raul gonzalez: October 2014

SPANISH CUP | COPA DEL REY | FINAL RESULTS WEDNESDAY

Spanish Cup - Copa del Rey - action tonight with the bigger Clubs joining the competition. Two scheduled games with the following final results & goalscorers.

Real Madrid travelled to Barcelona to play UE Cornella, a 2 Division B Club in their 1ºst leg tie. The final result was a 1 - 4 win for Real Madrid & Coach Anceleotti gave some of their big names a rest. Cornella played an admirable

FIFA - FRANCE FOOTBALL 2014 GOLDEN BALL AWARD LIST 23 CANDIDATES

FIFA & France Football published this morning the list of 23 candidates up for the "2014 FIFA Golden Ball Award". As expected Spanish Football is represented well with Real Madrid having 6 players: Sergio Ramos, Gareth Bale, Karim Benzema, James Rodriguez, Toni Kroos & Cristiano Ronaldo , while FC Barcelona has 4 players: Neymar, Iniesta, Mascherano & Messi.

It is now up to the National Teams

GOLDEN BOY 2014 LIST 40 CANDIDATES

Italian Football media "Tuttosport" has let known the list of 40 candidates for the "2014 Golden Boy Award". Italian & prestigious European journalist vote who they believe is the "Best U-21 Football Player of the Year". Last year Pogba (Juventus ) with past winners Isco (Real Madrid), Wayne Rooney, Cesc Fabragas, Sergio Aguero & Mario Balotelli

Spanish Football has the following youngsters

ARSENAL FC TO TARGET PEDRO FROM FC BARCELONA

News out of England, concretely "Daily Mirror", suggests that Premier League Club Arsenal FC is preparing a move on Spanish International & FC Barcelona 27 year old winger Pedro Rodriguez. Not surprising as rumours were hot this last summer that the winger was studying offers from elsewhere, Arsenal FC included.

The news further cites that Arsenal is preparing a 30M€ offer that perhaps may

SPANISH FOOTBALL LIGA ROUND 9 SUNDAY GAMES FINAL RESULTS

Spanish Football Liga continued today with the last 4 matches of Round 9 scheduled. Here are the final results along with all the goalscorers.

Malaga FC played Madrid Club Rayo Vallecano this midday & bulldozed them over with a 4-0 victory. The goals came in the following manner :

Samuel 5th min, 1-0
Darder 20th min, 2-0
Juanmi 44th min, 3-0
Amrabat (p) 48th min, 4-0

Both teams currently

SPANISH FOOTBALL LIGA ROUND 9 SATURDAY - EL CLASICO - GAMES FINAL RESULTS

Spanish Football Liga put on its best cloths today for the World with the all eclipsing Round 9 match between Real Madrid & FC Barcelona. The "Clasico" did not disappoint but there were more Liga games scheduled which will be shown below with the final results & all the goalscorers.

Real Madrid hosted FC Barcelona & won convincingly 3 - 1 in a fabulous game of Football.

The starting

VERONICA BOQUETE MAKES SPANISH FEMALE FOOTBALL HISTORY

FIFA has made public the list of 10 female names up for the 2014 Golden Ball.

The full list of 10 female candidates for the FIFA Golden Ball 2014 is:

Nadine Angerer (GER), Veronica Boquete (SP), Nilla Fischer (SWE), Nahomi Kawasumi (JAP), Nadine Kessler (GER), Marta (BRA), Aya Miyama (JAP), Louisa Necib (FRA), Lotta Schelin (SWE) & Abby Wambach (USA).

For Spanish Female Football it is a

FIFA RANKINGS | SPAIN IN 10TH POSITION

FIFA has released its monthly Football Nations World Rankings, in this case for the month of October. In the case of SPAIN they drop to Nº10 from Nº8 position, with the defeat against Slovakia 2 - 1 in their Euro 2016 Group match a prime cause.

Current World Champs Germany remains on top & Nations like Colombia & Belguim are enjoying some unprecedented high positions. Portugal gets back into

SPANISH FOOTBALL TEAMS | UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GROUP RESULTS

UEFA Champions League continued tonight with the last two Spanish Football representatives in action. Here are the final results along with all the goalscorers.

Atletico de Madrid hosted the Swedish Club Malmo to win 5 - 0 in their Group A match. The goals all came in the 2º half after the Swedes held off defensively all
the Spanish attacks in the first 45 minutes.

Atletico de Madrid

UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GROUP RESULTS | SPANISH FOOTBALL TEAMS

UEFA Champions League Group matches tonight with participation of FC Barcelona at home & Athletic Club Bilbao away. Here are the final results of tonights games with all the goalscorers.

FC Barcelona team photo, Champions League vs Ajax

FC Barcelona hosted Ajax Amsterdam in their Group F match & won 3 - 1. The result could have been higher for Barça but they failed to convert their numerous

MANCHESTER UNITED TARGETS GERARD PIQUE ?

According
to Spanish Sports daily "Sport", English Premier League Club
Manchester United is firmly intent in making a bid for FC Barcelona defender
Gerard Pique. The English team managed & Coached by Louis Van Gaal wants to have
the services of the Spanish International central defender, & from England
the news is that the Club is willing to offer 25M € for the player.

The English
paper the

THE RETURN OF LUIS SUAREZ | FC BARECLONA

The term, "seeing the light at the end of the tunnel", has never been so true for Uruguayan & FC Barcelona forward Luis Suarez. The player ends his 4 month ban from playing football - official games - next Friday. Consequently, the next day Saturday, the first Spanish Football season "Clasico" between Real Madrid & FC Barcelona is scheduled, thus allowing Suarez to be available for Barça Coach

ATLETICO DE MADRID TARGETING SEMIH KAYA OF GALATASARAY?

From Spanish Sports daily "Marca" comes the news that Atletico de Madrid is close to reaching an agreement with Turkish Football Club Galatasaray for their central defender Semih Kaya, news apparently also backed by Turkish television NTV. According to NTV, Atletico de Madrid owner Miguel Angel Gil was recently in Istanbul & meet with representatives of Kaya & Galatasaray. Does this indicate that

REAL MADRID EYES LUCAS SILVA TO REPLACE KHEDIRA

German International midfielder Sami Khedira is widely tipped to have his future next season elsewhere from Real Madrid. The player has not renewed his contract & as a "free agent" as of the 1st of January 2015 will leave without the need of a transfer fee. Rumours are that the player has a possible agreement with English Club Arsenal FC, while others speculate it could be Chelsea FC. The more

SPAIN LOSES 1 - 2 SERBIA | U-21 EURO | ELIMINATED FROM EURO 2015 & 2016 RIO OLYMPIC GAMES

It was a must winner encounter. Spain had to defeat Serbia today to qualify for the Euro 2015 Championships & the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. The final result was a hard blow for the current U-21 European Champions after losing at home 1 - 2.

Same story as the away match at Serbia that finished 0 - 0, solid Serbian defence that waited patiently as Spain made mistakes under their frustration &

ANDRES INIESTA WINS 2014 GOLDEN FOOT AWARD

FC Barcelona & Spanish International Andres Iniesta has been awarded the 2014 "Golden Foot" as the Best over 28 years of age Football Player in Monaco. The player received the prize along with his family & Barça representative.

The other candidates were:

Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney, Manuel Neuer, Andrea Pirlo, Thiago Silva, Franck Ribéry, Toure Yaya & Thierry Henry.

Although I am an

SPAIN WINS 0 - 4 LUXEMBOURG | EURO 2016 GROUP QUALIFIER

After heavy local criticism after losing against Slovakia earlier in the week, Spain got back to winning ways defeating away Luxembourg 0 - 4 in their Euro 2016 Group qualifier. The Spanish Football Team Coach Vicente del Bosque made changes to the side leaving out Iker Casillas, Juanfran, Albiol & Cesc Fábregas, while starting with the following 11 players:

De Gea, Carvajal, Piqué, Bartra,

SPAIN DRAWS 0 - 0 WITH SERBIA | U-21 EURO 2015 QUALIFIER

The Spanish U-21 National Team drew away 0 - 0 to Serbia in their Group U-21 Euro 2015 match. The result puts qualification on hold as the decider will be played by both again next Tuesday here in Spain (Cadiz).

Spain dominated the encounter but found the uneven & difficult turf not to their Football liking, while Serbia put up a defensive wall which saw how Spain kept bouncing off. However,

SPAIN LOSE 2 - 1 TO SLOVAKIA IN GROUP C EURO 2016 QUALIFIER

Slovakia take the top spot of Group C after defeating Spain at home 2 - 1 in the Euro 2016 qualifier. Surprise result after Spain had ball domination between 65 - 70 % with Slovakia defending & looking for the counter-attack.
Spain has the same problem that seems to have no solution from Coach Vicente Del Bosque, the inability to score goals. Plus the "Diego Costa option" is not working at all,

FC BARCELONA EYES YOUNG NORWEGIAN FOOTBALL TALENT

Who is
Martin Odegaard? He is a young Norwegian Football talent that with 13
years of age was already training with the first team of Strømsgodset IF (the big
boys), the same Club he made his League debut with just 15 years. This fact made
Martin the youngest player to ever debut in the Norway Football League.

Spanish
Football Club FC Barcelona has already put its eyes on the talented

SPANISH FOOTBALL LIGA CURRENT TOP GOALSCORERS AFTER 7 ROUNDS

The Spanish Football Liga season 2014-2015 has already celebrated 7 Rounds. Thought it will be a good moment to see how the current leading goalscorer table looks like at this early stage.

Currently leading the Liga goalscorers table is Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo with 13 goals from 6 games. Second is FC Barcelona player Neymar with 7 goals followed by team-mate Lionel Messi with 6

SPAIN FOOTBALL TEAM | FULL LIST OF 23 PLAYERS FOR EURO QUALIFIERS

Spanish Football National Team Coach & Selector Vicente del Bosque has handed in his list of 23 players that will make up the Spanish squad for the upcoming Euro 2016 Group qualifying matches. Spain is scheduled to play Slovenia & Luxembourg.

The novelty is Valencia CF forward Rodrigo, while Gerard Pique & Bernat are called back. Those dropped are young Barça player Muñir & Isco.

Full list

SPANISH FOOTBALL TEAMS | CHAMPIONS LEAGUE WEDNESDAY GAMES FINAL RESULTS

The last two Spanish Football Clubs with UEFA Champions League Group duties played their games tonight with positive outcomes, but hard worked by but sides. Here are the final results along with all the goalscorers.

Atletico de Madrid hosted Juventus FC in their Group A clash with the following starting 11:

Moya; Juanfran, Miranda, Godín, Ansaldi; Tiago, Koke, Saúl, Arda Turan; Raul García &