A steady game, neither fast nor slow, a kind of ‘allegro ma non tropo’ in contrast to the moderately slow ‘andante’ of those happy years of Xavi, Iniesta and co.

A goal is like gold dust for the away team at this stage of the Champions League and for Barça last night it came as quick as the twelfth minute...

The Ballon d'Or gala brought recognition for a team player in Luka Modric; for an indefatigable midfielder...

The ten year duopoly on the Ballon d'Or has been broken by Modric, which is praise indeed for a model player who conducts the team from midfield.

I was speaking with a friend of mine yesterday about Sergio Ramos playing with the Spanish national team and it reminded me of the joke about the two Basques who went out early to pick mushrooms.

A more direct style of football, lots of goals scored from set-pieces, basketball-style blocks from high balls into the box and less of an emphasis on ...

Spain’s Tiqui-taca high-possession passing brand of football was never intended to be like this - the drawn-out, overbaked version we saw of it in Moscow on ...

Pedro Sánchez ha dedicado uno de sus primerísimos actos como presidente a visitar a la Selección, en su último día de trabajo en España

The team with the biggest budget this season in the Liga 123 was Barcelona B and their 47 million euro budget

On Monday, the Spanish Football Federation began its latest 'express' coaching course for elite ex-players at its headquarters on the outskirts of Madrid.

All players leave, taking with them a piece of that gratifying life that football gives us, but some take a larger piece than others, and Iniesta's is one of the largest.

The Golden Foot is an award presented in Monaco - under the patronage of its royal family - which has been running for a few years...

A Messi le ha costado convencer a Argentina, pero esta vez creo que lo ha logrado

The ball got rolling and the bad blood was washed away

For those of my generation, Saint-Tropez was famous for being the place where 60s sex symbol Brigitte Bardot spent her summer holidays.

Alfredo Relaño discusses Barcelona's summer signings, with Verratti a possible acquisition, and Douglas, Vermaelen, Samper, Munir returing from loan.

At the same time that the inland revenue are discovering alleged tax fraud cases in the world of football on an alarming basis, the public prosecutor ...

The capital preened itself to receive and applaud their footballing heroes last night, proud of this latest conquest.

Frédéric Hermel mentioned to me yesterday that Mbappé's arrival has provoked a collective feeling of hope never seen on this scale before...
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Echoes of Gaspart Gerard Piqué is in "campaign mode", but is still at the end of the day just a central defender at the football club although in some strange way ...

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