Suarez and Messi on target as Barcelona close La Liga gap
Fran Rico pulled one back for Granada from the penalty spot but Lionel Messi restored Barcelona’s two-goal advantage 20 minutes from the end when set up by Suarez. After losing…
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Spain Arrests 8 on Suspicion of Fighting for Rebels in Ukraine
MADRID — The Spanish police on Friday carried out the first arrests in Western Europe of citizens accused of traveling to Ukraine to fight on the side of the Russian-backed…
Barca in shock defeat
Much of the talk before this weekend’s round of fixtures surrounded the effectiveness of MSN versus BBC; acronyms for the players that have been pivotal in attack for Barcelona and…
Barca in shock defeat
The defeat left them in second place just a point behind behind Real but with their Madrid rivals still to play its one game in hand. Much of the talk…
Champions League: Ronaldo ends slump in record Real Madrid win
Ronaldo netted the opener and assisted on Marcelo’s thunderbolt as Real Madrid moved closer to a place in the quarterfinals of the Champions League by defeating Schalke 2-0 in Germany…
January transfer window: The rise and rise of Martin Odegaard
A Norwegian teenager, who has only just turned 16, generated the second highest volume of tweets during the January transfer window. Which means either that Martin Odegaard, who joined European…
Have boots will travel: Life at the sharp end for football’s pioneers
But as Rodrigues puts a phalanx of seven- and eight-year-olds through their paces thousands of miles away in Asia, all that matters is he’s still involved in football. He’s now…
Thousands March in Spain to Support Left-Wing Party
MADRID — At least 100,000 supporters of Podemos, the left-wing party that is threatening to overhaul Spain’s bipartisan party system, marched in downtown Madrid on Saturday in a show of…
Luis Figo: I want to be FIFA president
Luis Figo has entered the race to become FIFA president determined to change an organization he describes as all too often associated with “scandal.” The former Real Madrid and Barcelona…
Former Party Official Says Spain’s Leader Knew of Slush Fund
MADRID — The former treasurer at the heart of a slush-fund scandal that has undermined Spain’s governing Popular Party accused Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Friday of knowing “from the…
Real Madrid tops football rich list for 10th straight year
Can anybody stop Real Madrid, on the football pitch and off it? For the 10th year running, European champion Real Madrid is the world’s richest club in the annual Football…
Is ‘unlikable’ Cristiano Ronaldo taking sheen off Ballon d’Or?
Monday saw Portuguese and Real Madrid superstar Cristano Ronaldo crowned as winner of the FIFA Ballon d’Or for a second year in a row. It came as scant surprise, given…