Todos sabemos que las horas de Efrían Flores como Director Técnico de las Chivas están contadas, ésta temporada fue un rotundo fracaso para ellos, primero no calificar en la liguilla del fútbol mexicano y segundo, en la Copa Sudamericana están heridos de muerte ya que en el juego de "ida" en casa contra el club [. Click to continue reading...

Todos sabemos que las horas de Efrían Flores como Director Técnico de las Chivas están contadas, ésta temporada fue un rotundo fracaso para ellos, primero no calificar en la liguilla del fútbol mexicano y segundo, en la Copa Sudamericana están heridos de muerte ya que en el juego de "ida" en casa contra el club [. Click to continue reading...

On this week's show we take a look back at the fantastic Barcelona side of the early 1990s under Johan Cruyff's management, the Dream Team. We also: Review the football news in the Good, the Bad and the Ugly Introduce a new football expression in English for Football rent a car bulgaria And continue the predictions battle in the predictions [. Click to continue reading...

One of the hottest European prospects is to be unleashed onto Liverpool when they play PSV Eindhoven in their Champions League clash on Wednesday.

The player in question is Ibrahim Afellay, a Dutchman of Moroccan descent who has been with the Dutch champions for the past five seasons. Click to continue reading...

So tomorrow it's a match against Malaga at La Rosaleda Stadium in southern Spain.

Sorry, but I don't know anything about Malaga.

I know they just came up from the 2nd Division.
I know former Valencia striker Salva Ballesta sits bench there and Uruguayan striker Dario Silva scored bucket loads for them.

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I never knew how hard it would be to keep this up for 30 straight days!
Alas, I've made my readers a promise, so on I chug.

Today's big news is ... umm ... there's really not much to say.

We all know about Silva's operation. Godspeed.
We have word that Valencia haven't elected a team captain yet.

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Efraín Flores no se va de las Chivas. Creo que Jorge Vergara reconoce que sería un error fatal dejar escapar a un hombre que si algo representa en el fútbol mexicano es el trabajo de Fuerzas Básicas. Actualmente tiene el cargo de Director Técnico de las Chivas, Primera División. No dudo que cuando cumpla su ciclo [. Click to continue reading...

Efraín Flores no se va de las Chivas. Creo que Jorge Vergara reconoce que sería un error fatal dejar escapar a un hombre que si algo representa en el fútbol mexicano es el trabajo de Fuerzas Básicas. Actualmente tiene el cargo de Director Técnico de las Chivas, Primera División. No dudo que cuando cumpla su ciclo [. Click to continue reading...

La salida de Efraín Flores de la dirección técnica de Chivas de Guadalajara se prolonga por tiempo indefinido; sin embargo, el dueño del club, Jorge Vergara, ya le tiene sustituto: el holandés Ronald Koeman, supuestamente a partir de la próxima campaña. Koeman estuvo en un palco del estadio Hidalgo acompañado de su agente, el mismo Vergara [. Click to continue reading...

La salida de Efraín Flores de la dirección técnica de Chivas de Guadalajara se prolonga por tiempo indefinido; sin embargo, el dueño del club, Jorge Vergara, ya le tiene sustituto: el holandés Ronald Koeman, supuestamente a partir de la próxima campaña. Koeman estuvo en un palco del estadio Hidalgo acompañado de su agente, el mismo Vergara [. Click to continue reading...

Friday 29 August

19.30 Karlsruher SC v FC Koln, Bundesliga, Setanta Sports 1
The home side were robbed at Hamburg last week and will be keen to make amends against new boys Koln who have had an uncertain start to the season. Should be a cracking atmosphere at the Wildparkstadion.

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While I could write about the Samuel Eto'o transfer rumors (yawn) or the possibility of Luis Aragones replacing Unai Emery as head coach (whatever ...), I thought this was infinitely more interesting ...

According to Setanta Sports, Valencia's Mestalla is Europe's noisiest stadium.

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David Albelda has been in football purgatory for some time now. He looks happy in the photo with Vicente, but it's been some time since he's smiled football-wise.

Since ex-gaff Ronald Koeman sprayed his scent around the Mestalla and fired Albelda, Santiago Canizares and Angulo, the three have been in limbo, neither here nor there.

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Poor old Ronald Koeman, The man whom they affectionately call Tintin in Spain is now trudging on like an out of sorts Captain Haddock. His Valencia side are just above the relegation zone in 11th place in La Liga and if the pressure from the fans and the media alike wasn't enough, the players too [.. Click to continue reading...

Goal.com reports that Jose Mourinho could be on his way to Valencia. The current coach of the beleaguered Spanish club, Ronald Koeman, is under tremendous pressure after sinking the ship since he took over way back in November and there is a massive chance that club ppresident Juan Soler could sack the Dutchman and appoint [. Click to continue reading...

Valencia are going through yet another painful crisis and this time both the manager and the President have seem to be up a heavy stump. Valencia are closer to the relegation zone than to a UEFA Champions League place and Ronald Koeman's idea to banish three senior pros of the club for flimsy reason is [. Click to continue reading...

Valencia are set to lose another key player but you wouldn't discern Tottenham Hotspur complaining about that. Goal.com reports that Spurs are ready to take the Portuguese full back Miguel from the Mestalla after the 28-year old Portuguese international fell out wit Valencia manager Ronald Koeman. Koeman appears to be dropping all the senior players in [. Click to continue reading...

Portsmouth have been shoved into transfer speculation once again. As if the continuous media circus on manager Harry Redknapp weren't enough, it appears that key midfielder Sulley Muntari could just be heading out of Fratton Park too. Goal.com has reported that Valencia manager Ronald Koeman, who is frantic about wringing some pivotal changes in the team, [. Click to continue reading...

Mohamed Sissoko is a fall out boy at Liverpool but the 22-year old Malian international certainly seems to be in hot demand elsewhere. The Italian papers have been all over him linking him to a January move to Italian giants Juventus and, according to this Sky Sports report, now the Spanish club Valencia have joined [. Click to continue reading...

...but not before next season. At a news conference in Hamburg, Huub Stevens, the current coach of the Bundesliga's third-placed side said he would be returning home to the Netherlands at the end of this season to manage PSV Eindhoven. Stevens regretted leaving after just 1-1/2 seasons, but alluded to the fact that there are "there are more important things in life", which is a reference to his wife, who has been suffering through a chronic illness. Click to continue reading...

Hey all, did you miss me? It's been an absolute mess with me the last couple of weeks with school, but since I've got a few minutes to spare daily now, I'll play Jesus and bring 'La Liga Para Todos' back from the dead, and maybe even the Morning Hi-5, but lets not get ahead of [...] Click to continue reading...

Following up on my prior post on coaching changes, news has emerged today that yet another change has occured. Ronald Koeman, the former Ajax and Benfica boss, has resigned his role as manager of PSV Eindhoven to take on the vacant managerial role for Spanish club Valencia. The La Liga side are thought to have reached a financial agreement with their Dutch counterparts for compensation. Click to continue reading...

Ronald Koeman is a Dutch legend. The 1988 Dutch footballer of the year was devastating on free kicks and from distance on the run. The two-time European Cup champion's goalscoring rate was impressive for a striker, let alone a defender. Here is a video compilation of some of the current PSV Eindhoven coach's goals while with Barça. Enjoy. Warning: the music is really, really good. Click to continue reading...