La Liga Weekly

Today Corey from Madrid Offside, Mark of Madridistamac and Host Kevin of LaLigaWeekly talk on Real’s Champions League performance against FC Zurich. Looking forward the boys also journey to the El Clásico and take a crack at whose going to show up, predictions and what will be in the mind of Manuel Pellegrini as he prepares his side for the classic showdown between Spain’s superpowers of Real and Barca. http://www.podbean.com/podcast-audio-video-blog-player/mp3playerlightsmallv3.swf?audioPath=http://ogn.podbean.com/mf/play/yg24vw/ognrealmadridtalk10112509.mp3&autoStart=no If you wish to download the OGN/RealMadrid podcast and listen [...]

It’s no surprise that the ex-Boca Juniors prospect, sold to Real Madrid by the xeneises because they had Internet celebrity Ever Banega waiting in the wings, is ready to quit the Madrid club. Besides his worthlessness on the pitch, his role has been superseded by Xabi Alonso and Lass to some extent and his minutes are down. One of his agents, Zoran Vekic (a rather interesting subject himself if the google entries are true) has stated that his client, the [...]

Alright let’s get it out of the way. I was right. You were wrong. End of story. For 5 years I’ve been saying that the guy’s been fraud, a huckster, and a chameleon of the press; an opportunist who ran his small-market, catenaccio-lite program into the darling of the English press, riding in on the coat-tails of previously successful managers like Claudio Ranieri at Chelsea and Roberto Mancini at Inter Milan, and taking credit for whatever domestic success they bred [...]

This week on Forza Futbol Elisa, Gene and Mando talk about the Serie A and La Liga with a focus on this week’s Champions League games as well Make sure to check out ForzaFutbol.com:Forza Futbol, one of the longest running podcasts covering the Spanish and Italian leagues. http://www.podbean.com/podcast-audio-video-blog-player/mp3playerdarksmallv3.swf?audioPath=http://forzafutbol.podbean.com/mf/play/pu84dp/ForzaFutbol79.mp3&autoStart=no

Intro: While most of us have tuned out by this time in the Champions League, the group stages are often mind-numbing affairs, teams have qualified and are sending out B-squads to eat minutes, this year has been different. Today’s match between Inter and Barcelona at the Camp Nou actually means something. Barcelona come into the match on 5 points, having beaten Dynamo Kyiv at home, drawn twice to both Inter at the San Siro and held to a scoreless draw [...]

On today’s special episode, Mando returns to the Forza Futbol and interviews a friend of the show Andy Brassell from World Football Phone In and AllorNothingTV.net. We talk about the Thierry Henry handball incident, other qualifiers and about the upcoming Champions League games in Spain and Italy: Real Madrid, FC Barcelona and Inter Milan http://www.podbean.com/podcast-audio-video-blog-player/mp3playerdarksmallv3.swf?audioPath=http://forzafutbol.podbean.com/mf/play/izdg2x/FF-AndyBrassell1118.mp3&autoStart=no

Mundo Deportivo:Barcelona A hope for Messi. Doctors won’t release him for the Inter match and Leo wants to play. “We’ll come out ahead, if I don’t play nothing will happen. We’re a winning team.”Interview with Carles Puyol, “You don’t need to doubt this club.” The Inter of Mou arrived in Barcelona yesterday.Espanyol 0-2 Getafe. With Tamudo starting Espanyol still can’t buy a goal. Sport.es: Barcelona Waiting for a Miracle with Messi. Ibra will play Superdeporte.es: Valencia Osasuna 1-3. Villa, Albelda [...]

As Atletico off to their worst start in 56 years. In contrast, the youth team impresses and the club is insisting that Quique start using them. Barca are playing games. Now the club is insisting that Messi might feature against Inter and Real Madrid. Cristiano is ready. Pellegrini counts on him against Zurich and Barcelona. Madrid are off to their best start since the league went to 3 points. 28 points in 11 games.Osasuna 1-3 Valencia. Valencia also don’t concede. [...]

Hay Liga de nuevo, my brothers and sisters, or at least until next week I guess; seems that whenever Barcelona have a slip, the rafters at the Bernabeu start emptying with all sorts of oxygen deprived inhabitants coming up for air, the sun hitting on their pale washed-out faces screaming, “Hay Liga, Hay Liga, Hala Madrid”, but that’s predictable, predicting the failure of your bitter rival, but so was the goal Pipita Higuain scored for them on Saturday, one of [...]

Hey laligaweekly readers watch and listen to our own Mando Garcia talk to Andy Brassell from BBC Up All Night fame. The gents discuss all things futbol and whatever comes to mind including the Thierry Henry palmball in Wednesday’s France vs Ireland World Cup qualifier. http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7732972&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1