By Tanuj Lakhina, writing from Delhi

Real Madrid played Osasuna at 12 pm (Madrid time) last Sunday at the Santiago Bernabeu. It was an easy and convincing win for the Merengues as they beat their opponents 7-1 with Cristiano Ronaldo bagging yet another hat-trick.

The past doesn't count. Everything is starting again. Spain continues to strengthen.

With a friendly against England at Wembley on Saturday and the EUROs on the horizon, the time has come for Spain to refresh, and forget everything. Everything won. Everything created.

The Message:

Iker: "No one came to welcome us"
Silva: "We didn't create a new way of playing football"
Xabi: "We weren't admired by the whole world"
Iker: "We didn't take a whole country to the streets"
Villa: "I wasn't the top scorer"
Llorente: "We couldn't bear the pressure"
Del Bosque: "We didn't change the conception of football"
Xavi: "I wasn't the best football player in the Euro 2008"
Llorente: "We are not a team"
Xavi: "We are not European Champions"
Villa: "We are not World Champions"

The shirt is new, the meaning of wearing it remains the same.

With Ana and Pablo, our Cuenca guides!

CUENCA is a Spanish province often overlooked in favour of its more 'popular' twin cities, Valencia and Madrid. Famed for it's Casas Colgadas or Hanging Houses, Cuenca will instantly captivate you with her natural beauty.

By Kaushik Lakshman

Last week, we travelled to the Basque Country, Andalucia, and Valencia to take a look at how La Liga teams from those regions are looking ahead to the new season. In this part we will go through the two big cities of the country and also some of the other regions of the lovely country of España.

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A Supportive Saturday Afternoon - A short film by Eric and Jordan Beard

The texture of passion often lacks definition. However, when loyalty befriends sheer strength in numbers, clarity arises.

64,121 people showed up to Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts to see the United States Men's National Team play Spain on Saturday, June 4th.

Everyone in Madrid came out to paint the town red (or in Guti's case, lime green) over the weekend to see Shakira 'live' in concert. Sara Carbonero flew back from South Africa where she was doing a documentary on Spain's World Cup victory one year on (with Iker Casillas, no less) to see the Colombian star.

AFR's Editor-in-chief Eric Beard will be checking in from Barcelona until June whilst studying abroad. He'll be sharing his (mostly) football-related experiences while exploring the city and beyond.

I have only been around in the Catalan capital for a little less than two weeks (I touched down in BCN on the 15th), but after 4 days I managed to get a tryout with a local team here in the outskirts of city.

Checking in from Barcelona: Part One!

I went to the Barça-Malaga match on Sunday con mi novia, it was absolutely incredible. If I didn't say so before, this was my first time seeing Barça at the Camp Nou. Words can't really do justice to the 90,000+ Catalan faithful among us or Iniesta's golaso or David Villa's soulpatch, so here's a short video I made.