La Liga’s week twenty team of the week from goal.com. What do you think? Any surprises? GOALKEEPER Carlos Kameni (Espanyol) Espanyol might not have beaten Valladolid on Sunday, but it could have been a lot worse, had it not been for Kameni. The Cameroonian goalkeeper made a host of great saves throughout the match, denying […]
Premier League
Barcelona FC extended their lead at the Spanish Liga summit to 15 points with a 4-1 win against CD Numancia, the side they lost to on the opening day of the season. Despite creating plenty of chances in the first half, Barcelona could not find a way through a spirited Numancia outfit who are the […]
UEFA has announced its team of 2008 and UEFA EURO 2008 winners Spain dominated the selection. More than 3.3 million votes were cast by about 256,000 users, whose resulting dream team features six members of the Spain side that conquered Europe last summer. Iker Casillas is the goalkeeper, playing behind two international team-mates in right-back […]
Interesting article in the Guardian Newspaper about how Spanish soccer faces the real prospect of financial collapse. Jose Maria Gay, a professor at the University of Barcelona, spent the second half of last year analyzing the 2006/07 accounts of the 20 clubs in the top flight and concluded that only five Primera Liga teams, including Real […]
Newcastle United quietly released their financial numbers for the last twelve months yesterday and it did not make for pretty reading as Mike Ashley suffered losses of £34 million in his first 12 months as club owner. Newcastle’s revenues for the twelve months were an impressive £100 million. The big problem is that Newcastle spent […]
Interesting article in the Guardian Newspaper about how Spanish soccer faces the real prospect of financial collapse. Jose Maria Gay, a professor at the University of Barcelona, spent the second half of last year analyzing the 2006/07 accounts of the 20 clubs in the top flight and concluded that only five Primera Liga teams, including Real […]
In an entertaining match at the Mestalla, Valencia came from 2-1 down to defeat Sevilla 3-2 in the first leg of their Copa del Rey quarter-final. David Villa opened the scoring for the hosts on five minutes after pouncing on Adriano Correira’s mis-placed back-pass but Sevilla hit back after the break with goals from Luis […]
The Sun has an interesting article about the financial relationship between Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the father of Manchester City owner Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and Italian Prime Minister and AC Milan owner Silvio Berlusconi. Following his death at 86 in 2004, his son Khalifa, Sheikh Mansour’s brother, took charge of the […]