raul gonzalez: February 2014

DEL BOSQUE ANNOUNCES SPANISH TEAM LIST FOR THE ITALY FRIENDLY INTERNATIONAL

Spanish Football National Team Selector & Coach Vicente de Bosque handed in this midday his list of players for the upcoming Friendly International match against Italy on the 5th of March in Madrid. This list this basically the last before the definite list that will make up the Spanish Team for the upcoming World Cup in Brazil. On May the 13th Del Bosque will announce a pre-World Cup list of 30

SPANISH FOOTBALL CLUBS DO WELL IN EUROPA LEAGUE | FINAL GAMES RESULTS

Three Spanish Football Clubs played tonight Europa League all attempting to progress into the last 16 teams of the tournament. Each had difficult opponents in front of them but all three Clubs managed positive results that keeps them alive in the Europa League competition.

The 1st leg finished in a 1 - 1 draw. Real Betis travelled to the cold weather environment of Russia with an artificial

FC BARCELONA ABOUT TO SIGN 17 YEAR OLD CROATIAN ALEN HALILOVIC

Alen Halilovic is a 17 year old Dynamo Zagreb player which has caught the attention of the big European Clubs. The son of ex-Valladolid player Sejad Halilovac, the Football observers project that the youngster is headed for big things in World Soccer. Spanish Football giant FC Barcelona has been following the boy for sometime & is about to shut the signing of Alen. Barça Football Director

REAL MADRID WIN 1 - 6 AT SCHALKE 04 | UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE RESULT

The last Spanish Football Club with UEFA Champions League duties, Real Madrid returns home from Germany with a 1 - 6 victory over Schalke 04. Impressive scoreline that puts Real Madrid virtually into the quarter-finales of the tournament barring an terrible accident in the return leg match in Madrid.

Traditionally German territory has been a "nightmare" for Real Madrid. However, tonight that

FC BARCELONA | COACH TATA ON THE ROPES AS NEW CANDIDATES FLOWER

After winning everything in the past 4 seasons FC Barcelona is not accustomed to losing. The Liga loss to Real Sociedad last weekend pushed Barça down the classification ladder to second place & opened up a 3 point gap with arch rival Real Madrid. This has not been digested too well at Barcelona. Coach Gerardo Martino is being severally criticised by the local influential Sports press & there are

IS NEYMAR THE ASSISTANT OF LIONEL MESSI ?

The great Brazilian Nº 9 Ronaldo Nazario has commented publicly something that many believe: "at FC Barcelona Neymar is a bit like the assistant of Lionel Messi". The ex-Football player made this comment in a recent press Conference related to the upcoming Word Cup in his country.

The loss by FC Barcelona last Saturday in Liga against Real Sociedad has turned the Barcelona press guard dogs

SPANISH FOOTBALL LIGA ROUND 25 MONDAY NIGHT GAME RESULT

The last game of Round 25 of the Spanish Liga was played Monday night with RCD Espanyol going down 1 - 2 to Villarreal which suffered for their victory. It was a heart stopper right up to the last moment as Villarreal goalkeeper Asenjo saved a penalty in the 91st min to assure the 3 points to his team. Asenjo became the hero of the night & keeps Villarreal thinking about the possibility of

SPANISH FOOTBALL ROUND 25 SUNDAY LIGA GAMES RESULTS

Spanish Football continued today with four matches scheduled of Round 25 Liga. Here are all the final results - scores along with the goalscorers.

Madrid Club Rayo Vallecano hosted Sevilla FC & lost 0 - 1. Another heavy blow to Rayo Vallecano which is in the relegation zone, & on top today they could not do much more with Sevilla FC down to 10 men after Iborra was sent off. Sevilla FC got

EURO 2016 | SPAIN NATIONAL TEAM GROUP C SCHEDULE

The UEFA European Nations Cup qualification schedule & Group for Spain has been published. In Group C along with Spain are Ukraine, Belarus, Slovakia, Macedonia & Luxembourg. The host Nation for the Euro 2016 Championship will be France.

Group C : Qualifiers for Spain:

8/09/2014 Spain - Macedonia (time 20.45)
9/10/2014 Slovakia - Spain (20.45)
12/10/2014 Luxembourg - Spain (20.45)
15/11/

SPANISH FOOTBALL ROUND 25 LIGA SATURDAY GAMES FINAL RESULTS

Spanish Football action tonight with Round 25 Liga matches. Here are all the final results-scores along with all the goalscorers, & a new classification leader - at least for tonight.

The Friday night Liga game was between Valladolid & Levante, a game that ended in a 1 - 1 draw. Levante got themselves ahead in the 24th min through Victor & Valladolid managed their equalizer in the 51st min

FUNNY GUY NEYMAR | QUOTE OF THE WEEK

The arrival of Brazilian Neymar to Spain & concretely to FC Barcelona has had its collateral damage, in this case unprecedented for Barça. The fall & disappearance of a Barça President, Sandro Rosell, & the formal accusation by the Spanish Anti-corruption Agency through Judge Ruz of possible tax evasion by Barça which the Club will have to appear in Court to prove its innocence.

The storm

LIVERPOOL CLOSER TO GOALKEEPER VICTOR VALDES ?

It is no news that Spanish International & FC Barcelona goalkeeper Victor Valdes will be leaving his Club at the end of the season. Apart from his what makes Valdes a prize to fight for is that he is free of transfer fee, a free agent, with costs that are only his salary.

With one of the World Best Goalkeepers on "the loose" European Clubs have their scouting men focused on Victor Valdes &

EVERYONE WANTS THIBAUT COURTOIS

Belgium International & Atletico de Madrid 21 year old goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois is that talk of the "Football Town". Currently & statistically the Best Goalkeeper in the Spanish Liga & after his recent performances, in European Football. An extraordinary Football talent at such a young age.

If you were in Madrid this morning & you happen to buy the Spanish Sports daily "AS" its front cover

SPANISH FOOTBALL TEAMS FINAL RESULTS IN EUROPA LEAGUE

European Football continued tonight with the Europa League competition returning after a break. Three Spanish Football Clubs had European duties & here are all the final results-scores along with all the goalscorers.

Dynamo Kiev had to travel to Nicosa ( Cyprus ) to play their home match against Valencia CF. The current political turmoil in the city of Kiev is not an appropriate stage for

ATLETICO DE MADRID WINS 0 - 1 AC MILAN | UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

UEFA Champions League Football continued tonight with the Spanish representative Atletico de Madrid travelling to AC Milan for their 1º leg match. The final result was a very work & valuable 0 - 1 victory to Atletico de Madrid

The first half saw a better AC Milan with clear chances that forced Atletico goalkeeper Courtois to do his magic with some impressive & extraordinary saves. The

FC BARCELONA WINS 0 - 2 MANCHESTER CITY AWAY | UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

UEFA Champions League Football returned after a break of a couple of months with the Business end of the competition coming into play. Home & away elimination games with little room for error. Tonight Spanish Football Club FC Barcelona played Manchester City at their home stadium in the 1º leg match & managed a hard won 0 - 2 victory.

Good team Manchester City, they put up a grand performance

SPANISH FOOTBALL ROUND 24 LIGA MONDAY NIGHT GAME RESULT

The last scheduled Liga match for Round 24 was played tonight between Malaga FC & Real Sociedad. The final result was a narrow 0 - 1 win to Real Sociedad which puts them at the door of the Europa League table positions ( 4 points from Champions ), while its all the contrary for Malaga which are on the boarder of the relegation zone.

Fierce encounter with a home side playing for its future &

SPANISH FOOTBALL ROUND 24 LIGA SUNDAY GAMES RESULTS

Spanish Football action today with four matches scheduled in Round 24 of Liga. Here is a brief summary with all the final scores-results along with all the goalscorers.

Granada defeated Real Betis this midday 1 - 0 with a excellent executed goal from Piti in the 31st min. However the news is that the loss by Real Betis puts them further into the "black hole" of the relegation zone, &

SPANISH FOOTBALL SATURDAY ROUND 24 LIGA GAMES FINAL RESULTS

Spanish Football action tonight with Round 24 games of Liga scheduled. Here is a brief round-up of the main events with all the final results - scores along with all the goalscorers.

The Friday night match was between lower table Clubs Elche hosted Osasuna & their encounter ended up in a 0 - 0 draw. The main highlight was the saves made from Elche goalkeeper Toño ( 3 match savers ) & then the

REAL MADRID - ARTURO VIDAL LINK?

Chilean International & Juventus FC midfielder Arturo Vidal has won himself the praise & tag by most World Soccer observers as currently the "hottest midfielder" in World Football. Yesterday Spanish Sports paper "Marca" linked the player to a possible Real Madrid interest. The connection comes indirectly from another story that links German International & Borussia Dortmund midfielder Gundogan

RIDICULOUS 600 € FINE TO ATLETICO FOR THROWING AN OBJECT AT RONALDO

During the half time break of the 2º leg semi final of the Spanish Cup between Atletico de Madrid & Real Madrid a "Neanderthal" threw a lighter ( an object ) at Real Madrid player Cristiano Ronaldo at his head. This action is in itself deplorable in or outside a Football field but worst the responsibility usually goes to the home Club, which again shows the "love" of the colours that the walking

FC BARCELONA REACHES 100 MILLION SOCIAL FANS

Spanish Football Club FC Barcelona has become the first Sporting Institution in World Sports to have reached 100.000.000 social media fans. The Club has thanked all its World followers via Twitter with the below image.A prize for the excellent work that the FC Barcelona Marketing department is doing to expand the Barça brand around the World. Just to remind, FC Barcelona is not just a Football

TEEN MAGAZINE PUBLISHES BEST WORLD SOCCER U-21 TEAM

The magazine "Teen Digest" has published their list of XI players that make up the "Best World Soccer U-21 Team". Spanish Football is well represented with two Spanish born players, Carvajal & Isco ( Real Madrid ) & two foreign players playing in Spanish Clubs, Varane ( Real Madrid ) Courtois (At. Madrid) & Neymar ( FC Barcelona ).

Here is the full list of the chosen Best World Soccer U/

SPANISH CUP - COPA DEL REY FINAL RESULT | FC BARCELONA INTO THE FINAL

FC Barcelona has drawn 1 - 1 away against Real Sociedad tonight in the 2º leg semi-final match of the Spanish Cup - Copa del Rey. This results gives Barça a 3 - 1 overall aggregate & puts them into the Kings Cup Final were they will meet Real Madrid.

Bit of an anti-climax in my opinion as there was a pre-match "vibe" in the air that perhaps Real Sociedad could pull off a surprise. Instead

Lionel Messi exposes himself via Facebook

Lionel Messi exposes himself via Facebook

The Search Engine translation service exposes Leo Messi
the Argentinean Lionel Messi, star of the Spanish team of Barcelona , exposed himself via Facebook when he tried to translate his words to English using the search engine translation service.

Lionel published via his Facebook Fanpage some picture of his last match against Seville where he scored 2 goals & helped Barcelona to get the top of la Liga back from Athletic Madrid who lost to Almeria 2-0.

Messi wanted to write (difficult match) or (difficult game) but he used the search engine to translate his words, and in return, the transition from Spanish to English was not accurate to get (Party difficult) or (Party hard) within his comment on the news which was & still published via his Facebook Fanpage.

lewandowski's car without tires

lewandowski's car without tires

The Polish Striker of Borussia Dortmund Robert Lewandowski's was a victim of theft to his luxury cars tires which was parked in front of his house.

The widespread German newspaper (Bild) said that unknowns stole four tires from the car of the Polish striker of Borussia Dortmund Robert lewandowski.

The vehicle appeared,( the Porsche Cayenne G. T. S.), Monday morning in front of the garage, where the player has left it, but without any of the tires.

According to the newspaper, the luxury car, which coast more than 92 thousand Euros, was based on a pieces of brick, but the front of the car was literally on the floor , which caused some serious damage to the car.

The newspaper linked the incident to the transfer agreed by the player, and that it was not carried out by before next summer, who decided to leave Borussia Dortmund, to the greatest rival in the Bundesliga ,Bayern Munich.

lewandowski signed a contract in January with Bayern for five seasons, in return for 90 million euros in total.

SPANISH CUP - COPA DEL REY ( KINGS CUP ) FINAL RESULT | REAL MADRID INTO THE FINAL

Real Madrid has sealed its place in this seasons Spanish Cup - Copa del Rey ( Kings Cup ) Final after defeating Atletico de Madrid 0 - 2 tonight in the 2º leg semi-final match. The overall aggregate of 5-0 to Real Madrid would disappoint most Atletico de Madrid followers but the real damage was done in the 1ºst leg game last week.

Atletico de Madrid kind of accepted that a turnaround would be

SPANISH FOOTBALL SPORTS FLASHBACK | MARCELINO LEGEND

Legendary Spanish International Football player Marcelino received today the "Sporting Legend Award" by a major Spanish Sports paper. The ex Real Zaragoza forward & 14 times Spanish International was remembered today after his most famous goal ever, the winner of the European Nations Cup Final 50 years ago against the powerful USSR.

It was June the 21st the year 1964 & Spain faced the USSR at

REAL MADRID NEWS | THE RETURN OF RAFAEL VARANE

Real Madrid young French defender Raphael Varane will be the novelty from Real Madrid tonight. Coach
Carlo Ancelotti announced yesterday that the Frenchman would be in tonight’s
starting XI team in the 2º leg semi-final of the Spanish Cup against Atletico de
Madrid. Varane returns after a three months absence, the most part nursing a
knee which inflamed itself after his last intensive games.

SPANISH FOOTBALL - LIGA ROUND 23 MONDAY NIGHT GAME RESULT

Spanish Football action tonight ( Monday ) with the last scheduled match of Round 23 of Liga. The final result - score was a 0 - 0 draw between Celta de Vigo & Athletic Club Bilbao.

Shared points with Celta de Vigo playing better in the 1ºst half & keeping at bay Bilbao. The visitors improved & had their chances but like their hosts they were unlucky. Celta hit the post through their forward

Arteta : "i had never seen Wenger so angry"

Arteta i had never seen Wenger so angry

The echoes of Arsenal big frustration vs Liverpool,two days ago , is still dominating the atmosphere of the gunners.

Mikel Arteta -Arsenal captain- said that he had not seen the coach Arsene Wenger this angry in his life during his talk with the players at the half-time match which ended with five goals to one ground of his rival Liverpool in the English Premier League on Saturday.

The Spanish player said "The coach was very angry at half-time , it is natural because the result was not a good at all"

He added: "I have not seen Wenger this angry the all time i knew him,"

The coach appointed at the humiliating defeat with six goals to three by Arsenal to Manchester City in December last year, but he recovered to win six of his eight matches, the stop at the Anfield stadium was hard as Everton former player said "We have gone through already dignified,"

he added " it is hard to speak about City and Liverpool defeat , we must react quickly"

Sven Bender and Marco Reus out for injury

A thigh injury deprive Reus from playing with Borussia Dortmund for 2 weeks.

The German Borussia Dortmund announced on Sunday the injury of the midfielder Marco Reus with a fragmentation in right thigh.

Marco was injured during the overwhelming victory on Werder Bremen which finished 5-1 for Borussia at the Weserstadion on Saturday.

It is likely that Marco Rues (24 years old) will be out of service for two weeks and will not be able to play two matches with Dortmund v Eintracht Frankfurt in the Bundesliga and Hamburg in the German Cup.

Borussia Dortmund hopes that Rues can recover before the confrontation with Russian Zenit St. Petersburg on 25 February, in the 16 round of the European Champions League.

the midfielder Sven Bender, suffered from a thigh injury during the Bremen match and may come back in one week.

SPANISH FOOTBALL - ROUND 23 LIGA SUNDAY GAMES RESULTS

Spanish Football continued today with Liga Round 23 matches. Here are all the final results - scores along with the goalscorers.

Osasuna won 2 - 0 Madrid Club Getafe to add three very important points to their attempts to avoid relegation zone dangers. Getafe has not won since the 29th of November 2013 & their Coach Luis Garcia is in danger. The Osasuna goals came in the 8th min from Oriol

SPANISH BASKETBALL | REAL MADRID WINS BARCELONA IN SPANISH CUP BY 1 POINT

There was only 26 seconds left & FC Barcelona had a 1 point advantage over Real Madrid after a terrible Sergio Rodriguez mistake allowed Barça to score. Sergio then made up in the last attack when he found Sergio Llull who dropped a 2 pointer leaving the match with 0.1 second left & Real Madrid up by 1 point. Real Madrid had regained the lead & when Barcelona attempted a long throw tap-on &

Mario Balotelli cried at Ac Milan bench

Mario Balotelli Stole the TV Cameras attention at Milan vs Napoli match

Ac Milan and Italy striker, Mario Balotelli grief during his team's match in front of Napoli at the "San Paulo" Saturday evening within the competitions of the round 23 of the Serie A.

Mario showed a very weak performance during the match,forcing the new Dutch coach Clarence Seedorf to replace him in the 73 minute, putting in its place Giampaolo Pazzini, hoping to improve the result, where they where losing 1-2.

However,Mario Balotelli kidnapped the attention of TV cameras, where they picked him up, crying on the substitutes' bench, and tried to hide the tears that fell from his eyes, hiding

Real Madrid top of la liga temporarily

Almeria succeeded in defeated Atletico Madrid after a difficult night to Simeone's men at the Méditerranéens.

Athletic Madrid lost to Almeria (0-2), and the neighbor Real Madrid toke the lead temporarily after overcoming the obstacle Villarreal (4-2) in an exciting match on Saturday in the twenty third stage of the Spanish league.

At the Méditerranéens stadium, Diego Simeone Players couldn't reach there rivals goals who relied on there strong defense.

In the second half, Almeria players regained there self-confidence and attacked their opponents on equal terms, and they were the most dangerous, especially Jose Antonio Garcia shot which hited the right post and turned to the left but didn't got into the goal (74).

the 1st goal came from a corner and was scored by Jesus Fernandez at the 80 minute.

Atletico Madrid goalkeeper happiness -aranzubía(34 years)- to play his 1st match of the season was not completed as he committed a mistake against Zongo Jonathan and had been expelled, but the Team leader Gabi couldn't do anything to save it since the team had already used his 3 subs.

The "Rojiblancos" Played the worst match in the last two seasons, and stopped at 57 points, and is now behind Real Madrid with the difference in goals,

SPANISH FOOTBALL - LIGA - ROUND 23 SATURDAY GAMES FINAL RESULTS

Spanish Football this weekend with today s corresponding matches scheduled in Round 23 of Liga. Relatively high scoring matches with plenty of action & big surprises. Here are all the final results - scores along with all the goalscorers.

The Friday night match was RCD Espanyol against Granada with a 1 - 0 final result to the home side. The merit of Espanyol was that the team was down 10 men

FC BARCELONA | MUSICAL CHAIRS FOR A CENTRAL DEFENDER

It hasn't taken long for my initial negative instincts on a possible interest by FC Barcelona
for Manchester United Serbian defender Vidic have been confirmed by Barcelona based Spanish Sports paper "Mundo Deportivo". In yesterdays post I mentioned a reported interested & following by Barça of Vidic but put in doubt the speculation based on the age of the player currently 32 years old.Today we

The Spanish Union refuses to resume Ronaldo's penalty and stop him for 3 matches

The Spanish football union refused an appeal by the Cristiano Ronaldo against sanction of suspension for three matches, which was signed by him after misconduct, which was issued to him in Real Madrid match in front of Athletic Bilbao in Spanish La Liga, causing a red card and an expulsion in the stadium.

Real Madrid will need to rely on the rest of the members of the team without Ronaldo during next three clashes.

Real Madrid will have to face Villarreal and Elche in Santiago Bernabeu and Getafe in the Coliseum Alfonso Pérez Staduim without the services of Cristiano Ronaldo.

The referee of Real Madrid vs Athletic Bilbao match ,Ayza Gámez, which was suspended for 1 month after the match, Gaved Cristiano Ronaldo a red card ,forcing Real Madrid to play with 10 and causing them the match which finished 1-1.

FC BARCELONA FOLLOWING VIDIC FOR NEXT SEASON ?

The news out of England regarding Manchester United veteran Captain & defender Nemanja Vidic that he will leave the Club after 8 years of loyal services has brought waves over to Spanish Football.

The experienced defender has been a constant buzz every summertime in Spain with speculation mounting that he would end up either at Real Madrid or FC Barcelona. The truth is that Vidic has commented

INDOOR SOCCER EURO 2014 | SEMI FINAL RESULT : SPAIN 3 - RUSSIA 4

Not only has Spain dominated World Football in the last 8 years, so has the Spanish National Indoor Soccer squad, up there alone with Brazil. This has given Spain the "hot favourite" tag in the current European Indoor Soccer Championships being currently held in Belgium.

As habitual with Football we have tonight a big surprise & upset as Russia has defeated Spain 3 - 4 in extra-time of the

JESE RODRIGUEZ KNOCKING ON THE REAL MADRID - SPAINISH FOOTBALL TEAM DOOR

Jese Rodriguez, born Las Palmas ( Canary Is, Spain ), Spanish U-21 International & Real Madrid forward is in vogue. The youngster once again took hold of his opportunity last night in the Spanish Cup semi-final against Atletico de Madrid & scored the second team goal. Apart from this, most observers agreed that he was one of his teams Best Players.

The 20 year old has been finding

SPANISH CUP - COPA DEL REY | KINGS CUP SEMI FINALS GAMES FINAL RESULTS

Spanish Cup - Copa de Rey ( Kings Cups ) 1º leg semi-finals action tonight with two excellent matches & with plenty of goals. Here are tonight's final results - scores & all the goalscorers.

Real Madrid gave a good shake the current Liga leaders Atletico de Madrid winning tonights 1º st leg Copa del Rey semi-final match 3 - 0. Very intense, very physical, full of controversy & great Football.

SPANISH FOOTBALL - LIGA - ROUND 22 MONDAY NIGHT GAME RESULT

Spanish Football action tonight with the last game of Round 22 of Liga. Villarreal hosted Osasuna & won with a final 3 - 1 result to take the 5th spot of the Spanish League table, a position they are fighting for with Real Sociedad.

The first half was fairly even with perhaps Osasuna having the edge, but the second half was a totally different picture. Villarreal rapidly went ahead in the

SPANISH FOOTBALL - LIGA - ROUND 22 SUNDAY GAMES RESULTS

Spanish Football action today with four games of Round 22 & with a new leader of the Spanish League. Here are all the final results - scores of tonight's games along with all the goalscorers.

Super important win for Elche 1 - 0 over Almeria to keep their hopes alive of avoiding relegation troubles. Almeria were too defensive minded & perhaps paid for being over conservative because Elche won

SPANISH FOOTBALL - LIGA - ROUND 22 SATURDAY GAMES RESULTS

Spanish Football action with Round 22 of Liga clouded with this mornings death of ex Spanish National Football Team & Atletico de Madrid legend Luis Aragones. Sorrow & respect in the atmosphere with a minute silence which was the norm for all grounds, including tomorrows remaining Liga matches. Here are all the final results - scores along with the goalscorers.

Granada & Celta de Vigo played

SPANISH FOOTBALL LEGEND LUIS ARAGONES DIES AT 75 YEARS OF AGE

Spain has woken up this morning with the news the mythical Spanish Football Coach Luis Aragones passed away during the morning at the age of 75 years of age. Victim of a leukaemia the news has shook the Spanish Football World.Luis Aragones will always be remembered for this connection with Atletico de Madrid & the Spanish National Football Team breaking the Internationals "curse" to win the