EUROPA LEAGUE 2009 - 2010 Q/FINAL & S/FINAL DRAW: VALENCIA CF ATLETICO DE MADRID MATCHED IN QUARTER FINAL

Source: Spanish Football Sports Blog /Straight after the Champions League draw (see above), UEFA celebrated the EUROPA LEAGUE last 8 teams match ups for their Quarter Finals & Semi Finals. The surprise, from a Spanish point of view, is the VALENCIA CF & ATLETICO DE MADRID Quarter Final draw. This guarentees at least a Spanish Team will be present in one of the semis & will meet the winner of the

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2009 - 2010 Q/FINAL & S/FINAL DRAW - FC BARCELONA WILL MEET ARSENAL

The last 8 European Football - Soccer - Teams left in this years CHAMPIONS LEAGUE were thrown into a bowl this mid-day at UEFA Headquarters & drawn out to establish the match ups for the upcoming Quarter-Finals & Semi-Finals. At this stage of the competition all teams are dangerous & full of mutual respect with some fascinating & wonderful games coming up for the Football fans.Here ( see below)

EUROPA LEAGUE 2009 - 2010: SPORTING 2 ATLETICO DE MADRID 2 - ATLETICO TO Q/FINAL (WATCH VIDEO AGUERO GOALS)

Source: Spanish Football Sports Blog /Spanish Football - Soccer - has two representatives in tomorrows EUROPA LEAGUE Quarter Finals draw, after ATLETICO DE MADRID managed to qualify & join Valencia CF who qualified as well earlier tonight with their game in Germany. The final score was a 2-2 draw ( 2-2 agg, with away goal advantage) with the Lisbon team SPORTING putting up a great match & had

EUROPA LEAGUE 2009-2010: WERDER BREMEN 4 - VALENCIA CF 4 - VALENCIA TO QUARTER FINAL & VILLA HAT-TRICK (WATCH VIDEO)

Source: Spanish Football Sports Blog /Fantastic return game in the EUROPA LEAGUE between WERDER BREMEN & VALENCIA CF with the game starting with a 1-1 aggregate from the home leg game. However, this match had more opportunities, more goals & was a real cliff hanger until the end as it finished in a 4-4 draw (5-5 agg), but with Valencia scoring away they managed to qualify & go through to the

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE LAST 16 RESULT: FC BARCELONA 4 - STUTTGART 0 (WATCH VIDEO OF MESSI GOALS)

Source: Spanish Football Sports Blog /Spanish Football - Soccer - secured a representative for the Quarter Finales of the CHAMPIONS LEAGUE after the current European Champions FC BARCELONA defeated in a very comfortable fashion 4-0 the German side STUTTGART ( 5-1 agg) in the return leg at the "Camp Nou" . The star of the game was LIONEL MESSI, who along with his partner "in crime" Dani Alves,

EUROPA LEAGUE LAST 16 PHASE - 1º LEG: ATLETICO DE MADRID 0 - SPORTING PORTUGAL 0 / VALENCIA CF 1 - WERDER BREMEN 1

Two Spanish sides participated tonight in the last 16 team phase of the EUROPA LEAGUE with similiar results & unfortunate overall lack of goal definition.(photo:Aguero_elmundo_efe)ATLETICO DE MADRID complicated itself & the return leg game after allowing SPORTING DE PORTUGAL "off the hook" with a 0-0 draw. The Portuguese team started strong with Liedson hitting the bar in the 27th min, but in the

REAL MADRID CF - THE SPIRIT OF 1960

Real Madrid 1960 Team: Standing left - right: Domínguez, Marquitos, Santamaría, Pachín, Vidal y Zárraga; Below left - right: Canario, Del Sol, Di Stéfano, Puskas y Gento with the 5th straight European CupTomorrow REAL MADRID CF will attempt to turn around a very difficult CHAMPIONS LEAGUE return tie against French team OLYMPIQUE LYON. The French won the home leg 1-0 & Madrid has to make sure that

REAL MADRID 2009 / 2010 TEAM: BREAKING GOAL SCORING STATISTICS

This seasons REAL MADRID team is a "goal scoring machine", a term that in Football jargon best describes their goal scoring rate. Currently the highest scoring team of all the European Teams & of "La Liga" sides, this seasons Madrid squad is on course to break the magical 1985 side in goal scoring numbers. Here is a VIDEO that explains nicely the statistics:

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 1º LEG QUARTER FINAL 2010: OLYMPIQUE LYON 1 - REAL MADRID 0 (VIDEO)

The "curse" of the Lyon "Stade Gerland" continues to haunt REALMADRID who were defeated 1-0 by OLYMPIQUE LYON. In fact,the French win is well deserved as the local team put in a veryserious, disciplined & well organized game that "chocked" RealMadrid with intense pressure with every Spanish move. The Frenchdid not show any shyness & planted a well studied strategic plan thatpayed off for them

SFS FLASHBACKS: LYON 3 - REAL MADRID 0 (SEASON 2005/2006)

Before the Real Madrid readers of SFS throw their arms in theair & unjustly claim that this blog is anti- Real (something that isrejected categorically), the fact of the matter is that OLYMPIQUEDE LYON & its home ground, Stade Gerland, has not been historicallygood news at all for REAL MADRID. The truth is that the lastencounters between these two Clubs in France has ended with theFrench Club

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2009-2010: SPANISH TEAMS RELATIVELY LUCKY

The CHAMPIONS LEAGUE draw held today for the last 16 teams gave the following match ups with games scheduled to begin againthe 16th of Feb 2010.(courtesy from Sport.es)As you can see, out of the three Spanish Clubs in the draw REAL MADRIDwas matched with the "more difficult" team being Olympiquede Lyon. This is relative as every team in todays draw has had to eliminate other Clubs to get here

12 SPANISH PLAYERS CANDIDATES FOR "ONZE" TOP 11 TEAM 2009 (FULL LIST)

The French Football Magazine “Onze” has made public the 57candidates in which the public can vote to make up the “ideal”11 Team for 2009, Best Player for 2009 & Best Coach 2009.The notable news is that six REAL MADRID & up to 10FC BARCELONA players are included in the list, includingGuardiola as “Best Coach”. The number of Spanish born playersamount to an impressive 12 players.Voting is open till

FOOTBALL FINANCE: TOP 20 SPENDING CLUBS 2009-2010

The Website “Futebol Finance”, a Portuguese portal that specializeson Football Finance issues, has publish this season transfer Top 20European spending Clubs.SFS thought it might be of interest to its readers & visitors. Yes, westill are all undergoing a World Wide Economic Crisis…The 20 clubs that have invested in players 2009/2010:Real Madrid / Spain - € 257,400,000Manchester City England - €

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2009-2010: FC ZURICH 2 - REAL MADRID 5 & ATLETICO DE MADRID 0 - APOEL 0 (SEE VIDEO)

Two Spanish Teams, REAL MADRID & ATLETICO DE MADRID beganthe long & difficult road to attempt to qualify in their respectiveGroups & if possible go all the way to the CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Finalin Madrid next year.REAL MADRID started well winning 2-5 FC ZURICH in a difficult &complicated match against a very aggressive & switched on SwissTeam. In fact the Swiss started strong making Real Madrid

FOOTBALL FINANCE: TRANSFER MARKET UPDATE - REAL MADRID, FC BARCELONA, DAVID VILLA, RIBERY, XABI ALONSO...

REAL MADRID is suffering from its initial success in the transfermarket, dragging along everyone else in this globalized planet.At every door Real Madrid goes knocking to ask for a price theonly answers they receive are inflated figures that lead themrunning away. There is an entrenched idea that the Spanish Clubhas clear publicized necessities & that to achieve them they arewilling to pay

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FINAL 2009: SFS BECOMES A BARÇA FAN TONIGHT!

(courtesy of marca.com)SFS becomes a FC BARCELONA fans & will roar on the "Cules" against MANCHESTER UNITED in tonights final of the CHAMPIONSLEAGUE - European Cup - FINAL at Rome (Italy).Barça has the opportunity to add to its collection one of thesebeautiful Cups (see below) - a 3ºrd if successful - to its collection,& in so doing make Spanish Football History as being the first everClub to win

EVERYTHING READY FOR FC BARCELONA - MANCHESTER UNITED CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FINAL 2009

Tomorrow night we will finally know who will be the EuropeanChampion after FC BARCELONA & MANCHESTER UNITED clash atthe “Olimpico Stadium” at Rome (Italy). It’s the perfect final forthe universal Football (Soccer) fan that should supply plenty of action& lots of goals with a bit of nail bitting thrown in as well.Here is a clip from local TV station “Cuarto” on the arrival ofBarcelona today at

EUROPEAN FOOTBALL: FC BARCELONA vs ENGLISH FOOTBALL

An interesting column has appeared today in the local daily “Marca” titled
“FC Barcelona against England”. It makes reference to the fact that
English Football has managed to place three Clubs out of 4 in the Semi-Finals
of the Champions League. Spanish Football long considered as the “Best
Football League” in Europe has only managed to get one of its teams into the
Semis that being FC BARCELONA