FC BARCELONA WINS 1 - 3 AT BILBAO IN THE SPANISH CUP-COPA DEL REY FINAL

FC Barcelona wins its second title this season after winning 1 - 3 Athletic Club Bilbao in the final of the Spanish Cup - Copa del Rey. Convincing performance with most of the "damage" done by Barça in the 1º half.

Packed "Camp Nou" with 95.000 crowd witnessing an inform FC Barcelona firing on all pistons & going into next weekends Champions League Final in Berlin against Juventus FC as

REAL MADRID PRE-SEASON CALENDAR | AUSTRALIA - CHINA

This piece may interest the Real Madrid fans especially in Australia & China. The Spanish Football Club will be travelling to these parts of the World pre-season. Below are some details & information:




Following the International & Summer break, the Real Madrid players will return to Madrid for their pre-season training on either July 10 or 11 before travelling in their Summer tour.

Australia

ATLETICO DE MADRID EYES CELTA DE VIGO NOLITO

Spanish International & Celta de Vigo forward "Nolito" is in the orbit of Atletico de Madrid according to local Spanish Sports press. The player has had an outstanding season with 13 goals & 13 assists & Atletico Coach Simeone sees Nolito as the perfect reinforcement for the left side of the attack.




Celta de Vigo asks for 14M€ as transfer fee while At Madrid offers 10M€, nothing surprising as

SEVILLA FC WINS EUROPA LEAGUE TITLE & GOES INTO CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

Magical night for Spanish Football & for Sevilla FC winning the final of the Europa League 2 - 3 against Ukrainian Club Dnipro. Its back to back titles, their 4th UEFA Cup, a record in the competition, plus it gives Sevilla FC a direct ticket into the Champions League competition next season. 

With this, Spanish Football will have 4 Clubs directly in the opening draw of Champions, while Valencia

SPAIN FOOTBALL TEAM LIST | BELARUS & COSTA RICA

Spanish National Football Team Selector & Coach Vicente del Bosque announced today the list of 24 players for the upcoming International Friendly match against Costa Rica (Leon, 11th of June) & the all important Euro 2016 Group qualifier against Belarus (Borisov 14th of June. 

The principal novelties are the names of two Sevilla FC players, goalkeeper Sergio Rico & midfielder Aleix Vidal.

REAL MADRID DISMISSES CARLO ANCELOTTI

Del Bosque, Queiroz, Camacho, García-Remón, Luxemburgo, López Caro, Pellegrini, Mourinho & now Carlo Ancelotti, are the 12 Coaches that have gone through the Club under the Real Madrid President Florentino Perez.

Tonight the Real Madrid President announced officially to a packed press conference what everyone expected, the "sacking" of Coach Ancelotti.




The expectations & the requirements

UEFA WEB EDITORS LA LIGA BEST XI 2014-2015

The editors of the UEFA website have voted their Best XI of La Liga season 2014-2015, with little surprises. 




Best XI season 2014-2015 of La liga voted by the UEFA Website editors:

Goalkeeper: Claudio Bravo (FC Barcelona)

Defenders: Dani Alves, Gerard Pique (FC Barcelona), Nico Otamendi & Gaya (Valencia CF).

Midfielder: Parejo (Valencia CF), James Rodríguez (Real Madrid) & Krychowiak (

REAL MADRID | SERGIO AGUERO BACK ON THE AGENDA ?

With the Spanish Football season over, we enter the period of transfer rumour & speculation which is always exciting & of course, keeps selling Sports papers. As past experience has shown us repeatedly news is to be taken with scepticism initially as players, managers, Clubs & media leak information - true or false - to position themselves & their interests.




Spanish Club Real Madrid jumps out

HIGHEST GOAL SCORER - BEST GOALKEEPER LA LIGA 2014-2015

With the Spanish Football & La Liga season concluded we have the final list of the "Highest Goalscorer" ("El Pichichi") & the "Best Goalkeeper" ("El Zamora") for season 2014 - 2015. 

Once again Real Madrid CF forward Cristiano Ronaldo outperforms himself to claim the Liga top goal scorer with an "out of this World" figure of 48 goals. This is a regular feat for the Portuguese who reached the

SPANISH FOOTBALL | LA LIGA ROUND 38 FINAL RESULTS

Spanish Football & La Liga finishes its season 2014 - 2015 with today's Round 38 games. Following are all the final results & all the goalscorers, plus we have the following Clubs that go to Europe & relegate:

Clubs straight to Champions League: FC Barcelona (Champion), Real Madrid & Atletico de Madrid,
Club for Champions League Preliminaries : Valencia CF
Clubs to Europa League : Sevilla FC,

SPANISH FOOTBALL GOODBYES, NEWS & RUMOURS

Big day today for Spanish Football with important events & plenty of rumours flying around the local Soccer circles. Here is a summary of the main events in one place (post).

The greatest FC Barcelona & Spanish International midfielder in modern history Xavi Hernandez officially announced this afternoon this goodbye from Barça. In his press conference the player announced his exit, his new

REAL MADRID | 2º CLUB THAT MOST SPENDS ON SALARY PAYMENTS

Moving slightly off Football, but still keeping in touch in an economic manner, an interesting piece of news has appeared today on players salaries. According to "sportingintelligence" Spanish Football club Real Madrid is the 2º Club (all Sports) that spends most on players salary. The other Spanish Football Club on the Top 12 list is FC Barcelona in 4th place. 

Said this the highest Club (

REAL MADRID - JURGEN KLOPP HAVE A PRE AGREEMENT ?

News coming out of Germany assures that Jürgen Klopp will be the new coach of Real Madrid & will replace Carlo Ancelotti for next season. According to the information disseminated by "Radio Deutschland", the still Borussia Dortmund Coach has apparently reached an agreement with the Spanish Football Club. Timid news came out last week locally that a Real Madrid directive flew to Germany to meet in

REAL MADRID - DE GEA | MUSICAL CHAIRS

Manchester United Manager Van Gaal made the comment: De Gea is Spanish, a Spanish International, his Spanish parents have to fly out from Spain nearly every week, his girlfriend is Spanish & Real Madrid is a huge Spanish Football Club. The goalkeeper is very keen to return to Spain & Real Madrid has made him an offer. 

David De Gea has on his table a contract renewal proposal from Manchester Utd

REAL MADRID EUROPEAN BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS

It has
taken 20 years for Spanish Basketball Club Real Madrid to proclaim themselves
European Champions. They did this tonight in the Final Four Final winning 78 -
59 Greek Club Olympiakos. Tonight’s victory was even sweeter for the Spaniards as it
"erased" their previous three finals where they failed to win.



The Spanish
Club neutralized Olympiakos most dangerous player Spanoulis & managed

SPANISH FOOTBALL | LA LIGA ROUND 37 RESULTS

Big day of Spanish Football with Round 37 (second last) of La Liga with all games played simultaneously, a Champion mathematically proclaimed while the bottom of the ladder turns into a fierce battle to avoid the relegation with one last Round left to dispute next week. Here are all the final results along with the goalscorers.




Atletico de Madrid hosted FC Barcelona & lost 0 - 1 giving the

REAL MADRID | SPECULATION ON EXITS & ARRIVALS

With Real Madrid blank this season (barring a small Liga miracle) without any titles the question is, now what? The "enemies" of the Spanish Club have come out of the woodwork & from under the carpet to put their "two cents" worth into the debate. A debate that circles around the figure of current Coach Ancelotti, some players not up to the level & even Cristiano Ronaldo, yes everyone is getting

SEVILLA FC QUALIFIES FOR EUROPA LEAGUE FINAL 2015

Spanish Football puts another Club into a European Football Final after Sevilla FC won 0 - 2 away at Fiorentina tonight & eliminating the Italians from the Europa League competition with a 0 - 5 aggregate scoreline. The current Europa League Champions will travel to Warsaw next month to attempt to win back to back titles & if so, win a place in Champions League next season. 

Sevilla FC joins FC

REAL MADRID 1 JUVENTUS 1 | JUVE INTO THE FINAL ON 2 - 3 AGGREGATE

Real Madrid held the UEFA Champions League Final Ticket up until the 57th min when Juventus managed to equalize & change things in their favour to later eliminate Real Madrid in tonights 2º leg semi-final match. The final 1 - 1 result gave the Italian the semi-final tie with an overall 2 - 3 aggregate total putting them up next month against FC Barcelona in the Berlin Final.




Real Madrid

POSSIBLE STARTING LINEUPS REAL MADRID - JUVENTUS FC

Which Club will join FC Barcelona in the upcoming UEFA Champions League Final in Berlin next month? This question will be decided tonight when Spanish Football Club Real Madrid hosts Italian club Juventus in the 2º leg return match of the Champions League semi-final. 

The Italian have the advantage bringing in a 2 - 1 result from the 1º leg game, & a away goal to their favour tonight could put

BAYERN MUNICH 3 FC BARCELONA 2 | BARÇA THROUGH TO FINAL WITH 5-3 AGGREGATE

Spanish Football Club FC Barcelona eliminated German Club Bayern Munich tonight after taking the semi-final home & away tie 5 - 3 on overall aggregate. The actual final score of tonight's 2º leg match was a 3 - 2 victory for Bayern Munich a just score & fair reward for a proud showing of Football from their part.




The endeavour to attempt to turn around this semi final from the Bayern point of

BAYERN MUNICH - FC BARCELONA | POSSIBLE STARTING 11 LINE-UPS

FC Barcelona takes a magnificent 3 goals in their pocket over to Germany to play Bayern Munich in the 2º leg semi final of the UEFA Champions League tonight. With this advantage Barça is a game away of getting into the Berlin Final. However, Bayern Munich have faith that they can turn around the tie, thus making this game a "must see".




The possible starting 11 line-ups for both teams look

SPANISH NATIONAL FEMALE SQUAD | CANADA 2015 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

Female Spanish National Team Selector & Coach Ignacio Quereda has handed in the final of 23 players to represent Spain in the World Championships in Canada next month.




Goalkeepers: Ainhoa Tirapu (Athletic de Bilbao); Lola Gallardo (Atlético de Madrid) & Sandra Paños (Levante)

Defenders: Ruth García (Barcelona), Celia Jiménez (Alabama), Melanie Serrano (Barcelona), Marta Torrejón (Barcelona)

FIFA RANKING | SPAIN 10TH PLACE

FIFA released this months World Ranking in Football-Soccer. As expected current World Champions Germany retain the top spot with 1,687pts with Argentina close second with 1,494pts. Surprisingly Spain remains in the Top 10 with 10th place with 1,132pts, taking into account some less than average performances in last official & friendly matches.




World Top 10 Ranking by FIFA:

.1) Germany 1.687

SEVILLA FC 3 FIORENTINA 0 | EUROPA LEAGUE 1º LEG SEMI RESULT

Spanish Football Club & remaining representative Sevilla FC took a huge leap towards the Warsaw Final of the Europa League defeating Italian Club Fiorentina 3 - 0 in tonights 1º leg semi-final clash.




Excellent & overall consistent performance from Sevilla FC which was very efficient finishing off much better the opportunities they created of goal over their opponents. The Italians created

FC BARCELONA 3 BAYERN MUNICH 0 | 1º ST LEG SEMI CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

The 2nd UEFA Champions League 1º leg semi-final match concluded with FC Barcelona defeating 3 - 0 Bayern Munich. A marvellous game of intense & tactical Football that needed the brilliance of Lionel Messi to break the "gridlock". 




Both teams should be congratulated, Barcelona for the win & Bayern Munich for their brave attitude attempting to play offensive Football while tactical firm

JUVENTUS 2 REAL MADRID 1 | 1º LEG SEMI CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

The Italian Club Juventus FC takes the 1º leg of the UEFA Champions League semi-final against the Spanish Football Club Real Madrid with a final 2-1 result. Veteran observers may explain that Juventus laid Real Madrid a trap & the latter took the bait...

As anticipated difficult stadium for Real Madrid against a more intense & determined Juventus spurred on by their devoted fans. Real Madrid was

JUVENTUS - REAL MADRID | POSSIBLE STARTING 11 TEAM LINE-UPS

First of the two UEFA Champions League 1º leg semi-final clashes tonight between Italian Club Juventus & Real Madrid. In my opinion & dangerous game for Real Madrid as the Italians have just proclaimed themselves "Serie A" Champions & come into the late part of the season in great form.

Real Madrid on the other hand have Modric & Benzema out with injury, Cristiano Ronaldo with some apparent back

LA LIGA | SPANISH FOOTBALL ROUND 35 GAMES FINAL RESULTS

Hi guys, excuse me this weekend for the poor Liga round-up post. Took the opportunity of this long weekend holiday to get out of town & travel to a non-wifi region to relax. Therefore was disconnected from TV & Internet.

However will give you this quick summary of all the Round 35 Liga matches & final results along with the goalscorers.




Cordoba 0 - FC Barcelona 8 (Ratikic, Pique, Neymar (