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Manchester City faces their biggest moment of the season after multiple investigations concluded that the club was in violation of UEFA “Financial Fair Play” rules. That means the Citizens will be banned from the UEFA Champions League for the next two years, so if they are going to win their first title in the competition, […]

La Liga remains full of surprises this season. On Saturday, second-place Real Madrid blew a chance to retake the top of the table when they suffered a shocking upset defeat against Levante UD, after previously struggling FC Barcelona blasted five goals past struggling Eibar. With another El Clasico on tap for next Sunday, Atlético Madrid […]

After the disappointment of dropping two points last weekend in what should have been an east victory over relegation-battling Celta de Vigo, La Liga leaders Real Madrid face what could be a difficult road assignment. Los Blancos must travel to Valencia where Levante UD have taken six of their nine league wins this season, and […]

La Liga leaders Real Madrid, despite losing only one league match this season, have been unable to fully capitalize on the recent struggles of their arch rival, the defending champion FC Barcelona, who scraped out a hard-fought win over third-place Getafe on Saturday. Los Blancos will now cap off the Spanish weekend slate with a […]

For the first time since 2010, Spain’s Copa del Rey final will not feature either FC Barcelona or their arch-rival, Real Madrid. Both suffered stunning upsets in the tournament quarterfinals — Barcelona falling to Basque side Athletic Club Bilbao and La Liga-leading Real Madrid dropping a shocker at the hands of another Basque team, Real […]

Every year, Gareth Bale finds himself surrounded by rumors regarding a possible exit from Real Madrid. Having been a player for the club since his transfer from the Tottenham Hotspur in 2013, Bale has come close to accepting a move away from Real Madrid on more than one occasion. This past summer, Bale was targeting […]

A furious comeback by Real Madrid fell short on Thursday, as Los Blancos suffered a stunning defeat to Real Sociedad in the Copa del Rey quarterfinals. Real ended up losing 4-3 and crashing out of Spain’s domestic Cup tournament that they have not won since 2014. On Sunday, Zinedine Zidane’s squad will look to avoid […]

Fresh off a 1-0 victory in El Derbi Madrileno, their first home league victory over Atlético Madrid since 2012, Real Madrid look to take their momentum into the Copa del Rey quarterfinals on Thursday. There, they face the Basque Country side Real Sociedad, who with a win would need just one more victory to reach […]

Just three weeks after playing the second El Derbi Madrileno of the season, crosstown rivals Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid will meet in Saudi Arabia for the Spanish Super Cup final. It marks the 273rd time since 1903, when a group of university students created Atlético in response to their distaste with the established Madrid […]

Returning to Spain from Saudi Arabia, where they earned a hard-fought Spanish Super Cup victory, Real Madrid now has a chance to leap to the top of the La Liga table — at least for 24 hours. On Saturday, they will host Sevilla FC, which has lost only once in 11 matches across all competitions. […]

For the first time since its inception in 1982, the Spanish Super Cup features a four-team format. In addition to the La Liga champion and Copa del Rey winner — who previously squared off in a single match — this year’s competition included a semifinal round with La Liga’s second- and third-place finishers from the […]

Last season, FC Barcelona made something of a mockery out of Spain’s — and Europe’s — most storied rivalry. The Catalan side won three of four matches against archrivals Real Madrid, settling for a draw only in the first leg of a Copa del Rey semifinal. When it was all said and done, Barcelona topped […]

For the 165th time since 1929, crosstown rivals Atlético Madrid and Real Madrid will meet in the Madrid derby, one of Europe’s most anticipated matchups, on Saturday. This year’s “El Derbi” is highly anticipated, despite coming in only the seventh week of the 2019/2020 La Liga season. This season, Los Colchoneros (“The Mattress Makers”) of […]

The hiring of former Spain and Real Madrid Manager Juan Lopetegui is paying big dividends in the early stages of the 2018/2019 La Liga season for Sevilla FC, as The Inquisitr reported. The team is once again in position to take over sole possession of first place on the La Liga table. This time, however, […]

After paying $113 million for Chelsea and Belgium superstar Eden Hazard, Real Madrid have yet to see any return on their investment after Hazard suffered an injury on his thigh muscle in the preseason and has yet to play in an official match for the 33-time La Liga champions. But that is all set to […]

By the Spanish giant’s usual standards, last season was a disaster for Real Madrid. A sluggish start led to not one but two mid-season coaching changes, as Newsweek reported. But even the return of Zinedine Zidane in March of this year could not lift Los Blancos higher than third on the La Liga table. The […]

Real Madrid has shown little in their preseason campaign to indicate that they will perform any better in the 2019-2020 season. The team is fresh off a third-place finish in La Liga and a Round of 16 exit in the UEFA Champions League — a competition they had won the previous three years. Furthermore, the […]

After a disappointing third-place finish in La Liga last season, Spanish giants Real Madrid have come out lifeless in the 2019-2020 preseason — a struggle that continued on Tuesday as Los Blancos dropped a lackluster 1-0 decision Tottenham Hotspur on a first-half goal by Spurs striker Harry Kane, per ESPN. The semifinal loss relegated Real […]

The opening of what will likely be an epic 2019-2020 European football season is fast approaching. Real Madrid — the team that won four of the last six UEFA Champions League trophies — will play their first La Liga match in just over two weeks, per RealMadrid.com. But for last season’s Champions League runners-up, Tottenham […]

The Madrid derby pitting Real Madrid against Atlético Madrid is one of Spain’s greatest derby matches, and it will take place on American soil this time, as a preseason match in the International Champions Cup. In official versions of the Madrid derby, the two sides have met 222 times, per 90min.com, with Los Blancos winning […]

The preseason International Champions Cup competition continues on Tuesday with another matchup of high-glamor European teams in the United States, as Real Madrid — winners of four of the most recent six UEFA Champions League championships — face English Premier League giants Arsenal FC, who have won England’s top-flight title 13 times, albeit not since […]

The matchup with the highest-glamour of the preseason International Champions Cup comes to Houston, Texas, on Saturday, when German Bundesliga champs Bayern Munich take on Real Madrid, a team that has won four of five UEFA Champions League titles prior to 2019. While the match will be Los Blancos’ 2019 International Champions Cup debut, Bayern […]

Getafe CF, a team that found itself relegated just three seasons ago, and in only its second season back in the Spanish top flight, have a real chance to grab the first UEFA Champions League bid in their history, as they currently occupy fourth place in La Liga — but just two points clear of […]

While Real Madrid are simply hoping to get back on track after a disappointing game against Leganes in La Liga last weekend — with little reason to play since they are sitting securely in third place, per Sky Sports — their Sunday opponents are fighting to cap a stunning resurgence this season. After muddling to […]

The newest head coach at Real Madrid is also their former head coach, Zinedine Zidane, who left the club last season after guiding the club to a third consecutive UEFA Champions League trophy. After the European champs were unceremoniously bounced from this year’s competition by Ajax at the Round of 16, Real gave Coach Santiago […]

As The Inquisitr noted, Real Madrid’s reign of 1,011 days as European champions effectively ended on Tuesday with a crushing 4-1 defeat at home to Dutch club Ajax, sending Real out of the UEFA Champions League competition, 5-3 on aggregate, at the Round of 16. How will the Spanish giants, who had won three of […]

In the history of the UEFA Champions League, no team that has taken a 2-1 lead away in the first leg of a knockout match has ever failed to advance to the next round, according to BBC stats. That’s the position that Real Madrid enjoy heading into Tuesday’s second leg Round of 16 showdown against […]

Just three days after being blown out at Spain’s Copa de Rey by arch-rivals FC Barcelona, Real Madrid again hosts the La Liga leaders for the fourth El Clasico of the 2018-2019 season looking for some sort of redemption. As Marca described, Real Madrid played the better overall game in they second-leg cup match, forgetting […]

In their second of an El Clasico trilogy over a four-week span, Real Madrid and Barcelona will need to deal with their own internal dramas as well as each other as they battle to break a 1-1 first leg deadlock, in a Copa del Rey second-leg showdown that is expected to effectively serve as the […]

After a slow start to the season, followed by a resurgence sparked by the October 29 firing of short-time Coach Julien Lopetegui, CNN reported, Real Madrid now appear ready to challenge arch-rivals Barcelona for the La Liga title under new “interim” boss Santiago Solari. A win over potentially relegation-bound Girona FC on Sunday puts the […]

AFC Ajax has won the Dutch Eredivisie 33 times and finished second last season while occupying second place again this campaign, six points off the pace set by rival PSV Eindhoven, per Sky Sports. But the club from the Netherlands has not appeared in the knockout phase of the UEFA Champions League since 2006. That […]

The 239th installment of Spain’s oldest and fiercest rivalry — certainly one of the fiercest sports rivalries in the world — that dates back to 1902 will come with even higher stakes than normal. FC Barcelona will host Real Madrid in the first leg of a Copa del Rey semifinal — the first of three […]

Real Madrid will get its first chance at revenge for the embarrassment suffered in the 2018/2019 season’s first El Clasico, when arch-rivals FC Barcelona handed Los Blancos a 5-1 drubbing thanks largely to a stunning hat trick by Luis Suarez, as Soccerway reported. In fact, Real gets not one — but two opportunities for payback, […]

The final spot in the semifinals of Spain’s Copa del Rey competition will be decided on Thursday, and if Real Madrid can make a 4-2 aggregate lead over Girona FC stand up, Los Blancos will be in line for a shot at their first championship in the domestic Cup tournament since 2011 — and a […]

Real Madrid have struggled to adjust to the post-Cristiano Ronaldo era, but though they have finally moved into the third spot on the La Liga table, per Sky Sports, they still sit 10 points behind leaders Barcelona with little time left in the season. But Los Blancos appear in good position to challenge for their […]

Russia’s CSKA Moscow experienced their high point of the season on October 2 when, as Sky Sports reported, they took a 1-0 victory over the team that has won the UEFA Champions League three years running, Real Madrid, in Moscow behind an early goal by Croatian midfielder Nikola Vlasic. But since then Real Madrid has […]

Fans of Real Madrid may outnumber supporters of the hometown team in Huesca, Aragon, Spain, as appeared evident when the 19 Los Blancos players selected for Sunday’s first-ever meeting between the 33-time La Liga champions and the newly promoted, last-place SD Huesca — according to an account by the Real Madrid official site. But when […]

Spanish third-tier side Unión Deportiva Melilla needed to travel 11 hours to reach Madrid, where they will face European champions and 19-time Copa Del Rey winners Real Madrid on Thursday, according to ESPN. To make matters worse, the team from the north coast of Morocco will go into the second-leg Cup Round of 32 match […]

Defending European champions Real Madrid were enduring a largely disastrous season on the domestic front before the team changed coaches, installing Santiago Solari as interim boss and reeling off four straight wins across three competitions, per Sports Keeda. But as soon as Santiago was named to the post on a permanent basis, Los Blancos last […]

Normally, for a Spanish goliath like Real Madrid, a trip to the coast of Africa to face a Second Division club would seem like a vacation. But on Wednesday when Los Blancos make the trip to the Spanish enclave of Melilla on the northern coast of Morocco for a Cope Del Rey Round of 32 […]

The first El Clásico of the 2018/2019 season will also be the first Barcelona vs. Real Madrid match without either Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo on the pitch since December of 2007, according to the BBC, but the match — always one of the most highly anticipated of any season in any league — goes […]

With manager Julen Lopetegui already on the hot seat and rumors claiming that former boss Jose Mourinho is in line to replace him at Real Madrid, according to The Sun, the defending European champions will be losing for their first win in more than a month on Tuesday — and they may have found exactly […]

Chelsea’s Eden Hazard is implementing the same tactics used by Cristiano Ronaldo when he plotted a move from the Premier League in England to Real Madrid. This observation was made by the former teammate of Ronaldo, Wes Brown, as reported by Express. Hazard looked like he was close to a move to Madrid over the […]

Wales soccer coach Ryan Giggs will not have Gareth Bale on board when the Welsh team travels to Dublin to meet the Republic of Ireland squad on Tuesday. Bale, a winger for Real Madrid, is recovering from a nagging injury and won’t play this week for Wales. Goal says that Bale, 29, who is recovering […]

While rumors about a move to Spanish giants Real Madrid have been swirling around Eden hazard for years now, the Belgian star has insisted that the move won’t be coming during the January transfer window, despite soccer legends such as Rivaldo urging him to make the move to further his career, according to reports from […]

Portuguese soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo may claim that his former soccer club Real Madrid pressured him into settling with U.S. model Kathryn Mayorga for approximately $379,000 as part of an alleged hush-money deal back in 2010, reports the Daily Mail. Mayorga, who has accused Ronaldo of raping her at a hotel in Las Vegas back […]

Cristiano Ronaldo sent waves through the world of soccer with his unexpected departure from Real Madrid over the summer, leaving the Spanish giants after nine years and three consecutive Champions League victories for a €100 million price tag. While there seemed to be very little competition with Juventus to sign one of the world’s best […]

In December, 17-year-old Palestinian Ahed Tamimi slapped an Israeli soldier, landing her and her mother in prison for eight months. The two were attending a protest against the occupation of her village in the West Bank. The video of Ahed and her mother pushing and slapping the soldier while arguing with him went viral on […]

The odds would appear to be against Real Madrid as they head into a momentous derby match against rivals Atletico Madrid, coming off a crushing 3-0 pounding at the hands of Sevilla on Wednesday, as Sky Sports reported. Their crosstown rivals hold a significant advantage in recent matches, which were played at the legendary home […]

Real Madrid head into a danger match when they face ninth-place Sevilla at Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Stadium – a venue where Los Blancos have won only one time in their most recent six visits, as AS USA recounts – and this time the European Champions will be without Cristiano Ronaldo, who departed for Italy over […]