Euro 2012: Spain, The Unstoppable

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Four years ago, they became the champion of Euro 2008; two years ago, they added another title to their pocket, the World Cup champion, and when people think that must be the top a team can ever be. Now, they became the first team in history to lift three major trophies in a row and becomes the first team who successfully defended the Euro Cup champion. World Cup awaits them in two years time, with such great players and talented youth in the team, it seems possible for them to lift the World Cup trophy once again.

Euro 2012: Group C Sum-up

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Being the defending champion, Spain didn’t come out very strongly. In the same group as Italy and Croatia, they do have some challenges to face. Today, Spain is going to take on Croatia and Italy plays again already-out Ireland. Who do you think will stay in the tournament?

Euro 2012: Players to Look Out For

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With the Euro 2012 in less than a day to go, in no particular order, we present you our list of players who will keep your football radar beeping throughout the entire tournament.

Get Well Soon, David Villa!

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Yesterday we were just talking about should David Villa leaves Barcelona. Looks like he can’t go any where now. El Guaje broke his shinbone in the game against Al-Sadd today, and seems like he may needs up to 6 months to recover. This may not concern Barcelona too much, but Euro 2012 is around the corner, hope Villa can make it in time for the tournament.

Get well soon, David!

Feature: Where Should David Villa Go?

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Is David Villa’s time with Barcelona comes to an end?

Transfer window will soon be reopened and many Spanish press have been talking about the future of David Villa. The Spanish top scorer of all time was on the bench during El Clasico and was only given less than 10 minutes time to play. In the game against Levante, David Villa was an unused substitute. When a striker like him, spent more time on the bench than on the field, his future of course becomes a question mark.

Feature: Euro 2012 Predictions

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I have given some thoughts to the groups of Euro 2012 after the draw and feel like making some wild guesses. Feel free to disagree with my choices! ;)

Most Unpredictable Group: Group A

Group A consisting Poland, Greece, Russia, Czech. Personally, I think this group can be quite tricky, simply because they don’t have a team that stands out. Yes, Russia looks like the strongest among all but the gap isn’t that big after all. So any combinations is possible for this group. We may see some new faces in quarter-finals. My prediction? Russia and Poland. The host always has some advantages, no?

Picture of The Day: A Promised Tattoo

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Someone promised to tattoo World Cup trophy on his body if his team won it. It was more than a year since World Cup and he finally did it. Do you still remember who is he? Yes, the one and only Sergio Ramos has just added another tattoo to his body. This is his 13th tattoo and we wonder if he will add more in the future? Maybe the Euro trophy on the other leg if Spain wins it again! ;)

Portugal, Croatia, Czech Rep, Rep of Ireland: Welcome to Euro 2012

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Well well, too bad that we had to miss the play-offs. 6-2 is quite a shock to us when the two teams managed to have a nil nil draw just a few days ago. Portugal has scored some brilliant goals last night and they certainly deserve this victory. No surprises in other games, as everyone could have predicted. Croatia, Czech Republic and Republic of Ireland are qualified to Euro 2012, all of these three teams scored in the 1st leg.

Picture of The Day: Iker 126

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126, a record set by Andoni Zubizarreta, who was Spain’s most-capped player. Was? Because we all know Iker Casillas will break the record soon enough and set a much higher number for others to break. Iker Casillas used just 11 years to equal the record, and he is just at his 30, fairly young for a goalkeeper. It was good that he managed to celebrate his 126 appearances at Wembley with a clean sheet, as Lampard didn’t score until Reina stood in front of goal.

Congrats Iker, one of the best goalkeeper in the world! 126 and counting…

England vs Spain: The Story of Poppy

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Why Poppy?Before I talk about the game, let’s talk about a little history here. England tried so hard just to get FIFA to allow the national team wears poppies in the friendly match against Spain. So what is so significant of this flower? It simply because the poppies was one of the only plants that grew on the battlefields, around the fallen soldiers, after World War One. Therefore, people nowadays wear the flower as memorial to those who died during World War One and many other conflicts after. Poppy day is also for people to raise money and help ex-soldiers and their families.

Picture of The Day: ‘I Want It!’

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Well well, Fabregas looked all lovey-dowey while touching Puyol’s hand watch. His heart must be screaming ‘I want it!’, 'Okay kid, I will get you one as Christmas gift. Stop touching me!!’

Feature: What Happened to Torres?

We have witnessed the great finish in the beginning of the second half against Man Utd on Sunday; we also witnessed the ‘miss of the decade’ later in the game, both done by the same person, the 50 millions Fernando Torres. Somehow, media become more caution about the ‘El Niño is back’ headlines, because of all the false hopes earlier. So, where should we begin?

Torres Provides Bitch-face for Free

We are terribly sorry for the delay, this week our blog didn’t update as regular as we promised, but things will resume to normal next week! We also want to emphasize that Torres’ bitch-face is not easy to capture.

Apparently, Torres bitch-face is not as pricey as his goals. He managed to show plenty of them during the game between Spain and Liechtenstein, when he was on the stand (not the bench) watching his national teammates played. It was not much of a surprise when Del Bosque finally decided to drop Torres from the lineup, as Spain has plenty of strikers who actually score goals.

Picture of The Day: Breaking the Ice and more..

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Still worrying about EL Clasico may destroy the harmony in Spain national team? Captain Casillas said, 'No worries, I have it under control.' Spain team went out and about during international week and Greek god Llorente posted this to his Facebook.

Italy Beats Spain and more Internationals Friendly Results

'Even Greek god can't find a way to break this Italy team.'
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World Cup Preliminary Draw: France Got Spain

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We are not going to get into detail here, but will highlight a few things that we think you will be interested.

The draw happened in Brazil and as you can imagine, a lot of Brazilian players were invited to take part in the draw. So who did we see last night? We saw Pele, Ronaldo, Cafu, Neymar, Lucas Piazon and more.