With La Liga leaders Barcelona on the other side of the world playing in the 12th FIFA Club World Cup against such household names as Auckland City, Club America and Sanfrecce Hiroshima, this week's iteration of games in Spain will obviously, and painfully, have to take place without them. Editor’s Note: Be sure to check […]

The marquee games in this weekend's Spanish footballing fiesta inevitably include Barcelona and Real Madrid but also two teams that are on the peripheral of the top four, Villarreal and Deportivo. Editor’s Note: Be sure to check out all of our articles, and read more about the EPL, the Spanish La Liga and the MLS […]

The announcement this week that Gary Neville had signed a 5-month contract to take charge of Valencia until the end of the season elicited a plethora of emotions from the club's fans and local newspapers alike. Besides the fact that one local periodical thought that the ex-England international was Scottish, many fans, it seems, were […]

A season that began back on March 6th and saw the addition of two new franchise teams in New York City FC and Orlando FC will culminate this coming weekend in the 2015 MLS Cup Final at Mapfre Stadium in Columbus Ohio. It's certainly a climax that few prognosticators of the pundit and pub faring […]

Arguably the most enticing fixture across Europe this weekend will be the first "El Clasico" installment as Real Madrid host reigning champions Barcelona at the Bernabeu. A normally skill laden, high octane, passionate, contentious and politically charged fixture, it will surely be infused with an even more intense patina this weekend given the tragic events […]

Once again this week across Europe, the continent's footballing elite pit themselves against each other in the group stages of the Champions League. Given what is going on in many of the region's domestic leagues, there are a few games that catch the eye and, for the footballing aficionado, should not be missed. Editor’s Note: […]

The marque game of this weekend's Spanish footballing fare will take place in Galicia on Saturday as the two top teams face off with Celta Vigo hosting current league leaders Real Madrid. Editor’s Note: Be sure to check out all of our articles, and read more about the EPL and Spanish La Liga at http://www.rotoballer.com/category/premier-league-bpl-epl-soccer If […]

Although it doesn't commence until June of next year, the Euro 2016 tournament continues to deliver a seething expectation, and not only because of its new format, but also because we are yet to know who the full compliment of participating countries will actually be. Editor’s Note: Be sure to check out all of our […]

The Spanish Primera Division never fails to offer up the scintillating and this weekend the marquee event was the derby in Madrid that saw Atletico host Real at the Vicente Calderon Stadium. Editor’s Note: Be sure to check out all of our articles, and read more about the EPL and Spanish La Liga at http://www.rotoballer.com/category/premier-league-bpl-epl-soccer Atletico […]

Whilst a record number of Catalans were casting their ballots this weekend in a referendum to gain their independence from Spain, their preeminent footballing club was attempting to regain their position back at the top of La Liga once more. Editor’s Note: Be sure to check out all of our articles, and read more about […]

The midweek Champion's League fare had a record five Spanish teams in action with Sevilla, Real and Atletico Madrid all notching up victories, Barcelona leaving Rome with a point and Valencia stumbling at home to Zenit. The question was, would any of the Iberian contingency experience a kind of post Euroepan hangover. The answer was yes. […]

The footballing narrative that continues to sketch its motif upon the Spanish La Liga further embedded itself, once again this weekend, into the absolute highest stations of global football. Whilst the traditionally combustive and sometimes brutally enthralling fixture of Manchester United and Liverpool in the EPL did at least offer a probable goal of the […]

For those of you who were paying even the slightest bit of attention last week, your geographic knowledge of Spain has surely been enhanced. If only un poco. The strangely unplumbed beginning to the Spanish La Liga continued this weekend with the team that was technically relegated last year - but rescued because of a […]

Arguably, the most skill laden league on the planet is, once again, open for business. Although the first week's games presented minimal fodder for the aficionado, footballing purists will rejoice at its recommencement. La Liga kicked off its season this past weekend to, it must be said, a more rapturous applause of expectation than post […]

The machinations of the fixture fixer has already thrown up a mouth watering encounter on just the second weekend of the new EPL season as Manchester City will host current title champions, Chelsea, this Sunday afternoon (Kick-off 11am ET). Inevitably, almost enticingly, Chelsea's season has begun with a wobble both on and off the field […]

Just as one sparrow does not a summer make, one weekend of soccer does not a champion crown. However, the pundits, analysts and football's fortune tellers are no doubt juggling the results of the  opening weekend to glean some clues into one of life's greatest mysteries - which of the top four will win the […]

As Raheem Sterling sits with his new teammates in Australia, Liverpool football club are sitting in clover. The 49 million pound transfer (approximately 77 million Dollars) now makes the Jamaican born English international the world's most expensive player of 21 years of age or under. The transfer saga surrounding the 20-year old midfielder's future had reached […]

As they prepare to defend their International Champions Cup in the United States, Manchester United can quietly revel in the fact that they have already achieved success this summer - by signing Bastian Schweinsteiger  from Bayern Munich. Having spent 17 years at the German superpower the prevailing ideology might have been that the midfielder would […]