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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Zlatan Ibrahimovic suffered a slight leg strain back on Nov. 7 against Mallorca that kept the striker out of international duty with Sweden this past week. Ibrahimovic began training this week in preparation for Saturday's match on the road against Athletic Club Bilbao.

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Bad news for Barcelona today as they revealed that striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic will miss this weekend's game against Athletic Bilbao due to a hamstring injury.

Barcelona says the injury was discovered following medical tests Thursday after the Sweden striker felt discomfort on Wednesday.

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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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The Spanish Copa del Rey has another set of matches on Wednesday, November 11, 2009. There has already been one huge upset as Alcorcon (third division) defeated Real Madrid 4-1 on aggregate. The following matches will be streamed live on our other site, Free Live Sports TV. The links for each match is below along with the match times (streams will be added shortly before the match and refresh the page if none are available yet).

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Pantomime season is almost upon us, but the contradictory stories over the future of Robinho continue apace.
There have been a series of reports in today's press with regard to his future, and with many seemingly different angles taken.
AS reported Joan Laporta as indicating the club would back the management at Barcelona should Robinho be a target for them:

"We are not going to close any door or end any plan because, although the squad is competitive, as was shown against Mallorca, if the coaches want to strengthen in the winter market and they recommend a player to us, I am sure we can make a move.

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Everyone's sure to be happy with last night's result – we know we are. The boys came out to win and they did it, attacking well from the very beginning, with Pedro being surprisingly awesome. Pep was resting several starters for this match, with Xavi, Messi, Dani, Iniesta, Bojan, and Pinto on the bench. Click to continue reading...

Barcelona maintained their stranglehold on the top of La Liga with this win over Mallorca at the Camp Nou.

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1-0 Pedro

1-1 Nunes

2-1 Pedro

3-1 Henry

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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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En Retrofootball queremos hacer un artículo diferente. Esta semana reflexionamos sobre las competiciones europeas que consideramos tenían más emoción hace unos años.

Con la Ley Bosman y la necesidad de generar ingresos, la UEFA ha ido cambiando el panorama de las Competiciones Europeas los últimos 10 años.

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This Saturday and Sunday Barca, Real Madrid, and Valencia all have matches against undermatched opponents.� The thing is:� I'm not expecting blowouts.� No, I'm thinking we have some real issues on our hands.�

Barca gets Osasuna, Real Madrid gets Getafe, and Valencia gets Malaga.� I know these seem like easy wins but I'm not sure of anything anymore.

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Atletico Madrid has struggled for positive results all this season.� Well they will be kicking themselves once again as they had a match in perfect position against Mallorca in extra time.� The squad achieved the draw though with a goal in the remaining minutes from Mallorca 1-1.� Sevilla proved once again to be an outstanding defensive minded squad against Espanyol.

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Halloween will arrive in a few days, but for Atlético Madrid, this season has been a complete nightmare from the beginning.� Los rojiblancos hit their low point with a dull thud on Saturday when they could not fend off a nine-man Mallorca team and settled for a 1-1 draw at the Vicente Calderón.

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Three games played tonight in Round 8 of "La Liga" with very little goalsbeing scored. Here is a brief summary of results, scorers & images.ATLETICO DE MADRID sacked its Coach Abel yesterday & new CoachQuique Snachez Flores has a worst team than expected in front ofhim. Atletico draw 1-1 against MALLORCA with the latter down to9 men & managing to equalize in the last minute. Click to continue reading...

Diego Forlan managed to overcome one horrific penalty miss to put away a second spot kick midway through the second half only for Valero to score a very late equalizer.

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Forlan's Missed spot kick.

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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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O 29º jogo do Mundial Sub-20, ocorreu no Estádio Municipal de Ismailia, em Ismailia-EGY, com uma temperatura de 32º C.
Jogaram as seleções da Alemanha (4º no ranking da FIFA) e Camarões (29º no ranking da FIFA).
Antes desse jogo, as 2 seleções jogaram:
14/04/1995 - Camarões 1x1 Alemanha (Mundial Sub-20)
11/06/2002 - Camarões 0x2 Alemanha (Copa do Mundo)
17/11/2004 - Alemanha 3x0 Camarões (Amistoso)
O quarteto de arbitragem definido foi:
Árbitro: Yuichi Nishimura (JAP)
Primeiro Assistente: Toru Sagara (JAP)
Segundo Assistente: Thanom Borikut (THA)
Quarto Árbitro: Mohamed Benouza (ALG)
Aos 11 minutos do primeiro tempo, saiu o primeiro cartão amarelo do jogo, para o camisa 14, Patrick EKENG EKENG, jogador do Le Mans-FRA. Click to continue reading...

After the first full month of La Liga football the Yank is a mediocre 19-12 with his weekly picks.� Thanks to Real Madrid and Barcelona I am over the .500 percent curve, but unfortunately Barca does not play this weekend and Real Madrid has the toughest match of the week� against Sevilla.� So in other words the picks just got a lot harder.

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La Liga & Round 5 continued today with 6 games. Here is a summary, with results, images & scorers.MALLORCA came back on track with a convincing 3-0 win overVALLADOLID. The opening goal came early via NUNES (above)in the 3rd min, with the last two fought out with ADURIZ in the70th & VALERO 72th min. Mallorca surprisingly are riding high. 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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While the press and the media focus most of their ink and font on the newly built Real Madrid and the continued brilliance of FC Barcelona, Sevilla carries on with their consistent good form.� On the surface, there is nothing too sexy that immediately grabs headlines, but arguably, Luís Fabiano is currently playing as the best forward in the world since the continuation of World Cup Qualifying at the beginning of June.

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There were two Spanish Primera Division (La Liga) matches on Tuesday as Sevilla took on Mallorca and FC Barcelona faced Racing Santander. Barcelona has started out strong and looks ready to challenge for the UEFA Champions League and La Liga trophies. Here's a recap of Racing Santander v FC Barcelona in La Liga along with video highlights for Tuesday, September 22, 2009.

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It's a busy midweek of matches with many of the domestic cups in action such as the DFB-Pokal in Germany and the Carling Cup in England. La Liga and Serie A have midweek matches as well. Overall, all the top clubs in every division were in action and here are video highlights from the English Carling Cup, Spanish La Liga, and DFB-Pokal for Tuesday, September 22, 2009.

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Here are the fixtures for the 2009/2010 La Liga Season. There should be some great matchups this season and everyone is looking forward to the results. Come back often for more updates about all the soccer action in Spain. Tuesday, 22 September 2009 Racing Santander v Barcelona, 21:00 Sevilla v Mallorca, 19:00 Wednesday, 23 September 2009 Atletico Madrid v Almeria, [. Click to continue reading...

Here are the fixtures for the 2009/2010 La Liga Season. There should be some great matchups this season and everyone is looking forward to the results. Come back often for more updates about all the soccer action in Spain. Tuesday, 22 September 2009 Racing Santander v Barcelona, 21:00 Sevilla v Mallorca, 19:00 Wednesday, 23 September 2009 Atletico Madrid v Almeria, [. Click to continue reading...

Tal vez no es novedad, es más, tal vez es más normal de lo que realmente aparenta ser, pero tanto azulgranas como blancos han resultado los que llevan mano del torneo es sus ediciones más recientes.

Recuerdo vagamente algún torneo en el que Sevilla se puso a pelear al tú por tú contra estos dos equipos y al final terminó cediendo, o un Valencia que sorprendió a muchos en la temporada 2001-2002 y terminó por barrer la liga y llevándosela, pero de ahí en más ya no ha habido alguien que realmente se faje los pantalones y se decida a combatir a estas dos potencias.

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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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#20: Gijon

Gijon needed to get much tougher on defense this off-season and to the club's credit they brought in some young transfers from strong organizations reserve benches.� Alberto Botia and Joni Lopez join the squad.� Botia was on transfer with Barca's reserve team and Lopez is on transfer from the same club.

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.Arsenal Transfered In: Thomas Vermaelen (Ajax, £11m), Damian Martinez (Club Athletico Independiente, £1.3m), Jamie Edge (Cheltenham, undisc) Transfered Out: Abu Ogogo (Dag & Red, free), Amaury Bischoff (Academica de Coimbra, free), Emmanuel Adebayor (Man C, £25m), Kolo Toure (Man C, £14m), Jay Simpson (QPR, loan), James Dunne (Exeter, free), Rui Fonte (Lisbon, free), Rene Steer (Oldham, free), [. Click to continue reading...

El Mundo published last Sunday their Top 10 11 WAGs from the Spanish League. An odd list though they didn't gather the best footballer wives from the Iberian country, but they created a strange 'starting eleven' which some people may not agree with. Well, here they go: 1. Patrizia Ruiz (Miguel Ángel Moyá, Mallorca). Click to continue reading...

The 2009-10 La Liga season is nearly upon us and we here at Mad About Futbol will breakdown the chances and player movement of all 20 teams in Spain's 1st division for the 2009-10 season. This time we will breakdown Real Club Deportivo Mallorca.
LAST SEASON (2008-09):
The team from the Islas Baleares looked like a team headed for relegation but Ensaimada Mecánica turned it around in the 2nd half of the season. Click to continue reading...

Continuing the La Liga preview, part two will discuss the next seven teams in alphabetical order: Málaga, Mallorca, Osasuna, Racing Santander, Real Madrid, Sevilla, and Sporting Gijón.

Málaga

Will Málaga stave off the second season syndrome? � After a couple of seasons in La Liga Adelante, Málaga rose from the lower division with a vengeance as they finished eighth in La Liga and competed for a European place for the majority of the season.

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The surprising team of last year's league was Málaga, but now this club will being their 29th season in the Spanish top flight with expectations they have never had up to now. Their youth and experience made them a team that was a threat until the tail end of the season for a spot in European Cup places in only their first season back from second division. Click to continue reading...

One final friendly loss for our team before our first Europa League match against Vaslui.

Below is the video of our goal, scored by Leonardo although it deflected of a number of players.

A 3-1 loss at this point really isn't the most encouraging result but it must be pointed out that the squad playing today was largely a B-Team.

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