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.
The last three games of the 1º leg of the SPANISH CUP season 2010 -2011 ( the last 32 teams stage) concluded tonight with the following results & scorers
Gurpegui for At Bilbao
Second Division Club ( & last years Real Madrid killers ) ALCORCON lost 0 - 1 to ATHLETIC DE BILBAO thanks to the 54th min goal scored by defender GURPEGUI. Bilbao go into the 2ºleg with a valuable away goal.
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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
A huge night of SPANISH CUP action with 11 games scheduled & still three games are down for tomorrow night before this 1º leg gets finished. Some interesting results, as with the characteristics of this competition, there have been some surprises. Here is a quick summary of the Wednesday night Spanish Cup results along with the goalscorers.
Sevilla FC celebrate a goal against Real Union
REAL MADRID CF via its "Real Madrid TV Channel" ( thanks for the video) did a special report on the Clubs six new signings for season 2010 - 2011: Sergio Canales, Di Maria, Pedro Leon, Khedira, Ozil & Carvalho. They all speak about their sensations, BUT & unfortunately neither YouTube has the translation button enabled nor is there sub-titles. I ask for forgiveness for this lack of foresight by
The current FIFA World Champions SPAIN defeated LITHUANIA 3-1 in their Group I match tonight which was played in the Spanish city of Salamanca. The SPANISH FOOTBALL TEAM went in without important midfielders Xavi who is injured & Xabi Alonso who was a last minute withdrawal due to the flu. However, both were well substituted by Andres Iniesta doing the habitual work of his Club team-mate Xavi &
The SPANISH FOOTBALL TEAM is under concentration with its 21 players in Madrid preparing themselves for the two important EURO 2012 group qualifiers. This Friday night they play Lithuania in the Spanish city of Salamanca & then the squad travels to Scotland to play in the city of Glasgow on Tuesday.
The SPAIN FOOTBALL TEAM has 4 new additions (Valero, Soriano, Aduriz & Pablo Hernandez) to the
SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM Selector & Coach Vicente de Bosque has had to change the original list of Spanish players called up for the upcoming Euro 2012 Group qualifiers against Lithuania & Scotland after three important members suffered injuries in their respective League games this weekend.
FC Barcelona player PEDRO, along with Liverpool FC forward FERNANDO TORRES & Sevilla FC player
SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM Selector & Coach Vicente Del Bosque has handed in his list of 20 Spanish players for the upcoming EURO 2012 Group qualifiers against Lituania & Scotland. Spain plays Lituania in the Spanish city of Salamanca on the 8th of October & then flys to Glasgow to play Scotland on the 12th of October.The news is that FC Barcelona midfielder XAVI HERNANDEZ has been left out
More SPANISH FOOTBALL with the scheduled Sunday games of Round 1º of the SPANISH LEAGUE - LA LIGA - in action with 6 matches. Note that tomorrow Atletico de Madrid & Sporting Gijon will play the last scheduled match of Round 1º at 22.00. Sp time.FC BARCELONA travelled to RACING DE SANTANDER & basically continued were they left things last season as Spanish Champions winning very comfortably 0-3.
The draw for the Spanish League – La Liga – season 2010 / 2011 schedule has been conducted this morning at the Spanish Football Federation. The full calendar with all 38 Liga rounds & their respective match ups are available via this link to Spanish daily “AS” : Season 2010-2011Meanwhile you can consult this table of the main games of interest given to us courtesy of Spanish daily “Marca”:
Source : Spanish Football Sports Most observers following the SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM in South Africa, along with the National Sporting press, seem to have it clear after witnessing the training sessions & hearing the coments of the National Coach Vicente Del Bosque. The SPANISH FOOTBALL PLAYERS that will make up the starting 11 against Paraguay will be the same as thoses who started
Source: Spanish Football Sprts Blog /Hi everyone, the below image is XABI ALONSO training tonight with his team-mates which tells us that he is "basically" over his ankle worry & injury. This should help us speculated further that he will be part of the SPANISH FOOTBALL TEAM STARTING 11 AGAINST PORTUGAL for tomorrows "knock out" game.In fact, media observers go as far as to name the following
Source: Spanish Football Sports Blog /The objective has been achieved. SPAIN has defeated CHILE 1 -2 & finishes in 1ºst position of Group H, along with Chile, to go onto meet Portugal in the from now onwards "knock-out" stages. It wasn´t easy at all with Spain suffering from nerves from the start that were partially settled with the 1ºst goal by DAVID VILLA in the 24th min with a fantastic 30mt "
Source: Sp Ftball Sports /The SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM has a do or "go home" match tonight against Chile to shut proceeding in Group H. In the last hours veteran defender Capdevila has gained strenght in speculations that he will retain his left back position over Arbeloa.This is the only area of doubt, if one defender or the other, as Coach Vicente Del Bosque has all his players fully fit
Source: Sp Ftball Sprts Blog /Great news for the SPANISH NATIONAL TEAM & the prognostics for the STARTING LINE UP against Chile next Friday in the do or die game for SPAIN in Group H. The “FIFA Disciplinary Committee” has decided not to sanction Spanish International forward DAVID VILLA after TV cameras caught the Spaniard "fending off" with his hand Honduras defender Emilio Izaguirre who then
Source: Sp Ftball Sprts /A few statistics so far from the 2010 WORLD CUP & on the SPANISH WORLD CUP TEAM performance. According to figures published by local Spanish Sports paper "Marca", the SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM is the most attacking & play making team up till now. One would think looking at the numbers that SPAIN would be cruising comfortably if you had not seen any game so far in the
Source: Spanish Football Sports Blog /The objective was achieved, SPAIN won 2-0 HONDURAS in their second Group H match, which the SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM needed to win at all costs to avoid going home prematurely. The other objective was to score goals in order to avoid a possible 3 team table draw on points within the Group & ensure the Spanish classification via a greater goal figure.
LATEST NEWS : Confirmed Line-UpCasillas, Sergio Ramos, Puyol, Pique, Capdevila, Busquets, Xabi Alonso, Xavi, Jesus Navas, Fernando Torres & David VillaSource: Spanish Ftball Sprts /The very latest news coming out from the SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM camp at South Africa is that there will be two changes in the starting line-up that lost against Switzerland 1-0 in the opener of Group H. Spanish
Source: Sp Ftball Sprts Blog /After the SPAIN was “surprisingly” defeated 0 – 1 in their opening Group H match by Switzerland the “pandora box” of passionate Football observers was opened which released various “opinions” of the why & how to solve things. Ex-Spanish National Team Coach Luis Aragones was one of the first "ghosts" from the past to voice his opinion, the Spanish media was unleashed