - 0) is still causing news & analysis. This time from a more technical angle from Football lovers & professionals whom have enough material to study & show students the "Art" of playing Football: touch Football.

FC Barcelona has implanted a style that has become World

SPAIN FOOTBALL U-17 | U-19 | PRE - EUROPEAN GROUP DRAW RESULTS

Believe it or not there is more to Spanish Football after the 5-0 victory of Barça over Real Madrid in the Spanish League last night. The sport continues with more & bigger games & tournaments to play.


This afternoon the pre-European u-17 & u-19 Groups were drawn ay the UEFA Headquaters & teams were allocated with the following results for the Spanish National Teams.


In the u-17 category

VIDEOS | CRISTIANO RONALDO GUARDIOLA | SERGIO RAMOS RED CARD INCIDENTS | FC BARCELONA 5 - REAL MADRID 0 2010

The "shock-wave tremors" continue 12 horas after yesterdays “earthquake” in Barcelona (Camp Nou) after FC BARCELONA won 5 – 0 REAL MADRID in the “Clasico”,the first of season 2010 – 2011. The game was tense, very hard played & with emotions strong with two clear incidents that stand out from the game. Many readers have emailed requesting a post with the VIDEOs of the incidents & I have found

FC BARCELONA TEAM PHOTO 2010 | EL CLASICO | STARTING 11

Here is the FC BARCELONA starting 11 line-up that faced REAL MADRID tonight in "El Clasico" & won 5 - 0. I suspect that many Barça fans who read Spanish Football Sports would appreciate the team photo for their records. Tonight´s victory marks the 5th straight victory over Real Madrid.



FC Barcelona Team Photo - vs Real Madrid 29th Nov 2010

















L to R top: Abidal, Pedro,Busquets,

VIDEO GOAL HIGHLIGHTS "EL CLASICO" FC BARCELONA 5 – REAL MADRID 0 | 29th Nov 2010

The VIDEO of “El Clasico” FC BARCELONA 5 – REAL MADRID 0.29th of November 2010 – Camp Nou (Barcelona)



The video could be taken off due to rights issues. Please excuse if this happens. Full summary with images on the below post!

EL CLASICO Nov 29th 2010 RESULT FC BARCELONA 5 - REAL MADRID 0 | FC BARCELONA "SLAUGHTER" REAL MADRID WITH DEVASTATING TOTAL FOOTBALL

The long await match between the two big Spanish Clubs has concluded with a demolition job done by FC BARCELONA over REAL MADRID with an incredible 5 - 0 result that puts Barça to the top of the SPANISH LEAGUE classification table.  It was intense, rough & violent at times which mixed it with some sublime Football performed by the home side. 

Tonight we saw two philosophies of Football

EL CLASICO 29th NOV 2010 | FC BARCELONA - REAL MADRID | HIGUAIN FALLS ( OR NOT ) & STARTING 11 SPECULATIONS | MIND GAMES

The very latest news may now throw dirt over the post below. All day REAL MADRID has been filtering that GONZALO HIGUAIN had been left out due to a lingering back problem to which he hasn´t  recovered in time to play tonights "Clasico" against FC BARCELONA. In fact, media had announced earlier that Mourinho had announced in his tactical meeting with his players this afternoon that Karim Benzema

EL CLASICO 29th NOV 2010 | FC BARCELONA - REAL MADRID | HIGUAIN FALLS & STARTING 11 SPECULATIONS

The latest news just in from Barcelona is that REAL MADRID forward GONZALO HIGUAIN has not recovered in time for the big FC BARCELONA clash tonight. According to Spanish Sports daily "Marca" the Argentine has been ruled out for "EL CLASICO" & thus opens up speculation on who will take his place. The natural tendency is to think that Frenchman Karim Benzema will come in, however there are other

SPANISH FOOTBALL | SPANISH LEAGUE - LIGA 2010 - 2011 | ROUND 13 | SUNDAY GAMES RESULTS

Busy afternoon of Spanish Football with six games of Round 13 played as part of the Spanish League - La Liga. Here are the results & the scorers of this afternoon-evening Soccer action.



Trezeguet scored for Hercules

HERCULES got back into a winning groove with a 3-1 victory over LEVANTE. The scorers for the home team were VALDES (twice - 39th m & 67th m) with a great match & TREZEGUET (62nd m

TENNIS 2010 | ROGER FEDERER DEFEATS RAFAEL NADAL FOR HIS FIFTH MASTERS

It just could not be, Spanish Tennis World Nº1 & ace RAFAEL NADAL was defeated by ROGER FEDERER 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 in a very convincing victory for the now five time MASTER of MASTERS. 



Rafael Nadal laments a miss shot

It was the first time in his career that Nadal had reached the ATP MASTERS Final (London) & his chance were good beforehand after majestically defeating Andy Murray in the

REAL MADRID 2010 | JOSE MOURINHO CONFIRMS THE SAME STARTING 11 FOR FC BARCELONA | EL CLASICO

The atmosphere is building as SPANISH FOOTBALL showcases tomorrow night the first of its two big season clashes of the Spanish League - La Liga, the locally known "El Clasico" between FC BARCELONA - REAL MADRID. The Madrid  Club has celebrated its last training session before flying off to the city of Barcelona tonight & Coach José Mourinho has just celebrated a packed "Press Conference" that has

SPANISH FOOTBALL | SPANISH LEAGUE - LIGA 2010 - 2011 | ROUND 13 | SATURDAY GAMES RESULTS

The Spanish League - La Liga celebrated three games tonight as part of Round 13 with plenty of goals to keep the spirits warm during a very cold Saturday in Spain. Here is a brief summary of results & scorers.



Manu del Moral scores a penalty for Getafe

An extraordinary match with comeback included with SEVILLA FC going down 1 -3 to Madrid Club GETAFE. The home side had things relatively under

VIDEO | HOW AMERICAN TV PROMOTES EL CLASICO - FC BARECLONA vs. REAL MADRID

This is how American TV Sports Channel ESPN promotes the big Spanish League - Liga Round 13 clash next Monday between FC BARCELONA - REAL MADRID, locally termed "El Clasico":



Not bad at all except ( my opinion) the too obvious stereotype use of the Spanish dance  "Flamenco". However I won´t be too harsh on them as we here would have used a giant Hot Dog or a Hamburger to promote the Superbowl.

SPAIN -PORTUGAL - IBERIAN FIFA WORLD CUP 2018 BID

SPANISH FOOTBALL SPORTS BLOG supports the
IBERIAN 2018 FIFA WORLD CUP BID

SPANISH FOOTBALL | EL CLASICO 2010 | FC BARCELONA - REAL MADRID CF | PRE MATCH OBSERVATIONS

The Spanish League - La Liga moves into Round 13 tomorrow & there is one game that is eclipsing all the rest, the long awaited FC BARCELONA vs REAL MADRID match commonly known in Spanish Soccer as "El Clasico". Barça has won the last 4 clashes & has dominated Spanish Football the last couple of years. Real Madrid has invested huge sums of money on adquiring  the best players on the market along

FIFA - FIFPRO NAME 10 SPANIARDS IN LIST OF 55 NOMINATED FOR 2010 WORLD XI

The 50,000 Football professionals that make up the FIFPro (World Players Union) along with World governing Football body FIFA have handed in their list of 55 players nominated for the "2010 FIFA FIFPro World XI”. The official announcement of the players that will make up the World Team will be held the 10th of January 2011 alongside the naming of the winning of the “FIFA Golden Ball 2010”.

2010 -2011 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GROUP C - D RESULTS | VALENCIA 6 - BURSASPOR 1 | PANATHINAIKOS 0 - FC BARCELONA 3

Two Spanish teams participated & finished well in their respective Group C & D CHAMPIONS LEAGUE matches with both winning well & assuring their place in the next stages. 



Juan Mata opens Valencia scoreline

VALENCIA CF steam-rolled BURSASPOR 6 -1 in their Group C game with Valencia CF assuring its place in the next stages of the Champions League independently of it last Group match against

RED CARDS XABI ALONSO - SERGIO RAMOS VIDEO | CHAMPIONS LEAGUE AJAX REAL MADRID 2010

By the massive email request , here is a Video of both Red Cards given to Xabi Alonso & Sergio Ramos yesterday in the Real Madrid - Ajax Champions League match:


Latest is that UEFA will investigate if they were looked for on purpose.

What do you think? Mourinho , Sergio Ramos & Xabi Alonso say that they were unnecessary from the referee. Iker Casillas says he just gave some orders.

As written

ATLETICO DE MADRID EYES SCHALKE 04 MIDFIELDER IVAN RAKITIC

Spanish Sports newpaper daily “AS” highlights today that ATLETICO DE MADRID has a firm eye on 22 year old SCHALKE 04 midfielder IVAN RAKITIC. The Spanish Club has been following the youngster & has the player in its 2011 – 2012 season plans.



Ivan Rakitic

The key here is that the player becomes free at the end of the season – 30th of June 2011– thus allowing Atletico to avoid making an

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GROUP G 2010 - 2011 RESULT AJAX OF AMSTERDAM 0 - REAL MADRID 4

REAL MADRID defeated 0 - 4 AJAX OF AMSTERDAM in their Group G CHAMPIONS LEAGUE return leg game. This assures the Spanish Club the top Group position & thus enables them to avoid the "Big Guns" in the next stage after the mini-leagues.

Real Madrid rested habitual players like Khedira, Carvalho & Huguain who did´nt travel & gave Benzema, Leon, Lass & Arbeloa a chance to start from minute zero. The

SPANISH FOOTBALL TEAM COACH VOTES FOR MESSI, RONALDO, SCHWEINSTEIGER FOR 2010 FIFA GOLDEN BALL

Hi punters! I thought you may find interesting to know the three votes given by Spanish National Football Team Selector & Coach Vicente Del Bosque for the 2010 FIFA Golden Ball Award. As you may already know, a Selector cannot vote for a player of his same country, thus Del Bosque had to pick from outside the Spanish Football Team



Spain Football Team Coach Vicente Del Bosque

His three votes

SPANISH FOOTBALL | SPANISH LEAGUE - LIGA 2010 - 2011 | ROUND 12 | GETAFE 1 REAL ZARAGOZA 1

Spanish Football - Liga action tonight with the last scheduled match of Round 12 down between two Clubs that needed desperately a victory. One team had a debut Coach & the other with a direct "threat" of being axed if his team lost tonight. In the end destiny was kind as both shared the points in a draw result.



Real Zaragoza scores against Getafe

GETAFE drew 1 - 1 against REAL ZARAGOZA with

SPANISH FOOTBALL | IKER CASILLAS NEXT "GOLDEN GLOVE" WINNER

Spanish Football International, Captain & REAL MADRID Goalkeeper IKER CASILLAS will be the next “Golden Glove” Award winner – prize given to the “Best Goalkeeper in the World”,  coincing with the best performance in the years World Cup. Although the official presentation will be done on the 10th of January 2011 at Zurich when the “FIFA Golden Ball Award” will also be handed,  along with other

SPANISH FOOTBALL | SPANISH LEAGUE - LIGA 2010 -2011 | ROUND 12 | SUNDAY GAMES RESULTS

"Spanish League - La Liga" Round 12 Football action continued this Sunday with six 6 games scheduled. Here are the final results & scorers.



Espanyol scores against Hercules

RCD ESPANYOL are having a fantastic start to the 2010 - 2011 season notching up another victory this time 3 - 0 against HERCULES. Two things to note a) the fantastic game by Espanyol goalie Kameni & b) the red card to

SPANISH FOOTBALL | SPANISH LEAGUE - LIGA 2010 -2011 | ROUND 12 | SATURDAY GAMES RESULTS

Great Saturday night of Spanish Football with three great games as part of Round 12 of the Spanish League - La Liga that brought on a "ton" of goals. 



Rossi celebrates the equalizer

While the Spanish League is turning out to be a two horse race between Real Madrid - FC Barcelona, the two nearest contenders, VILLAREAL & VALENCIA CF,  played & finished with a 1 - 1 draw result. ADURIZ put

ATLETICO MADRID REACTS TO MANCHESTER UNITED "OFFER" FOR DAVID DE GEA

ATLETICO DE MADRID Directives, fans & Spanish Football experts all agree that 19 year old Goalkeeper DAVID DE GEA is destined to be a World class player & Spain´s next goalie after Casillas gives way. In fact, De Gea is already a vital piece of the Spanish U-21 Squad.



David De Gea

Readers may be surprised to learn that the current salary of David De Gea at Atletico de Madrid is “only” 400.000

DEIGO MARADONA VISITS REAL MADRID - JOSE MOURINHO

Very little real news of note in the Spanish Football area today. However as a general news piece that may be of interest to all World Soccer fans Argentine leyend DIEGO ARMANDO MARADONA visited this afternoon REAL MADRID during their afternoon training session.



Maradona chats with Mourinho

The ex-Argentina National Team Coach meet up with the players & then had a long chat with Coach

SPANISH CUP 2010 - 2011 | LAST 16 TEAMS DRAW

The SPANISH CUP last 16 teams draw has been celebrated today with the following match ups:
1. Valencia - Villarreal
2. Barcelona - Athletic Club
3. Córdoba - Deportivo
4. Betis - Getafe
5. Almería - Mallorca
6. Sevilla - Málaga
7. Real Madrid - Levante
8. Atlético de Madrid – Espanyol



FC Barcelona - At Bilbao

The first leg will be the 22nd of December with the return 2º leg the 5th of January

ATLETICO DE MADRID TALKING WITH MANCHESTER UNITED OVER DAVID DE GEA ?

This is not the first or the second post that I put up commenting the interest that English Club MANCHESTER UNITED has for young U-21 Spanish International & ATLETICO DE MADRID goalkeeper DAVID DE GEA.



Atletico de Madrid Goalkeeper
David De Gea

According to the English paper “The Times” both mentioned Clubs have begun talking & studying possibilities of a transfer deal. In fact, the paper

PORTUGAL 4 - SPAIN 0 INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLY 2010 RESULT

PORTUGAL has given a real Football lesson to the current FIFA World Champions SPAIN with a 4 - 0 victory in tonights Friendly International played at Lisbon. In fact it could have been 5 - 0 had the below Cristiano Ronaldo goal been allowed instead of being given offside because the referee thought that Nani headed the ball outside.



Ronaldo disallowed - goal.

SPAIN debuted with a new uniform

FIFA WORLD RANKING NOVEMBER 2010 | SPAIN STAYS Nº1

FIFA has released it monthly World Football National Team rankings. The SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM & current World Champions stay Nº1 & open up a points gap with 2º placed Holland.

Below is the Top 10 list:



Spanish Team Captain Iker Casillas
with 2010 World Cup
1. Spain 1.920 Pts
2. Holland 1.718
3. Brazil 1.493
4. Germany 1.489
5. Argentina 1.353
6. England 1.250
7. Uruguay 1.174
8.

FIFA GOLDEN BALL 2010 | XAVI HERNANDEZ ANDRES INIESTA APPARENT HOT FAVOURITES

There seems to be two firm favourites for this years “FIFA Goleen Ball” 2010. According to Barcelona based Sports daily “Sport” (couldn’t be any other ) two FC BARCELONA players XAVI HERNANDEZ & ANDRES INIESTA will be “fighting” it out. Apparently, the votes have been already done & shut between the World Press journalists with “France Football” “sources” hinting that Iniesta has the advantage.

THE BATTLE OF MOLINON | SPORTING GIJON vs REAL MADRID | 2010

Spanish Football Sports thought its readers who like to see this video shown this afternoon on Spanish TV "Cuarto" that captured the intensity of the Real Sporting de Gijon vs Real Madrid game last Sunday which Real Madrid won 0 -1. Here you can clearly see the hostile atmosphere - & at times real hate - spewed out by the local crowd & the fury of the Sporting Gijon players towards the visitors.

REAL MADRID | KAKA ON RIGHT TRACK FOR RECOVERY | EXPECTED BACK JANUARY 2011

You maybe wondering how Brazilian star KAKA is going after his knee operation & with his recovery program. Yesterday an important meeting was held between Kaka, Real Madrid medical team & the Belgium knee specialist Dr. Marc Martens ( who operated Kaka on the 5th of August ) to evaluate his progress & his comeback.



Kaka hard at work with recovery

The meeting lasted three hours with

SPANISH FOOTBALL TEAM 2010 | NEW UNIFORM | LLORENTE XABI ALONSO DAVID VILLA

Guys,  I thought that perhaps you may want to see some pictures - thanks to Spanish Sports daily "AS" - of Spanish Football Internationals posing with the new SPAIN FOOTBALL TEAM uniform presented today to media. Here are Fernando Llorente, Xabi Alonso & David Villa doing their part as models. My stats indicate that readers are keen to pick up on photos of Spanish Football Players & this may give

SPAIN FOOTBALL TEAM 2010 | PRESENT NEW LOOK SHIRT / UNIFORM

So you just spent 90€ on the latest SPAIN FOOTBALL TEAM shirt with the little star? Guess what, there is now a NEW version of the uniform that the SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM will debut with against Portugal next Wednesday. 

Today Spanish Football Players did a Press Conference to show media the new uniform with a new design, "World Champions" badge & neck stitching. So you can now race off

SPANISH FOOTBALL | SPANISH LEAGUE - LIGA 2010 -2011 | ROUND 11 | SUNDAY GAMES RESULTS

SPANISH FOOTBALL celebrated Round 11 Sunday action as part of the SPANISH LEAGUE - LA LIGA schedule for season 2010-2011. Games with low scores but that were very intense with last minute victories. Here is a summary of the results & scorers.



Malaga - Levante

MALAGA managed a hard earned 1 - 0 victory over LEVANTE to stop their recent bad results. Levante was unlucky to have gone away with a

F1 2010 | FERNANDO ALONSO FINISHES SUB - WORLD CHAMPION

Firstly, congratulations to SEBASTIAN VETTEL for winning the Abu Dhabi F1 Gran Prix & in doing so becoming the F1 2010 WORLD CHAMPION. The German becomes the youngest driver in F1 History to do so. Secondly, congratultions to Spanish two time World Champion FERNANDO ALONSO who finished sub - Champion just 4 points behind Vettel. The work & the season done with Ferrari has been extraordinary &

SPANISH FOOTBALL | SPANISH LEAGUE - LIGA 2010 -2011 | ROUND 11 | SATURDAY GAMES RESULTS

SPANISH FOOTBALL action tonight with three matches of Round 11 corresponding to the Spanish League - La Liga competition.  



Fernando Llorente scores the winner

ATHLETIC DE BILBAO won thanks to the solitary goal by FERNANDO LLORENTE in the 10th min. However, it was a real battle for the Basque Club tonight as they hung on after failing a penalty before the mentioned goal & going down to 9 men

VIDEO - FC BARCELONA OFFICIAL PHOTO SESSION FOR SEASON 2010 - 2011

FC BARCELONA TV filmed the FC BARCELONA TEAM official photo session for season 2010 -2011. I thought that the Barça fans from around the World that read Spanish Football Sports Blog may appreciate a look & know that this video is available. Enjoy!

FC BARCELONA PLAYER CARLES PUYOL REACHES 500 GAMES

FC BARCELONA player CARLES PUYOL , alias "Captain Invincible" or "El Tiburón" (The Shark), celebrates his 500 th game for the only Club in his Sporting career. From here, I wish the Spanish International & Football player a "Happy Match" & may he play more games.



Carles Puyol lifts 2010 
Joan Gamper Trophy

FC BARCELONA HAS AGREEMENT FOR IBRAHIM AFELLAY FOR JANUARY 2011

According to news just in to Spanish Sports daily "Marca",  via its online channel, FC BARCELONA has come to an agreement with PSV EINDHOVEN for the transfer of 24 year old midfielder IBRAHIM AFELLAY. The Dutchman will arrive in Juanuary 2011 during the "Winter Transfer Market" opening window. The player finishes contract this season & would have become a "free agent" as of the 1ºst of January

SPAIN - PORTUGAL 17th NOVEMBER FRIENDLY INTERNATIONAL | LIST OF 23 SPANISH PLAYERS

SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM Selector & Coach Vicente del Bosque has given this morning his list of Spanish Football Players that make up the squad that will play Portugal next Wednesday the 17th of November in an International Friendly as part of the joint “Iberian” candidacy to host the 2018 World Cup.



Spain Football Team - 2010 World Champions

















Coach Del Bosque calls up

SPANISH CUP 2010 - 2011 THURSDAY 2ºLEG ( LAST 32 TEAMS) MATCHES RESULTS

The last four games of the SPANISH CUP 2º leg have been played tonight with the following results & scorers.



Usua scores for Mallorca

The first leg ended MALLORCA - SPORTING GIJON 3 - 1. The return match at Gijon gave a 2 -2 draw with Mallorca eliminating Sporting from the Spanish Cup. USUA scored twice for Mallorca in the 10th & 15th min & for Sporting BILIC ( penalty ) in the 25th min &

MONDAY 29th of NOV DATE SET FOR EL CLASICO 2010 | FC BARCELONA - REAL MADRID CF

The political pressures - especially from Catalonia - has finally contributed to set & move the date that "El Clasico" , FC BARCELONA vs REAL MADRID, match will be played. The big Spanish Football event has been set for MONDAY 29th of NOVEMBER at 21.00 HRS.



FC Barcelona - Real Madrid

The reason is that Catalonia holds its Autonomous Parliament Elections on Sunday the 28th Nov. The local

SPANISH CUP 2010 - 2011 WEDNESDAY 2ºLEG ( LAST 32 TEAMS) MATCH RESULTS

Full SPANISH CUP 2º leg Wednesday night results


Team highlighted in black through to next roun of the Spanish Cup
( ) - 1º leg result



Bojan & the Barça boys do the job
FC Barcelona 5 - Ceuta 0
(2-0) 1-0, min.2: Nolito. 2-0, min.7: Milito. 2-1, min.35: Guzmán. 3-1, min.50: Pedro. 4-1, min.65: Bojan. 5-1, min.67: Messi. 

Real Madrid 5 - Murcia 1
(0-0) 1-0, m.3: Granero. 2-0, m.44: Higuaín. 3

CAN THIS BE TRUE - ATLETICO DE MADRID OFFERS REAL MADRID DIEGO FORLAN FOR 18M€?

For those who went to pick up the Spanish Sports daily “Marca” this morning they may have been surprised to read,  that according to the paper, ATLETICO DE MADRID has Uruguayan forward DIEGO FORLAN on sale & for the upcoming “Winter Market” next January 2011. That’s not the big surprise, the eye lifter is that the daily says that his Club has offered the player to REAL MADRID! But there is more

SPANISH CUP 2010 - 2011 TUESDAY 2ºLEG MATCH RESULTS | CORDOBA KNOCK OUT RACING - ESPANYOL ELIMINATES VALLADOLID

SPANISH CUP return leg action tonight with two games , with the bulk tomorrow & the remaining on Thursday.

The first leg finished with lower Division Club Cordoba 2 - Racing 0. RACING DE SANTANDER needed to put in a grand match as CORDOBA  had a strong away goal advantage. The home team put its mind to work & managed two goals via BOLADO in the 25th min & KENNEDY in the 72th min that equalized

2011 U 21 EURO FINALS | SPAIN DRAWN WITH ENGLAND, UKRAINE CZECH REP.

The Groups draw for the upcoming u-21 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS next year in Denmark has matched the SPANISH NATIONAL TEAM with England, Ukraine & Czech Republic.


In the other Group the four teams are Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland & Byelorussia.



Sergio Canales - u-21 Spanish International

The u-21 Euro Championship will take place from the 11th of June until the 25th & only the first 3 places

SPANISH FOOTBALL | SPANISH LEAGUE - LIGA | ROUND 10 | MONDAY GAME RESULT | SEVILLA FC 2 VALENCIA CF 0

Last scheduled match played tonight as part of Round 10 of the Spanish League - La Liga, with two "a priori" contenders head to head to give us the Monday  Spanish Soccer fix. 


Alvaro Negredo
SEVILLA FC hosted VALENCIA CF & the former won 2 - 0 to take the air out off Valencia who promised a lot at the start of the season. But the match was heavily influenced & marred when in the 25th min

CRISTIANO RONALDO BACK PASS - "ESPALDINHA" PISSES OFF ATLETICO DE MADRID PLAYERS

Brazilian Ronaldinho did it in 2006 & it was magic:



Zlatan Ibrahimovic pulled it off in season 2009-2010 & it was a touch of class:



Cristiano Ronaldo did it last night in the Real Madrid - Atletico de Madrid derby & was heavily criticised by Atletico de Madrid players who thought that with 2-0 score line in favour & with two minutes left in the game that this type of "showing -off" was a

REAL MADRID 2010 | THE SECOND COMING OF RICARDO CARVALHO

Ten Spanish League - Liga matches & a few Champions League are enough for me to say that I WAS WRONG. When REAL MADRID signed 32 year old defender RICARDO CARVALHO from Chelsea FC  I thought that a younger ( Spanish ) player would have been a better investment - WRONG. The facts are the we have witnessed a totally "rejuvenated" player who has become - along with his defending partner Pepe - the 

SPANISH FOOTBALL | SPANISH LEAGUE - LIGA 2010 -2011 | ROUND 10 | SUNDAY GAMES RESULTS

Fabulous night - for thoses whos team won - of Spanish Football with eight top games in Round 10 of the Spanish League - Liga. In there we had the Madrid "Derby" & lots of goals in the other games.



Carvalho scores Real Madrid´s 1ºst goal

REAL MADRID defeated 2 - 0 ATLETICO DE MADRID in the big & controversial Madrid "Derby" to retain top spot of the Spanish League ladder. Once again the 11

MOTO GP 2010 | SPANISH WORLD CHAMPIONS IN ALL THREE CATAGORIES

Dream day for Spanish Sports & Motobikes as young 17 year old Spanish rider MARC MARQUEZ proclaimed himself 125 cc World Champion 2010. Marquez finished 4th in todays Valencia (Spain) race & securing the points necessary as he needed to finish in the top 8 places.



2010 World Champion 125cc - Marc Marquez

In Moto 2 , World Champion Toni Elias fell & in GP World Champion Jorge Lorenzo won in

THE MADRID DERBY 2010 - 2011 | 11 YEARS WITHOUT A VICTORY FOR ATLETICO DE MADRID

The big highlight tonight in Round 10 of the Spanish League - La Liga is its last scheduled Sunday match at 21.00 hrs local Spanish time: the REAL MADRID vs ATLETICO DE MADRID clash.


This "Derby" has a greater significance for Atletico than Real because the latter places more importance playing against its historical arch rivel Barça & because they come into tonight´s match undefeated & current

SPANISH FOOTBALL | SPANISH LEAGUE - LIGA | ROUND 10 | SATURDAY GAMES RESULTS

SPANISH FOOTBALL only celebrated two games tonight of Round 10 of the Spanish League - Liga. An usual "vibe" as we have been accustomed to more matches for a Saturday night.



Joseba Llorente scores for Real Sociedad

REAL SOCIEDAD won 1 - 0 RACING DE SANTANDER thanks to the early goal by JOSEBA LLORENTE in the 7th min. The Basque Club now lifts itself provisionally into European positions on

FOOTBALL FINANCE | THE CASH GENERATING POWERS OF THE SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM

Spain Football Team lifts 2010 World Cup











Interesting - a bit dated - article in "Futebol Finance" about the revenue generating powers of the SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM. The figures were pre- FIFA World Cup Champions status, so we can suppose that the figures are currently higher now that they are Nº1. Here is a summary 
17 contracts signed (includes Brand, Full Team & Individual

FC BARCELONA PLAYER XAVI HERNANDEZ HAS NO INTENTION OF LEAVING THE SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM

FC Barcelona & Spanish Football Team midfielder XAVI HERNANDEZ has come out publicly to squash recent rumours that he was considering leaving the National Team due to his troubled ankles & the need to reduce his current games rate.



Xavi Hernandez
Translated:
"I wish to play the Poland & Ukraine Euro 2012 & if possible the World Cup 2014 in Brazil". He also added that he was available for the

2010 - 2011 EUROPA LEAGUE GROUP MATCH RESULTS | SPANISH TEAMS

Four Spanish teams played their respective 2010 - 2011 EUROPA LEAGUE Group matches tonight with more pluses than minuses. Here is a brief summary of results & scorers.



Tiago scores the winner for At.Madrid

ATLETICO DE MADRID managed a giant step forward after defeating ROSENBORG 1-2. However, the Spaniards were lucky & the Nordic Club deserved much more for their great effort. The first goal

FC BARCELONA | THE "ARCHILLES HEELS" OF XAVI HERNANDEZ

FC BARCELONA is on "stand-by" as its most important player XAVI HERNANDEZ is suffering a chronic ankle problem that is lowering his performance & forcing the midfielder to rest. Barça is suffering in its play from the absence of the FIFA-France Football 2010 Golden Ball candidate & favourite is worried as we all are with him.

So delicate & serious is the injury that it was rumoured earlier in

FIVE SPANISH PLAYERS IN TOP 30 U-21 LIST OF MOST VALUABLE

A Portuguese Football Finance Web has published their list of the Top 30 most valuable U21 Football players in the World. Five Spaniards figure in the top 30 list:  Bojan (FC Barcelona 6º) , De Gea (At Madrid 17º), Alvaro Dominguez (At.Madrid 20º), Ander Herrera (Zaragoza 21º) & Sergio Canales (Real Madrid 26º).




Bojan Krkic
Below is the full list:

Name / Place of Birth / Age / Club / Min