By now, you've probably figured mCalcio.com (i.e. me) likes pictures. Needless to say, I am a strong believer that "a powerful image can speak louder than a thousand words". So presenting to you, a selection of 20 images giving tribute to Spain's Euro 2008 triumph in Sunday's final. Enjoy. And once again, ¡Viva España! Click to continue reading...

Germany 0-1 Spain. The chokers are no more. In a hard-fought but dominated battle in Vienna, La Selección wiped all of their historical fears and under-achieving inhibitions away: one swift movement (as swift as Fernando Torres's run behind Philipp Lahm, and swifter than his finishing touch over Jens Lehmann) to swipe the European Cup right from [. Click to continue reading...

Russia 0-3 Spain. Well Italy didn't go out for nothing at least. Yet. The ever-famous (or infamous, I guess it depends where you stand) tournament-chokers really made a statement on Thursday night. Getting three goals past your opponent in a Euro Semi-Finals cannot be ignored, even if that opponent was modest Russia (who in spite of [. Click to continue reading...

Bring out the castanets and wake up the opera singers: on Sunday, Spain and Italy will step onto Vienna's Ernst Happel stadium ready to dance, and it will surely be a very hot-blooded affair. Two teams with common linguistical heritage but radically different styles of play, the Azzurri and La Furia Roja have also arrived at Euro 2008's Quarter-Finals following opposite [. Click to continue reading...

No Maniche for Portugal, and no Raúl for Spain. Earlier this week, La Furia Roja manager Luis Aragonés released his final List of 23 who will be travelling to SwissAustria in June and as expected, Real Madrid's captain was not selected. The feud between Aragonés and Raúl has been going on for quite some time now, and not [. Click to continue reading...

(*Note that I tend to do 'previews' a bit different from everyone else (i.e. I just talk about whatever I feel is relevant to the game in no order!) To start off, here are the 20 players picked by Luis 'The Old Man' Aragonés himself. Arsenal: Cesc FC Barcelona: Puyol, Iniesta y Xavi Betis: Juanito Espanyol: Luis García y Riera Getafe: [. Click to continue reading...

The Real Federación Española de Fútbol (RFEF) put the kabosh on rumors that El Viejo Luis Aragonés would be leaving the Spanish national side before Euro 2008. Angel Maria Villar, president of RFEF who according to the FIFA website likes 'history, music and hiking' (WTF?) said "The national team coach is determined to continue in his job [. Click to continue reading...

Warning...uncontrollable rant ahead. I had to take a break from my studying today to write a unusual mid-day post for me. And note that this might will take a ranting form. But what the hell is Luis Aragones doing with the Spanish national team??? I'm seriously getting sick of this. I know some of you are asking, Why [...] Click to continue reading...

Arjen Robben took to the training ground today for the first time with his Real Madrid teammates. Robben, who came over to Madrid for 36 Million Euro in the offseason, has had a knee injury that has kept him out of the lineup thus far. Madrid had a 2.5 hour training session today [...] Click to continue reading...