Alfredo Relaño takes a look at France Football's decision to award this year's Ballon d'Or to a team of the best ever with the normal prize suspended for Covid-19.

Real Madrid's victory over Valencia and the association between Hazard and Benzema show that Zinedine Zidane's side remain in the title race.

Alfredo Relaño analyses the role of the football player during his time at a club, motivated by the recent situation at FC Barcelona

Alfredo Relaño looks ahead to another instalment of the Copa del Rey as we reach the Round of 16 stage of the competition and previews the game in Zaragoza.

'Informe Robinson', a Spanish sports documentary series hosted by TV pundit Michael Robinson, is always excellent. But I have found his recent look back on Real Madrid's 'Quinta del Buitre' particularly good...

AS journalist and No. 1 Real Madrid fan Tomás Roncero picks his line-up of Los Blancos' most influential performers against Barcelona.

Messi celebrated his sixth Ballon d'Or with a hat trick in front of an ecstatic home crowd. In LaLiga alone, Messi now has scored 35 hat tricks, notes Alfredo Relaño.

The Ballon d’Or was created by journalists, just as the European Cup - today’s Champions League - was, and came into existence in 1956 as an accompaniment to the competition.

Galatasaray were not able to withstand Rodrygo for long; the Real Madrid youngster had scored twice before seven minutes had elapsed in the Bernabéu on Wednesday ...

A Barcelona supporting friend of mine claimed on Saturday: "These performances from Ansu Fati won't be long in curing Messi's injury"...

Tomás Roncero discusses Zinedine Zidane's reluctance to embrace youth at Real Madrid, and is particularly unhappy at his cautious approach to blooding Takefusa Kubo.

There is no longer any doubt: Messi finding success with Argentina is becoming an even taller order, writes Alfredo Relaño.

‘El día del arquero’ (Goalkeepers' Day) was a long-standing Argentinian expression that was synonymous with 'never'.

Watching Barça’s spectacular fall at Anfield on Tuesday, I remembered the other times they have crumpled in the Champions League: the 4-0 defeat to PSG, the 3-0 defeats in both Turin and Rome.

After Tuesday evening's 4-1 Champions League humbling by Ajax, which brought Real Madrid's European reign to a close after a total of 1,011 days...

One hundred days is generally accepted as a reasonable bedding-in time for politicians when they accept a new role and has been deemed enough time for the rest of us to see intentions and working methodology.

The first time I heard talk of the European dry spell Real Madrid endured between their domination of yesteryear and their more recent success was...

Alfredo Relaño previews a weekend crowned by Sunday's Copa Liberadores final between River Plate and Boca Juniors which will be played here in Madrid.

After 13 matches, Sevilla sit top of LaLiga. Thirteen games make up a third of the season, we would say that's enough time for teams to have shown each other their hands.

These two fixtures will serve as fitting curtain raisers before Wednesday night's UEFA Super Cup clash.