History
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La Liga products lighting up Europe
In 1992, when the English FA and UEFA decided to rebrand their competitions into the money spinning machines that they’ve become...
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Tito time: The secrets of Barca’s success under Vilanova
With the managerial merry-go-round in full flow during these summer months, it is easy for football clubs to move swiftly from...
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Soccer Cities- Valencia
Valencia is a Mediterranean port and a thriving hub of both tourism and culture. The wealth generated...
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Red Fury! – The meteoric rise of football’s greatest underachievers
The past four years have seen Spain’s national football team undergo a dramatic transformation from perennial underachievers...
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The Man in the Bowler Hat – Beautiful football comes to Spain
There was unabridged excitement in the Basque city of Bilbao last summer as Argentine tactician Marcelo Bielsa...
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Spotlight Season: Southern Comfort – Sevilla’s one and only title 1945-46
Background This was the 15th Spanish league championship and to date, the title had only travelled to...
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Spain, France and the Calderon connection
When the draw for the European qualification stage of the 2014 Fifa World Cup was made on...
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Pepe! Pepe! Millán! Millán! – The life and times of a Spanish football legend
Following almost three years of bloody civil conflict that had killed an estimates 500,00o people, some normality...
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Classic el Clásico #5 – Cruyff stuns Madrid and leaves Franco fuming
Barcelona’s biggest ever victory at the Bernabeu came in February 1974 and had a distinct Dutch flavour...
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Classic el Clásico #4 – Real Madrid heap double trouble on Barcelona
Real Madrid celebrated their 2007/08 la liga title triumph with a double humiliation of Barcelona at the...
