Soccer Break Friday – Clasico fever rises
We have a list of five classic 'Clasicos' ahead of four meetings between Real Madrid and Barcelona in the next two and a half weeks. Football does not get any better. Check out a Beckham statue and vote for your manager of the season. Have a good weekend.
La Liga El Clásico Review: Barcelona Brilliance Buries Blancos
Josep Guardiola, known for his cool demeanor inside and outside of the technical area, channeled his feelings for all things Madrid when he refused to give Cristiano Ronaldo the ball for a throw-in on the half-hour mark. Unlike his outspoken and demonstrative counterpart José Mourinho, Guardiola usually keeps to himself, shouting and dictating to his...
La Liga Jornada 13 Review: Espanyol Might Actually Be For Real
Under trainer Mauricio Pochettino, Espanyol has gone through one of these hot streaks in every season he has managed the club. After the club fired José Manuel Esnal "Mané" in the middle of the 2008-09 season, they hired Mauricio Pochettino to get out of the relegation zone. As late as Jornada 30 in that season,...
La Liga Preview and U.S. T.V. Listings for El Clásico: Barcelona vs. Real Madrid
The José Mourinho - Pep Guardiola headline and the Lionel Messi - Cristiano Ronaldo headline have been covered and written many times over, so this preview of El Clásico will try to avoid these subjects and focus on the other, less talked about aspects of the biggest game in Spanish football this season. The man...
El Clasico: Messi’s form ahead of Real Madrid clash
Lionel Messi is without doubt one of the best players in the world if not the most talented at the moment. Messi has been in scintillating form the last couple of years having scored 38 goals in 51 appearances in all competitions in the 2008/09 season. He also had 18 assists in those 51 matches while he...
Will Barcelona or Real Madrid win El Clasico?
All eyes will be on the clash between Barcelona and Real Madrid with the magnificent Camp Nou playing host to this top of the table meeting of the eternal rivals. Without disregarding or belittling the history behind this intense rivalry which extends beyond the football pitch to engulf social and political agendas, millions of people...
La Liga Jornada 11 Review: Barcelona Produces a Complete Team Performance In Their Defeat of Villarreal
A select few matches each season define the league in terms of pecking order and/or overall footballing ability. Obviously, the two editions of El Clásico between Real Madrid and Barcelona usually determine the fate of La Liga's crown. More specifically, in the past five seasons, the team that won the most points in El Clásico...
La Liga Fixtures for the 2010-11 Season
The Real Federación Española de Fútbol (the Spanish FA) released the full schedule for the 2010-11 La Liga season, and Jornada 1 will be held on the last weekend of August. Both Real Madrid and FC Barcelona will commence their campaigns away from home as they visit Mallorca and Racing de Santander respectively. Real Sociedad,...
What David Villa’s Transfer to FC Barcelona Means For Zlatan Ibrahimovic
The rumors, for once, came to fruition, as FC Barcelona will pay a transfer fee of €40 million to Valencia for Spanish international striker David Villa. This tango (or the sardana for a more local, Catalunyan flair) danced by the two clubs since the previous offseason will finally end as outgoing Barça president Joan Laporta...
ESPN Deportes Scores Big with El Clásico
Last Saturday’s telecast of El Clásico between Real Madrid and FC Barcelona at the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu was the highest-rated and most-watched program on Spanish-language cable television this year.
El Clásico was seen on ESPN Deportes by an average of 466,000 Hispanic homes and 783,000 Hispanic viewers. As for the normal La Liga matches shown on...
Inter Host Barcelona In Champions League Semi-Final First-Leg
La Liga leaders Barcelona will travel to Milan to take on Inter in the highly anticipated clash between two of the best teams left in the European competitions. The current champions Barca rely heavily on midfield schemer Xavi Hernandez and superstar Lionel Messi while Inter will be attempting to reach the final in Madrid to...
Roma hit Serie A summit
Heading into another weekend of football action, El Clasico appeared to be the biggest attraction in continental Europe. As it turned out, however, that highly anticipated fixture ended in a rather one-sided game with Barcelona dominating in a 2-0 win over a Real Madrid side missing its key playmaker Kaka.
Subsequently, the Italian Serie A got the opportunity to...
