SPANISH FOOTBALL LIGA ROUND 21 SATURDAY GAMES RESULTS

Spanish Football Liga today with 4 scheduled games of Round 21. Here are all the final results along with the goalscorers.




Madrid Club Rayo Vallecano hosted Deportivo A Coruña in the Friday night Round 21 opener. Newly signed Borges was the star of Depor scoring both goals - 9th min & 71st min penalty - in his first game. The only goal for Rayo came through Bueno in the 21st min.




Real

REAL MADRID - AT BILBAO - ILLARAMENDI CONNEXION

The "Winter Transfer Market" has shut for Spanish Football. The figures indicate that around 45M€ (+/-) have been spent by Clubs to strengthen their squads. However, while we will see soon all the new faces in action in upcoming Liga games, there is one name that has been mysterious, Real Madrid midfielder Asier Illaramendi, who most thought would end up at Athletic Club Bilbao. The reality is,

SPANISH CUP-COPA DEL REY THURSDAY GAMES FINAL RESULTS

The Spanish Cup - Copa del Rey continued tonight with the remaining three 2º leg return Quarter-Final matches scheduled. Here are all the final results, goalscorers & qualifying Clubs.




Madrid Club Getafe hosted Villarreal which came into this match with a 1 goal advantage from the first leg. A contested match which was finally settled in the 78th min when Villarreal scored the valuable away

SPANISH CUP-COPA DEL REY RESULT | 2º LEG QUARTER FINAL

Spanish Cup - Copa del Rey 2º leg return Quarter-finals games this week, tonight At. Madrid - FC Barcelona, & the three remaining tomorrow. Final result 2 - 3 favouring FC Barcelona which eliminates Atletico de Madrid from the Kings Cup with an overall 2 - 4 aggregate result to Barça.

Tonights match had some controversial moments with the referee unfortunately playing a role with bad decisions

REAL MADRID TARGETS LAPORTE OF AT BILBAO?

According to todays front cover of Spanish Sports daily "Marca", Real Madrid wants to sign Aymeric Laporte, 20 year old French-Basque Central Defender of Athletic Club Bilbao. According to the news article Bilbao acknowlges  the interest from Real Madrid but does not want to enter into negotiations. Laporte is not for sale & the Bilbao President Urrutia response is "go to" the contract release

SPANISH FOOTBALL LIGA ROUND 20 SUNDAY GAMES RESULTS

Spanish Football Liga continued today with four matches of Round 20. Here are all the final results along with the goalscorers.




Two bottom placed Clubs met this midday in a very entertaining game of Football. Deportivo A Coruña drew 2 - 2 will Granada, with the latter making a comeback. In fact, Depor let off the hook Granada & basically let slip the 3 points.

Although Granada got ahead

SPANISH FOOTBALL LIGA ROUND 20 SATURDAY GAMES FINAL RESULTS

Spanish Football Liga action today with 5 matches scheduled of Round 20. Here is a brief summary of events, the final results & all the goalscorers.




Cordoba nearly pulled off the surprise taking Real Madrid down to the wire. Although the home team lost 1 - 2 to the visitors, Cordoba did not deserve to lose. 

Cordoba got off to a flying start when they were awarded a penalty due to a Sergio

BRAZILIAN LUCAS SILVA TRANSFER TO REAL MADRID

The Brazilian Football Club Cruzeiro has officially announced the transfer of their 21 year old midfielder Lucas Silva to Spanish Football Club Real Madrid.

The President of Cruzeiro, Gilvan de Pinho Tavares, confirmed today the transfer of their player in a press conference adding that the final details of the agreement are still being discussed with the Spanish Club; but they are "details". It

SPANISH CUP - COPA DEL REY THURSDAY GAME FINAL RESULT 1º LEG Q/FINAL

The last of the scheduled 1º leg Quarter-Finals of the Spanish Cup - Copa del Rey was played tonight between RCD Espanyol & Sevilla FC. Here is the final result & the goalscorer.




Intense stuff with Espanyol striking first in the 18th min when in form forward Caicedo scored. This was a blow that Sevilla FC did not fully recover from although their young forward Denis Suarez hit the bar in the

REAL MADRID TOP REVENUE GENERATOR IN WORLD SOCCER 2013-2014

Spanish Football giant Real Madrid is the Club that most revenue generates per season in World Soccer for the tenth consecutive year, as shown in the report published by Deloitte. Real Madrid generated during the 2013-2014 season a total of 549,5 million euros between the stadium crowds-capacity (113,8M) , television rights & retransimision, the income from the Champions League (...both 204,2M€)

REAL MADRID SIGNS MARTIN ODEGAARD

Spanish Football Club Real Madrid has made it official their signing of Norwegian "wonder kid", the 16 year old forward Martin Odegaard from Stromsgodset Football. Real Madrid will present the youngster to media this afternoon after undergoing the habitual medical exams. 




Martin Odegaard signs for the next 6 years with a speculated salary of between 2,4 - 3,4€ per season. The plans are that

SPANISH CUP - COPA DEL REY FINAL RESULTS | 1º LEG QUARTER FINALS

Spanish Cup - Copa del Rey action tonight - Wednesday - with three matches of the 1º leg Quarter-Finals. Here are all the final results along with the goalscorers.




Villarreal hosted Madrid Getafe & managed a hard earned 1 - 0 victory. A defensive Getafe thinking more in the return match managed to keep at bay Villarreal right up to the 85th min when Bruno scored from a free-kick. Relief for

SPANISH FOOTBALL | LA LIGA BEST IN THE WORLD 2014

The FIFA backed "International Federation of Football History & Statistics" - IFFHS - has pronounced that the Spanish Football League - La Liga - is the "Best Football Competition" in World Soccer for 2014. The IFFHS has previous given Spanish Soccer the same honours in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004 & 2013.

Surprising to see Argentina (4th) ahead of Germany (5th) on the table. 




Top 10 IFFHS list

SPANISH FOOTBALL | LIGA CURRENT TOP GOALSCORERS - GOALKEEPERS

The Spanish Football Liga season is half way with Round 19 played last weekend. Good moment to see who is leading the "Top Goalscorer - El Pichici" table & "Top Goalkeeper - El Zamora - table after 19 Rounds of Liga played.

Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo currently leads the goals tally with 28, while the least goaled keeper up to date is FC Barcelona player Claudio Bravo. 

Sure things

TONI KROOS IFFHS BEST PLAY CREATOR FOR 2014

Spanish Football has been privileged to have on show week after week an extraordinary midfield & Football player like the German International Toni Kroos. The star signing for Real Madrid this season who has made everyone forget Xabi Alonso & has taken the midfield reigns.




The FIFA backed "International Federation of Football History & Statistics" - IFFHS - has named Toni Kroos the "Best Play

SPANISH FOOTBALL LIGA ROUND 19 SUNDAY GAMES RESULTS

Spanish Football Liga continued with Round 19 & the following matches, final results & all the goalscorers.




La Liga gets half-way into the season & Real Madrid takes the honours of the "Winter Liga Champion Title" after defeating fellow city Club Getafe 0 - 3 this mid-day. A title that has little significance except that its an indicator of which Club is more "favourite" for the Liga title at

SPANISH FOOTBALL LIGA ROUND 19 SATURDAY GAMES RESULTS

Spanish Football Liga Round 19 action today with the following final results along with the goalscorers.




Cordoba drew 1 - 1 with Eibar the Friday Night Round opener. The highlight was the 10 second opening goal by Florin for Cordoba, the 4th quickest in Liga history. The equalizer for Eibar came in the 72nd min by Arruarrena.




Anger at Real Sociedad after losing 0 - 1 against Madrid Club

SPANISH CUP - COPA DEL REY THURSDAY GAMES FINAL RESULTS

Last of the Spanish Cup - Copa del Rey 2º leg matches tonight with the following final results & goalscorers.




Real Madrid placed their hopes on a turn around against Atletico de Madrid which visited with a 2 goals advantage from the 1ºst leg. However, Fernando Torres poured cold water over the Real Madrid plans scoring twice, in the 1st min & again in the 46th min. The away goal advantage

SPANISH CUP - COPA DEL REY 2º LEG TUESDAY GAMES RESULTS

Spanish Cup - Copa del Rey 2º leg matches this mid-week with two tonight. Quick summary of qualifiers for the next round, final scores & goalscorers.




Levante 3 (Barral 69th min & 72nd min, Juanfran 84th min) - Malaga FC 2 (Horta 21st min & Recio 37th min). Although Levante made a "heroic last moment" attempt they are eliminated from the Copa del Rey with Malaga FC advancing, 4-3 aggregate.

REAL MADRID BEST CLUB THE WORLD 2014 | IFFHS

The FIFA backed "INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF FOOTBALL HISTORY & STATISTICS (IFFHS)" has updated their World Clubs Ranking. Spanish Football Club Real Madrid CF finished 2014 in 1ºst position thus claiming the "Best Football Club in the World" for 2014. Other Spanish Football Clubs like Atletico de Madrid, FC Barcelona & Sevilla FC are in the top 20, finishing third, fourth & in position twenty 

CRISTIAN RONALDO WINS FIFA GOLDEN BALL 2014

Real Madrid CF & Portuguese International Cristiano Ronaldo has been voted & proclaimed the "FIFA France Football Golden Ball 2014" winner (37,66%  of the votes), ahead of FC Barcelona player Lionel Messi (15,76%) & Bayern Munich goalkeeper Manuel Neuer (15,72%). The full voting list can be examined in this link, after FIFA has made it publicly available.




The Real Madrid player was the hot

SPANISH FOOTBALL LIGA ROUND 18 SUNDAY GAMES RESULTS

Spanish Football Liga & Round 18 continued today with the following scheduled games. Here are all the final results with all the goalscorers.




Almeria hosted Sevilla FC & lost 0 - 2 with goals from Iborra in the 57th min & Coke in the 62nd min. Almeria had their chances but Beto, the Sevilla goalie, assured that they did not score. Important win & 3 points for Sevilla as thy jump into

SPANISH FOOTBALL LIGA ROUND 18 SATURDAY GAMES RESULTS

Spanish Football Liga in full swing with Round 18 Saturday games scheduled. Here are
the final results with all of the goalscorers.




Levante & Deportivo A Coruña started off Round 18 with the Friday night match. The end result a 0 - 0 drew with Deportivo missing their opportunities, mainly thanks to Levante goalkeeper Fabricio who put in a "blinder".




Real Madrid returned to their winning

THE LUIS ENRIQUE - MESSI CLASH | MUTINY AT FC BARCELONA

The days of
being the FC Barcelona Coach for Luis Enrique seem to be counted. The riff
between himself & Lionel Messi has been the straw that broke the camels
back. Apart from this there is another new front of conflict now open with Neymar after being
substituted in yesterdays Spanish Cup. The Brazilian has openly aligned himself with Messi to gather strength.









So what
ignited things?

THE UEFA IDEAL TEAM 2014

The voters - 8,6 million - on the UEFA website have helped chose the "Ideal 11 Team 2014" with three players from Real Madrid , 1 from Atletico de Madrid & 1 from FC Barcelona.




The voted Team :

Neuer
Lahm
Godin (At Madrid)
S Ramos (Real Madrid)
Alaba
Kroos (Real Madrid)
Di Maria
Robben
Ibrahimovic
Messi (FC Barcelona)
Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid)


The most voted player was Cristiano

ATLETICO DE MADRID GETS CANI ON LOAN FROM VILLARREAL

Atletico de Madrid surprised us with the return of Fernando Torres who is on loan from AC Milan. The Spanish Football Club again surprised everyone yesterday announcing that Villarreal midfielder Cani was to be loan out to Atletico for the rest of the season.  




The 33 year old player has fallen out at Villarreal due to his "clashes" with Club Coach Marcelino. Beyond this, the Madrid Club

ATLETICO DE MADRID 2 REAL MADRID 0 | SPANISH CUP - COPA DEL REY RESULT

Back after a few days off on a Christmas Break. Lots happening in Spanish Football these last days with La Liga back, FC Barcelona in crisis with Coach Luis Enrique & Messi locking horns & Spanish Cup - Copa del Rey starting yesterday, with games continuing tonight & tomorrow. 

To get back to the posting for 2015, will cover tonights big Spanish Cup-Kings Cup 1º leg match between Atletico de