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

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

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

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

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

Monday, December 20, 2010

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

Sunday, December 19, 2010

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

Saturday, December 18, 2010

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

Friday, December 17, 2010

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

Thursday, December 16, 2010

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

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

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

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

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

Hellenic Macedonia Since Liberation:General Observations and Principal Phases

The contemporary period of Macedonian history has already completed 98 years of Hellenic administration. Nonetheless, this important chapter in modem Greek history has not yet received the historiographical attention which it deserves.  To begin with, the bibliography is clearly and dishearteningly deficient in terms both of quantity and quality, and this is especially true of the literature referring solely to the more recent periods. As a result, the basic points of reference continue to be the special volumes devoted to Macedonia and published on the occasion of the various anniversaries of its liberation. However, these works inevitably suffer from the shortcomings of all circumstantial publications, and, furthermore, they focus their interest primarily on one of the most important (and easiest) of the thematic targets: the city of Thessaloniki.
It is indicative ofthe situation that contemporary Macedonia has only recently begun to appear on the agenda of specialist conferences,,and even then this has occurred in such a way as to ensure that the primacy ofthe ancient and, to a lesser extent, of the Byzantine period -goes unchallenged.
This historiographical narrowness of approach can be attributed to..

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

Monday, December 13, 2010

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. 

The Geologic and Evolutionary Record

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Two types of geologic change seems to have had especially dramatic effect on life:
1. Continental Drift and
2. the Impact of Asteroid

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, December 11, 2010

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.

Is history of a people transferable?

There are people out there ,self-identified or self-ascribed as "Macedonians" who believe that the history of a people of a neighboring country can be shared with, taken away or transferred to themselves because their country cannot exist or function without a history and, therefore, since the South Slavonian Slavic people of that country don´t have one or think that whatever little history they have is not significant enough to feel proud and honored by it. Obviously, they feel justified to use, steal or expropriate the history of their southern neighbors, namely the Greeks and , in particular, the history of the Greek people of Macedonia because not only it makes it possible for them to acquire a foreign history for themselves but, at the same time, it allows them to indulge themselves in some sort of irredentist ambitions for foreign land speculation, namely the much coveted Macedonian Greek land.

We Greeks in general and especially the Macedonian Greek people are proud and honored to have so much history despite the fact that we are a small country. So, then, we will invest any amount of effort to defend our history against the South Slavonian Slavs who think that they...
 can steal, take away or try to transfer our Macedonian Greek history over to themselves by simply replicating or assigning the names Macedonia/Macedonian to their country or themselves although neither their country nor the South Slavonian people of that country ever had much to do with Macedonia or the Macedonian people who have always been Greek or Hellenic people and the greatest champions of Hellenism throughout the world they had under their control at that time.

So, how is then that the Macedonian Greek people know their history that happened more than two and a half thousand years ago? I t is so because it was passed on to them from one generation to another and there are hundreds if not thousands of books that have been written about them including all the archaeological tombs, artifacts, and inscriptions one can find by visiting their famous Macedonian land and not Paeonia and Dardania which happens to be for the most part the country inhabited by the South Slavonian Slavs who fraudulently call their land "Macedonia" and themselves "Macedonians" to confuse, misinform ,mislead and deceive the world regarding the true identity of ancient and modern Macedonia.

Well, I would like to ask my readers. Who are or have been the Macedonian people? Are they Slavs or Greeks? If they were Slavs, then the Slavic people existed in the Balkans long before the Slavic invasions in the Balkans. However, this would contradict the historical fact which tells us that it was the Paeonians and Dardanians who ruled the land that is now inhabited by the South Slavonian Slavs. So, then the Slavic people were not there when the Macedonian Greek people were fighting the Paeonians or Dardanians. They were not there when St. Paul visited Napoli, Filippi , Amphipoli, Apollonia, Thessaloniki, etc., all of which were cities or towns located in Macedonia, Greece and all of them inhabited by Macedonian Greek people who spoke a Greek language because they were Greek people themselves as there were no other kind of people in historic and classic Macedonia the only Macedonia St. Paul had ever known and had decided to visit and preach the Word of God.

The Slavic people were not there when Rome ruled over Macedonia and Greece. So, when did these Slavic people come down the Balkans? They came in later on and around the sixth or seventh century A.D. So, then, what does that mean? It simply means that the Macedonian people were not Slavic people and, at the same time, the Slavic people were never Macedonian people.

The conclusion is simple and easy. The Macedonians were Greek people. As a matter of fact they were the Greek people living in the geographical area of Macedonia.

Now that we know who are the Macedonian people, let´s see where is Macedonia located and where else could it be but where it has always been and that location lies in northern Greece because it never moved up northwards but it stayed always in the same old place where it has been for millennia.

So, then, why do the South Slavonian Slavs want to call their country which is not historically Macedonia but Paeonia and Dardania by the fraudulent name "Macedonia"? Obviously, because they want the history of Macedonia to be transferred to them just by simply using the same Macedonia/Macedonia names for themselves although, as I said earlier, they have nothing to do with either the Macedonian land or the Macedonian people but they, as obscure as they are, they want to have a famous history which, although never was theirs, they want to make it their own by a rather subtle and fraudulent transfer of those two Macedonia/Macedonian names to their own country and themselves in order to be allowed to use them as their own although they never had any historical ,cultural or legal rights to those two names which are part of our history and should remain exclusively Greek as they have been for over two and a half thousand years.

Of course, it is not just the history they are after but the desire to forge a Slavic identity to Macedonia and their self-indulgence for even more Macedonian land after they were able to secure for themselves some Macedonian land with the help of their former allies, namely, the Bulgarians and the Serbians who sooner or later will ask for it back.

I would like to ask my readers the following question. Is a people´s history important and second is it transferable to another neighboring people because they need one in order to exist and acquire some famous identity that they do not have? History is not just important for those that need it but it is even more important for those that have and have invested a lifetime to preserve it, secure it and defend it.

We are the Macedonians , that is , the Greek people of historic and classic Macedonia, the Macedonian province of northern Greece and we are the only true descendants of the ancient Macedonians as well as, you may say, the children of Alexander the Great and nobody else can or should be eligible or even allowed to make such claim especially the South Slavonian Slavs who are at least one thousand years apart from the Macedonian facts and functions that describe and distinguish the real and true Macedonians from the South Slavonian Slav impostors.

The Macedonians are Greeks and not Slavs like the South Slavonians, Serbians, Bulgarians, Kroatians, Slovenians, etc. and these Slavic people are not just Slavs because they all speak their own Slavic language but they speak a Slavic language because they are Slavic people.

Of course, not everybody that speaks English is an Englishman but whether it was the U.S. of America or Canada, Australia, or New Zealand, etc., they were all English Colonies which were founded by English people and that is the reason they all speak the same English language.

There is no similarity or parallel between the English speaking countries and the Slav speaking countries. Therefore , we can conclude that there may be a non-Slavic country in which some of the people speak the Slavic language but they are not Slavs while the South Slavonian people of former Yugoslavia speak a Serbo-Bulgarian language because they are Slavic people like all the other Slavs in the Balkans. So, the South Slavonian people are Slavs and no Macedonian but pseudo-Macedonian and anti-Macedonian people who stand against anything the real ant true Macedonian people represented and fought for and that is HELLENISM.

Finally, there is no such thing as " phantom" Slavs but only real South Slavonian Slavs who have been Macedonized to become Makedomani janissaries that will promote the Macedonia identity fraud and be willing and ready to fight for the dream of transferring the Macedonian Greek history to the South Slavonian Slavs and thus, hopefully, forge a Slavic identity to Macedonia and the Macedonians in order to make it possible that a South Slavonian ethnic metamorphosis may create the new pseudo-Macedonian and anti-Macedonian people of the twentieth century and a newly created homeland with the fraudulent name of "Macedonia".

In conclusion, is our Macedonian Greek history important? I say that it is very important and worth fighting for it so that nobody will ever dare even think that our history or any part of it may be transferable to the South Slavonian Slavs who need to make their own history and not try to take it from others, namely, the Macedonian Greek people who are not about to give anything away to the phony and fraudulent pseudo-Macedonian impostors.

However, many times I sit down and think how is it possible that so many people, whether University professors, journalists, historians, politicians or Government Officials have been so misinformed, misled and deceived to believe or accept that there were two or more Macedonian lands and an equal number of Macedonian people and, therefore, they accepted to recognize, as Macedonia and Macedonians not the ones that really were so by facts and function of their people´s deeds for more than two millennia but unfortunately the country which was historically known as Paeonia and Dardania and only for the last hundred years they have been known to use for their land and its people the "Macedonia/Macedonian" names which had never been used by them for that purpose at any other time before in their history.

I, also, like to believe that many countries have been either willingly or unwillingly victimized and fell into a trap by recognizing this new country by the fraudulent name "Macedonia" because they either did not know anything about the fraudulent name of Macedonia or did not care about or did not know what they were doing as they were overlooking the identity fraud of the Macedonian Greek name and at the same time they were somewhat conspiring to remove the Hellenic identity from the Macedonia/Macedonian names and forge a Slavic identity to those two names. In simple English it looks like it was an unintended attempt to transfer the Macedonian Greek history and heritage to the South Slavonian Slavic people just by doing a political recognition of that country and let them keep the Macedonia/Macedonian names as part of that deal. Are there any countries in this world that would have tolerated such a fraudulent theft of their history? I often ask myself why is the Greek government ant the people of that country not fighting back to restore justice and horror to their country and themselves? Are the Greek people afraid to defend their historical and cultural rights? Aren´t they proud of their history and their Macedonian heritage ? Yes, they are unless they feel they have too much of it and, even if some people steal some of it, there is plenty more of it left but it may not be much left soon if the Greek people do not do something about it and not only put a stop on the theft of their history but claim it all back from the South Slavonian Slavs who might even ask for more otherwise.

The " Macedonian name " issue reminds me of the biblical story of Christ and Barabbas. Pontius Pilate acquitted Barabbas and ordered the Crucifixion of Christ because Barabbas´s followers yelled louder. I sit down and wonder whether and when there is going to be a resurrection for the political crucifixion of Macedonia´s Hellenism and how long is it going to take for those Government officials and all others to realize that they either intentionally or unintentionally appeared to have shown almost total disregard towards the fraud that was used to cover up the Macedonian identity theft of the Macedonian Greek people and the forgery that was employed to deceitfully assign a Slavic identity to Macedonia/Macedonian names which had always been Hellenic for more than two and a half millennia. I strongly believe that the time has come and, it is never too late, for all those involved willingly or unwillingly in the fraud and the forgery of the Greek people of Macedonia to realize the damage they have done to them and their Macedonian province of Greece and, therefore, try to rectify the wrong doing committed to Macedonia, Greece and its Macedonian Greek people, the true and actual Macedonian people the world had ever known before the usurpation of the Macedonia/Macedonian names by the South Slavonian Slavs of former Yugoslavia.

Nick Michael Hodges
December 10, 2010
americanchronicle.com

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

Friday, December 10, 2010

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

Thursday, December 9, 2010

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

Winemakers' suit over Macedonia PDO

 A local cooperative of winemakers in northern Greece on Wednesday announced that it will file a lawsuit in Germany against distributors and super market retailers offering wines from the neighbouring former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (fYRoM) under the indication "Macedonia".
The president of the Association of Winemakers & Viticulturalists of Northern Greece (ENOABE), Yiannis Voyiatzis, noted that several retailers in Germany have already complied with European law and removed the wines from their shelves.

The term "Macedonia" enjoys a European Union-mandated Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) status for wines produced in the Greek province of Macedonia, which dominates northern Greece and is the land mass linked with historical and geographical Macedonia.


"This specific geographic designation is only allowed for wines emanating from the geographic province of Macedonia in Greece," Voyiatzis.

Along those lines, he noted that the...
 circulation of wines from the former Yugoslav republic to Greece's immediate north bearing the stand-alone name "Macedonia" or "Macedonian" was recently banned in Slovenia, as well.


According to the ENOABE president, his association has been in contact with the Greek embassies in all EU member-states in order to ascertain whether similar instances of illegal wine branding has occurred.

(ANA-MPA)

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

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

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

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

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

AMAC Offended by Insulting and Racist Comments made by Dame Krcoski

December 05, 2010

In response to the article posted by the UMD (United Macedonian Diaspora) (http://umdiaspora.org/content/view/524/1) and written by a leading member of the UMD´s operations in Australia, Dame Krcoski:

The Australian Macedonian Advisory Council (AMAC) is disappointed, but not surprised at the attack on a Winthrop Professor from the Classics & Ancient History department (University of Western Australia), Professor Melville-Jones, for his honest address in our quarterly newsletter. The professor is 1 of 7 Australian classics academics to have signed the Macedonia Evidence Petition (see http://macedonia-evidence.org/). The Petition has now been signed by 367, mostly non-Greek, academics world-wide, in order to preserve and protect Macedonian history from FYROM (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia).

Dame Krcoski (from UMD Australia) states that....
 "What concerns us (UMD) deeply though is that a Professor of a respectable research based university such as UWA has published an opinion piece in the ´American Chronicle´ based on no evidence." In other words, the 367 classics academics who have signed the Macedonia Evidence petition (mentioned above), and all agree with Prof. Melville-Jones on the Hellenic identity of Macedonia, is based on no evidence? He continues by stating that "the term ´FYROM´ is considered derogatory and very offensive in the eyes of the Macedonians. May we add that 129 countries worldwide including the U.S.A, Russia, UK and China recognise my native country under its constitutional name the Republic of Macedonia." Mr. Krcoski seems to have forgotten to mention that although 129 countries do recognize BILATERALLY his native country as ´Macedonia´, it is also pending to a solution between Greece and FYROM, and that these countries will immediately revert to a compromised name. More importantly however, he fails to mention that all international institutions such as the UN, NATO and the EU refer to his native country as ´FYROM´, as does Australia (BILATERALLY). So what is Mr. Krcoski complaining about?

In addition, the same author from UMD Australia, Dame Krcoski, who protests allegedly about ´insulting and racist comments´, as well as ´humiliation and discriminatory views´, on his facebook page
(http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/oo321/zratak/krcoski1.gif, http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/oo321/zratak/krcoski2.gif) coins the Hellenic Republic with racist and defamatory terms such as "HELL-ASS"! Did the same leading member of UMD Australia, who complained about ´insulting and racist comments´, HIMSELF use the name "HELL-ASS" against Greece? Did he also announce the water polo match between FYROM - Greece with the following racist remark ´Macedonia welcome the HELL-ASS polo team in Skopje, March 2010´?


AMAC is appalled by the response of UMD Australia who attempts to tarnish the name of a hugely respected Australian classics academic, while disseminating racist and defamatory statements whenever given the opportunity to do so.


http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/203615

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

Monday, December 6, 2010

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

Sunday, December 5, 2010

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

Saturday, December 4, 2010

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

Friday, December 3, 2010

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

Thursday, December 2, 2010

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

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

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

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

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

Monday, November 29, 2010

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

Sunday, November 28, 2010

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

Saturday, November 27, 2010

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

PM Gruevski´s hardline policy leaves FYROM out of NATO summit yet again

Australian Macedonian Advisory Council
November 26, 2010

FYROM Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski´s hardline policy to his country´s naming dispute with Greece has once again caused FYROM to not be invited to take part in the latest NATO summit (where new members are then invited to join the Alliance) which took place on 20 November 2010 in Lisbon.

Immediately after the summit, instead of taking responsibility for his failure once again for FYROM to be invited to join the NATO alliance (after its failure to join NATO in 2008 and a stagnant EU candidature in 2010 (http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=9321518&maindocimg=9318247&service=96&showLink=true), Gruevski stated that his country "had not joined NATO, because of ´interference´ from Greece, due the name issue".

Meanwhile, the citizens of the FYROM (of whom 35% are of Albanian origin) are becoming....
 more restless with the current government´s inability to solve the dispute with Greece and to become integrated in EU and NATO institutions, which will provide much needed security and economic assistance to the country. The Left-wing opposition party (SDSM) has urged snap election after FYROM failed to join NATO for a second time (http://www.emg.rs/en/news/region/139238.html).

The Greek President Karolos Papoulias has sent yet another message to the government in FYROM after the NATO summit, urging that "as long as they insist on their intransigent positions, so much the more they shall keep the door of NATO closed and the accession procedure towards the European Union frozen" (http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=9321518&maindocimg=9318247&service=96&showLink=true).
Greece can hardly be blamed for FYROM´s situation. Since Gruevski´s nationalist party, the VMRO-DPMNE, took power in 2006 his government has engaged in a string of provocations towards its neighbours:

• In 2007 renamed Skopje Airport as ´Alexander the Great Airport´
• In February 2008 Gruevski was photographed laying a wreath at the tomb of a 19th century revolutionary and a map of "United Macedonia" which includes parts of Greece and Bulgaria
• Erected a statue of Alexander the Great in Prilep
• In January 2009 renamed the main highway which runs through FYROM from Serbia to Greece ´Alexander of Macedon´ highway
• In December 2008 the national stadium in Skopje, ´Gradski Stadium´, was renamed ´Philip II Arena´
• In 2009 plans were announced for the construction of 22-meter fountain and statue of Alexander the Great in Skopje´s Central Square

Various foreign and domestic observers have expressed their concerns at the intense ´antiquization´ or ´antique macedonization´ of FYROM under Gruevski borne out in the provocations mentioned above. According to an article in FYROM newspaper Dnevnik (6 August 2009), a poll conducted in FYROM showed that 59% of the respondents believed that PM Nikola Gruevski should focus all his efforts on the economy, rather than his ´Ancient Macedonia´ or ´Antiquization´ program.

These provocations are in violation of the Interim Accord, signed by Greece and FYROM in 1995, under which FYROM was allowed to be admitted as a member of the UN (http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/47/a47r225.htm).

Various NATO and EU reports on FYROM´s progress have noted Gruevski´s government´s provocations towards Greece are deliberate intransigence concerning the UN-brokered name negotiations with Greece. EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn has also criticised the "ongoing use of the language of hatred in some [FYROM] media not only against Greece, but also against Bulgaria". A Greek Foreign Minister spokesman has also reiterated that FYROM Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki, amongst others, at "every opportunity attacks Greece in a provocative way and burdens the UN framework procedure" (http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=9341595&service=142).

Mr. Gruevski should focus on his country´s crippling unemployment, which is now at a staggering 33% and is the highest in Europe, instead of deflecting domestic attention away from this serious problem by the making of various nationalistic stunts which provoke Greece and other neighbours.

The Australian Macedonian Advisory Council (AMAC) believes that it is now time for PM Gruevski´s government to abandon its nationalistic approach and work closely within the UN framework to solve the naming dispute with Greece, which will ensure that the FYROM´s integration into EU and NATO structures, or risk becoming permanently isolated.

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

Friday, November 26, 2010

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

Thursday, November 25, 2010

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

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

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

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

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

Monday, November 22, 2010

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

Sunday, November 21, 2010

"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

Saturday, November 20, 2010

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

Friday, November 19, 2010

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

Thursday, November 18, 2010

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

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

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

Tuesday, November 16, 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

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Letter to Kofos by World Pan-Macedonian Associations

A Critique of Consequence

Concerns over the feasibility of special advisor to ELIAMEP Dr. E. Kofos's suggestions for a solution to the Macedonian naming dispute between Athens and Skopje

November 2010

Dear Dr. Kofos,

In regards to the Rose-Routh seminar you gave in Skopje on October 20, 2010 at NATO's Parliamentary Assembly vis-à-vis the imbroglio Greece has with its northern neighbor, and in regards to recent news reports coming out of Skopje attributed to you, we the Worldwide Pan-Macedonian Associations would like to offer you our comments. We feel that the Pan-Macedonian Associations, as the bastions of Hellenism in Macedonia, should be an important voice and an inseparable figure in the academic, political, and historical discussions on the name issue with our neighbor. We are the representatives of millions of Macedonians in Greece and the Diaspora; we are diachronic, and independent of all political parties.

We respect your efforts over the last five decades in dealing with Skopje's Macedonism however we must strongly object to the ideas that you and your colleagues in ELIAMEP have promoted to the citizens in Greece and the Diaspora, to various foreign ministers of the Hellenic Republic, and most recently to politicians and journalists in Skopje.  

Throughout your thesis you un-necessarily refer to that state as.....

“Republika Makedonija” instead of FYROM. By doing so you are legitimizing their claims to be called “Republika Makedonija”. Calling them as such you are describing them in the context they want to be perceived.

The problem with a separate geographic qualifier for the name of a country:

The geographical qualifier that is suggested in your thesis will ultimately be disastrous for Greece because it implies that there is a whole entity named Macedonia that is geographically divided - by force as is taught in the FYROM. Need anyone be reminded that “Vardarska Makedonija” was born from Pan-Slavic irredentism? You leave the door open for us to continue to be “Egejska Makedonija” in their eyes - just another geographic region of...Macedonia under occupation. Their country will be a STATE and Greece will only have a region that supposedly will be in another sphere geopolitically. By suggesting a geographic qualifier, you are subjecting the 2.5 million Macedonian Greeks to continued dangers. Apart from wondering why there is a need for a qualifier, we publicly ask why you suggest that there needs to be a geographic qualifier for them and an ethnic qualifier for us. Are they not Slavs as we are Greeks? Finally any name that has a separate qualifier from “Makedonija/Macedonia” will be dropped and Makedonija/Macedonia” will be the finality. This has happened already with “the FYROM”: “FYR” is also a separate qualifier and Skopje has broken countless times the Interim Accord they signed in the quest to circumvent it and unilaterally push for “Republika Makedonija”. For just a single example, one has to look at the old flag that still adorns practically every social, political, and religious gathering in the State and its Diaspora – something that is against the Interim Accord.

Instead of creating “Macedonian” identities in Skopje at NATO’s Parliamentary Assembly you should have told them in no uncertain terms that no state should be allowed to use a term ethnologically that belongs to another nation culturally and historically for centuries. In our case it should be perceived as an obvious attempt to appropriate everything Macedonian.

Solutions to a breakthrough, or creation of a linguistic labyrinth?

With all due respect, we would like to critique your views as advisor to ELIAMEP and the Greek government. In your essay for ELIAMEP titled “The Current Macedonian Issue between Athens and Skopje: Is there an Option for a Breakthrough?”, and in your Rose-Routh Seminar speech in Skopje last month, you propose “food for thought” for future “aspirant mediators” on the issue and suggest a complex legalistic approach which is difficult to follow by international bodies let alone by the common person. Apart from the name of the country, you suggest that a possible solution would be to use the Slavic terms in an un-translated and non-transliterated form for the name of their ethnicity, language, and culture. The noun would be “Makedontsi” and the adjective would be “Makedonski” from the Slavic/Bulgarian language. For the Greek terms you state that “Makedones” for the noun, and “Makedonikos” for the adjective “might apply” and you suggest that these also should be transferred into other languages as is. However, in the Rose-Routh Seminar you go ahead and transliterate some of them using Slavic suffixes: “makedonsko vino” for their wine (in Italian/Spanish) as if the world should learn to inflect adjectives in Slavic!

Furthermore, we need not remind you that in Slavic, the gender suffixes are -ski (male), -ska (female), and -sko (neutral) for the adjectives. Additionally, the plural noun is “Makedontsi” but the singular is “Makedonets”. As you are aware, Greek also has gender suffixes for nouns as well for adjectives. You are unclear if all or just one of the Slavic/Greek suffixes and the plural/singular cases for each language should be used . Are you suggesting that the world learns how to inflect in Slavic and Greek or are you suggesting that these terms be copy-pasted everywhere thus disregarding the delicate linguistic rules that define a language? More specifically, is ELIAMEP prepared to create new grammatical and linguistic rules for all languages of the world? In English it is easier as there are no genders for nouns, and adjectives are not inflected but you can't only rely on the English perspective especially for languages which are highly inflected and their adjectival form possesses various cases. On the other hand, the phrase “the Makedonskianization of new immigrants” sounds tongue-tied and ridiculous even in English.

Even so, will the English say “the makedoniki woman” or will they say “the makedonikan woman” for the woman from Greece's north? In English will it be“the makedonski book ” or “the makedosko book” - or will the suffix be applied only to languages that inflect? If it is the former, then you are suggesting that the world learn Slavic, if it is the latter then you are suggesting that some languages replace their own suffixes for the Slavic ones. How on Earth could a Greek express a phrase such as “tis Makedonskikis protevousas” (“of the Makedonski capital”)? Will it be that - or the grammatically incorrect “tis Makedonski protevousas”? How would a Greek pronounce the term “the Makedontsi”? Will it become “oi Makedonstides” for men and “oi Makedontsisses” for women - or will it simply be the grammatically incorrect “oi Makedontsi”? How is ELIAMEP going to teach and ensure that the French would say “la capitale Makedonski et le vin Makedonski” instead of  “la capitale Makedonskienne et le vin Makedonskien”? Similarly, will the French say “les Makedontsi” for both genders instead of “les Makedontsiens” for men, and “les Makedontsiennes” for women?

Furthermore, there is also the problem of the plural and singular forms of the Slavic noun “Makedonsti”. The silliness is highlighted in the Spanish version of the phrase: “We went to the Makedonski(an?) capital of Skopje and we met many Makedonsti(an?) children and an older Makedonets during a conference for Makedonski(an?) youth.” “Viajamos al capital Skopje y en contramos los muchos niños Makedontsis y a la otra gente Makedonets qui atendieron una conferencia de juventud Makedonski.”

Finally, we want to know what will happen to the established term “Macedonian” that has been used throughout history (from ancient until current time) to describe the northern Greeks, including yourself. You mention this as the “fourth dimension”  in your thesis yet you offer no solution for this. One hundred years from now, when someone is reading Plutarch, Hammond, and Dakin  among others in English, will they know the term?

You have mentioned in your ELIAMEP thesis that once the two sides agree, they will jointly ask the world to adopt these linguistic rules. The problem with this is that while ELIAMEP would think they gave the solution to the problem and enjoy the congratulations of the world, the Skopjans will make absolutely sure that the media outside their country use the term “Macedonian” and not “Makedonski”.  It is our strong opinion that it is virtually impossible to impose this internationally, and ensure that Skopje will not promote to change it.We have highlighted this in various languages to make it clear that we believe Skopje will reject this cumbersome new linguistic entity and implore that everyone call them “Macedonian” – and a linguistically exasperated world will agree. The same thing has been done with the equally cumbersome “the FYROM”. We would ask you to be clear on all concepts above because we are honestly confused.

Historical inaccuracies: 

Dr. Kofos, you erroneously imply that the name issue between Athens and Skopje is somehow a continuum of the “Macedonian question” of over 100 years ago. You do mention that the “traditional” question as you called it was over territory but you fail to mention who was contesting the territory. You thus give the impression to third parties that Greeks fought “Macedonians” for control of “Macedonia” and this is historically wrong. As the Treaty of Bucharest 1913 can attest to, and as is reported by the Carnegie Report into the Balkan Wars - essentially as history teaches us - it was the Greeks, Bulgarians, and Serbs that each fought over the spoils of the fallen European Ottoman Empire. There was never a Macedonian ethnic identity then. If there was one, the Manifesto of Krushevo would have specified it. All “Macedonian” revolutionary movements were either Greek or Bulgarian, and it was the clash of these two ethnicities (after imperial Russia promoted the break-up of the Ottoman Empire) that defined the apogee of late 19th to early 20th Century Greek history. The current problem has nothing to do with a “Macedonian question”. It is the birthchild of a Pan-Slavic Communist dream that tangibly started in the 1930's and officially in 1944 with Yugoslav expansionist aims.

In addition, there was never a “Vardarska Makedonija” officially. The region of what is the FYROM today started as Paeonia/Dardania in antiquity and ended up as Vardarska Banovina before Josip Broz Tito chose to create the “People's Republic of Macedonia” in 1944. “Vardarksa Makedonija” is the irredentist name used by communists and Macedonists since to imply it is part of a “divided whole”.

Dr. Kofos, Greeks don’t “perceive” that the ancient Macedonian identity is a basic ingredient of our Hellenism - we know it to be through an unbroken Hellenic element and presence in Macedonia since antiquity. Perception is a word that implies a view not necessarily accepted by others. It leaves the door open for the interpretation that it may be a collective delusion. This is argued by Macedonism, which is the actual delusional force that is attempting to usurp everything Macedonian as being non-Greek. Unfortunately for Macedonists, our history is attested to by many and it is official.

Moreover, your statement in Skopje that “Makedones” is the historical name by which the Greek-speaking people of the ancient Macedonian kingdom identified themselves” bewilders us. Were the ancient Macedonians simply Greek-speaking? As you are very much aware, Macedonism teaches its youth that the ancient Macedonians were not Greek and that were simply Greek-speaking or Hellenized. Your speech in Skopje has done nothing but cement this theory. Nearly, 400 classicists of worldwide repute would disagree with you (http://macedonia-evidence.org/obama-letter.html).

The declaration of the Greek people:

The members of the Council of Hellenes Abroad (SAE) in their 2007 Chicago Convention as well as the Hellenic American National Council unanimously adopted the Pan-Macedonian Association’s Resolution regarding the issue of the name of the neighboring state. More recently, AHEPA during their worldwide convention in Montreal, Canada in July 2010 also lent its support to the same Pan-Macedonian resolution. In addition, approximately one hundred Macedonian organizations state that they declare they will not accept the inclusion of the term “Macedonia” in the name of the FYROM. They request that the Greek government abandons its policy of a geographic designation and to include in the negotiations on the question of the name of the country, the issues of its nationality and its language, so that the use of the term “Macedonia” is prevented. They call on the government to reject the opening of accession negotiations between the FYROM, and the EU and NATO respectively, and between the FYROM and other international organizations to which our country has the right of veto, before solving the problems of ethnicity, nationality, and language. Besides these are the views of the vast majority of our compatriots in Greece: All the opinion polls on the name show that the Greeks do not accept the word “Macedonia” in the name of the neighbor.

Legal arguments and Greece's obligation to its people:

We are aware of your arguments that no one can legally impose a nationality or name on a group of individuals and Greece has no legal precedence to request a change in the nationality of our northern neighbors.  It is the reason why ELIAMEP (with your advice) has promoted the idea of un-translated Slavic words for their identity, and of “Vardarska Makedonija” for the name of the country. In other words, you are promoting that they OFFICIALLY call themselves “Macedonian” in their language, and that their country’s name should be a Cold-War anachronism which was first coined by Josip Broz Tito. In other words, nothing has changed since 1944. You therefore believe that we have no legal recourse at all and have been fighting a losing battle and this bothers us greatly. These arguments are the same as what Skopje and its Diaspora use when the argue their points to various international bodies. Our arguments can be more eloquent and completely legally relevant than the concerns you and the recent Greek foreign ministers have raised. Firstly, why should we respect the wishes of a communist dictator that decided to extend “Macedonia” throughout all of Southern Yugoslavia as a means to the future annexation of Greek lands? In reality and as is mentioned in your 2009 thesis for ELIAMEP, it is the original Greek identity of Macedonia that is being mutated over the last 70 years. Where is the legality in this and why haven't you promoted the modern historical truth to them and the world? Secondly, instead of baptizing them and asking them to accept terms which will hardly be internationally recognized by a non-Slavic world, ELIAMEP should be promoting their Slavonic and Bulgarian roots in their quest to find their identity in the modern world. We should not be telling them what they are but we can tell them what they are not based on who we are, and this does have legal precedence.

We wonder just what exactly is ELIAMEP’s goal in all of this? Is it politically and tactically intelligent to offer the olive branch exposing a perceived soft base for the Greek argument, to a government and society that has been taught to hate Hellenism and to question the Hellenism of Macedonia and our identity? Since you are discussing identities, we would like you and ELIAMEP to clarify who has held the Macedonian identity the longest?

As a result, we are transparent in claiming to be the indigenous people of historic Macedonia and have been trying to exercise our rights under Articles 8, 9, 15, and 18 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2007. We have struggled to maintain our dignity as Macedonians against the intolerance of Skopje's Macedonism for six decades, and we are frustrated by supposedly pro-Greek groups like ELIAMEP, KEMO, and CDRSEE who are all supported monetarily or spiritually by non-Greek organizations and have been advising the Greek government on the matter. This has been happening without the participation and advice of the Macedonian Greeks and the Pan-Macedonian Associations. This is unacceptable and undemocratic. More specifically, Article 18 of the aforementioned UN declaration states very clearly:

Article 18

Indigenous peoples have the right to participate in decision-making in matters which would affect their rights, through representatives chosen by themselves in accordance with their own procedures, as well as to maintain and develop their own indigenous decision-making institutions.

Who has elected ELIAMEP to represent us in this process? Why are we constantly avoided and branded as intolerant nationalists when we object to the machinations of groups such as the ones you are affiliated with? The Greek State has the obligation to promote the wishes of the Macedonian Greeks, and to educate the rest of the world about our identity. This is also very clearly stated in Article 15.1 of the UN declaration:

Article 15

1. Indigenous peoples have the right to the dignity and diversity of their cultures, traditions, histories and aspirations which shall be appropriately reflected in education and public information.

Dr. Kofos, there is no power and certainly no ELIAMEP supported by George Soros’s Open Societies and other non-Greek sources that can override the will of the Hellenes and if you think that the Slavs will compromise if we give a little bit of our history and rights, you are deeply wrong. For 40 years they have dug their heels and said “NO...WE ARE MACEDONIANS! PERIOD.” What our failed diplomacy has accomplished so far is inviting them to continue their maximalist policies. Now in the Rose-Routh seminar in Skopje you created a new “Macedonian” identity to suit their goals while you want us to give the stamp of approval to the ignorance, lack of effort, and relevance to the Greek national issues by the same politicians that brought the country to its knees.

Why now do you and your colleagues in ELIAMEP (including former Ambassador to Greece in the US Alexandros Mallias, and ELIAMEP Vice President Thanos Veremis) travel to Skopje and plead with them to accept that they are…“Macedonians” in their language? By doing so you try to appease an ultranationalist foreign element by creating identities for them which insult us. Consequently we would like more transparency by ELIAMEP.

Sincerely,

President of the Committee of World Pan-Macedonian Associations – Nina Gatzoulis

Pan-Macedonian Associations USA-Dr. Antonios Papadopoulos, Supreme President

Pan-Macedonian Associations of Australia-Demitris Minas, President

Pan-Macedonian Association of Canada-Haralompos Moutousidis, President

Pan-Macedonian Association of Europe-Archimandrite Panteleimon Tsormpatzoglou, President

Macedonian Chapters of South Africa-Amyntas Papathanasiou, President