OFFICIAL - REAL MADRID SIGNS DANILO FROM PORTO

As speculated & written here, Spanish Football Club Real Madrid has announced that they have officially signed 23 year old Porto & Brazilian right-back Danilo. The operation has cost 31,5M€ & the player signs for the next 6 years. The Brazilian will incorporate himself with Real Madrid after this season & being the pre-season summer training with his new Club.




Danilo has been with Porto for

HOLLAND 2 SPAIN 0 | INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLY MATCH RESULT

The Spain National Football Team continues to drown in doubts as they lost 2 - 0 in Amsterdam to Holland in tonights International Friendly match. The media built it as the "revenge" game for Spain after losing in the last World Cup in a disastrous fashion. However, the truth is that Spanish Coach Del Bosque started with a B-side:

De Gea; Carvajal, Albiol, Pique, Bernat: Mario Suarez, Cazorla,

FASTEST FOOTBALL PLAYER IN THE WORLD | GARETH BALE

Intersting piece from Mexico that may answer the popular question, which Football-Soccer Player is currently the fastest in the World? The reply comes from a study done by Mexican Soccer Club "Pachuca" with has been endorsed & backed by the World Football governing body "FIFA".

Real Madrid & Welsh International Gareth Bale is the fastest player in World Football with a ball at his feet with 36,9

ATLETICO DE MADRID CLOSING IN ON OZAN TUFAN

News today locally mentions that Spanish Football Club Atletico de Madrid sent two emissaries over to Amsterdam for the Holland - Turkey game. Their objective was to meet up with players representative of young Turkish Football sensation 20 year old Ozan Tufan. Second time they meet as the Spanish Club has been following Tufan for sometime. 




In Turkey the youngster is in big demand, 

SPAIN 1 UKRAINE 0 | EURO 2016 GROUP C MATCH RESULT

Spain hosted the Ukraine for there must win Group C qualifying match for the Euro 2016 competition in France. Both Nations came into this game with 9 points each, behind Group leader Slovenia with 12 points (now 15 after defeating Luxemburg tonight). A loss tonight by Spain would have made their qualification for France 2016 almost out of their reach, Spain managed the objective winning 1 - 0.

SPAIN 2 NORWAY 0 | U-21 INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLY

European U-21 Football Friendly International played tonight between Spain & Norway with the final result going 2 - 0 to Spain. 

Match dominated by Spain from start to finish with long possession Soccer & plenty of shots at goals by the local team. The two goals scored occurred in the 1º st half through Munir in the 16th min & Deulofeu in the 18th min, with this last putting in an exceptional

HIGHEST PAID FOOTBALL PLAYERS IN THE WORLD | LIONEL MESSI

You may ask yourself, who is the Worlds Best paid Soccer player? French Soccer magazine "France Football" has answered the question releasing the list of the Top 20 Best paid Football Players in the World. They take into account the income received from Club salaries, rights & publicity. 

FC Barcelona Argentine star Lionel Messi tops the list - Nº1 - again this year with 65M€, eleven million

ATLETICO MADRID LOOKS TO REINFORCE DEFENCE & MIDFIELD

Atletico de Madrid has extended the contract of their charismatic Coach Simeone, it will be announced officially today. With this piece in place, the Spanish Football Club begins thinking about the future & possible signings to maintain the squad competitive for all competitions.

Although no one will officially acknowledge that Atletico is scouting the market, there are currently two areas that

CURRENT LEADING GOALSCORERS - GOALKEEPERS | LA LIGA AFTER ROUND 28

This week the Spanish Liga takes a break for upcoming EurO 2016 & International Friendly matches. Good moment to see how the table stands for the current Leading Goalscorer - "El Pichichi" & the Leading Goalkeeper - "El Zamora".

In the goalscoring section FC Barcelona player Lionel Messi has made an extraordinary effort to overtake rival Cristiano Ronaldo of Real Madrid. The race for the "

LA LIGA | SPANISH FOOTBALL ROUND 28 SUNDAY GAMES RESULTS

La Liga with Round 28 of Spanish Football continued today with matches that included the big FC Barcelona - Real Madrid "clasico". Here are all the final results along with all the goalscorers.




Deportivo de Coruña hosted RCD Espanyol in a relatively boring match of Football that ended in a 0 - 0 draw. What is worth mentioning are the numerous goal chances missed by both sides. 




Sevilla FC

LA LIGA | SPANISH FOOTBALL ROUND 28 SATURDAY GAMES RESULTS

La Liga this weekend with Round 28 Spanish Football matches scheduled & with the following final results & goalscorers.




La Liga kicked off with the Friday night game between Elche & Valencia CF. The game went the way of the visitors comfortably winning 0 - 4. The goals fell in the following order:

Gomes 43rd min, 0 - 1
Paco Alcacer 56th min, 0 - 2
Roco (own goal) 70th min, 0 - 3
Otamendi

SPAIN FOOTBALL TEAM LIST 24 PLAYERS FOR UKRAINE - HOLLAND GAMES

Spanish Football Team Selector & Coach Vicente Del Bosque has handed in this afternoon the list of 24 players that make up the Spanish National Football Team squad for upcoming two International matches. Spain plays next Friday 27th of March Ukraine in Seville in the Euro 2016 Group game, while on Tuesday the 31st of March they travel to Amsterdam to play Holland in an International Friendly.  

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE | ATLETICO-REAL MADRID | PSG-BARÇA | QUARTER FINALS 2015

The Club match ups for the upcoming UEFA Champions League Quater-Finals were drawn this midday at the UEFA HQ in Nyon (France). The below graph gives the results:




ATLETICO DE MADRID hosts city rival REAL MADRID for the 1º leg away clash: 14/4, while
FC BARCELONA travels to PARIS ST. GERMAIN: 15/4.

The Quarter-final playing dates are:
1º leg 14 th & 15 th of April 
2º leg 21 st & 22 nd of

SEVILLA 2 VILLARREAL 1 (5-2 AGG) | EUROPA LEAGUE RESULT

Sevilla FC eliminated tonight the other remaining Spanish Football club in Europa League Villarreal. Sevilla won the 1º leg game 1 - 3 & tonight managed to win again 2 - 1 thus moving to the next stage of the European competition with a 5 - 2 aggregate.




Heavy rain at Sevilla which made many fans stay home & watch the game on TV. The 1º st half was fairly even, with all the goals occurred in

EL CLASICO | POSSIBLE FC BARCELONA STARTING 11 LINE-UP

With Champions League obligations successfully acquired last night eliminating Manchester City, Spanish Football Club & current Liga leaders FC Barcelona turn all their full attention to next Sundays "Clasico". The Liga match against Real Madrid could well decide which of these two giants of World Soccer will take this seasons Spanish League title.




Two days ago I posted here the possible

FC BARCELONA 1 MANCHESTER CITY 0 | BARÇA ELIMINATES CITY

FC Barcelona defeated 1 - 0 Manchester City in tonights 2º leg return encounter winning the tie 3 - 1 on aggregate & eliminating the English club from the UEFA Champions League tournament. Once again Manchester City falls way short of expectations in European Football, while FC Barcelona again goes into the Quarter-final stage. 




Barça was relatively comfortable most of the game except for the

AT MADRID 3 BAYERN LEVERKUSEN 2 (AFTER PENALTIES) | ATLETICO ELIMINATES LEVERKUSEN

It went down to the wire, right into extra-time & into the dreaded penalty shoot-out. After more than 120 mins of intense Football, see-saw penalty misses, Spanish Altletico de Madrid turned around the tie & won the penalty knock-out to qualify over Bayern Leverkusen for the Quarter-Finals of the UEFA Champions League. 




Atletico Madrid managed to score "the vital" goal to even the tie in the

EL CLASICO | POSSIBLE REAL MADRID STARTING 11 LINE-UP

The upcoming FC Barcelona & Real Madrid Round 28 Liga match - "el Clasico" - next Sunday could well determine which of these two Club will be this seasons Spanish Football League Champion. Currently Barça has a slim 1 point lead over second placed Real Madrid, the winner would not only open up their lead but received a huge moral boost that should take them riding home for the rest of the season.

CRISTIANO RONALDO THINKING OF RETURNING TO MANCHESTER UNITED?

Something
is not right with Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo. Since receiving the FIFA
Golden Ball in January the Portuguese forward has entered an observable "slump"
with his play, & with his goal scoring rate dropping dramatically
(dramatically in his extraordinary case) which has lead to all sorts of
speculation.



The initial
back alley talk was that his break-up with model Irina Shayk

LA LIGA | SPANISH FOOTBALL ROUND 27 SUNDAY GAMES RESULTS

Round 27 of La Liga - Spanish Football - continued today with the following matches, final results & goalscorers.




Almeria hosted Villarreal & at least managed to halt the progression of the visitors in Liga with the final 0 - 0 draw result. Both teams ended the match with 10 men & neutralized each other tactically. Almeria are the most disappointed as they need the points to stay away from

LA LIGA | SPANISH FOOTBALL ROUND 27 SATURDAY GAMES FINAL RESULTS

La Liga celebrated Round 27 Spanish Football action with the following games, final results & goalscorers.




Valencia CF played Deportivo A Coruña in the Friday Night match & won 2 - 0. Not an easy game for Valencia which only managed to open the can with a penalty that Parejo converted in the 60th min. Later in the 71st min Paco Alcacer scored the sealer. Another 3 points in the bag for

VILLARREAL 1 SEVILLA FC 3 | EUROPA LEAGUE RESULT

Europa League 1º leg matches played tonight with the only two Spanish Football Clubs left in the competition meeting each other. The final result went to the visitors SEVILLA FC winning 1 - 3 the home team VILLARREAL & taking away for the 2º leg clash two important away goals that obviously puts them in the "drivers seat" to advance to the next stage.




Villarreal were caught "cold" at the

FIFA RANKING | SPAIN FALLS OUT OF THE TOP 10

FIFA released today its monthly list - ranking of top Football Nations with the news that Spain falls out of the Top 10 to sit in the 11th place.  The current FIFA World Champions Germany sit in the Nº1 spot with 1,770 pts, followed by Argentina & Colombia in third place.

FIFA Rankings TOP 20 - released 12th of March:

1 Germany 1770 pts
2 Argentina 1577
3 Colombia 1499
4 Belgium 1471
5

DANI ALVES SIGNS WITH PARIS ST GERMAIN

Spanish radio has advanced the news that Brazilian International & FC Barcelona right-back Dani Alves has signed with Paris St Germain. The defender ends contract this season with Barça & the latter has not wished to renew the player.




The Brazilian was free to negotiate his future without Barça & travelled to Paris after the Sunday Liga match against Rayo Vallecano to sign his contract. The

REAL MADRID - 3 SCHALKE 04 - 4 | CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FINAL RESULT

Real Madrid qualified for the Quarter-Final stage of the UEFA Champions League after winning the tie 5 - 4 on aggregate, BUT losing tonights game 3 - 4. The two away goals scored at Germany became vital & the factor that keeps Real Madrid in the competition even though their performance tonight was a real shocker, one to forget.




Real Madrid was on the verge of disaster & faced the real risk

REAL MADRID | WHY THE SLUMP?

As expected
the Spanish Sports media has turned its attention on Real Madrid, the motive?
Why has the former leader of La Liga given way to its rival FC Barcelona with a
string of bad performances that include a draw & a loss last weekend
against At.Bilbao. The current Champions League & World Clubs Champions
Real Madrid has gone from its impressive 2014 season to a horrible 2015. Why this slump

LA LIGA | SPANISH FOOTBALL ROUND 26 SUNDAY GAMES RESULTS

La Liga has a new leader after todays four Round 26 scheduled matches. Here are all the final results along with all the goalscorers.




FC Barcelona defeated Madrid Club Rayo Vallecano 6 - 1 & in doing so takes the Top Spot of  La Liga table with a 1 point advantage over second placed Real Madrid. This same match also allowed Lionel Messi to score another HAT-TRICK & in doing so equals

LA LIGA | SPANISH FOOTBALL ROUND 26 SATURDAY GAMES RESULTS

La Liga celebrated Round 26 with the following games, with a surprise results that puts the competition on fire. Here are all the final results along with the goalscorers.




Levante & Eibar kicked off Round 26 with their Friday Night game. The home team continue with their winning ways defeating the visitors 2 - 1. The match was relatively even until Eibar got ahead first through Saul in the

CRISTIANO RONALDO RICHEST FOOTBALL PLAYER IN THE WORLD

Portuguese & Real Madrid player Cristiano Ronaldo is the richest Football player on the planet. his estimated personal wealth is 210,000,000 €, mostly thanks to juicy publicity contracts with Toyota, Herbalife, Armani, KFC, Emirates, Banco Espiritu Santo & Samsung, apart from his long relationship with Nike. However, there is more, cash-flows from fashion, leisure (nightclub-"Seven") & real

DAVID DE GEA THE CHOSEN ONE BY REAL MADRID

It is fairly unanimous, current Manchester United Spanish International goalkeeper David De Gea is destined to be the substitute of Iker Casillas at Real Madrid & the Spanish National Team. The speculation is constant & if the river sounds...




The representative of David De Gea is none other than Portuguese Jorge Mendes, which has an ace up his sleeve. His player ends contract in 2016, thus if

SEVILLA FC THINKS IN FERNANDO LLORENTE IF BACCA LEAVES

This news piece from Italian media, concretely "TuttoSport" is interesting. According to the cited news source, Spanish Football club Sevilla FC is thinking in Spanish & Juventus FC forward Fernando Llorente as a substitute for Carlos Bacca.




The big European Clubs are knocking on the door of Sevilla FC asking about Bacca & expressing their interest in acquiring the services of the Colombian.

ATLETICO DE MADRID TARGETS PSG CAVANI

News out of France lets us in on a possible interest from Atletico de Madrid for Paris St Germain Uruguayan forward Cavani. The French source "L'Equipe" goes further & writes that the signing of Cavani is a prerequisite of current Atletico Coach Simeone for him to renew his contract with the Club.  




The French source also writes that it was fellow Uruguayan National Team collegue & Atletico

PORTO PUTS 30M€ PRICE ON DANILO FOR REAL MADRID

A while back it was mentioned here that the big Spanish Football Clubs were following Porto 23 year old Brazilian right back Danilo . Today we jump from speculation & into the news published by Spanish Sports paper "AS" that Real Madrid has "pole position" after the player expressed his willingness to make the jump over to La Liga.




This affirmation by the player has apparently lead Porto to

REAL MADRID & LIVERPOOL FC SHARE SOME COMMON INTERESTS

Luciano Vietto is exploding this season in Spanish Football. The 21 year old Argentine forward with Villarreal is scoring goals & has become an important piece in his teams set-up. The youngsters 2º half performance against Real Madrid last Sunday caught the eye of Club Directives, so much so, that the players agent Jorge Cysterpiller has gone public saying that Real Madrid likes his player.

REAL MADRID | SOME HUMOUR FROM BARCELONA

Some innocent humour out of the city of Barcelona going viral, precisely from their Sports paper "Mundo Deportivo", after the Liga slip yesterday by Real Madrid drawing 1 - 1 with Villarreal (also lovely called "The Yellow Submarine").




The cartoon says it all, the mentioned result allows FC Barcelona to close the points gap on the Liga table to just two points. The upcoming "clasico" - FC

PEDRO LOOKS MORE OUT THAN IN AT FC BARCELONA

Speculation concerning the future of Spanish International & FC Barcelona winger Pedro have been ongoing & today are back in the Sports media. Local papers are picking up the vibes from British press that states that Manchester United & Chelsea have shown interest & are considering targeting the winger for next season




The player has fallen into a secondary role at Barça with in the

LA LIGA - SPANISH FOOTBALL - ROUND 25 SUNDAY GAMES RESULTS

La Liga continued today with 4 top matches of Round 25. Here are all the final results along with the goalscorers.




Valencia CF maintains its sights in the Champions League ladder positions with a 2 - 0 win over Real Sociedad in todays midday game. Valencia Argentina forward Piatti was the protagonist scoring his teams two goals: 55th & 58th min.




Eibar hosted Athletic Club Bilbao in their