It is Friday, which means it is time to prepare for non-stop action from Spain with La Liga back in the fray.� After an intense week of World Cup qualifying playoffs, the focus turns back to the domestic responsibilities.

The times listed are Eastern Standard Time (EST) and include the pregame pleasantries, although sometimes the matches on the DIRECTV La Liga specific channels may not go to match coverage until right before kickoff.

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This is not a hoax. Atletico Madrid coach Quique Sanchez Flores has Contracted the dreaded Swine Flu virus. According to his clubs website, the former Valencia Coach was feeling a little bit under the weather on Monday and subsequent tests that were carried out to check if he was suffering from the common cold came back negative.

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Luis Fabiano

What can be said about Luis Fabiano?� The guy is red hot and he and everyone else in La Liga is perfectly aware of this fact.� Fabiano scored two goals this weekend against the Yellow Submarines and Sevilla edged out the blossoming squad 3-2 thanks to the offensive performance from the Brazilian.

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Deportivo moved into fourth spot with this clinical victory away at Getafe.

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Call me crazy (because I am), but despite Tenerife loss last week to Villarreal 5-0� I still think the new boys will win this weekend.� Why you ask?� Because although Tenerife looked horrid last week this week they get to play Malaga who in nine games has lost seven.� Malaga is in last place and Tenerife sits just outside the relegation zone.

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With the confusing TV schedules for La Liga in the United States every week, it is quite difficult to figure out who is playing when and on what channel.� Every Friday, I will lay out the TV schedule so that every fan of La Liga has a place to go to see when and where their favorite team will play.

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Seydou Keita

Well when you're on the same team as Messi, Ibrahimovic, Henry, Iniesta, Xavi, among others it is easy to be overlooked if you're name is Seydou Keita.� But last weekend the Barcelona midfielder continued to add on to his strong start for Barcelona by putting three goals into the back of the net against new boys Real Zaragoza.

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Sevilla has been among the world's best this year and will likely overcome their frustrating loss last week by beating Espanyol 2-0.� Atletico Madrid has had a tough start to the year and has been among the league's biggest disappointments.� Mallorca on the other hand has been a nice surprise this year and is among the teams that make up the top half of the league table.

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Sporting Gijon-Real Madrid

Sporting has been one of the hottest clubs of late with consecutive wins over Athletic Bilbao and Mallorca.� Miguel de las Cuevas has scored four goals in the last two games, so he looks to continue his streak against one of Spain's toughest defenses in Madrid.

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(video highlights di Valencia-Barcellona)
I risultati di calcio della Liga:
Deportivo La Coruna-Siviglia 1-0
38' Rodriguez
Real Madrid-Valladolid 4-2
14', 18' Raul (R), 29' Nauzet (V), 45' Marcelo (R), 53' Marquitos (V), 79' Higuain (R)
Valencia-Barcellona 0-0
Espanyol-Tenerife 2-1
11' e 60' Alonso (E), 15' Alfaro (T)
Malaga-Almeria 1-2
39' Cisma (A), 41' Soriano (M), 68' Edinho (A)
Maiorca-Getafe 3-1
31' Álvarez (M), 53' e 70' Aduriz (M), 79' Albín (G)
Real Saragozza-Racing 2-2
22' Pavon (S), 33' Arizmendi (S), 81' Tchite (R), 86' Serrano (R)
Xerez-Villarreal 2-1
18' Pires (V), 42' Bermejo (X), 80' Antonito (X)
Athletic Bilbao-Sporting Gijon 1-2
65', 76' De Las Cuevas, 81' Toquero
Osasuna-Atletic Madrid 3-0
4',25' Pandiani, 29' Aranda
CLASSIFICA - Barcellona 19, Real Madrid 18, Siviglia 15, Deportivo La Coruna 15, Maiorca 13, Valencia 12, Espanyol 11, Sporting 11, Athletic 10, Osasuna 10, Almeria 9, Getafe 9, Real Saragozza 8, Atletico Madrid 6, Tenerife 6, Racing 6, Xerez 5, Real Valladolid 5, Malaga 4, Villarreal 3. Click to continue reading...

An impressive 1-0 win by Deportivo La Coruña over Sevilla on Saturday raises Depor to a tie of third place with Sevilla at fifteen points, four points behind league leaders FC Barcelona.� Los blanquiazules have won five of their first seven matches this season, and their only two losses came at the hands of Espanyol 2-3 and Real Madrid 2-3.

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The Yank is off to a fairly mediocre start this La Liga season in weekly picks and currently sits at� 24-14 on the year.� Of course Real Madrid losing a few weeks back likely gave many� critics at least one loss and the� Yank only missed two games completely and got five correct.� So things are beginning to look up this La Liga season.

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A top drawer goal from Juan Rodriguez was enough to see Deportivo topple in form Sevilla.

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I attribute it to the fact that I got on this late this week, but ESPN has its schedules up, so the list below should be pretty thorough.

As we return to club action this weekend (Thank God!!!), we have a large set of great games and most of them are going to take place on Saturday. Unfortunately, that is going to result in three of the best matches taking place at the same time.

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All the top European leagues were in action this weekend including the English Premier League, Spanish La Liga (Primera Division), Italian Serie A, German Bundesliga, and the French Ligue 1. Here's a list of video highlights for many of the matches on Saturday, October 3, 2009.

Bolton Wanderers (2) – Tottenham Hotspur (2) – English Premier League – Saturday, October 3, 2009 Manchester United (2) – Sunderland (2) – English Premier League – Saturday, October 3, 2009 VfL Bochum (1) – VfL Wolfsburg (1) – German Bundesliga – Saturday, October 3, 2009 Inter Milan (Internazionale) (2) – Udinese (1) – Italian Serie A – Saturday, October 3, 2009 Bari (0) – Catania (0) – Italian Serie A – Saturday, October 3, 2009 Tenerife (0) – Deportivo La Coruna (1) – Spanish Primera Division (La Liga) – Saturday, October 3, 2009 Lens (0) – Lyon (2) – French Ligue 1 – Saturday, October 3, 2009 Besiktas (1) – Denizlispor (0) – Turkish Super League – Saturday, October 3, 2009 Levadiakos (0) – Olympiacos (3) – Greek Super League – Saturday, October 3, 2009 St Etienne (3) – Bordeaux (1) – French Ligue 1 – Saturday, October 3, 2009 Wolverhampton Wanderers (0) – Portsmouth (1) – English Premier League – Saturday, October 3, 2009 Hannover 96 (5) – SC Freiburg (2) – German Bundesliga – Saturday, October 3, 2009 Bayer Leverkusen (4) – FC Nuremberg (0) – German Bundesliga – Saturday, October 3, 2009 FC Barcelona (1) – Almeria (0) – Spanish Primera Division (La Liga) – Saturday, October 3, 2009 Bayern Munich (0) – FC Cologne (0) – German Bundesliga – Saturday, October 3, 2009 Hull City (2) – Wigan Athletic (1) – English Premier League – Saturday, October 3, 2009 Burnley (2) – Birmingham City (1) – English Premier League – Saturday, October 3, 2009 Click to continue reading...

Another week of Spain's Primera Division is in the books and many of the strongest clubs continued their relentless speedy rabbit� pace towards the top of the league table and many mediocre clubs continued their tortoise pace falling towards the bottom of the league table.� So without further adieu lets find out the winner and losers from last weekend.

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Hotter than Enrique Igelsias, It's Spanish football...

The big two just keep on winning as Villereal, Atletico Madrid and Valencia all drop points. Too early to tell but the traditional two Spanish-horse race is taking shape.

Deportivo La Coruna 1 0 Villarreal
Zaragoza 3 0 Getafe C.

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MLS on TeleFutura: San Jose - Dallas at 3pm. USL-1 quarterfinals on Fox Soccer Channel: Montreal - Charleston at 7pm. Under-20 World Cup on Galavision: Brazil - Costa Rica at 10am. EPL on On Fox Soccer: Sunderland - Wolves at 11am. Championship on Setanta: Plymouth - Forest at 8:10am. La Liga on GolTV: Almeria - Racing at 11am, Real Zaragoza - Getafe at 1pm, and Deportivo La Coruna - Villarreal at 3pm. Click to continue reading...

It's been a stellar start so far for the Yank picking games in La Liga, but at least I'm over 50% of my total picks with a 15-9 total record after three weeks.� This weekend, much like every weekend, brings forth a batch of tough matches.� Some of the best squads will face off and a few of the worst as well.

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Athletic Bilbao-Sevilla

Athletic Bilbao has been the surprise team of the first three weeks with a perfect 3-0 record.� The club has only� won each match by a single goal, but they will take wins� however they� can get� them.� Bilbao has defeated� two mediocre clubs in Espanyol and Xerez, but they did beat Villareal last weekend.

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Youngster set to leave north London.

Portsmouth Vs Tottenham Tickets Still Available!

Deportivo La Coruna manager Miguel Angel Lotina has been quoted in the Spanish press as declaring an interest in Tottenham Hotspur forward Giovani Dos Santos.

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After three weeks it is still hard to figure every team out, but I do know one thing for sure.� Real Madrid and Barcelona are both really, really good.� After that expert analysis lets review last weeks matches.

Deportivo La Coruna has showed early in the year that they are a tough opponent for any squad they face.

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22/09/2009Siviglia - Maiorca ore 20.00Racing Santander - Barcellona ore 22.0023/09/2009Espanyol - Malaga ore 20.00Xerez - Deportivo La Coruna ore 20.00Villarreal - Real Madrid ore 20.00Atletico Madrid - Almeria ore 20.00Valladolid - Osasuna ore 20.00Getafe - Valencia ore 22.00Tenerife - Athletic Bilbao ore 22. Click to continue reading...

The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plains, but the goals are all coming from Barca. It's Spanish football...

Valencia 2 2 Sporting de Gijón

Real Madrid 5 0 Xerez CD

U.D Almeria 1 0 Getafe C.F

Athletic Bilbao 3 2 Villarreal

Zaragoza 1 2 Valladolid

Barcelona 5 2 Atletico Madrid

Málaga 1 2 Racing Santander

Osasuna 0 2 Sevilla

Deportivo La Coruna 2 3 Espanyol

RCD Mallorca 4 0 Tenerife

Valencia 2 2 Sporting de Gijón

A shock equaliser from Gijon in the last few minutes destroyed what I thought was a pretty sure win for Valencia at home.

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This week there is sure to be a few match-ups that will make you want to flip.� (Sorry for that terrible pun)� Anyway let's take a look at this weekends upcoming matches and try and predict who will win and who will lose.�

Deportivo La Coruna has shown early in the year a competitive fire that should make them a contender for a top five finisher this season.

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The second week of La Liga football has wrapped up and let's take a look at the winner's and losers of Week� Two of Spain's most� coveted� league.

Getafe, who was very impressive� in their road debut match, would get the fun challenge of playing against treble winning Barca.� Barca proved to be too much for the likes of Getafe winning 2-0.

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Ah, que fantástico! David Villa struck twice yesterday to help Valencia to a neat 4-2 win at Valladolid. The other goals came from Juan Mata and David Silvaaaaa.

"My players made a big effort and by the end, they were very exhausted.

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TFC (aka Scarborough FC) finally landed the international star that the team's fervent supporters have felt they deserved for a long time. The biggest surprise is that instead of splashing the cash on an aging European striker with two bad knees and former glories, the club went out and got a really good footballer. Click to continue reading...

With this weekend's international break, there's not been much world class footie on this week. So why not revisit one of the more memorable games from the weekend gone by? Here's some great action from the Real Madrid Deportivo La Coruna match that took� last Sunday via a nice high quality 11 minute highlight package. Click to continue reading...

In a surprising move a few days before the transfer window closed, Racing de Santander acquired forward Xisco from recently relegated English squad,� Newcastle United.� It� will not be Xisco's first experience in Spain's� La Liga, the twenty-three year old striker started his career with Deportivo La Coruna.

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Well so much for posting fewer Top 25 lists! Turns out so many things happened this weekend, most of them flying in the face of our predictions, that we felt an update was in order. Here it is:
1. Real Madrid
Last ranking: 1
Record (wins-losses-ties, in all competition; two-leg match-ups count as one): 1-0-0
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After Real Madrid's first La Liga match of the season (a 3-2 win over Deportivo La Coruna) Kaka decided to give another group of kids a chance to ask him a few questions about his league debut and life in Madrid. The following is a transcript of that event.

Kaka: Hi, kids!

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Real Madrid's Galacticos 2.0 kicked off the season with a nervy 3-2 win over Deportivo La Coruna. Madrid went ahead twice only to be pegged back both times by La Coruna, before midfield stalwart Lassana Diarra scored the winning goal.

Real Madrid 1-0 Deportivo La Coruna (Raul)

Real Madrid 1-1 Deportivo La Coruna (Riki)

Real Madrid 2-1 Deportivo La Coruna (Ronaldo)

Real Madrid 2-2 Deportivo La Coruna (Valeron)

Real Madrid 3-2 Deportivo La Coruna (Lassana Diarra)

More football goals and videos.

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Together for the moment

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 full strength, and Ezequiel Garay and Álvaro Arbeloa started in their positions respectively.

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The game was a little boring and regular but at least it's a win, the best part was chillin' with the NYC MADRIDISTAS as we welcomed a few new faces and smoked a few Honduran cigars at halftime.
Real Madrid defeated Deportivo La Coruna 3-2 in typical workmanlike fashion. That MADRIDISTA flowing futbol swagger is still not there, but let's give them time. Click to continue reading...