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
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 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 (
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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
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
I have thought that perhaps readers would like to know about some Spanish Football 2º Division News. This weekend the two current Top teams REAL BETIS & Madrid based RAYO VALLECANO meet with Betis winning 4 - 0 to escape further at the top of the ladder.
Here is a VIDEO of all four goals:
Javi Fuego (own goal) 14'; Beñat 49'; Rubén Castro 55'; Emaná (pen) 85'.
I can finally - 90% - answer the question from SFS readers of which date & time the FC BARCELONA - REAL MADRID CF match - "El Clasico" - will be played. The various options have been studied & the Monday option looks like it will not happen. Saturday is the day of "political reflexion" before the Catalonia Parliament elections & no political promotion or insinuation is permitted by law. Thus
SPAIN defeated BRAZIL 2 - 1 in the Final of the INDOOR SOCCER INTERNATIONAL GRAND PRIX tournament celebrated in the city of Anapolis in Brazil. The goals for Spain came thanks to RAFA USIN & ORTIZ, with FERNANDINHO scoring for Barzil.
Spain in action against Brazil
This tournament has been organized by the Brazilian Indoor Soccer Federation since 2004 & it has alwyas been won by the local