REAL MADRID CF AWARDED BY THE IFFHS FOR 2014

The top "brass" of the FIFA backed "International Federation of Football History & Statistics" (IFFHS) made a visit today to Real Madrid CF during training to hand some Awards. 

Real Madrid received the "Best Football Team for 2014" after winning 4 titles: UEFA SuperCup, Champions League, Spanish Cup & World Clubs , gaining 381 points. Sergio Ramos as Club Captain received this particular IFFHS

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€)

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

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

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 

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

WORLD SOCCER | CRISTIANO RONALDO WINS BEST PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2014

The Soccer Magazine "World Soccer" has Awarded Real Madrid player Cristiano Ronaldo their "Best Football Player of the Year 2014". CR7 was voted by 100 journalists & other World Soccer experts, ahead of Bayern Munich goalkeeper Manuel Neuer & FC Barcelona forward Lionel Messi.

Traditionally, the winner of the "World Soccer" Player of the Year coincides with the soon to be announced France

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM SPANISH FOOTBALL SPORTS

Taking some days off from posting & grabbing some Christmas time with the family. 





I wish all the regular readers of Spanish Football Sports - & visitors -  a very Merry Christmas. Enjoy this special time of the year with your loved ones. 

Will be back real soon! Cheers.

THE MANCHESTER UNITED INTEREST FOR GARETH BALE

The news travelling out of England that Manchester United is willing to make a 150M€ offer for Real Madrid & Welsh international Gareth Bale apparently has truth according to local media sources.




However, the Premier League Club has two big obstacle:


the 1,270 M€ contract release clause, seeing that Real Madrid does not wish to sell,
the "NO" from the player who is reported to be happy at

REAL MADRID 2 SAN LORENZO 0 | WINS 2014 FIFA WORLD CLUBS CHAMPIONSHIPS

Spanish Football Club REAL MADRID finishes their incredible year with another Title, the FIFA World Clubs Champions 2014, after defeating Argentine Club San Lorenzo 2 - 0 in tonights Final.





Fairly comfortable game for Real Madrid with San Lorenzo showing very little Football & more their attempts at "physical distraction". Their input was the amount of fouls committed & their at times "

BEST GOALKEEPERS FOR 2014

UK paper "Daily Mail" has published their list of "The Best Goalkeepers for 2014". Bayern Munich Neuer tops the list, but Spanish International & Manchester United goalie David De Gea flys the Spanish flag high in the Nº 2 spot. Iker Casillas is ranked 7th while the other Real Madrid goalkeeper Keylor Navas is Nº 10. 

A sightly "Premier League biased" ranking, with Joe Hart of Man City perhaps

REAL MADRID WINS 0 - 4 CRUZ AZUL IN FIFA WORLD CLUBS SEMI-FINAL

Real Madrid defeated Mexican Club Cruz Azul 0 - 4 in the first semi-final of the FIFA World Clubs Championships being held on Morocco. The Spanish Football Club goes into the final next Saturday against the winner of the other semi-final between San Lorenzo & Auckland to be played tomorrow.




Real Madrid had a fairly comfortable match except for a penalty that fortunately Iker Casillas stopped

UEFA BEST IDEAL XI TEAM 2014 CANDIDATES LIST

UEFA has made public the list of player candidates for the "2014 UEFA IDEAL XI TEAM". The voting is now open for UEFA website visitors, where 8 Real Madrid & 4 Atletico de Madrid players figure. There are 5 Spanish Nationals on the list.







Full list of candidates:



Goalkeepers:

Neuer (Bayern)

Courtois (Chelsea)

Buffon (Juventus)

Beto (Sevilla)



Defenders:

Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid)

REAL MADRID SIGNS YOUNG STARS ASENSIO & PEETERS

Spanish Football Club Real Madrid does not stop working, nor stops planning for its long term future in order to guarantee its dominant position in World Soccer. Combing the National & International markets for the best young talents available, Real Madrid announce the signing of two Football pearls.




The first is the Dutch pearl from Ajax of Amsterdam, 16 year old Mink Peeters who is already

SAMI KHEDIRA HAS A PRE-CONTRACT WITH BAYERN MUNICH ?

Real Madrid & German International midfielder Sami Khedira becomes a free-agent as of the 1st of January, that is, the player can negotiate with any Club & leave free of a transfer fee at the end of the season. The German ends his contract with Real Madrid the 30th of June 2015 & has not renewed with the Club, in fact, Khedira has knocked back offers from Real Madrid all last season.




Spanish

LIONEL MESSI WANTS TO LEAVE FC BARCELONA ?

Alarm bells at FC Barcelona. The front cover of Spanish Sports paper "Sport" reflects it with the headline "Messi Worries". The Argentine opened the doors to a possible exit from FC Barcelona with comments in an interview to Argentine press. When asked about his future, Lionel Messi was "vague" & acknowledged that no one knows their future. A different tone to the past were his statements were

SPAIN 0 - GERMANY 1 RESULT | INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLY GAME

Lots of hype before the match between Spain & Germany, but the end result was somewhat disappointing. The final result 0 - 1 to Germany with a late goal from Toni Kroos (88th min) that included a mistake from substitute goalie Casilla. The terrible weather conditions & wet turf did not help & Spain may well feel they were unlucky.

The Germans went in with only 4 "regular" names, while Spain gave

SPAIN - GERMANY | SPANISH FOOTBALL FLASHBACKS

Tonight in the Spanish City of Vigo, Spain meets the current FIFA World Champions Germany in an International Friendly. Top match beforehand even though the Germans visit with plenty of the players that won Argentina in the World Cup Final in Brazil out with "injury".  The Spaniards themselves are undergoing a "smooth revolution" with Coach Del Bosque injecting new blood to replace what many

SPANISH FOOTBALL LIGA | SIGNINGS NOT MAKING THE GRADE

Not much relevant & differing content from Spanish Football these days with the Liga on hold as the Football Calendar makes room for International commitments. However, Spanish Sports daily "Marca" publishes an interesting article worth a post. The paper looks at some of the big name signings for Liga Clubs this last summer & compares their playing time. Some names & their lack of team

SPANISH FOOTBALL NATIONAL TEAM PHOTO 2014

The Spanish Football National Team is currently preparing itself for their Euro 2016 Group match next Saturday against Belarus, & the International Friendly against the current World Champions Germany the following 18th of November.

For the occasion they did a official team photo that I though I´ll post for all the World follwers. Missing were Diego Costa & Cesc Fabregas both injured, & as can