Champions League

Mallorca Enters Voluntary Administration

by Andy Pineda on May 21, 2010 · 0 comments

A dispir­it­ing final match­day left Mal­lorca forty sec­onds away from qual­i­fy­ing for the Cham­pi­ons League.  Sevilla man­ager Anto­nio Álvarez took a huge gam­ble late in that match by send­ing Sevilla youth prod­uct Rios Lozano Rodri into the match instead of Luís Fabi­ano, and Rodri broke the hearts of Los Bar­ralets with an acro­batic goal in […]

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The rumors, for once, came to fruition, as FC Barcelona will pay a trans­fer fee of €40 mil­lion to Valen­cia for Span­ish inter­na­tional striker David Villa.  This tango (or the sar­dana for a more local, Catalun­yan flair) danced by the two clubs since the pre­vi­ous off­sea­son will finally end as out­go­ing Barça pres­i­dent Joan Laporta […]

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Once Lionel Messi scored his club record-tying 34th goal of the sea­son in the 76th minute to increase the lead to 4–0, the 98,772 Culés at the Camp Nou, save for a few hun­dred Real Val­ladolid die-hards, began to chant the song that every team wants to hear at the end of the sea­son, “Campeones, […]

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On Tues­day, the goal­keep­ers and defend­ers were dis­cussed, and Wednes­day, the mid­field­ers were dis­cussed.  With all of the cre­ative tal­ent in the mid­field, that will bring the pres­sure on the for­wards to con­vert the mul­ti­tudes of chances that Xavi, Xabi Alonso, etc. will cre­ate for them.  Obvi­ously, the two start­ing men up front would be […]

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Depend­ing on the results of the final round in La Liga this upcom­ing week­end, Atlético Madrid can fin­ish as high as ninth and as low as eleventh in Spain.  Ful­ham com­pleted their 2009-10 in the Bar­clays Pre­mier League in twelfth posi­tion.  All mat­tered not as they both nav­i­gated through mas­sive Euro­pean obsta­cles to arrive at […]

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The Race for the La Liga Crown If there were a match on which Barcelona would stum­ble in their path to a sec­ond con­sec­u­tive La Liga title, Vil­lar­real would stand in their way. All involved with FC Barcelona said the right state­ments after Inter Milan elim­i­nated the Cata­lans from the UEFA Cham­pi­ons League.  Barça pres­i­dent Joan Laporta […]

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There will be a Span­ish team in a Euro­pean final, but it is not the team that many expected.  Atlético Madrid com­pleted their strange and won­der­ful trip to the Europa League final with an extra time goal by Diego For­lán against Liv­er­pool.  As per usual, Atlético did not win the sec­ond leg of their Europa […]

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