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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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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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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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NINO, NINO, NINO!” chanted Los Chichar­reros in the Esta­dio Heliodoro Rodríguez López.  When shouted aloud, the chant sounded like an onrush­ing ambu­lance through a traffic-jammed street, and for Getafe, who fell vic­tim to the bril­liance of Nino, they needed the assis­tance of EMT work­ers. After a 0–0 draw at home to Real Val­ladolid last Saturday, […]

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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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