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New season, new thread, and the same terrible posters! Some interesting things happened over the summer, given the World Cup in Brazil. Spain was sent home in the group stages, providing a humiliating end to a six year period of supremacy. Since, according to this forum, tiki-taka is literally worse than rape, there has been much rejoicing at this fact. I doubt this will correlate to a weakening of the Spanish clubs, though. If any are going to suffer it’ll more than likely be Barcelona, and Real Madrid to a lesser extent, since they made up the spine of the national squad. Here's a nice summary about last season. Or, if you prefer pretty pictures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnLysIvDd1Q Champions of Europe  Champions of the Spanish League  Champions of Lesser Europe  The three newly promoted for the new season are…  Deportivo La Coruna Super Depor kicked a lot of rear end a little over a decade ago, and even won the league 5 points ahead of a Barcelona team featuring Kluivert, Guardiola, and Rivaldo. Though they have a lot of history, they've mostly made up the numbers, but were able to bounce back from relegation fairly well. They are from Galicia which is in the north of Spain. It is pretty up there, I guess.  Cordoba Really, the most interesting thing about Cordoba are the manner in which they were promoted last season. Long story short, they were losing to Las Palmas by a goal heading into the 92nd minute. Las Palmas fans started to walk onto the field, intending to celebrate the victory and promotion. The referee put a halt on the game because of these idiot fans and eventually the game was restarted after Las Palmas’s chairman punched some glass and yelled at people. Cordoba proceed to equalize on the last kick of the game, evening the score and gaining promotion through away-goal difference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOq1kOTr7aA The moral of the story is gently caress Las Palmas.  Eibar I don’t know poo poo about Eibar and this is the first time in the club’s history that Eibar has earned promotion to the top-tier of Spanish futbol. They are Basque cunts and probably want to form their own lovely country. I don’t give a poo poo if you have a soft-spot for one of the “who cares” teams. These are the teams that matter at the club level in Spain:  Atlético de Madrid Won La Liga last year for the first time since 1996. Have a cool and good, hot headed idiot of a coach. Feel free to call them Athletico in a super funny ironic way only to have someone who’s never been to Spain correct you. Atleti play the transfer season game of, “lose our best player(s) to Barcelona/Madrid/Some English club” and somehow not completely collapse the following season. For example, this summer they shipped off 27 goal scoring striker Diego “Blame me for Fred” Costa to Chelsea, but brought in Mario Mandzukic to replace him. Will not be surprised if they implode, as that is The Atletico Way.  Barcelona https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ISU__52ALw I'm including the above video both because it was beautiful and to remind Barcelona posters that you sold this man to Arsenal for fucks sake. Barcelona play in pretty little triangles, which worked great for them until their circus midgets ran out of steroids and their talismanic manager went to Germany to ruin their football. People who hate Barcelona have hearts aflutter at the prospect of this being a season that could be ripe for disaster. A misfiring Messi, a $128 million oval office biter who can’t play for a few games and their only quality defensive player prone to tearing anuses, signs are hopeful. They will probably be fine and still challenge for everything because La Liga is a overwhelmingly a two-horse race with...  Real Madrid “The team for the uncompromising oval office,” is as true a statement is anything that can be said about them. Madrid have more money than God (and sense), don’t give a gently caress about rules and think they are better than everyone else (they are). Super entitled fans, like me, think they are always terrible and never good enough and everything is lovely. Having won their 10th Champions League title (THAT’S MORE THAN ANYONE EVER. WE CALLED IT LA DECIMA BECAUSE DIEZ IN SPANISH IS 10. LA DECIMA. MORE THAN ANYONE. NEXT CLOSEST, AC MILAN, ONLY HAVE 7, AND THEY ARE GARBAGE RIGHT NOW), the goal now is naturally to win number 11. Madrid added James Rodriguez to the fold this summer because  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWVrolNQ4RU Thanks to Villarreal superfan, Tortilla Maker:  Villarreal Club de Fútbol S.A.D. (El Submarino Amarillo) This will be Villarreal's second consecutive season in the top flight. Having just been promoted back last year, they weren't expected to do too well but they finished the season in a respectable 6th place and will be competing in the Europa League playoff stage for group qualification. The team is based in the city of Vila-real which has a population of just over 51,000 residents. Despite being a small club from a small city, Villareal have had relatively good success since first winning promotion to the top division in the 1998/1999 season. The club placed 3rd in the 2004/2005 season; reached the Champions League semifinals in 2005/2006; finished 5th in the 2006/2007 season, 2nd in 2007/2008, 5th in 2008/2009, and were also quarterfinalists in the 2008/2009 Champions League. Hailing from the province of Castelló within the Valencian Community, the club's main provincial rival is CD Castellón (they play the Castellón Derby or Derby de la Plana). Another top rival is Valencia CF as both clubs are based within the same autonomous community. The club plays its home matches at "El Madrigal" stadium which has a capacity of just under 25,000. The club is know as the "Yellow Submarine" due to their bright yellow home kit and their ugly mascot is known as "Groguet" which means 'submarine' in Valencia. Seriously, check it out, it is ugly. Major signing last season was Giovani dos Santos who finished the season with 11 goals in 31 appearances. Ikechukwu Uche had a good season as well having scored 14 goals in 35 appearances. The biggest signing this season thus far has been Barcelona's Jonathan dos Santos. This will be the first time two Mexican brothers play on the same club in La Liga. If one of you particularly dedicated posters want to make an effort post on your favorite team that I made a unilateral decision to exclude, post it and I will modify this post. General stuff to know about the league and Spain If you are new to the game and this league because you thought the World Cup was fun and exciting (which none of you reading this post will likely be), I have some advice. 90% of the posts in this thread address the happenings of Real Madrid and Barcelona. Although Atletico bucked the trend, it is a rare thing. If Real Madrid or Barcelona had an ounce of guts, one of them should have easily won the league last season to retain the status quo: La Liga is a two team league. A further 9% of posts in this threads will be a snarky or insulting comment made by a poster who prefers the Premier League followed by a page of replies complaining about lovely English posters. Spanish football streams are relatively easy to find and if you have a VPN than it's no issue at all to stream the vast majority of games for the important clubs. manchego fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Jul 29, 2014 |
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Weaponized Cum posted:Shite league I disagree Mr. Cum.
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Jul 25, 2014 02:27
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Eau de MacGowan posted:I don't think anyone ever called tiki-taka worse than rape, but in rape's defence no-one ever wrote a 5000 word blog post that quoted Brideshead Revisited about it Listen, we all shouldn't have to suffer for the sins of Suqit.
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Tortilla Maker posted:As the newest (only) Villarreal plastic, I'll volunteer to draft their write-up this weekend. I will add it to the OP.
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Jul 25, 2014 22:06
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Thanks for the effort post, Tortilla Maker. I've added it to the OP so you can print out the thread now and hang it up in your office (next to the Villarreal badge). See kids? Community.
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Jul 29, 2014 20:01
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Hegay posted:Real Madrid is good. Add that to the OP pls Ummmm, this goes without saying. I think that's fairly obvious buddridistaTM.
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Jul 29, 2014 20:08
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I hate that little oval office.
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Jul 31, 2014 16:58
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A kid who loves soccer in any Latin country will always want to play for either Real Madrid or Barcelona. I don't care if they are playing with a club in Germany or England or Italy that's won everything there is to win and they're making bank. If their childhood dream club calls, they will always answer, and they will always kiss the badge.
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Aug 6, 2014 00:24
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Casillas 
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Aug 6, 2014 19:27
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casillas is going to save a penalty and then score a goal i can feel it also i am going to supplant that reporter oval office so we can live happily ever after
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Oct 25, 2014 17:49
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yesssssssssssssssss
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Oct 25, 2014 18:05
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commence the biting
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Oct 25, 2014 18:06
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El Hefe posted:At least they aren't faggots like Cristiano i'm sorry you feel this way hefe
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loving GET IN!!!
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