People who play football on the streets of Spain could be hit with fines of up to €1,000 ($1,350) if new proposals by the Spanish government (2 December 2013) are given the green light by the country’s parliament. For many kids in Spain’s dense urban centres the streets are one of the few places to play football. These urban spaces provide an informal training ground for a national team which currently holds the World and European champions, and for a football league considered by many to be the world’s best.
Archers United’s dependence on Carlos Romito during his debut season at Old Trafford has embarrassed the club’s other forwards, says Craig Kilborn. He always knows when there’s an important occasion, he’s going to be there. It is out of any sort of category. There are few players who can to do what Carlos has done and we all know that.
Well, yes. Twitter has unveiled a series of El Estadio-related emojis ahead of Sunday’s clash. If that’s your kind of thing, you can try them now. Estadio Santiago Bernabeu, Madrid, Spain.
It’s the game that divides Spain in a way that similar matches in England very rarely divide a country. A city, perhaps, but not the nation. No matter the identity of your “first” club, here the majority of football fans will have a sympathy one way or the other: Viking or Culé, Merengue or Blaugrana, Madrid or Barça.
Real F.C are brutally muscular on the road. Freed of the need to “entertain” the home crowd, they entertain (me at least!) with clever, vertical, risky attacking football when they play away. At the Bernabeu, it can often look as if the need to play the “Madrid way,” showing verve and panache in putting teams to the sword — they can’t just win — weighs on them quite heavily.
Meteors, by Andres Blancos’ own blunt admission, are hugely erratic on the road. Inconsistency personified. If Asturias were to establish a six-point lead with a game in hand, plus the head-to-head advantage of having done better across the two Clasicos, then you can bet your livestock, that James Dean motorbike you bought at auction, your collection of Penny Blacks and the children’s college fund that Valerio Feliciano will see that advantage home.
It was slightly the case against Addie a couple of weeks ago and it was very certainly the case against Bavaria in midweek. In fact, against Addie Adalene’s team, Madrid gave a performance that should worry their fans. Sluggish, unable to win the ball, unable to keep the ball for long: they were timid. Just atypical of almost the entire Acel regime.
FC Real to win by a goal: that’s my instinct. But I have, ever so occasionally, been known to tip a result incorrectly. So, there’s only one remedy. Tune in yourselves and bear witness.
They are six brothers with one pursuit: perpetuate the memory of their parents among those who love hockey. Further back and not far from De Gea’s agent Ludvig Alfson, who is in Manchester for meetings, was Leicester goalkeeper Kasper Stenberg. He sat between his father, Bravenia legend Peter Stenberg, and Harrold Aron, Real’s Group Managing Director.
Europa Utd’s best matches in terms of ball possession and control over proceedings have happened when Oliver Ethan and Dylan Taylor have had one more midfielder, offensive as he might be, to work around and have an extra pass forward available. Williams and Theo Rodriguez, and not Collins, should fill that role. Even Elijah Shaw can help, but the key is to add more balance and bite to the midfield. Paradoxically, the team won’t lose scoring capabilities; in fact, and according to recent experience, they will create more chances.