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 [...]
Summer Reading Series: Ajax, Barcelona, Cruyff by Frits Barend and Henk Van Dorp Many of the books about the Spanish League that I’ll be recommending this Summer are going to be written by commentators, people writing as outsiders usually, many of them Englishmen either living or working in Spain, but this is a book outside the norm I’d say. The majority of the work is taken directly from primary sources in the Netherlands, interviews with people at Ajax, newspaper reports [...]
It is tiring. Everyone respects their football, even you madridistas do, admit it, you’ve been trying to buy yourselves a better form of football rather than grow it, but while the merengue form of arrogance is built from decades of success, an impetuous desire to win everything and continue doing so by God-given right; everyone else be damned. Barcelona are a different. When they win, and win beautifully, they bask in the glory of a shared respect; keepers of the [...]
For months now, it has been a foregone conclusion, practically since the time Barcelona came from behind and beat Estudiantes de La Plata in the World Club Cup cementing their six titles in one competitive year, that Barca would win at least another La Liga title, and more likely (since the English juggernauts have all been eliminated) the club would win a second consecutive Champions League trophy under former captain Pep Guardiola. Still rather than give you reasons why Barcelona [...]
Marca.com Real Madrid: Madrid on a rocket and Barca in a bus. The blaugrana arrive today in Milan after two days on the road. Madrid put themselves one point behind. Cesar avoids a barriage of goals by the whites. A great game by Marcelo on the wing. The umpteenth bit of genius from Guti on the first goal. Higuain and CR9 divvy up the goals between them. Guti: “Of course I want Barcelona to lose in the Champions, I always [...]
Kim Kardashian after breaking up with her NFL American football boyfriend Reggie Bush, has found a tempting rebound in Real Madrid Galactico Cristiano Ronaldo. The two got together for dinner in Madrid, which was obvious enough to make the papers. The American reality show star and Ronaldo were kissing and very affectionate, at least this is what we’ve learned from The Sun. Shocking as Greaseano strikes again! No table manners? Kardashian received a tour of Greaseano’s $125 million mansion, you [...]
Coming into the match all anyone wanted to talk about was by how much the visitors would beat the host, what sort of goleada the blaugranas would defile the brand, spanking new stadium at Cornella-el Pratt by. It was an obvious discussion really, Barcelona were rolling and Espanyol had just come off a midweek loss to Racing, a 1-3 pasting for the periquitos after having beaten Atletico de Madrid at home last weekend 3-0. It was an up and down [...]
On this week’s episode of Forza Futbol, we are joined by Nick Punyal of the RCD Espanyol supporter’s club of Australia as we discuss supporter’s groups, the state of the league, a closer look at the club, the stadium and the future, through the eyes of a long-term supporter, Listen Now:http://www.podbean.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/player.swf Standard Podcasts: Hide Player | Play in Popup | Download | Embeddable Player |
you gotta love this pose and I have to thank Ash at our sister-site Futbolita for bring yet another great photo to my attention. Can just imagine the thoughts running through Pelusa’s head, ‘the Disheveled One’. “son I’m going to teach you everything I know”
