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Reina plays down Barcelona speculation
That has led to his Spain international colleague Reina - who joined Liverpool from Villarreal eight years ago - being linked with a return to Barcelona, but the 30-year-old has stated that he is content with life under Brendan Rodgers at ...
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Spain backs sending weapons to Syria rebels for defense
Spain said Tuesday it favors a partial lifting of sanctions against Syria that would allow the delivery of "defense material" -- that could include weapons to help protect the ...
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Spain’s Benat Intxausti wins Giro stage 16
The pack pedals through mountain landscape during the 16th stage of the Giro d'Italia, Tour of Italy cycling race, from Valloire, France, to Ivrea, Italy, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. (Fabio ...
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Real Madrid has the best scoring midfield of the Spanish League
Real Madrid has the best scoring midfield of the Spanish League. Seven white squad players in that position have scored so far in the championship, racking up 26 goals among them. Özil, with nine, is the most prolific in this regard. Following the German player we find Di María (7), Modric (3), Kaká (3), Khedira (2), Callejon y Essien (1). Valladolid and Barcelona, with 24 and ...
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Ivan Zamorano “Real Madrid is constantly on a quest to always be champions”
Ivan Zamorano is in Spain and took advantage of his time in the country to visit Madrid and the Santiago Bernabeu for a trip down memory lane. The former Real Madrid forward from 1992 to 1996 spoke with Florentino Perez and talked about the club: "You always have to be optimistic and think that things are going to change one way or another. The team didn’t win much this year but in ...
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Real Madrid legend Raul reveals Barcelona tried to sign him twice
Barcelona on two occasions, but opted against a move to the Catalans as he did not want to join Madrid's arch-rivals.The experienced attacker spent nearly his entire career at the Santiago Bernabeu side after signing for the club from Atletico and he has stressed that a move to the Camp Nou side was never a serious option for him due to his strong ties with Madrid."Barcelona twice ...
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Mourinho out at Real Madrid
MADRID - Jose Mourinho will leave Real Madrid after three years as manager, paving the path for his return to England and a second stint as Chelsea’s manager. Real Madrid president Florentino Perez announced at a news conference following a board meeting Monday that a mutual agreement was reached for Mourinho’s departure. The 50-year-old Portuguese coach has two matches remaining ...
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Spain Germany team up to fight youth employment
Samsung Galaxy S4 versus HTC One: Which is a better buy? The mobile giants step back into the ring for another round, as we referee the fight between ...
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Messi urges Barcelona not to change
Lionel Messi does not believe that Barcelona should change their way of playing just because they struggled in Europe this season.Barcelona's short 'tiki-taka' passing style had seen them dominate European competition in recent years but this season they were not at their fluent best.They struggled against Milan, Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich in the knockout stages of the ...
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Soldiers killed in Army base blast
The victims, who all belong to the Land Army Brigade, were practising deactivating explosives when the blast occurred yesterday at ...
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Parents students petition to keep Spanish classes at Zephyrhills High
Word spread quickly last week that Zephyrhills High School principal Andy Frelick planned to cut Spanish classes and offer French instead. Spanish would be available only as an online course. People were not happy. ...
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Fears grow for volleyball player missing in Spain
Fears are growing for the safety of Dutch international volleyball player Ingrid Visser and her partner who have been missing in Spain for two weeks. The couple disappeared in Murcia and police have found no trace of them since they checked into their hotel two weeks ago. Their black rental car has also vanished and their luggage remains at the hotel. Her family alerted the police after the ...
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Spanish ambassador hosts a party
The Rain gods were singing. This do was all about mixing business and pleasure. The Spanish ambassador, Ion de la Riva, hosted this mouth-watering party, but the rain gods must have loved it too, for they poured quite generously. The party simply shifted indoors and continued in full ...
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Illegal immigrants die trying to reach Spain
Rabat - At least five illegal migrants drowned off the coast of northern Morocco as they were attempting to reach Spain, the Moroccan authorities said late on ...
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Ilham Aliyev meets Spanish defence minister
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has today received the delegation led by Defence Minister of the Kingdom of Spain Pedro Morenes Alvaro de Eulate, 1news.az reports quoting the official website of the president. Noting high-level political ties between Azerbaijan and the Kingdom of Spain, President Ilham Aliyev noted that there is great potential to boost cooperation in economy, mutual ...
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Spanish opera protests austerity
MADRID , Spain -- David Alegre should have been a nervous wreck. Less than a week before the premiere of the opera he wrote and directed, one of his lead singers hadn't turned up for rehearsal. The energetic, wiry man of 36 nevertheless remained calm and good-humored. That's because everyone involved in the production, from the lead soprano to those building the scenery, were ...
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Spanish press jeers departing Mourinhos record
By Iain Rogers MADRID (Reuters) - Florentino Perez's record as Real Madrid president was under scrutiny on Tuesday after the construction magnate's latest coaching project ended in disarray with the premature departure of Jose Mourinho. Perez, who is up for reelection next month, announced on Monday Mourinho would be leaving at the end of the season, three years before his contract ...
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Jose Mourinho Spanish media reaction Crushed defeated and a failure
Spanish newspapers have roundly accused Jose Mourinho of failing at Real Madrid as they jeered his three-year reign at the Bernabeu and his failure to win more ...
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The brand new tram in Jaen has spent the last two years out of order and parked in the warehouse.
The brand new tram in Jaen has spent the last two years out of and parked in the warehouse. The Junta de Andaluca spent 105 million EUR on the project which included five carriages and the entire infrastructure. The tram had 16 days of tests, but has never carried a passenger. A judge ordered the tram to be halted after receiving ...
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Global Soccer Mourinho and Madrid Loving Loathing and Leaving
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Lionel Messi Barcelona cant win everything - video
Lionel Messi looks back at a difficult year for Barcelona, albeit one in which the Catalan side won La Liga. Messi says the club cannot win every tournament they play in and describes Bayern Munich as a better team 'physically' after they beat Barcelona 7-0 on aggregate in the Champions League ...
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Spain sells short-term debt at higher costs
LONDON (ShareCast) - Spain managed to sell more short-term sovereign debt that it had originally predicted today but with mixed results on both demand and financing costs. The Spanish Treasury sold a total of EUR3.51bn in debt, above the EUR2.5bn-EUR3.5bn range announced on Monday. It issued EUR892m in three-month bills but the average yield moved up to 0.331% from the prior 0.120%. However, ...
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Spanish media ridicules departing Mourinho
The front pages of Tuesday morning's Spanish sports papers showed their excitement at the news Jose Mourinho was to leave Real Madrid at the season's end. Marca's cover said [in English] 'The Special End', while AS' headline read 'Lots of noise, but few nuts' - a Spanish version of 'Much Ado About Nothing'. Diego Torres of El Pais, who ...
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Spanish media savour Mourinho’s exit
Fellow Catalan daily Sport ran a front-page photograph showing Mourinho from the back as he departed through a door marked ';Exit';. The paper quoted Carles Vallarubi, vice president of Barcelona as saying: ';Mou was a scar on Spanish ...
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Granada Local Policeman accused of killing a lawyer commits suicide
Rosa Cobo, to death with his truncheon last September 20th committed suicide on Sunday inside the Albocsaser jail in Castelln. Despite being in module 13 reserved for difficult prisoners, he managed to kill himself by hanging from his belt. He was the only suspect in the solicitor's killing because it got caught on her garage ...
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Barcelona on the frontline in the cancer fight
Cancer has become the leading killer of the elderly in Europe; it is an awful, painful disease that has become something akin to a pandemic. Progress has been made in its diagnosis, and further progress is being made in its treatment, and Barcelona, by hosting the European Breast Cancer Conference, is playing a major part in the sharing of ideas and knowledge to facilitate improvements and new breakthroughs.
The city of Barcelona will play a significant role in the prevention and promotion of awareness of breast cancer when it hosts the annual European Breast Cancer Conference this year. Breast cancer is among the leading killers of women around the world, and although mortality has begun to drop worldwide, and especially in Europe, there is still much progress that can be made. Read more
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