FC Barcelona

Barcelona. Sunday , 14.03.2010 19:00

After the big two of Barça and Real Madrid, Valencia has the biggest support in Spanish football, and is the only other club to have won more than five European trophies. A massive rivalry has developed between Barça and the ‘Che’, as the 2002 and 2004 Liga champions are popularly known, which has only been strengthened by a series of historic encounters in recent years. These have included Rivaldo’s incredible last-day hat-trick in 2001, Valencia’s amazing comeback from 3-0 down in the 1997 Copa del Rey, and perhaps the most famous meeting of all between the two sides - Valencia’s 5-3 aggregate win in the Champions League semi finals of 1999-2000.

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Barcelona. Wednesday, 17.03.2010 20:45

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Barcelona. Wednesday, 24.03.2010 00:00

In 2007 FC Barcelona thumped a memorable eight goals past a hapless Osasuna, but despite the star-studded Barça squad, don’t expect a repeat performance of that. Like all teams from the Basque Country, Osasuna, from the famous bull-running city of Pamplona, are a plucky enough outfit and have occasionally managed to get something out of their visits to the Camp Nou. They spend most of the time struggling against relegation or trying to get back up to the top flight, although 2006 saw them equal their highest ever league finish of fourth.

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Barcelona. Sunday , 04.04.2010 00:00

Things don’t come much more historic than FC Barcelona against Athletic Club Bilbao. These are two of just three teams that have never been relegated from the top tier of Spanish football and between them have 47 cup and 27 league titles. And there’s a special bond between the two sides, for if Barça are the symbols of the Catalan separatist identity, then if anything Bilbao are even more so for the Basque Country. But while Barça proudly display their plethora of European, African and Latin American superstars, the ‘Lions’, even in this international day and age, still insist on only using players born or raised in the Basque Country.

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Barcelona. Wednesday, 14.04.2010 00:00

It was not until the nineties that Deportivo, from the northwest region of Galicia, finally established themselves as a major force in Spanish football, but since then they have been regular campaigners, and even became the first league champions of the millennium. But despite those moments of glory, they will probably never quite match the grandeur of FC Barcelona.

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Barcelona. Sunday , 25.04.2010 00:00

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Barcelona. Wednesday, 05.05.2010 00:00

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Barcelona. Sunday , 16.05.2010 00:00

Real Valladolid’s promotion to the top flight in 2007 was the fastest in Spanish football history, but they have rarely been able to pose much of a threat to a side as mighty as Barcelona, who just in 2008 managed to beat the ‘Pucelanos’, as they are known, 4-1 and 6-0. Samuel Eto’o scored a historic four goals in the first half of the latter of the two drubbings.

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