SPANISH FOOTBALL | USA TV SHARE 2018

Found this interesting infographic (below) which highlights how Soccer (Football, in Europe) is growing in the United States. It is already well know that the major European Football Leagues (La Liga, Premier; Serie A ...etc) have put their focus onto the US market & are actively promoting & doing marketing to gain a further foothold.

Most European Leagues do their pre-season in the United States & play numerous matches. Spanish Football via La Liga is attempting to translate one of its official matches over to Miami-USA, but still has not convinced locally the Spanish Football Federation & FIFA. However, it will be a matter of time before they give their approval. 

Lastly, good to see the TV popularity of the Spanish Football Teams in the US.

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REAL MADRID PRE-SEASON GAMES & MATCHES CALENDAR

Real Madrid left Spain today for Los Angeles USA to continue with their pre-season & to play some interesting quality Friendly matches that make up part of the 2º edition of the "International Champions Cup". There the Spanish Football Club will play teams like Inter Milan, AC Roma & Manchester United, plus hook up with the remaining squad players current on summer vacation after their World Cup participation or recently signed.

REAL MADRID Pre-season dates & matches:

27th of July: Real Madrid - Inter de Milan (Berkeley, USA)
30th of July: Real Madrid - AC Roma (Dallas, USA)
2nd de August: Real Madrid - Manchester United (Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA)
5th of August: TBC if Real Madrid makes the Final (Miami USA) (2º edi. "Internationals Champions Cup")

12th of August: Real Madrid - Sevilla FC (UEFA European SuperCup de Europa /Cardiff, Wales)

16th of August: Real Madrid - Fiorentina (Warsaw, Poland)

20th of Ausgust: Atletico de Madrid - Real Madrid (Spanish SuperCup /away)
27th of August : Real Madrid - Atletico de Madrid (Spanish SuperCup /return)

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REAL MADRID CF | USA TOUR PRE-SEASON SUMMER DATES - GAMES SCHEDULE 2013

Spanish Football Sports has many US readers & I thought they may wish to know the pre-season Real Madrid USA Tour dates with matches. Its the fourth year in a row that Real Madrid CF fly off to the US for their pre-season & in the process meet up with other local & European Clubs to play games. This year there will be the "Champions Cup Tournament" where Real Madrid is one of many,  & then Real Madrid will add a couple of Friendly games before flying back home.

The Spanish Internationals competing in the FIFA Confederations Cup will join the squad around the 24th of July & may fly from Madrid or go directly to Los Angeles where the touch base camp will be the Los Angeles UCLA installations. 

Proposed schedule:

US "Champions Cup Tournament", apart from Real Madrid other Clubs that will participate are Milan, Juventus, Inter de Milan, Chelsea, Everton, LA Galaxy y Valencia. Tournament dates 27th of July - 7th of August 

Below is the calendar (schedule) with TBC being due to the results of the other teams in the tournament.

Real Madrid - LA Galaxy,  Phoenix 1st August (19:30 local)
Real Madrid - Everton or Juventus, Los Angeles 3rd of August  (17:00 local)
Real Madrid - (TBC),  Miami 6th or 7th of August Team TBC (18:30 or 21:00 local)

Real Madrid - Inter de Milan,  Saint Louis 10th of August (13:00 local) - Friendly match

So if you live or are travelling to either Phoenix, Los Angeles, Miami or St Louis, you may wish to see some great pre-season Soccer.

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SPAIN 2 HAITI 1 | INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLY GAME RESULT

The Spanish Football National Team took the road today towards the FIFA Confederations Cup tournament in Brazil with the first of the two International Friendly matches scheduled in the United States.

The current FIFA World & Euro Champions faced Haiti in Miami to win 2 - 1 in a match that was more a warm-up & "back to basics" affair for Spain, while Haiti had a chance to win some Football pride & give some joy to their countrymen back home who have had it hard in recent years. Apart the match helped raise funds for the Haitian people & to build up Football infrastructure back home.

Spain went into the game with a starting 11 that went on changing as things advanced so most in the the 23 man squad could get a run & a touch of the ball. The main news was that goalkeeper Casillas was back under the posts after nearly 5 months sidelined. 

The goals for Spain came in the first half with Cazorla scoring in the 8th min & Cesc Fabregas heading in the 19th min. From here onwards & with the changes made Spain relaxed in their game & reduced the intensity. Although Spain hit the post twice in the second half & had more chances, Haiti took advantage of the Spanish "lapses" & managed to score a "historic" goal in the 55th min via Guerrier.

The main conclusion that can be made today is that some Spanish Internationals are "soft" & need to improve their concentration if they are to fair well in the upcoming Confederations Cup tournament. Their next scheduled Friendly International will be on the 11th of June in New York against the Republic of Ireland & hopefully this will further serve to build up & focus the Spanish Football Team for what is to come ahead in Brazil.

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REAL MADRID PRE-SEASON 2013 SCHEDULE | USA VISIT

Spanish Soccer - Football Club Real Madrid has let know its 2013 pre-season schedule. Spanish Football Sports has lots of American readers & friends & there is a good part of the pre-season that is down for the US. I thought that it may interest in case your in the planned US cities & wish to visit to see your favourite Football stars.

Apart from the US , Turkey & Sweden will also be part of the pre-season tour. Below is a map down by Spanish Sports paper "Marca".

The pre-season tour kicks off July 22 in Turkey ( Istanbul ) with a friendly against Galatasaray & another in the same city against a still to be announced German or English Club.

It is then off to Sweden & the city of Gotenberg on the 27th of July for a Friendly match against Paris St Germain. After this they fly off the US to Los Angeles for the now traditional UCLA Campus pre-season sessions. 

On the 1st of August Real Madrid has a Friendly match in Los Angeles, followed by another in Phoenix on the 4th of August, Washington on the 7th of August & Miami on the 11th of August to then fly back to Madrid ( Spain).

There you have it. You may have Real Madrid in your town. If not you may want to pass by.

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INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLY | SPAIN vs REP. IRELAND IN NEW YORK ON JUNE

This is good news for the American readers of Spanish Football Sports & for those that live in the New York area. The Spain National Soccer Team with play the Republic of Ireland in an International Friendly match on the 11th of June 2013. This is part of the warm-up phase of games that Spain has scheduled before travelling off to Brazil to contest the Confederations Cup tournament.

The meeting between both National Football teams will be at the famous "Yankee Stadium" at 20.00 hours local time.

So if you are a New Yorker, from a surrounding city ( e.g. Boston etc. ) or your travelling to NYC around that date put it down on your calendar or agenda. Great match of Football will be assured, plus great opportunity to see all the Spanish Soccer stars close up.

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SPANISH FOOTBALL TEAM USA JUNE FRIENDLY GAMES DATES

This is news for the Spanish Football Sports readers from the United States. The Spanish National Team will play two warm-up International Friendly matches in the US before travelling off to Brazil for the FIFA Confederations Cup tournament. The first game will be against Haiti in the City of Miami on the 6th of June. The second match will be in New York City against Northern Ireland the 11th of June.

If your in any of the cities you may wish to drop by & support the Spanish Football Team. 

Spain will commence its games in the Confederation Cup against Uruguay in the Brazilian city of Recife. Then Spain will meet Tahiti in Rio de Janeiro & later Nigeria on the 23rd of June in Fortaleza.

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REAL MADRID US TOUR 2012 PRE-SEASON

Spanish Football Club REAL MADRID flys off today to the United States for its pre-season overseas tour. The whole team, Kaka & Sahin included & the Internationals,  will be in Los Angeles tomorrow except Carvalho who stays in Madrid to clear up this future. 

Real Madrid will train on the UCLA Campus grounds & play four friendly matches:
2nd of August Los Angeles Galaxy
5th of August Santos Laguna ( Las Vegas)
8th of August AC Milan ( New York )
11th of August Celtic Glasgow ( Philadelphia )


The four matches have been titled the "World Football Challenge"


Good news for all the American readers of Spanish Football Sports which will have a chance to see Real Madrid. Hope its close to your town.

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REAL MADRID PRE-SEASON US TOUR

The United States is one of the main sources of web traffic for Spanish Football Sports & I receive plenty of emails from American readers & "football friends" asking about Spanish Football. With this in mind I thought I post up the REAL MADRID pre-season US Tour & the scheduled exhibition matches that are being negotiated to take place. Hopefully you live in one of the cities mentioned & will have a chance to go & watch Real Madrid in action.

Real Madrid - Ac Milan

Proposed schedule:
2-8-12 LA Galaxy - Real Madrid - Carson (California)
5-8-12 Real Madrid - Juventus FC - Las Vegas (Nevada)
8-8-12 Real Madrid - AC Milan - Nueva York
11-8-12 Real Madrid - Celtic FC - Philadelphia.

Same great games being negotiated with some excellent teams. As always check first locally to see if they are 100% shut & if so be sure to be at the stadium.

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FC BARCELONA WINS 2 - 0 AMERICA IN FRIENDLY GAME | US TOUR 2011

FC BARCELONA has wrapped up its pre-season US Tour with a 2 - 0 victory over Mexican club AMERICA. The Barça starting line-up was the following:


Valdés; Adriano, Busquets, Piqué, Abidal; Keita, Xavi, Iniesta, Thiago, Pedro & Villa;

a team that looked more like a Champions League clash line-up than a pre-season friendly. The only players missing here & those still on their break like Mascherano, Alves, Messi & new signing Sanchez. 


One can suppose that Guardiola wants to lift the intensity & is already looking ahead to next weeks 1º leg Spanish Super Cup game against Real Madrid. Although no one has admitted it, winning the Spanish Super Cup will give the winning Team an important "psychological" edge that Barça dearly wants along with its long time rival who definitely will be looking for it as well.

David Villa: FC Barcelona 2011

Having said this, & seeing that Barça was today the relative dominating team, the 2 - 0 scoreline does not give that all inspiring lift in spirits when compared to the 7 straight pre-season wins of Real Madrid & with high scoring results they managed along with their victories.

DAVID VILLA scored again for Barcelona in the 23rd min with a good header & one can assume that he is evolving favourably during the pre-season, along with new Spanish International call up midfielder Thiago. KEITA managed the second goal in the 91st min after a hard worked second half were things failed to "flow" as normal. But a win is a win & the shoreline is respectable enough to limit local press & media speculations & questions on the form of the Barça team.

Therefore, the conclusion is that Guardiola will be glad to get back to Barcelona were he can prepare properly his team away from promotional & marketing distractions, not to mention, the extreme heat conditions of the US summer. Barça has some work to do if they are to equal the level of Real Madrid who look a few notches higher in preparation. Said this, for Guardiola its a common problem he has suffered in past pre-seasons with "distractions" & late incorporations that has halted his build up plans,  & has always started the new season slightly less than optimal to later run-over all opponents.


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FC BARCELONA 1 - MANCHESTER UNITED 2 | USA PRE-SEASON FRIENDLY GAME

FC BARCELONA lost 1 - 2 their Friendly game against MANCHESTER UNITED this morning ( Sp time ) in some sweltering & humid conditions in Washington (USA). However this was not a replay of the last Champions League Final in which Barça won, far from it, as Barça put on the field up to nine youngsters from their lower levels. This compared to Manchester United who virtually had all their big guns on the field

Thiago & Anderson

From the Spaniards point of view, the highlight was again young midfielder THIAGO who scored Barça´s only goal in spectacular fashion in the 71st min to draw the match at that stage. However OWEN got the winner for United in the 75th min, when NANI earlier in the 21 st min opened the scoring for the "Reds", both were counter-attacks.


Not all bad for Barcelona from this pre-season result, Thiago continues tantalizing & the rest of the Barça youngsters keep acquiring experience at the top level. Coach Guardiola was fairly pleased with the players efforts during the game.
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REAL MADRID DEFEATS CHIVAS 0 - 3 IN FRIENDLY | CRISTIANO RONALDO HAT-TRICK

REAL MADRID played its second "friendly"  pre-season game as part of their self proclaimed "US Tour", & defeated 0 - 3 Mexican Club CHIVAS DE GUADALAJARA. The game had one dominant player, CRISTIANO RONALDO, who scored a HAT TRICK. That is, in a space of 10 mins, the Portuguese player scored three goals.

Cristiano Ronaldo 2011

The game was beamed into Spain in an awkward hour - 5.00am - which limited the viewers included myself who preferrred to score goals in bed. But seen the highlights, Ronaldo took this game - as every game he plays - as if it was his last, with a super competition attitude that shows his win-win - win spirit.

Young French defender VARANE showed his class & impressed in the first half, while Callejón again looked good, with Coentrao.

Good match to analyse how Real Madrid is evolving for Coach Mourinho, who should be relatively happy with how the new incorporations are evolving & performing. 


Details:
Chivas Guadalajara – 0 : Luis Michel; Esparza, Reynoso (Margallón, 54'), Medina (Gallardo, 67'), De Luna; Araujo, Mejía; Fabián (Jesús Sánchez, 78'), Ponce (Ledesma, 74'); Medina (Nava, 83') & Arellano (Antonio Salazar, 78').


Real Madrid – 3 : Adán (Casillas, 46'); Arbeloa (Nacho, 46'), Varane (Albiol, 46'), Carvalho (Pepe, 46'), Marcelo (Casado, 82'); Coentrao, Granero, Kaká (Callejón, 46'), Özil (Joselu, 82'); Benzema (Jesé, 78') & Cristiano.


Goals: 0-1 (72'): Ronaldo. 0-2 (75'): Ronaldo, penalty. 0-3 (81'): Cristiano
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REAL MADRID PRE - SEASON 2011 SUMMER WORLD TOUR

Real Madrid 2011
SPANISH FOOTBALL Club REAL MADRID started on Monday ( yesterday ) their pre-season & flew off immediately to Los Angeles (USA) to begin their training sessions . Four players stayed back in Madrid that indicate the Coach Jose Mourinho does not count with them for 2011-2012; Pedro Leon, Sergio Canales (also with U-20 Spain duties), Drenthe & Lass Diarra.

Said this what it also signals is an intense couple of weeks of Friendly games & travelling that the actual Club has called the Real Madrid World Tour 2011. The Club Marketing Department has whipped up this video below to advertise their upcoming Friedly matches in the US , Europe & in Asia (China).

Although the video is a bit pretentious & at times "over the top", it is true to the marketing  policy of the Club & does do its work in informing fans across the World about dates & cities that the Spanish Football Club will be attending. With this last bit in mind & knowing that this site receives a big number of readers from USA & China I though I put on the video as an informative piece. Hope the team lands soon in your city.

For the FC Barcelona fans their team starts pre-season next Monday.
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USA 0 SPAIN 4 | INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL FRIENDLY RESULT

The World Football - Soccer Champions SPAIN defeated USA in a International Friendly at Boston (USA) 0 - 4 in their first game of a two match Spanish Football National Team tour that takes them onto Venezuela next week.  

Spanish Football International Cazorla scored twice

The match was played on an awkward surface with natural grass placed on top of the habitual artificial surface which made it uncomfortble to play the ball as it did not bounce. Said this, both teams adapted perfectly, especially Spain which made it look like there was never any "technical" problems at all.  Spanish Coach Del Bosque said before the match that everyone would get a run & players who normally dont start began the match in the starting line-up like Reina, Negredo, Silva...with Valero, Torres, Casillas.. etc all rotating through the match. 

Spain was dominant all the game, but more so in the first half that saw three goals.

Tough midfield USA-Spain International Friendly

Spanish midfielder SANTI CAZORLA scored two tonight in the 27th & 40th min, along with ALVARO NEGREDO in the 31st . The latter hit the cross-bar before he scored & David Villa shaved the post to highlight total control from the Spanairds.

Negredo scores for Spain

The second half was not so intense for the Spanish side as the constant changes halted the momentum of the team throughout the 45 minutes. Spain did score another goal thanks to FERNANDO TORRES in the 73rd min, who broke a 9 month "goal drought" with the Spanish National Football Team. Torres, just as his team-mate in the first half Negredo, also hit the "wood work" denying him & Spain a goal.

Comfortable win from Spain as expected from the World Champions, with entertainment, great skillfull Football-Soccer & everyone happy with the opportunity to see the best Football players in the World in the USA.

Now Spain goes off to Venzuela to play their last International Friendly before the summer break.


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LIONEL MESSI | TWO GOALS IN ONE TRICK | VIDEO

Here is a video of LIONEL MESSI training with Argentina during last weeks tour of the Americas, in this particular case, training in the United States. Here the FC Barcelona player does one of his party tricks "scoring twice" with one shot. Its just a curiosity for all the Messi fans :O)

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VIDEO | HOW AMERICAN TV PROMOTES EL CLASICO - FC BARECLONA vs. REAL MADRID

This is how American TV Sports Channel ESPN promotes the big Spanish League - Liga Round 13 clash next Monday between FC BARCELONA - REAL MADRID, locally termed "El Clasico":



Not bad at all except ( my opinion) the too obvious stereotype use of the Spanish dance  "Flamenco". However I won´t be too harsh on them as we here would have used a giant Hot Dog or a Hamburger to promote the Superbowl. I hope not too many Americans tune in thinking they are about to witness a real full on Flamenco event :O) Tweet

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FIFA WORLD CUP 2010 | 32 TEAMS | GROUP C

Original Source Blog : Sp Ftball Sprts /
Spanish Football Sports Blog continues today will its daily serving of FIFA WORLD CUP 2010 32 Nations team photos. On Wednesday Group A was posted & yesterday Group B which can be viewed below. Today Group C ( England, Algeria, Slovenia & USA) team photos get highlighted with tomorrow Group D.

GROUP C

ENGLAND

ALGERIA
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

SLOVENIA

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U/17 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2009:SPAIN 2-USA 1

The Spanish U-17 National Team got of to a good start against USA
with a well fought 2-1 victory in the U/17 World Championship
Group E opener being held in Nigeria. The match had to be stopped
twice due to cuts in the power that shut the lights, this added 15 mins
more of "tension" to the official 90 minutes.



















The win was full of merit & praise for the Spaniards who found
themselves down with 10 men from the 2ºnd minute after Sergi
Gomez received a red card. The Spanish team then received the
first goal from USA two minutes later when MCINERMEY scored.
Spain did not lose their composure & managed to regain control
the game with goals from BORJA in the 22nd min & SARABIA in
the 30th min, to hold out the Americans for the rest of the game.

BRIEF DETAILS:
Spain 2: Edgar; Dalmau, Sergi Gómez, Muniesa, Aurtenetxe, Edu
Ramos, Koke, Sarabia, Isco (Jordi Amat, m.7), Muniain (Morata,
m.84), Borja (Kevin, m.62).

USA 1: Edwards; Polak, Watts, Herold, Kitchen (Zavaleta, m.46),
Shinsky, Duran (Sarle, m.88), Jerome (Chávez, m.46), Palodichuk,
Gil, McInermey.

Goals: 0-1. Min.4: McInermey; 1-1. Min.22: Borja; 2-1.
Min.30: Pablo Sarabia.

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FIFA CONFEDERATIONS CUP 2009 SEMI FINAL: SPAIN 0 USA 2 (SEE VIDEO GOALS)

Surprise & shock result in tonight’s FIFA CONFEDERATIONS CUP
2009 1ºst Semi-Final with SPAIN losing to USA 0-2. It had to happen
sooner or later that the 35 consecutive straight games without a loss
had to come to an end equalizing the FIFA Record with Brazil.

Two reasons that explains this result, no perhaps three:
1. Over confidence from the Spanish National Team. Mentally they
were already in the final against Brazil – in their minds – before
playing the USA team. The result serves as “humble pie” & once
again shows a “Latin” cultural attribute of singing victory before
the event. Psychologically Spain must fix this attitude for the
future.
2. Perfect game from the American Team. Perfect strategy &
defence added with the attitude…if we are here we have nothing
to lose. Deserved victory & they & the whole nation should be
proud of this team tonight. They were better.
3. Big mistake by Spanish Coach Del Bosque in the 2ºhalf by
substituting Cesc Fabregas for Santi Carzola. It was Cesc Fabregas
that was allowing Spain to open up the wing for Sergio Ramos to
come in & was causing the most danger supplying the forwards with
balls & he even had personal chances

The first half saw JOZY ALTIDORE score a fabulous goal in the 27th
min as seen on the video:



From here the USA grew in confidence & rattled the Spanish side
who couldn’t believe what was happening.

In the 2ºhalf Spain went ALL out & had numerous chances to score,
but the American defence stopped everything & frustrated the
Spaniards. Then Cesc Fabregas – the danger man – was taken off &
the sting was taken out of the Spanish Team. The USA side
counter-attacked catching Spain out off place & DEMPSEY scored
in the 74th min as shown on the video:



...that was the final nail in the coffin as Spain found itself nervous,
in disbelief & knew then & there that they were fairly beaten on
all fronts. A SFS mentioned, the US game strategy ( specially in
defence was outstanding).

A special mention for Spanish defender GERARD PIQUE who was
outstanding tonight. Now its necessary for the Spanish Team to
reflect on this game, look forward positively & continue onward.
This is Football & these things happen all the time; now it´s time
to look forward for next years World Cup. However, that does not
take away the brilliant & deserved American victory that is
historic & should be celebrated. Good luck to the USA team in the
final!

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