1st Leg - January 7, 2nd Leg - January 14 [Home Team - 1st Leg Listed First] Racing Santander - Valencia winner VS. Sevilla FC - Deportivo La Coruña winner Osasuna - Athletic Bilbao winner VS. Sporting Gijón - Valladolid winner Polideportivo Ejido - Espanyol winner VS. Atlético Madrid - Barcelona winner Mallorca - Almería winner VS. Click to continue reading...

Week 13 - Home Teams Listed First Sevilla 0 - 3 Barcelona BAR: Eto'o (20′), Messi (78′ & 93′) Getafe 3 -1 Real Madrid GET: Albín (3′ & 47′), Uche (81′) RMA: Saviola (55′) Recreativo 1 - 2 Villarreal REC: Adrián Colunga (pen 82′) VIL: Cazorla (26′), Ibagaza (44′) Valladolid 3 - 0 Mallorca VAL: Garcia Calvo (28′), Vivar Dorado (55′), Goitom (65′) Málaga 4 - [. Click to continue reading...

 La Liga Talk interviewed former Rayo Vallecano and Valencia star Fernando Morena about world football.    In this second part he talks about his career, his experience in Spain, and how Uruguayan football seems not to be taking off. Click to continue reading...

Week 11 Scores - (Home Teams Listed First) Saturday, November 15 Valladolid 1 - 0 Real Madrid VAL: Canobbio 48′ Valencia 2 - 3 Sporting VAL: Villa pen 51′, Mata 89′ SPO: Luis Morán 19′, David Barral 51′, Diego Castro 80′ Sunday, November 16 Getafe 0 - 2 Sevilla SEV: Luis Fabiano 36′, De Mul 88′ Málaga 2 - 2 Villarreal MAL: Duda 30′, Rosario 89′ VIL: [. Click to continue reading...

Saturday    Valladolid 1-0 Real Madrid VLL:  Canobbio (48′)    Valencia 2-3 Sporting Gijón VAL: Villa (69′), Mata (90′)                                                                                                                                   SPO: Morán (20′), Barral (52′), Giménez (81′) Click to continue reading...

This was one of the most important games of the season for Real Madrid.  Bernd Schuster knew that this was the game that they absolutely had to have if they planned to revert the results of the past couple of weeks both domestically and in Europe. Schuster knew that they had to win, but his [...] Click to continue reading...

People can tell you how a fine European sports car drives in the Autobahn, but you can never grasp what they are saying until you actually jump into the million-dollar Ferrari and go 180-miles per hour. There was no other metaphor that I could use that could give any of you an idea as to what the experience was with these boots. Click to continue reading...

After it was confirmed that Dutch international Ruud Van Nistelrooy would be out for the remainder of the season, the Madrid brass began Operation RVN (Replace Van Nistelrooy). It would not be easy to find a player that would fill the shoes of one of the top goalscorers in the world the past decade, but it [. Click to continue reading...

Diego Maradona was appointed as Argentine national team head coach Tuesday evening.  That was the best birthday present that he could have received.  The obsession with Maradona has reached a new level.   From the outside looking in, there is very little logic to it.  On the inside with some logic it's senseless. Click to continue reading...

The writing might be on the wall for Bernd Schuster or it might be the typical Real Madrid hysterics that go on after a big loss like the one they suffered against Real Unión.  Right now they are burying Schuster before he dies. According to one of Madrid's "mouthpieces", As, they say stated that club board [. Click to continue reading...

Valladolid   2 -2    Hércules                                                                                                                                                                                               (VLL adv. Click to continue reading...

Real Unión gave the shocker of the year at the Bernabéu as they eliminated reigning league champs Real Madrid from the Copa del Rey.   Many people in the Spanish media thought that logic would once again rear its head into football in Spain, Real Unión decided to repeat their performance and score another three [. Click to continue reading...

Valladolid     -     Hércules Espanyol     -     Celta Villarreal     -     Pol. Ejido  (POL 0-5) Mallorca     -     Málaga Sporting     -     Numancia Recreativo     -     Athletic Betis          -    Castellón Almería     -     Rayo Racing     -     Murcia Deportivo     -     Elche Valencia     -     Portugalete Atlético     -     Orihuela Barcelona     -     [. Click to continue reading...

One of the biggest moments in my short "writing career" is when I saw that Sports Illustrated took a liking to the sport I love.  They began giving a damn to the game more than once every four years or to show Americans that "their sports"  were better than the Europeans'. I was able to use [...] Click to continue reading...

Real Madrid midfielder Mahamadou Diarra, lost his status as the most important injury in Spain.   The might be out anywhere between three to four weeks due to a 1st degreeetear in his left thigh. The Malinese international suffered the injury eight minutes after he substituted Rafael Van der Vaart in the second half and suffered a [. Click to continue reading...