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According to the study, non-believers tend to identify more with the club, while the most religious people are inclined to Real Madrid.

Specifically, 50% of respondents claiming to be non-believers are declared Barca fans, while only 11% of this group of respondents who claims not to believe claims to be a fan of the team merengue. By contrast, among Catholics (who practice their faith to some extent) the preference lies with the Real Madrid: 40% of them follows the white set, ten points more than those who follow the Blaugrana team.

As noted by Sport.es daily, although the study does not address specifically the nuances in terms of geographical area and different religious customs in each province, very significant yields data on the faith of the fans. Read the rest of this entry »

Dozens of fans of Real Madrid began arriving shortly after midnight at the iconic Cibeles fountain after the final whistle of the King’s Cup against FC Barcelona to celebrate the conquest of a title as the white team had 18 years without to win.

After the beep, which ended 120 minutes of stroke in Valencia’s Mestalla stadium, the fans ‘meringues’ started coming to the goddess Cybele, the symbol of Real Madrid to celebrate the King’s Cup against arch rival achieved.

The rain that from early in the night fell steadily in the capital did not prevent fans travel to the Cibeles fountain, well protected by fences and where the City deployed a special security device to potential crowds. Read the rest of this entry »

The Alfredo Di Stefano Stadium, located in the city Valdebebas sports, was the scene where Jose Mourinho made ​​a gift of Three Kings Day to their fans, who packed the locations 7000 and enjoyed a session confirmed the recovery of Sergio Ramos. Real Madrid completed a special training with the absences of Pepe, with permission of the coaching staff for the sanction to be met at the Granada, or the injured Angel Di Maria and Fabio Coentrao, breaking down.

The good news is full recovery of Sergio Ramos of muscle injury. Andalusian defender completed at the same rate as their peers last week’s training and is able to hold back in the league encounter at the Granada. The announcement of the club of the day open house , meant that from early morning and Early in the morning, had many fans queuing to occupy one of the seats in the stadium Alfredo Di Stefano.

With audiences of all ages and a clear majority of children, enjoyed the Madrisistas each share of training. Mourinho divided into two groups to their players and was moving through all zones of the field. Each exercise was on a site so that all might see their idols up close. The name of Mourinho and the Iker Casillas were the most crowded chanted in the stands of the stadium, where they could see many signs, many of them asking for gifts t-shirts and boots to the Real Madrid players.

The homegrown Carvajal, Morata, Nacho and Jesus reinforced the first team training, which lasted an hour and consisted of exercises with the ball, touch and pressure test, partidillo small spaces and goals in a match end which delighted the fans. Since 12 October, Columbus Day, not enjoying an open workout on your computer.

Given the expected output than Gago of Real Madrid are two teams from the Premiership, Liverpool and Aston Villa, who have begun to take positions to try to gain the services of Argentine midfielder.

The arrival of Sahim and Altintop to the Bernabeu, coupled with his constant injuries this season, so practically closed the final stage of Argentine Real Madrid, which for some weeks and discussed with your representative, Marcelo Lombilla, the options offered by the market for his career.

For his age (25 years), Gago has sign on the top European leagues, so the player discards the return to Argentina. The main obstacle to his departure from Madrid is your record, two million euros that some other teams in the Premier would pay. The British web ‘Footylatest.com’ cites in particular two, Aston Villa and Liverpool, who seem willing to engage in a battle for his signature.

Both places seem to the taste of the player, which so far is silent on his future, although this seems to point at Anfield to put under the command of Kenny Dalglish , who had already communicated his intention to give Liverpool the lead of the Argentine soccer team.

xPro Financial Services Ltd (FxPro), the global leader in retail brokerage and CFD trading FX, announced today that it will be the main trading partner of Aston Villa Football Club.

FxPro Financial Services Ltd (FxPro), the global leader in retail brokerage and CFD trading FX, announced today that it will be the main trading partner of Aston Villa Football Club since July 2010 in a deal for the next three years. As part of the agreement, FxPro will appear on the equipment of the Club and on the shirt for next season will be presented on July 15 in Birmingham.

The innovative partnership between Aston Villa and Acorns – the largest provider of hospital services for children with disabilities in the UK – will continue, with Acorns and became the official beneficiary of the Club and FxPro developing a strong commitment to supporting joint initiatives.

“We are extremely pleased and excited to begin our new partnership with FxPro,” said Paul Faulkner, CEO of Aston Villa Football Club. “This reflects our continued growth as a club after a season in which he finished sixth in the Premier League for the third consecutive year while also we got to Wembley twice – competing in the final of the Carling Cup and FA Cup semi-final”. Read the rest of this entry »

He played the fourth round of the Permian League maintains dominance of the two teams returned to Manchester and still thumping hits, Rooney scored again a triplet, the star forward scored the Red Devils at 20, 25 and 68 minutes of play, the other two goals came courtesy of the Mexican striker Javier Hernandez, who scored his first 2 goals this season after five minutes and 58 minutes.

Citizens For their part, won their fourth straight win thanks to the good performance from Carlos Tevez and Kun Aguero, Tevez showed the high level that led him to be the top scorer last season and Kun meanwhile continues to have high level the City with which to score his first hat trick achievement in England in order to enact the 3-0 win over Wigan.

Meanwhile, Chelsea scored a major victory at the Stadium of Light after beating Sunderland 2-1 on goals from the English John Terry and Daniel Sturridge, while Arsenal rallied from a poor start to the season with a win 1 -0 over Swansea City on a goal by Andrei Arshavin to Russia after 41 minutes of the first part.

Liverpool lost their unbeaten record after losing at the Britannia Stadium before against Stoke with a penalty goal Walters executed by the minute 20. Read the rest of this entry »

The new Aston Villa striker Darren Bent said he can not wait to play in a “big club”, after completing his transfer from Sunderland.

Bent will be officially unveiled as a player Villa on Tuesday night, following his move from the Stadium of Light for an undisclosed amount, but believed it was for a figure close to £ 24,000,000 including accessories.

The former leader of Charlton and Tottenham has signed a four and a half years with Villa and becomes the second signing of Gerard Houllier January, after Jean Makoun, who arrived from Lyon for £ 6,000,000 last week.

Bent completed the medical examination and agreed personal terms and will be available to make his Villa debut against Manchester City on Saturday at Villa Park.

“Aston Villa is a massive football club and as soon as I heard they were interested in signing him, wanted to join,” said Bent. “The size of the football club and the club’s history are important reasons for me to come here.”

“There are some top players, superior in this case, the actual quality, and I have talked to the coach and the president about his ambitions for the club, so I’m very excited to be part of what we hope to achieve.” Read the rest of this entry »

Loyalty to a few colors that weighed more ambition in Roberto Martinez. The Spanish coach will follow a year at Wigan Athletic, although they had a strong offer on the table of Aston Villa, one of the most powerful clubs in the Premier League. Martinez has said no to the villains.

Dave Whelan, chairman of Wigan Athletic, had said this morning in the English media that “the continuity of Martinez would make him very happy.” In addition, Whelan had high hopes for his pupil: “My feelings tell me that will stay with us a year before making the leap to a major European club. “

He was not mistaken in his bid Whelan. Perhaps because it is one of the better known Roberto Martinez as a person and coach. Do not forget Dave Whelan who was who in 1995 joined the Martinez Balaguer (Third Division) to play in the ranks of Wigan Athletic, then in the Third Division.

Dave Whelan who was also opted for Roberto Martinez in 2009 to replace Steve Bruce at the helm of a Premier League Wigan. ” It was realistic about this offer. If a big club like Aston Villa makes an offer that doubles your own, most people would jump. But Robert is not such men, “said proud Whelan in The Guardian. Read the rest of this entry »

The football league was the brainchild of William McGregor, the pioneer. Twenty years after its creation in 1888, was overjoyed to William McGregor, the amateur. By then, the club continued McGregor directed and almost religious devotion had won a record sixth title of the competition that he had created.

The Aston Villa took 71 years to recover the scepter of the first division, but the unexpected conquest opened the gates of glory: a triumph against all odds and at the expense of Bayern Munich in the final of the Champions League. FIFA.com reviews the history of the oldest club in the world’s oldest league.

The birth of an institution
in March 1874, Jack Hughes, Frederick Matthews, Walter Price and William Scattergood founded the Aston Villa Football Club. Six years later, the club won its first trophy, Birmingham Senior Cup with a victory against the Saltley College 3-1 in the final. The success was mainly due to the sublime dribbling and accurate passing of George Ramsay. Thereafter, the Glasgow-born striker took the reins and, with another Scot, Archie Hunter, irrepressible striker became the organizer of the assault on the Cup of England in 1887, in which the end of Aston were imposed at West Bromwich Albion. That crash led to the fierce rivalry between two neighbors. In its early years, the Aston Villa had already established with Birmingham City a competitive angry and hostile to the point that today, both Baggies and Blues are still bitter enemies of the Villains . Of course, as McGregor had been the instigator and architect of the Football League, the Aston Villa became a founding member of the national competition, which was declared runner-up in its inaugural season, though, I must say, with 11 points less the champion, Preston North End. Read the rest of this entry »

FC Barcelona has given him a show to his fans at the 46th edition of the Trofeo Joan Gamper, played before a Naples that this year staged the Champions League, but could only helplessly witnessed the ‘little hand’ he endorsed a team full of young talent.

A four-day contest against Porto’s European Super Cup, Guardiola’s team measured a good test and the result was a pleasant feast to delight the home crowd, who had time to cheer the first goal of Cesc in his return home or a new double Messi friendly matches do not understand. With promises like Montoya or Kiko Femenía in the lineup and an angelic Iniesta, the Barca team just ten minutes it took to completely negate Naples, spectator and victim of a considerable beating.

Before the half hour, Fabregas finished off a pass from pleasure to the death of Adriano and immediately headed to the network Keita center Iniesta. The team continued Neapolitan spell after passage through the club changing rooms and sent the ball to the wood almost three times in succession, the latter through a free-kick by Messi whose rejection came Pedro Franco to head record.

The order was reversed on the next play, with the canary stepping line and putting a low pass to the Argentine score at will. In the absence of fifteen minutes, Messi picked up a pass in the front, stepped area and shot De Sanctis with a whip cross flush with grass. The fifth goal of closing a rout that illustrates the good form of a ship that never degenerates even homegrown unusual play as Sergi Gómez, Cuenca Bartra.