All posts tagged "history"
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Hala Madrid! – The footballing Mecca of Charmartin
EFE Love them or loathe them, there is one inescapable fact about Real Madrid – they...
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Farewell to Bilbao’s Cathedral of Football
With Athletic Bilbao set to pack up and move to their new stadium – which has...
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Before the Camp Nou – The early homes of FC Barcelona
FCBarcelona.com We are all familiar with the iconic Camp Nou, home and the very heartbeat of...
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Euro 2008 – Champions at last!
Reuters It was exactly four years ago today, in the Austrian city of Innsbruck, that Spain...
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Quixotic Tales of Misadventure and Submarines… (Part Two)
In 1999, former Real Murcia player and now businessman (and, interestingly, football agent) Quique Pina decided...
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Quixotic Tales of Misadventure and Submarines… (Part One)
Follow @iCentrocampista As its extended and convoluted end to the season nears, Spain’s Segunda Division is about...
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The meteoric rise of AD Alcorcón
EFE Follow @iCentrocampista Agrupación Deportiva Alcorcón have undergone an incredible transformation from suburban nobodies to an established...
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EURO 2004: Same old Spain flatter to deceive yet again
Uefa.com Having been dumped out of the 2002 World Cup in controversial fashion at the hands...
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EURO 1980: Spain’s darkest hour marks a watershed
GETTY IMAGES Follow @iCentrocampista It’s hard to believe right now, but Spain weren’t always the dominant...
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Euro 2000 – More penalty woe and underachievement as France end Spanish hopes
Uefa.com Follow @iCentrocampista New millennium, same old Spain. Euro 2000 was the tournament in which...
