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

UEFA: INTERNET USERS GIVE THEIR BEST 11 TEAM FOR 2009

The Internet web surfers of the UEFA page (uefa.com) have votedtheir ideal 11 team for 2009. Here is their choice, which includes 6FC BARCELONA players along with 3 REAL MADRID players:Great for Spanish Football, however do you agree? Anyone missing?

WORLD FOOTBALL: THE GAME FIXING CANCER

Is this the "new" mass threat to World Football (Soccer)?Dodgy referee decisions, intencional red cards to leave your team with less men, own goals, off-sides not called, goalkeeping mistakes...theoptions are long as "betting" money has entered as a possible factor ingame results. In Germany they are investigating up to 200 games; local,Europa League & Champions League.Game fixing is not

EUROPA LEAGUE 2009/10: SPANISH TEAMS RESULTS

Spain has three Clubs that are participating in the EUROPA LEAGUE(ex-UEFA Cup) which kicked off tonight with its Group matches.VALENCIA CF travelled to France to play LILLE in its Group B clash& has left with a bitter 1-1 draw result. Valencia had played a grandgame with MATA putting his team ahead in the 78th min. However,with 4 mins left of play a defensive error from Bruno allowed Lilleplayer

UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2009-2010 DRAW - EXTRAORDINARY MATCHES FOR SPANIARDS

The UEFA Champions League Group draw has just been held inMonaco & it has put together some extraordinary clashes where theonly winner is the Football Fan.In what concerns Spanish Teams, there are some great Club &individual clashes that may have a certain taste of revenge: FCBarcelona vs Inter Milan (Ibrahimovic vs Eto´o) & Real Madridvs AC Milan ( Kaká vs Ronaldinho).However, one can say that

FC BARCELONA DOMINATE UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE AWARD NOMINATIONS

UEFA has nominated its candidates for the Champions League2008-2009 Awards, a prize given to the Best player in eachgiven position according to the Coaches who’s team reachedthe last 16 teams of the competition. The winners will beknown on the 27th of August coinciding with the ChampionsLeague 2009-2010 Groups draw in Monaco.(photo: sport.es)FC BARCELONA dominate the list with 6 players,

EUROPA LEAGUE PRELIMINARIES 2009: YOUNG BOYS 1- ATH BILBAO 2 (VIDEO)

ATHLETIC DE BILBAO managed to pull back a 0-1 first round result& defeat YOUNG BOYS ( Switzerland) 1-2 in the second leg gameyesterday to go into the 2º round of the preliminaries of theEUROPA LEAGUE ( ex UEFA). Goals came from FERNANDO LLORENTE& 16 year old sensation MUNIAN for Bilbao & FRIMPONG for YoungBoys.

RAFAEL BENITEZ, XABI ALONSO, MASCHERANO, RIBERY, VILLA, REAL MADRID, LIVERPOOL FC, FC BARCELONA, BAYERN MUNICH...& THE "ARTICLE 17" OPTION

Not every piece of news comes out of Spain only, SFS surfs the netto read English, Italian media & when possible understand German& French media. Here is an interview from “YouTube” withLIVERPOOL FC Coach RAFAEL BENITEZ with his latest views onXABI ALONSO & JAVIER MASCHERANO both on the agendas ofReal Madrid & FC Barcelona respectively. In colloquial terms; here´swhat comes straight out of the

SFS FLASHBACKS - 2006 UEFA CUP FINAL - SEVILLA FC 4 MIDDLESBOROUGH 0

It was 2006 & the UEFA CUP Final at Eindhoven (Holland) whereSEVILLA FC faced English Club MIDDLESBOROUGH. The end resultwas a historic first ever European title for Sevilla who won 4-0with goals from LUIS FABIANO (27th), MARESCA ( 78th & 84th) &KANOUTE (89th).This was the beginning of Sevilla´s glory run in Europe with a EuropeanSuperCup victory & a return Uefa Cup Final victory the following

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2009: CHELSEA FC 1 - FC BARCELONA 1 - BARÇA GO INTO FINAL. CAN WE DEBATE THIS? RATIONALLY?

Its a UEFA conspiracy, hijacked, robbed, missed penalty 1, 2, 3, 4...none called, the worst referee ever? Chelsea FC unfairly &deliberately taken out from the Champions League? Harsh words, &Press headlines charged with bitter emotion from fans, players &English Football professionals. Reminds SFS that these same words were used by Real Madrid when Liverpool were given a penalty thatwas not ( eg

REAL MADRID WITHDRAWS ITS “SAT THREAT” & CHOOSE LASSANA DIARRA FOR CHAMPIONS

News has just come in via our local Sports daily’s (As & Marca) that REALMADRID has decided to withdraw its legal recourse from the “SAT”(Sporting Arbitrage Tribunal) in reference to the inscriptions ofHUNTELAAR & LASSANA DIARRA for this years Champions League.(courtesy of "AS")SFS wishes to recall that Real Madrid signed both players thinking they wereeligible for this years Champions League