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A month ago I wrote about Joan Laporta’s last minute attempt to influence the Barcelona elections, away from enemy Sandro Rosell’s grasp and towards a candidate or a set of candidates hand-picked by him. He’s certainly tried to discredit the former Barca vice-President in a tell-all book Laporta wrote describing the possible selling of Ronaldinho to Chelsea and pocketing transfer fees for himself and Laporta, but the more damaging bit is the report stating that Laporta would try to make [...]

Rejoice madridistas, because the Bernabeu will not host a coronation for Pep Guardiola’s Barça on your pitch, but don’t get too confident, despite the obvious questions about Barcelona’s form after such a long campaign, the ball is still in Barça’s court and now they will be doubly motivated to tale control of the league with trips to Villareal and Sevilla still ahead. It’s doable, but the La Liga season will hinge on how a poor collection of sides, factoring their [...]

Around a La Liga is the weekly column here at Laligaweekly.com where we recap all the news on the peninsula from O Coruña to Barcelona and San Sebastian to Sevilla, onward to the Balearic and Canary Isles. Real Madrid: Jose Mourinho: A throwaway line in a little article about Jose Mourinho celebrating yesterday’s Inter Milan win over FC Barcelona. Jose to Victor Valdes, who exception to Jose’s low-pan posturing in t he middle of the field as if he did [...]

While Elche striker Jorge Molina is making the headlines with his goal, the central nervous system behind the Elche attack is Julian Cerda Vincente or ‘Juli’ as he is known. At age 29, Juli is playing the best futbol of his career and is on a team that now sits just one point behind the promotion zone, an unthinkable achievement considering they were in last place with just one point after their first four matches. So what happened to start [...]

Well, with the very fortunate Bayern Munich waiting in the wings at the Santiago Bernabeu already, after torching a very lackluster and under-manned Lyon defense, we are all set for a welcome of epidemic proportions for Sir Bobby Robson’s former translator Jose Mourinho in Catalunya tomorrow night. After a contested affair last week that saw Inter Milan hand Pep Guardiola his largest defeat since taking the reigns at the Camp Nou, all the talk was that Jose Mourinho had already [...]

Our man Guti Haz., King of the Pim-Pam All Night Disco Party, has decided that instead of retiring to the Bernabeu woodshed that houses all the old legends like Butragueno and DiStefano, he’ll be taking his little Westminster dog-and-pony sideshow to Dubai or something. “Why Dubai? Is there something wrong with him? He still has talent”, my madrididista friends say, “he could play in the Premier League, in the Alonso role at Liverpool. Wasn’t he linked to Spurs recently? If [...]

I’d love to think that the guy, a promising young fullback from Santa Fe, Argentina playing for Espanyol, amongst almost an entire back-line of promising Argentine defenders who wear the blanc-i-blau, is getting the attention he deserves for his play on the field, but well, it seems he’s joined in a circle of jerks led first by Aston Villa exhibitionist Ashley Young, and then by his demure Valencia camera-buddy Ever Banega. Amazing that all these guys, who find that after [...]

As.comAtletico Madrid 3-1 Tenerife: seduces the Calderon: scored two goals and formed a great pairing with Kun, who made the third. Real Madrid: Is already the third highest goalscorer on the club and will start against Osasuna: “I want to help win the this League.” The Brasilian’s wife on Twitter: “Madrid 2, Zaragoza 1! Goal for my beautiful husband. He deserved the wait. We’ll keep it up!” Rest of the League: Sporting 0-2 Valladolid, Racing 1-2 Villareal, Almeria 0-1 Espanyol, [...]

A little prep time is good when you start analyzing the new transfer season coming up. You’ll start hearing more coming out of the rags soon enough and while some of it will be spot on, like last year’s reporting of the Cristiano Ronaldo pre-agreement between Manchester United and Real Madrid, much of it will be speculative brought on by many factors. Here’s one. Destabilization: When there is an important match coming up, clubs will use the contacts in the [...]

On today’s episode of Forza Futbol, we are joined by Kevin Walker of Serie A Weekly to give the Italian League its just due after Inter’s exciting Champions League tie against Barcelona. We talk Serie A’s tight race, the Coppa d’Italia and we manage to fit in a little La Liga talk as well http://www.podbean.com/podcast-audio-video-blog-player/mp3playerlightsmallv3.swf?audioPath=http://forzafutbol.podbean.com/mf/play/99f36z/forzafutbol98.mp3&autoStart=no Powered by LaLigaWeekly.com

There are still nine weeks left in the Segunda Division season, but Saturday’s contest between Betis and Elche could very well make or break the promotion hopes for both clubs. Both teams are on the outside looking in at the promotion zone in Spain’s second level of futbol. Betis sit fifth with 53 points while Elche are lurking two points behind in sixth. However each club are one win away from at least securing third place and automatic promotion should [...]

Around a La Liga is the weekly column here at Laligaweekly.com where we recap all the news on the peninsula from O Coruña to Barcelona and San Sebastian to Sevilla, onward to the Balearic and Canary Isles. Real Madrid: Karim Benzema is the latest player to be implicated in the prostitution scandal n the France squad. Both he and Bayern Munich star Franck Ribery are said to have sought out relations with an underage Parisian prostitute. Kaka is celebrating his 28th [...]