Luis Rubiales

There is a tradition at AS where we try and meet up almost every Monday for lunch with representatives from a sports federation (tennis, handball, rugby etc).

AS editor Alfredo Relaño looks at the decision to host the Copa del Rey final at the Estadio Benito Villamarín and praises the move "to cut off a source of bad blood" between the clubs.

Alfredo Relaño looks at Javier Tebas' plan to take the Week 21 game between Girona and Barcelona to the United States. A project which never came to fruition.

For anyone interested in how VAR is working, I'd advise you to take time to reflect carefully on the words of Velasco Carballo, the man responsible for the system in LaLiga.

Yes, it was all a big Día de los Inocentes ruse! I hope you took it in good humour. Contrary to our fun piece yesterday, Tebas and Rubiales were not seen in any Cistercian monastery...

The big wheel of football today has Marcos Llorente sitting on top, just as it has Isco sitting at the bottom. The same could be said of Solari and Lopetegui.

A kick where it hurts. The proposed LaLiga game between Girona and Barcelona will not be staged in Miami but at Montilivi.

Although many see him as an aloof individual with a short fuse, in this instance Luis Rubiales has shown that he has a smooth touch, one that former Italian PM Mario Andreotti claimed was perennially lacking in Spanish politics.

As the Champions League group stage reaches its denouement, with Real Madrid and Barcelona into the last 16 as winners of their sections...

Next Thursday, Spain visit Croatia in Zagreb, in a game that will decide our fate in the recently rolled out Nations League...

The planned LaLiga match in Miami remains a major source of conflict between football's two main governing bodies in Spain...

Alfredo Relano looks at the talking points in Sunday's General Assembly: Real Madrid taking on debt to remodel the Santiago Bernabeu stadium and LaLiga's game in Miami.

Yesterday Luis Rubiales responded to the request from Tebas about the much discussed LaLiga match in Miami, stating his opposition to the idea.