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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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A half-empty sta­dium.  A run­ning track sur­round­ing the pitch that places the fans fur­ther away from the action.  Sup­port­ers that cre­ate less noise and din than those at the Van­cou­ver Olympic Cen­tre, where the Olympic Curl­ing com­pe­ti­tion is con­tested.  The ONO Estadi hardly con­sti­tutes as an intim­i­dat­ing atmos­phere, but RCD Mal­lorca has man­aged to maintain […]

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Mallorca Earns Their First Win Away from Home

by Andy Pineda on December 14, 2009 · 0 comments

At the cross­roads of the Pyre­nees and the fruit­ful Ebro val­ley lays the Esta­dio Reyno de Navarra in Pam­plona, where RCD Mal­lorca vis­ited Osasuna in Round 14 of La Liga.  A cold, crisp night with a win­try wind whip­ping through the bones of the play­ers and the sup­port­ers, the below freez­ing weather suits no team […]

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