Badge of the Week: Real Sociedad
Located in the scenic Spanish city of San Sebastián, football was first introduced to this Basque region by British students in the early 1900s. The ga…
Tag: La Liga
Remembering Deportivo La Coruña’s glory years
RC Deportivo visited Real Madrid last weekend and came out with a sour taste in their mouths. They fell to a cruel defeat to the defending European Cha…
Unsung Heroes: Juan Manuel Lillo
Spain’s youngest ever La Liga manager, accredited with the revolution of the 4-2-3-1 and a man Pep Guardiola himself calls ‘my maestro’. Juan Manuel ‘J…
CD Leganés: The spirit of the cucumber growers
Welcome to the European capital of football, Madrid. In two of the past three seasons the final of the Champions League, has been contested by Madrid’s…
Leganés: The unlikely rise of Madrid’s minnows
Although the climax of 2015/2016’s Spanish season brought misery for many Madrileños, with both ‘club of the people’ Rayo Vallecano and local rivals Ge…
The extraordinary rise of Villarreal CF
If you watch Spanish football you will be aware Villarreal is a team that, over recent years, has proudly sat in the top echelons of La Liga. But if yo…
RCD Espanyol: Strangers In Their Own City
Imagine living on the doorstep of global footballing juggernaut and five time European champions, FC Barcelona. A daunting prospect. This is the realit…
UD Las Palmas: La Liga’s Misfits
Following their promotion from the second division last season, most pundits had Las Palmas pegged as relegation certainties. Scraping through the play…
Athletic Bilbao: A League of Their Own
Not a day seems to go by without further signs of the globalisation of football, whether it’s FC Barcelona and Manchester United trying to crack the Un…
Recreativo de Huelva: The Root of Spanish Football
On the south west coast of Spain - lies a sleepy Andalusian town by the name of Huelva. A place of such mediocrity that the ‘Rough Guide to Spain’ webs…