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
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
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.
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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
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 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
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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
So you just spent 90€ on the latest SPAIN FOOTBALL TEAM shirt with the little star? Guess what, there is now a NEW version of the uniform that the SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM will debut with against Portugal next Wednesday.
Today Spanish Football Players did a Press Conference to show media the new uniform with a new design, "World Champions" badge & neck stitching. So you can now race off
Firstly, congratulations to SEBASTIAN VETTEL for winning the Abu Dhabi F1 Gran Prix & in doing so becoming the F1 2010 WORLD CHAMPION. The German becomes the youngest driver in F1 History to do so. Secondly, congratultions to Spanish two time World Champion FERNANDO ALONSO who finished sub - Champion just 4 points behind Vettel. The work & the season done with Ferrari has been extraordinary &
The Groups draw for the upcoming u-21 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS next year in Denmark has matched the SPANISH NATIONAL TEAM with England, Ukraine & Czech Republic.
In the other Group the four teams are Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland & Byelorussia.
Sergio Canales - u-21 Spanish International
The u-21 Euro Championship will take place from the 11th of June until the 25th & only the first 3 places
Fabulous night - for thoses whos team won - of Spanish Football with eight top games in Round 10 of the Spanish League - Liga. In there we had the Madrid "Derby" & lots of goals in the other games.
Carvalho scores Real Madrid´s 1ºst goal
REAL MADRID defeated 2 - 0 ATLETICO DE MADRID in the big & controversial Madrid "Derby" to retain top spot of the Spanish League ladder. Once again the 11
FC Barcelona & Spanish Football Team midfielder XAVI HERNANDEZ has come out publicly to squash recent rumours that he was considering leaving the National Team due to his troubled ankles & the need to reduce his current games rate.
Xavi Hernandez
Translated:
"I wish to play the Poland & Ukraine Euro 2012 & if possible the World Cup 2014 in Brazil". He also added that he was available for the
I am getting plenty of emails from SFS readers asking me for the date of the FC Barcelona – Real Madrid “Clasico”: the first of the two big games in the Spanish Football – League season. In theory, it’s the weekend of the 27th of November & this 2010 – 2011 season the first game is at “Camp Nou”, the home ground of FC Barcelona.
Ronaldo - Messi will meet in this years "Clasico"
However there
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
Hi Guys , back from my business trip & I can finally begin updating SFS Blog readers. Here is a brief post on yesterdays three games played of the SPANISH LEAGUE - LIGA - Round 8. SPANISH FOOTBALL was given a treat last night with plenty of goals & some wonderful Football from the already known stars.
The first game was REAL ZARAGOZA against FC BARCELONA with the latter winning 0 - 2 thanks to
The SPANISH FOOTBALL TEAM was yesterday awarded the prestigious "Principe de Asturias Prize" for Sporting acievement 2010, for their outstanding effort in winning the FIFA 2010 World Cup. But more than this the prize was given for the teams demonstration of creating a unique playing style admired by the Football World & above all , human values like honour, dedication, lead by example, team
Busy night for all four SPANISH FOOTBALL TEAMS as they played their EUROPA LEAGUE Group qualifying matches with overall general joy for the Spanish fans. I personally wasn´t able to witness all four matches but managed to keep the pulse of most via TV, radio & a Twitter account, therefore excuse me if some summaries are brief & to the main detail.
Sergio Aguero scores the 2º goal for Atletico
FIFA will release its monthly WORLD NATIONAL TEAMS RANKING publicly next November the 17th where SPAIN retains for another month its Nº1 spot. Up to 156 matches were taken into account for the month of October (80 Internationals & 76 Friendly matches), which takes the number up to 641 matches for the year so far in the table calculations.
Here is the Top 10 October 2010 list:
1. Spain
SPAIN defeated SCOTLAND 2- 3 in tonight's Group I clash in "Hampden Park" Glasgow to take them straight to the top of their Group ladder. The World Champions were the outstanding & dominating side until the match complicated itself for Spain in the mid 2º half with a meritorious Scottish attempt at comeback & near victory.
DAVID VILLA shots at goal
The first half was a Scottish wall that had