Guys, I just inform you & I suppose that many readers who are far away from Spain & Europe may appreciate to be informed of what´s "cooking" locally in Spanish Football. Below is the front page of todays Spanish Sports daily "Marca", a paper known for its over-zealous hype building & news scoops to marketing their imagined superiority over rival media.

Proud day for SPANISH SPORT & SPANISH HANDBALL with SPAIN winning the home team Sweden 23 - 24 in the Handball World Championships 3rd place game to take the Bronze Medal. Spain have had a wonderful tournament only being defeated by the mighty Danish team by 4 points in their semi - final clash. An excellent match with an extraordinary defensive effort that kept out Sweden & allowed the Spanish

REAL MADRID player CRISTIANO RONALDO will play his 50th game with the Club in the Spanish League tonight against Osasuna. Apart from the congratulations the Portuguese is racing onwards towards record breaking numbers. Cristiano Ronaldo has 49 goals from 49 games ( some sources put 48 goals because a goal that hit Pepe on the back is doubtful) that calculates into a 100% average that not even

Woke up this morning & found some interesting news & specualtion concerning possible loans, transfers & signings coming out of Spanish Sports daily "AS" in reference to REAL MADRID CF. The "Winter Transfer Market" ends the 31st of January & Clubs are making their last minute moves & deals. Apart from this, the mentioned Sports daily speculates on the future set up of the Real Madrid squad for

Great news for SPANISH SPORTS after Spanish motorcycle rider MARC COMA proclaimed his 3rd DAKAR RALLY title after finishing 5th in todays leg & thus creating an unreachable points gap in the General Classifications Motorcycle Table. Marc Coma 2011 The Spanish rider will be officially given all the winning honours tomorrow when the race ends in the city of Buenos Aires (Argentina).

FIFA has released its first "Top National Football Teams" ranking for 2011 with very little changes from the December 2010 list. FIFA took into account the last 35 International Friendly matches played to calculate the points where SPAIN retains the Nº1 World Ranking Position. Spain 2010 Here is the Top 20 FIFA Football Nations for January 2011: .

According to the FIFA backed IFFHS organization ( International Federation of Football History & Statistics) the Spanish Football - Soccer League has "knocked" off the English Premier League as the "Best Football League in the World" . The IFFHS calculates its points by summing up the total points obtained by the Top 5 teams of each League.

Hi team, travelling Northern Spain & doing "pit stops" where available to keep you informed even if late. Three games of Round 18 of the Spanish League-Liga played yesterday with theses results. David Villa DEPORTIVO 0 - FC BARCELONA 4 ( Villa, Messi, Iniesta & Pedro) REAL SOCIEDAD 2 ( Rivas, Llorente) - SEVILLA FC 3 (Kanoute, Fabiano; Kanoute)MALAGA 1 (Demichellis) - AT BILBAO 1 (J Martinez)