Watt attended Espanyol’s first home game of the La Liga season Getty Images Dawn is breaking at Espanyol in Spain’s La Liga. Fans of the Parakeets, a team less followed and with more grounded aims than local colossus Barcelona, hope it won’t be a false one. Ex-defensive end J.J. Watt has a role to play….
Lamine Yamal was among the goalscorers in ;allorca. Getty Images Spanish soccer returned in style with an action-packed matchweek one to start the 2025/26 La Liga season. With all 20 teams in action, it is defending champion Barcelona who have ended up topping the pile after a 3-0 win over Mallorca in the Balearic Islands….
Athletic Club is looking to finish in the top 4 of La Liga once again. Former Athletic midfielder Ander Herrera expects Real Madrid to win the title and Kylian Mbappe to be top scorer. Getty Images In an exclusive interview with international media, former Athletic Club and Manchester United midfielder Ander Herrera discussed the Basque…
Real Madrid, featuring several new signings, approach the new season with fresh hope under recently-appointed coach Xabi Alonso, looking to turn the page on a disappointing end to the Carlo Ancelotti era with “ambitious” football. Former Liverpool and Los Blancos midfielder Alonso saw at the Club World Cup in the United States this summer there…
Vilajoana’s played for Barcelona teams between 1991 and 1994. Getty Images for The Times The Joan Gamper Trophy is a symbolic, if not vital, match in Barcelona circles. On Sunday, the goals rained in for the Blaugrana, which outclassed Como 5-0 in the annual friendly. Its goalkeeper, Marc-André ter Stegen, back in the fold after…
Atletico Madrid has signed Italy forward Giacomo Raspadori from Napoli on a five-year contract, the La Liga club said on Monday, with Italian media reporting that the deal is worth a total of 26 million euros ($30.14 million). Raspadori began his career with Sassuolo, before joining Napoli on a loan deal in 2022, winning the…
Spanish international Baena, pictured here with Atleti president Enrique Cerezo, came in from … More Villarreal. Europa Press via Getty Images Atlético Madrid, no stranger to making bold statements in the transfer market, is quietly constructing a competitive ensemble to rival Barcelona and Real Madrid. Its main coup is Álex Baena—the playmaker pinched from Villarreal…