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La Liga Fixtures for the 2010-11 Season

by Andy Pineda on July 20, 2010 · 11 comments

The Real Fed­eración Española de Fút­bol (the Span­ish FA) released the full sched­ule for the 2010-11 La Liga sea­son, and Jor­nada 1 will be held on the last week­end of August.  Both Real Madrid and FC Barcelona will com­mence their cam­paigns away from home as they visit Mal­lorca and Rac­ing de San­tander respec­tively.  Real Sociedad, […]

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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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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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La Liga heads down the home stretch with five matches remain­ing, and Jor­nada 34 is lit­tered with matches between the top and the bot­tom of the table. FC Barcelona hosts Xerez at the Camp Nou in the early Sat­ur­day kick­off, and both teams are run­ning oppo­site of their posi­tion in the stand­ings.  Despite prop­ping the ladder […]

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With El Clásico in the rear-view mir­ror, La Liga con­tin­ues for­ward with a mid-week round that will help shape the Euro­pean and rel­e­ga­tion bat­tles. For Real Madrid, a mid-week match should be good for them so that they can move on quickly from a men­tally and phys­i­cally drain­ing edi­tion of El Clásico.  With Barcelona holding […]

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Real Madrid and Barcelona’s matches in La Liga this sea­son have almost had the feel­ing of high-level train­ing ses­sions.  A few sur­prises sprin­kled through­out, but the inevitabil­ity of the best team in the world and the most expen­sive team in the world decid­ing the cham­pi­onship arrives on Sat­ur­day night. Barcelona will come off a heav­enly high […]

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A gigan­tic ban­ner cov­ered one end of the Esta­dio San­ti­ago Bern­abéu before the match.  On this ban­ner, the Grim Reaper and other scary crea­tures from movies and sto­ries past sprawled across, and there was a mes­sage for their Madrid neigh­bors to the south, “Noche de Derby.  Vues­tra Peor Pesadilla.” In Eng­lish, this means, “Derby night.  […]

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