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UEFA Europa League Final">The Late Show with Diego Forlán as Atlético Madrid Defeats Fulham in the UEFA Europa League Final

by Andy Pineda on May 13, 2010 · 3 comments

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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US TV Listings for Jornada 35: May 1 — May 2">La Liga Preview and US TV Listings for Jornada 35: May 1 — May 2

by Andy Pineda on April 30, 2010 · 0 comments

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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Atlético Madrid Hits Rock Bottom

by Andy Pineda on October 26, 2009 · 0 comments

Hal­loween will arrive in a few days, but for Atlético Madrid, this sea­son has been a com­plete night­mare from the begin­ning.  Los roji­blan­cos hit their low point with a dull thud on Sat­ur­day when they could not fend off a nine-man Mal­lorca team and set­tled for a 1–1 draw at the Vicente Calderón.  Even though […]

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Valencia Unnecessarily Drops Another Two Points

by Andy Pineda on September 28, 2009 · 0 comments

Based on their records com­ing into this fix­ture, the Valen­cia — Atlético Madrid Sat­ur­day fix­ture did not look to be an appe­tiz­ing match, but know­ing each team’s pen­chant to go for­ward, their stature in Span­ish foot­ball, and their per­for­mances over the past few years, this game was the one to watch, and they did not […]

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La Liga in the Champions League: Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid

by Andy Pineda on September 16, 2009 · 5 comments

The group stage of the Cham­pi­ons League began on Tues­day evening, and two La Liga out­fits looked to ini­ti­ate the exor­cism of their per­sonal demons. Real Madrid and its galác­ti­cos played its first Cham­pi­ons League match of the sea­son against an upstart FC Zürich team who, before the match, seemed more inter­ested in whom they […]

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Atlético Madrid Continues Their Stumbling Start

by Andy Pineda on September 14, 2009 · 0 comments

Atlético Madrid pro­longed their fal­ter­ing start with a 1–1 draw against Rac­ing San­tander on Sat­ur­day.  Even with a man advan­tage for the major­ity of the sec­ond half, they lacked the fin­ish­ing touch to nip the win from a feisty San­tander side.  Rac­ing came off a 4–1 drub­bing at El Sar­dinero by Getafe, includ­ing a hat […]

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