Spain rounded off their preparations for the UEFA EURO 2012 with a harder than expected 1-0 victory over China on Sunday.

Manchester City striker David Silva grabbed the winning goal with six minutes remaining as a well-organised Chinese side proved difficult to break down.

With several Spanish players looking to press claims for a place in Vicente Del Bosque's side for their EURO 2012 opener against Italy next Sunday, it was Santi Cazorla, Fernando Torres and Silva who most caught the eye.

Spain vs South Korea 4-1 Highlights Torres Alonso Negredo Cazorla Goals Video 2012 Friendly is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter

Spain vs South Korea 4-1 Highlights Torres Alonso Negredo Cazorla Goals Video 2012 Friendly is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter Spain vs South Korea 2012 ( Spain Korea Republic 2012 VIDEO BELOW) Final score and result:- Spain vs South Korea 4-1 ( Torres, X.

Germany's preparations for Euro 2012 suffered a major jolt as they were beaten 5-3 by Switzerland in Basel on Saturday night.

Eren Derdiyok struck a hat-trick as the Swiss grabbed a first win over Germany in 56 years.

Joachim Low's side were without eight Bayern Munich players, rested after last weekend's Champions League final, but the Germany boss still fielded a strong line-up including Per Mertesacker, Lukas Podolski and Miroslav Klose.

Los 23 elegidos para disputar la Eurocopa 2012 son:

- PORTEROS: Iker Casillas (Real Madrid), José Manuel Reina (Liverpool/ING), Víctor Valdés (Barcelona).

Spain cruised to a comfortable win over Serbia in a friendly on Saturday, May 26, 2012.

With the Copa del Rey final on Friday, Spain were without any players from Athletic Bilbao and Barcelona. Despite not being at full strength, Barcelona would get second half goals from Adrian (64th minute) and Santi Cazorla (75th minute) to win the match.

The SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM began its warm-up games before starting its Euro 2012 campaign with a 2 - 0 victory over SERBIA. The Spanish starting line-up looked unfamiliar as the FC Barcelona & Athletic Bilbao players were missing due to their participation in yesterdays Spanish Cup Final. The line-up today was: Casillas; Juanfran, Ramos, Albiol, Alba; Bruno, Xabi Alonso, Navas, Cazorla;

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Malaga's Champions League gets even bigger as they managed to sneak into third place, surpassing Valencia after Manuel Pellegrini's boys convincingly defeated 10 men Racing Santander 3-0.

Despite missing a penalty in the early minutes, goals from Isco, Santi Cazorla and Ruud Van Nistelrooy were more than enough to lift them up a place, giving more hope on their European dream by the end of season.

Barcelona will be hoping Atletico Madrid will do them a favour in the Madrid derby as La Liga packs in a full round of games midweek.

Atletico host Real Madrid on Wednesday but in bad news for Barcelona, Atletico have failed to defeat their local rivals in 20-straight clashes.

A win for Atletico would be their first since the 1999/2000 season and would give Barcelona a chance to move within one point of Real Madrid at the top of the table.

Sunday, March 25th

Arrived in Barcelona around 8am local time after a long exhausting trip.

9:30am – 10:30am
Went straight to Barcelona Academy at Ciutat Esportiva to tour the facility and watch games.

10:30am
Watched a u9 game. Barca won 9-0

11:30am
Watched Benny's 2000 team play 11 a side for the first time this year to prepare for MIC Cup.

TweetThe In The Stands Goal of The Week goes to Malaga midfielder Santi Cazorla whose stunning freekick helped his side earn a 1-1 draw with Real Madrid. The goal was made all the more dramatic due to the fact that it was virtually the very last kick of the game and dramatically brought to an [...]

By Chris Wright

The footballing sphere has been quick to lend it's sympathy and support this weekend, with messages of unity flooding in from around the world for both Eric Abidal (who's facing a liver transplant) and Fabrice Muamba including Real Madrid, who took to the pitch before their 1-1 draw with Malaga in specially made t-shirts rooting for both of their stricken comrades.

Cazorla Magic - There was no way Casillas would have reached that Free Kick by Cazorla. Not even penalities are taken that well .
This morning, Real Madrid dropped points, drawing 1-1 against Malaga at the Santiago Bernabeu. Well it was bound to happen – the law of the averages finally catching up to us.

It's easy to forget what Santi Cazorla is capable of, especially if you last saw him playing for the Spanish National Team two years ago. Although he looks like a Crackovia character (oh, admit it!), the former Villarreal man finally showed glimpses of his old self after scoring a fantastic winner for Malaga in their 1-1 draw with Real Madrid last night.

Real Madrid failed to maintain their 10 point gap with Barcelona this weekend after they only managed to get a draw against Malaga despite playing at Santiago Bernebau and simply dominating the game especially in the second half.

However, a late free kick goal from Santi Cazorla simply destroyed Los Blancos' effort as they only managed to score a goal on the match through Karim Benzema and couldn't converted more of their chances.

Real Madrid's winning run was halted in dramatic fashion on Sunday as FC Barcelona were gifted a flicker of hope in the Liga race. While Madrid faltered, Manchester United and Bayern Munich both recorded big wins, the English champions moving four points clear and Bayern rattling in another six goals to keep the pressure on leaders Borussia Dortmund.

It's Super Sunday due to the two big EPL North London-Manchester games, but there's also a couple interesting La Liga matchups and an relevant Eredivisie matchup today:

Super Sunday, Jan 22

Netherlands, Alkmaar-Ajax (8:30amET ESPN Deportes, ESPN3.

Spain's poor form in friendlies continued Tuesday when they needed a stoppage-time goal from David Villa ij order to get a 2-2 draw at Costa Rica.

Spain fell behind after an uncharacteristic howler from captain Iker Casillas. The Real Madrid goalkeeper miscontrolled the ball near the edge of the penalty area just after the half hour, allowing Randall Brenes to lift the ball into the empty net.

By Chris Wright

From a home perspective, the good news seems to be that Vicente Del Bosque is going to give some of his 'second string' a run out against England at Wembley on Saturday afternoon. The depressingly bad news being that most of said second string would probably, nay definitely, meander straight into Fabio Capello's first XI.

Spain are the bookies' favourite to claim the Euro 2012 title held in Poland and Ukraine but do they deserve to be in this position?
They are undoubtedly the best team in the world and have a respectable history in terms of awards. The Spanish last claimed the European title back in the Euro 2008 where they beat the German powerhouses 1-0 after a goal from the unstoppable Fernando Torres in the 33rd minute.

The El Clasico teams of Barcelona and Real Madrid have continued their battle for superiority at the top of the Spanish Primera Division this season, with both facing tricky fixtures over the next three weeks.

Valencia v Real Madrid

Valencia finished third last season and on their day have the ability to take on the big two; they host Madrid on Saturday 19th November at the Mestalla.

Could Spain's second XI beat England? - originally posted on Soccerlens.com

While watching David Silva and Spain dismantle a dogged and compact Scotland on Wednesday, it struck me: this was hardly Spain's best outfit and they were dominating.

Silva cemented his bona fides as one of the top half-dozen players in world football and Spain, with a team featuring second-choice players like Thiago Alcantara, Jordi Alba and Santi Cazorla, passed Scotland into an uneasy submission.

Ball control with Iker Casillas. Image: MICHAL CIZEK/AFP/Getty Images.

It's no secret that the Spanish NT are an extremely talented buncha boys. Winners of the European Football Championship, the World Cup and numerous other honours we can't really be bothered to write about.

Combine this with our knowledge that publishing pictures of Spanish boys is a surefire way to distract you lot from our early lunch affected schedule and Bingo!

Malaga coach Manuel Pellegrini is happy with his side's strong start but insists that they will be truly measured in when they play Barcelona and Real Madrid.

Club owner Sheik Abdullah bin Nasser Al-Thani invested heavily over the summer, spending €58 million to bring in many new talents such as Ruud van Nisterooy, Santi Cazorla, Jeremy Toulalan and Joaquin to bolster the squad.

As we head into the international break, here are the top scorers in La Liga after six matches.

• 8: Lionel Messi (Barcelona)
• 7: Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid)
• 5: Radamel Falcao (Atletico Madrid) Gonzalo Higuain (Real Madrid) Roberto Soldado (Valencia)
• 4: Cesc Fabregas (Barcelona) Miku (Getafe) Santi Cazorla (Malaga) Imanol Agirretxe (Real Sociedad)
• 3: Fernando Llorente (Athletic Bilbao) David Villa (Barcelona) Raul Garcia (Osasuna) Michu (Rayo Vallecano) Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) Luis Garcia (Real Zaragoza) Alvaro Negredo (Sevilla) Giuseppe Rossi (Villarreal)

Cesc F bregas continued his free-scoring start to his FC Barcelona career with a second-half equaliser as the champions twice came from behind to draw 2-2 at Valencia.

An Éric Abidal own goal edged the Liga leaders ahead but the visitors swiftly levelled when Pedro Rodríguez rifled in Lionel Messi's assist.

We have a rare midweek slate of matches in La Liga this week, with the highlight being league leaders Valencia hosting Barcelona on Wednesday. That match is just one of 10 midweek matches spread across three days.

A dramatic 4-3 opening day win against Racing Santander, thanks to two goals in the last five minutes, has been followed by successive 1-0 wins against Atletico Madrid and Sporting Gijon as Unai Emery's side moved to the top of the table.

Big spending Malaga are lining up a New Year swoop for Manchester City and Liverpool target Raul Albiol.
The Spain international, who joined Real Madrid for £13m from Valencia in 2009, has fallen out of favour at the Bernabeu and is yet to feature this season.
The 26-year-old is desperate to make Vicente Del Bosque's squad for next summer's European Championship finals in Poland and Ukraine and reports in Spain have revealed he is ready to leave the club in January to secure first-team football.

Malaga picked up their first points of the season with a 4-0 thumping of newly-promoted Granada at the Estadio La Rosaleda.

New signings Santi Cazorla and Joaquin Sanchez shared the goals between them as the big-spending club began to see some returns on their heavy summer outlay.

The result gets Malaga's season up and running following last weekend's disappointing 2-1 defeat at Sevilla and lifts them to eighth place in the league.

SPANISH FOOTBALL action tonight with the last game of Round 3 of LA LIGA ( Monday Night Football ) with MALAGA FC defeating GRANADA 4 - 0 at home. Cazorla for Malaga scores goal Malaga has spent "big time" for this new season & two of those signings SANTI CAZORLA & JOAQUIN were fabulous & proved their worth with two goals each.

Second-half substitute Cesc Fabregas scored twice as reigning European and FIFA World Cup™ champions Spain fought back from a two-goal deficit to beat Chile 3-2 in an international friendly.

Vicente Del Bosque's side were punished for a slow start as Chile raced into a 2-0 lead thanks to goals from Mauricio Isla and Eduardo Vargas, but the introduction of Andres Iniesta at half-time reinvigorated the Spanish midfield.

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A Cristiano Ronaldo hat-trick helped Real Madrid get their La Liga campaign off to a perfect start with a commanding 6-0 victory over Real Zaragoza on Sunday as they look to claw the league title back from Barcelona.

Real coach Jose Mourinho warned that the opening weekend of fixtures often spring surprises, but the game went according to plan for the Spanish giants and will serve as a statement of intent for Barça who are in action tomorrow at Villarreal.

El futbol en su estado puro sigue perteneciendo a los equipos de tradición, a los grandes por naturaleza, los históricos. Manchester United, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Milan, Inter, Bayern. Perdidos por ahí están Liverpool y Juventus que aunque se renuevan y buscan emerger en el panorama mundial este año al menos seguirán fuera de la Champions League.

Del Bosque has made public the list for the friendly against Chile (September 2) and the Euro 2012 qualifier against Liechtenstein (September 6)... and boy, are we surprised.

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Iker Casillas broke up the tension during the Spanish league strike talks by gossiping with Fernando Llorente and Santi Cazorla about Daveed Villa's hair. Or so we'd like to think.

Not that I was expecting much of a lazy international friendly just before the start of the season, with a call-up list plagued with absences and injured (Sergio Ramos and Xavi had to abandon the team before they left Spain and Nacho Monreal, called up instead of Ramos, got injured during the last training session), but I did expect better than this.

01.08.2011 - Buscando rodaje, el nuevo Málaga de Abdullah bin Nasser Al-Thani venció (1-2) al Roda en el Parkstad Limburg Stadion de Kerkrade con un penal convertido por Baptista y, en la última jugada del partido, una vaselina de Buonanotte.
Los € 58 millones invertidos en refuerzos hacen del Málaga el segundo equipo de Europa en gastos del rubro (después del Manchester City , € 64.

We may have already expected this news but it now seems certain that Giuseppe Rossi won't be coming to White Hart Lane this summer.

However, Spurs haven't lost out to Juventus or any of the La Liga giants as the player's agent has confirmed that Rossi will be at Villarreal for one more season at least,

Giuseppe Rossi has officially been taken off the market after they (Villarreal) sold Santi Cazorla to Malaga," Federico Pastorello told the medie in Italy.