Iker Casillas

The fash­ion­able dis­trict.  The working-class south.  The estab­lished.  The dis­re­spected.  Com­merce.  Indus­try.  A com­par­i­son between the two top Madrid clubs.  Getafe just wants to be in the con­ver­sa­tion.  They are in the city too, they say.  Real Madrid does not dis­re­spect them because they are not in Real’s radar.  With Atlético Madrid strug­gling to steer […]

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In terms of the foot­ball played on the pitch, the Sevilla — Real Madrid clash qual­i­fied as the best match of the young La Liga sea­son.  Hon­or­able men­tions to Ath­letic Bilbao’s 3–2 vic­tory over Vil­lar­real CF in Round 3 and the pul­sat­ing 2–2 draw between Valen­cia and Atlético Madrid last Sat­ur­day night, but this fixture […]

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Que Mal Que Marca El Madrid

by Emilee Woods on September 14, 2009 · 5 comments

Espanyol 0–3 Real Madrid 0–1 Granero, 39’ 0–2 Guti, 77’ 0–3 Ronaldo, 90’ This was a con­stant refrain from the Span­ish lan­guage announc­ers and the theme of most of the match, as the Merengues strug­gled to hold their nerve at the back, occa­sion­ally look­ing as porous as Sponge­Bob Square Pants in defense. It should be […]

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The much-anticipated return of La Liga began with a scin­til­lat­ing match between the new galác­ti­cos of Real Madrid and the pesky Deportivo La Coruña, who always gives Madrid a run for their money, lit­er­ally.  Because of the con­tin­ued sus­pen­sion of Pepe and the ten­dini­tis suf­fered by Ser­gio Ramos, the Real Madrid defense was not at […]

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Álvaro Arbe­loa recently com­pleted a return move to his child­hood club Real Madrid for €4 mil­lion. While deserved atten­tion went to the second-generation galác­ti­cos Cris­tiano Ronaldo, Kaká, and Karim Ben­zema, Real Madrid also made trans­ac­tions that do not rate high on sex appeal yet realign the glar­ing weak­ness behind its dis­ap­point­ing last sea­son. For the […]

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