Football Champions

SPANISH FOOTBALL Club ATLETICO DE MADRID won the UEFA SUPER CUP 1 - 4 over the European Champions CHELSEA FC. Spectacular performance from the Spaniards who put in an almost perfect match with forward FALCAO being the main star (MVP).



Falcao

The Colombian used the "World stage" to show that he is one of - if not - the Best Center Forwards on the planet with a HAT-TRICK & three posts. Pure

The UEFA Europa League 2012 Group draw has been celebrated in Monaco today & this is how the Clubs have been placed in their Groups. Spain has three Clubs in the Europa League: Atletico de Madrid, Athletic Club Bilbao & Levente

Below is a summary from Spanish Sports paper "AS" in Spanish but easily understood.



Courtest of "AS": Europa League Draw 2012



GRUPO A:
Liverpool (ING)
Udinese (ITA)

UEFA has announced tonight that FC BARCELONA & Spanish International ANDRES INIESTA is the winner of the "UEFA Best European Player" season 2011 - 2012. The Spaniard won ahead of team-mate Lionel Messi & Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo, to be awarded possibly Iniesta´s biggest individual prize to date.The players Euro 2012 performance was determinate as he won the MVP of that tournament & 

The Groups draw for CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2012-2013 has been celebrated in Monaco with all the candidate - teams placed in their corresponding Groups according to luck & perhaps fate. Four Spanish Football Clubs were present, REAL MADRID, FC BARCELONA, VALENCIA CF & MALAGA, this last an Historical event for the Club.
The draw resulted tough particularly for Real Madrid that got placed in Group D along

Historical. Spanish Football Club MALAGA has qualified itself for the first time in its History for the CHAMPIONS LEAGUE. The first round score of 2 - 0 was sufficient for Malaga after drawing tonight 0 - 0 away in the 2º leg return match to Greek Club PANATHINAIKOS.



Joaquin - Malaga


The 2º leg was relatively dominated from start to finish by the Spaniards with the Greeks having some timid

UEFA has revealed its list of 32 players elegible to be prized the "Best European - based - Player" for season 2011-2012. Seven players on the candidate list are from REAL MADRID & four are from FC BARCELONA. Apart from Clubs their are nine Spanish born Football Players, including the now veteran Raul Gonzalez.On the 14th of August UEFA will announce the three finalists after 53 associations of

SPAIN keeps up with its winning ways in European Football claiming the U-19 EUROPEAN TITLE after defeating GREECE 1 - 0 in the Final. Extraordinary year for Spanish Football at all levels, with the Female Spanish U-19 team nearly winning their U-19 Final yesterday against Sweden ( lost 0 - 1 extra-time) which would have put the cherry on the cake.



Jese for Spain

Take note of these names as

Found this interesting info-diagram with some statistics about the EURO 2012 competition. Plenty of Spanish Football Players in representation, but it has a bit on all the teams & thus enters the realm of World Football interest for all fans.Hope you enjoy!



Euro 2012 statistics

The "inventors" ( back in 1956 ) of the "Golden Ball Award ", France Football, has come out publicly today to defend Spanish National Team Goalkeeper IKER CASILLAS & let drop that perhaps it is time that the Spanish Captain receive the Award.The accolades have been close to perfect for any Football professional: "...for  the breathe of his work & the length of permanence at at the Top, but for

SPAIN has made Football History after defending & winning ( retaining ) the 2012 EUROPEAN NATIONS CUP 4 - 0 against ITALY in the Final.Never before has a team (nation) won the "triple crown" : Euro 2008- Fifa World Cup 2010 & now Euro 2012. The below team pictured as the starting 11 has managed to shut many mouths - happily mine as well - throwing into the rubbish bin criticisms about internal

SPAIN will attempt tonight to win back-to-back European Nations Cup titles & thus create History as the only National squad to win Euro (2008) - World Cup (2010) - Euro (2012). If they can manage to defeat the difficult & inform ITALY in tonight's FINAL this SPANISH FOOTBALL NATIONAL TEAM will certainly go down as the "Greatest Football Team in History" overtaking the unbelievable 1970 Brazil

Approximately around 21 days back SPAIN & ITALY played the opener of the Group C match of the EURO 2012 Championship. It finished in a 1 - 1 draw result & the starting line-up team photos of the game & of both countries are below.




Spain 2012


This Sunday both again will meet but this time in the Final in the city of Kiev to determine who will be the 2012 European Nations Champions.



Italy

A cliff hanger, the first semi-final of the EURO 2012 went into extra-time & ended going into a penalty shoot-out that SPAIN won 0 (4) - PORTUGAL 0 (2) & thus qualifies itself for the next Sunday Final were they will defend their European title won back in 2008. 



Negredo


Spain again surprised everyone with a Centre Forward that was not Torres, but ALVARO NEGREDO from the start. The tactic

Big day in European Football with the first semi-final of the 2012 Euro Championship scheduled tonight. World & current Euro Champs SPAIN play neighbours PORTUGAL which has grown in strength & form as they have progressed. The star player for Portugal, Cristiano Ronaldo has also lifted a few gears & is clearly the main danger for the Spanish defense, but not the only. Said all this, the SPANISH

Less than 24 hours away from tomorrows first EURO 2012 semi-final between PORTUGAL - SPAIN. Plenty of respect between both sides & many weary of the "big" players - Cristiano Ronaldo, Iniesta, Nani, Silva etc - & how to counter-balance their possible dangers. 

Portugal won Spain 4 - 0 in Lisbon last time they met in an International friendly match, so the memory is still fresh. The other news

Found this SPAIN FOOTBALL TEAM photo. Its a historical photo because its the Spanish Football Team starting 11 line-up that defeat France 2 - 0 for the first time in a official game yesterday in the quarter-final of the 2012 Euro. 



Spain starting 11 vs France (Euro 2012)


Top: Left to Right:Casillas, Arbeloa, Xabi Alonso, Sergio Ramos, Sergi Busquets & Gerard Pique.
Bottom: Left to Right:

SPAIN finally defeated FRANCE in an official game of Football 2 - 0 in the quarter-final of the 2012 EURO. The reigning European & World Champions move on to meet next Wednesday Portugal in the semi-final.



Cesc Fabregas

Spanish Football Team Coach Del Bosque repeated with the same starting line-up as with Italy, that is,  without a true forward. CESC FABRAGAS, winning the name of  "False

SPAIN has never beaten FRANCE in an official Football match. Tonight in the EURO 2012 quarter-final the SPANISH FOOTBALL TEAM has another chance to break that record when the meet France. In fact, Spain must break this historical talking piece & win if they are not to pack their bags & fly back home tomorrow.



Possible starting line-ups Spain-France

The news locally, as always, is the  SPANISH

SPAIN has finished on top of  Group C after narrowly defeating CROATIA 0 - 1 in a result that in itself eliminates Croatia & allows Italy through on second spot after the Italians won 2 - 0 Ireland.The SPAIN FOOTBALL TEAM will now play with the second placed of Group D that will be settled tomorrow & that could be either France or England.



Spain Football Team photo


The above photo is the

The SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM plays another important match tomorrow against CROATIA in the last Group C match. A win will give Spain top spot & a draw will also qualify them, however a loss could be a disaster. This last scenario is a real possibility as the Croatian National team has shown already that they do have the potential to go a long way in this tournament, Spain should however get