Spanish sports paper Marca has branded Wayne Rooney a "hooligan" ahead of tomorrow night's Champions League clash between Manchester United and Real Madrid. The front page is dedicated to the man they dub "a freckled demon" and exclaims: ""The Bad Boy — and his 5,000 ‘friends'". On the inside pages, journalist Hugo Cerezo continues the [.
It's 9:00am on a Wednesday morning in Spain. Cristiano Ronaldo is sad, and the entire country
knows about it.
As soon as Ronaldo's tamper tantrum, for lack of a better description, spread rampantly through
the world of social media, the Spanish press jumped on the opportunity to use Ronaldo's words as
journalistic dynamite.
News vibrating out of England - again - has been picked up locally by Spanish Sports paper "AS",
that ARSENAL Dutch forward ROBIN VAN PERSIE is a REAL MADRID target for next season. This is not
the first "vibrator" impact reached locally as the forward has been splashed on local press during
the past seasons, which FC Barcelona also sounding in the past.
The UEFA Europa League 2012 Group draw has been celebrated in Monaco today & this is how the Clubs
have been placed in their Groups. Spain has three Clubs in the Europa League: Atletico de Madrid,
Athletic Club Bilbao & Levente Below is a summary from Spanish Sports paper "AS" in Spanish but
easily understood.
Spanish Sports & Barcelona based paper "Mundo Deportivo" add their humour today to yesterdays 2 - 1
defeat by FC BARCELONA at the "hands " of REAL MADRID in the SPANISH SUPER CUP. Barça Coach Tito
Vilanova The cartoonist "KAP" elaborated this piece of satirical art to depict the whole game &
night for Barça.
The London Olympic Games have come to their end. The question that now needs to be answered locally
from a SPANISH SPORTS perspective is: how did Spain fair? We have already the official answer from
the maximum Directives of the Superior Sports Council ( CSD) & Spanish Olympic Committee President,
Miguel Cardinal & Alejandro Blanco respectively: "satisfactory".
The Croatian International & TOTTENHAM HOTSPURS midfielder LUKA MODRIC is "stealing" the headlines
of most of the Spanish Sports newspapers & other media channels.The news coming in is that REAL
MADRID & the player have total agreement in joining this season & playing in LA LIGA. The Spanish
Football Club is currently dealing & negotiating with SPURS to shut the deal which is rumoured
around 40M€
Spanish Football Sports Blog started out many years back as a way off getting across to the World
fans news on Spanish Football & Spanish Sports in English. I realized that not everyone understands
Spanish & decided to write in English to get across to a wider audience. I too years back
"suffered" from not being able to get updated news when living overseas & missed a source that
would give me
SPANISH SPORTS daily "Sport" publish that new FC BARCELONA Coach Tito Vilanova is profiling &
planning the 2012 - 2013 squad & below are the apparent names that Vilanova counts with: Valdes,
Pinto, Pique, Cesc, Puyol, Xavi, Villa, Iniesta, Alexis, Messi, Thiago, Mascherano, Busquets,
Pedro, Cuenca & Cristian Tello Transfer candidates However there are also names the apparently
are
This post is old news almost 6 hours later. Impossible to post on time as I was earning a living at
my employment & blogging is not my function during working hours. However a post that definitely
needs to go up independently of the time as it is a Historical event for Spanish Tennis & for
Spanish Sports.
Spanish Sports daily "Sport" has made up these very interesting info-diagrams based on the teams
that share Group C in which the SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM finds itself for this EURO 2012.The
European Nations Championship kicks-off on Friday & Spain has its first Group match against the
always difficult Italy.
Playing on a Monday at 12.00 makes it difficult for the working folk ( myself included ) to watch a
great Final of Tennis. That was the case for the ROMA MASTERS 1000 Mens Final between NOVAK
DJOKOVIC & Spaniard RAFAEL NADAL as it was delayed from Sunday due to the bad weather. Rafael Nadal
wins his sixth Roma Masters 1000 Spanish Sports & Tennis got a great boost with the news that Nadal
Spanish Football player & CHELSEA FC newly crowned European Champion FERNANDO TORRES has given a
very interesting interview to Spanish Sports daily "AS" that will hit the stands in the morning.
The paper has already given extracts of the interview were Torres talks about his "horror" year &
the immediate future.
More than 73.000 people voted on Spanish Sports online channel "marca.com" for what they believed
to be the "Best 11 Players" of the Spanish Football League season 2011-2012. Marca - Best 11 season
2011-2012 As you can see the list is dominanted by Real Madrid & FC Barcelona players, with the
exceptions being Javi Martinez (At.
According to Spanish Sports paper "Sport", based in Barcelona, the representative François
Gallardo (a FIFA agent) of CHELSEA FC forward DIDIER DROGBA has offered the player to FC
BARCELONA for next season. Drogba The 35 year old Ivory Coast International desires to finish off
his career in a top level Club & the Spanish League - LA LIGA motivates the player.
REAL MADRID & their Coach Jose Mourinho are already thinking about the next season. One of the
positions that needs to be reinforced is the right back where Alvaro Arbeloa is the only specialist
in the current squad. Spanish sports paper "Marca" publish that current CHELSEA FC Serbian defender
BRANISLAV IVANOVIC is the preferred candidate at this moment.
Hot rumour coming out of Spanish Sports media tonight is that FC BARCELONA Coach JOSEP GUARDIOLA
will announce his departure at the end of the season. REPEAT, it is only a rumour, but a hot one at
that hitting the "airwaves" Pep Guardiola The Coach wishes to communicate his decision to his
players tomorrow & then will give a Press Conference to drop "the bomb".
Great news this afternoon for Spanish Sports & Tennis with the victory of RAFAEL NADAL over NOVAK
DJOKOVIC in the Final of the Monte Carlo MASTERS 1000 tournament. Not only did Nadal defeat the
World Nº1 ranked Tennis player Djokovick 6-3 6-1, but it was the Spaniards 8th consecutive Monte
Carlos title which set a new World Record in Tennis being the first to win the same tournament 8
times in a
While most of the local Spanish Sports daily s filled their spaces with pre-Champions League semis
content about Real Madrid & Barça, tonight the last game of Round 34 of the Spanish Football
League was played. An excellent match & great spectacle as GETAFE made a magnificent comeback to
defeated SEVILLA FC 5 -1.
SPANISH HANDBALL action today with the Final of the SPANISH CUP ( Copa del Rey ) between two
giants of European & Spanish Handball: ATLETICO DE MADRID ( formerly Cuidad Real) & BARCELONA. The
title went to Atletico de Madrid 37 - 31 after doing the damage on Barcelona in the second half
with pure firepower.
According to local Spanish Sports paper "Marca", & its front cover today, Manchester City &
Argentine International SERGIO AGUERO is back on the agenda of REAL MADRID for next season. The
fact is that "Kun" never left the agenda of the Spanish Football Club because there may have been
an "agreement" that the player go to England & thus "disarm" the then local "ATLETICO DE MADRID"
bomb to return
Big SPANISH BASKETBALL afternoon/evening with the SPANISH CUP ( Copa del Rey ) Final between FC
BARCELONA & REAL MADRID. The final result of this "clasico" was BARCELONA 74 - REAL MADRID 91,
thus giving the title to Real Madrid after waiting 19 years, as that was the last time they last
lifted the Basketball Spanish Cup.
All quiet - relatively speaking - on the SPANISH FOOTBALL front. Perhaps this has motivated Spanish
Sports daily "Marca" to put the following "RED ALERT" warning on their front cover today. Although
the European Football Nations Cups is still months away, there seems to be some concern that the
low form & string of injuries to "key players" of the SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM may "weaken"
the
Great night for SPANISH SPORTS & FOOTBALL as SPAIN proclaimed themselves the 2012 EUROPEAN INDOOR
FOOTBALL CHAMPIONS after defeated 3 - 1 RUSSIA in the Final tonight. Spain Indoor Football Team:
Euro Champs 2012 SPAIN keeps dominating this Sport in its Indoor category & gets its sixth
European Title tonight.
Truth? Hype? The players representative pulling strings? Or just all Bullshit? The beauty behind
Football & Spanish Sports paper "Marca" is that all four possibilities can exist &/or co-exist?
That REAL MADRID & FC Barcelona (also mentioned) are following, plus the latter thinking in
signing next season the Dutch forward is not at all new.
Truth? Hype? The players representative pulling strings? Or just all Bullshit? The beauty behind
Football & Spanish Sports paper "Marca" is that all four possibilities can exist &/or co-exist?
That REAL MADRID & FC Barcelona (also mentioned) are following, plus the latter thinking in
signing next season the Dutch forward is not at all new.
This goes to all the European brothers, especially to the French media LÉquipe , the populist "Le
Monde" & Canal + TV France... France has´nt won anything significant in years. Please don´t use
our Sportsmen & teams...Alberto Contador , Rafael Nadal, the Spanish National Football Team etc &
etc..
Sad & frustrating day for SPANISH SPORTS , Spanish Cycling & for World Nº1 cycle-rider ALBERTO
CONTADOR after the "Court of Arbritration for Sport" (TAS) gave in their sentence of a 2 year
penalty today. But if that was harsh they also retired his 2010 Tour de France & 2011 Giro de
Italia title. But there is more, Alberto Contador can begin riding again the 6th of August 2012,
that means he will
News from Italy, concretely from "Tuttosports" & picked up locally via Spanish Sports daily "As",
mentions that JUVENTUS has REAL MADRID forward GONZALO HIGUAIN as mximum signing objective for next
season. But there is more, in case it all gets difficult , Juventus has a Plan- B , that is,
KARIM BENZEMA.
Spanish World Nº2 ranked Tennis player RAFAEL NADAL added another title to his long list when he
defeated fellow Spaniard DAVID FERRER 7-6 7-5 in the Final of the Conde Godo tournament in
Barcelona. It was the 7th consecutive title for Nadal on his favourite surface, clay, which adds
more weight to his legendary status on the mentioned surface.
TweetPep Guardiola is set to announce his departure as Barcelona coach within the next 24 hours
according to respected Spanish sports commentator Guillem Balague. Guardiola is out of contract at
the end of the season having spent four years at the Camp Nou after joining in 2008. Thirteen
titles later the Barca legend is ready [.
Having opened up a 10-point advantage over second-place Barcelona, Real Madrid manager Jose
Mourinho has begun organizing a victory parade through the Catalan capital to celebrate his club's
first La Liga title since 2008. Though the parade will not go off until the end of the season in
May, Mourinho has already started making unprecedented arrangements to hold a title celebration in
a rival city.
It appears U.S. national team midfielder Michael Bradley is on the verge of completing a move
from Chievo to Roma, so Spanish sports paper Marca was inclined to publish a story on the matter.
But instead of using a picture of Michael Bradley, they went with a blurry photo of fellow American
and Fulham star Clint Dempsey.
After a year without a radio home in English or Spanish, the Fire have a partner to broadcast
all their games.
Today, the Chicago Fire announced that ESPN Deportes 97.5 will be broadcasting all 34 games. The
games will be called by Oscar Guzman. Oscar will also host a weekly show call, Juega con Fire (Play
with Fire) that will cover the Fire, MLS and world soccer.
