florentino perez

This week­end, the focus will be on those teams who will play in Euro­pean com­pe­ti­tion in the fol­low­ing mid­week.  The ques­tion of domes­tic vs. Euro­pean respon­si­bil­i­ties remains an indi­vid­ual club deci­sion, but for some teams, choices become more plen­ti­ful than oth­ers. Real Madrid faces Xerez at El Chapín, but Los Blan­cos have the capa­bil­ity to […]

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Denial Although Real Madrid needed five goals to over­turn their Round of 32 tie with Alcor­cón, a cer­tain sense of denial was impor­tant in this par­tic­u­lar sit­u­a­tion so that they could believe that their task was not impos­si­ble.  Kaká stated, “For the pride and for the his­tory of Real Madrid, we have to win this […]

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For­mer Barca star and coach Johan Cruyff (Pho­to­bucket) “I can imag­ine that he is not going to be involved in foot­ball mat­ters.  I don’t know about con­struc­tion and he doesn’t know about foot­ball.  It is obvi­ous.” In an inter­view with Cua­tro, Johan Cruyff came up with yet another witty line when it came to criticizing […]

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