Mallorca 0 - 5 Real Madrid (Spanish League, Day 9)

Real Madrid were focused, solid and reliable in the Iberostar Stadium. The Whites did not give Mallorca, who until now had won three of four matches at home, any chances and sealed the match in less than half an hour with goals from Higuaín in the 8th minute and Ronaldo in the 22nd. They combined to bring the third and fourth midway through the second half. The Portuguese got the assist for the

B. Dortmund 2 - 1 Real Madrid (Champions League, Day 3)

Real Madrid lost to Borussia Dortmund at Signal Iduna Park in the third match day of the Champions League group stage. Lewandowski put the home team ahead in the 36th minute and two minutes later Cristiano Ronaldo, who has scored in the last seven matches, took advantage of Özil’s assist to equalise the match with a nice chip. In the second half, in which neither team played with fear of losing

Real Madrid 2 - 0 Celta (Spanish League, Day 8)

Real Madrid demonstrated against that the international break did not put the shackles on the team’s progress. The Whites earned their fifth consecutive victory at home and finished the match with a clean sheet. Higuaín, with an accurate cross-come-shot, little more than ten minutes into the first half and Ronaldo, from the penalty spot, won the game against the team from Galicia, who fought

Coentrao: Penalties, injuries and punishments

Coentrao started this season in order to confirm his great performance in the last European Championship after which, was included in the team of the tournament. But reality is still quite different from what is imagined. It was starting the 2012-2013 season and Coentrao has begun to live a nightmare. So, after playing the first two games of the season as a starter, the Portuguese left-back has

Marcelo: "I want to make a full recovery"

Marcelo is now in Madrid after suffering a fracture in his fifth metatarsal of his right foot last Sunday while training with the Brazilian national squad in the vicinity of Wroclaw, Poland. The left-back is now feeling more motivated to overcome this difficult situation thanks to the numerous messages of support he has received from Madrid fans all over the world, to which he wants to reply with

The new Mourinho's left-backs

While Real Madrid doctors are working to reduce the recovery time of Marcelo and Coentrao, Jose Mourinho is working on alternatives to replace his two left-backs.



Casado (R.M.Castilla player)


The first option is to change the Arbeloa's position. The international Spanish player will change the 'chip' and think that next month will play left-back. The good thing for Mourinho is that the white

Mourinho: “We will be a team until the end"

The national teams’ commitments have pushed the inter-club competitions to the background this week while Jose Mourinho continues working. The Real Madrid coach revisited the team’s current situation during a press conference delivered to the club’s official media, making the following statements, among others: “In this team, statistics count even in friendly matches, which are sometimes more

Marcelo: Three months out

Marcelo sustained a fracture in his right foot that will leave him away from the fields at least three months, so he was removed from the Brazilian team, reported the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) in a statement.



Marcelo injured at a hotel room


The Real Madrid left-back suffered a hit on Sunday while participating in training with the Brazilian team in the Polish city of Wroclaw

Essien: “I can help Real Madrid winning the European Cup"

Essien is one of the new faces in Real Madrid’s squad for this new season, and just 45 days after his arrival in Madrid the Ghanaian player has looked back on everything that has happened in this time in an interview published on his own website (www.michaelessiengh.com). “Mourinho has not changed at all. He wants his players to work hard and always demands the best from them, that they give 100%

Gonzalo Higuain dressed as a tramp to combat drug

Gonzalo Higuain has wanted to collaborate in the fight against drugs in Argentina. The Real Madrid striker has been the subject of a campaign promoted by 'La Garganta Poderosa' (The Mighty Throat), a magazine written and funded by people of Argentine slums, in which the 'Pipa' dressed as a tramp wants to raise awareness against drugs and poverty.



Gonzalo Higuain (dressed like a tramp)


On the

Benzema: "I work hard in order to become a great player"

Karim Benzema is making progress with every season. Last season he achieved the highest tallies of goals in his career thus far and he aims to do even better with the support of his manager, José Mourinho:"My ambition remains unchanged: to get better and better. I am lucky to be playing for a great club. I need to be on form throughout the season, as I did last season, and to play well for my

Real Madrid opens world's largest football academy in China

Starting this season Chinese fans can now enjoy the largest football complex in the world. Thanks to the collaboration between the Real Madrid Foundation, the Chinese Super League club Guangzhou Evergrande and Soxna, more than 3,000 boys and girls between the ages of 10 and 18 will improve their football technique based on Real Madrid's training method and the sporting values that the Real Madrid

Mourinho's wall

The story repeats almost every time Real Madrid plays a macth. The next day, or two days if there was a day-break, players face the wall of the shame. As they enter the locker room can face some printed images of the plays that have cost a goal or that has upset the Portuguese coach. The mistakes, at the wall. A series of television screenshots are placed sequentially to examine what movement

Mourinho: "This draw can be worth four points"

Mourinho does not usually talk to the players in the minutes following the end of the macthes. It's a habit that has to avoid any misinterpretation of his words and unnecessary friction in a time when he and the players are with high pulsation and hot heads. But there are days that he skips this rule. And one of them was in the Camp Nou.



Mourinho congratulates Di Maria


When Delgado Ferreiro,

Cristiano Ronaldo: An improved scoring machine

When Cristiano Ronaldo ended the 2011/12 season with 60 goals, it seemed unlikely that he would achieve such a remarkable feat in a very long time. Five months later, and after only 11 official games, the Portuguese is on course to break all the records he set last season. He has currently netted 14 times, which represents the best goal scoring start of his career, beating the 10 he scored at the

Luka Modric's target: Keep working

On Sunday night, with the Classic match finished, Mourinho received a message on his mobile phone. "How's Luka? Everything okay?" asked Igor Stimac, Croatian coach. "Yes, quiet. He will join the Croatian team in perfect conditions. He has not played but it is irrelevant", replied the coach of Real Madrid. In Croatia, as in Spain and probably in many other countries around the world, surprised

Casillas: "We can't lose more points"

Iker Casillas spoke in a sports program of the Spanish radio and reviewed numerous topics. He assumes the criticism and knows that Real Madrid can not lose many points in the Spanish league if they want to have a choice to regain the championship.



Iker Casillas


The white captain analyzed the draw against Barcelona and recalled that Barcelona team is not the only rival for Real Madrid to win

Real Madrid: Biggest club selling football shirts

Manchester United and Real Madrid have sold an average of 1.4m official replica shirts globally each year in the past five years, more than any other clubs in the world. The commercial giants of English and Spanish football wear kits made respectively by Nike and Adidas and those sales numbers are from the 2007-08 season to the 2011-12 season inclusive.

The figures have been compiled by veteran

Barcelona 2 - 2 Real Madrid (Spanish League, Day 7)

To coincide in time with two of the best players in history is a privilege for football fans and ensures an endless source of stories to entertain the grandchildren and other young guys. Attend their permanent fight is a pleasure that yesterday was multiplied by thousand, fighting face to face. Messi and Cristiano struggled last night without intermediaries or miles away. Their known battle for

Messi vs Cristiano: Last round for the Golden Ball 2012

There are many macthes in a Barcelona vs Real Madrid clash. For four years, in addition to those played between the two clubs since the first meeting in 1902, there is always a Messi vs Cristiano match, in which both players are vying for consideration of best footballer on the planet. Leo Messi has the edge since both compete in Spain, because of collective titles (two Champions Leagues, three

Preview: Barcelona vs Real Madrid (Spanish League, Day 7)

From the first Classic with Mourinho in the Real Madrid bench (11-19-2010), Barcelona and Real Madrid have played thirteen matches, equivalent to a 'match of the century' every 52 days. As six of those matchups were played at the Camp Nou (as many in the Bernabeu), is assumed that the fear or nerves are matters irrelevant at this point. After so many clashes every step is known, almost family:

Mourinho: "Benzema and Higuain aren't going to be together"

Real Madrid faces Barcelona at the Camp Nou (Sunday, 7:50 pm CET), for the match corresponding to the seventh match day of the Spanish League. The team has had five consecutive victories and Mourinho spoke about the match after the last training session before it: "For me it's a match more fitted to the evolution we hope for and which we hope to make constant. I'm not talking about results, but

Real Madrid to face Barcelona in perfect shape

Real Madrid has reached its cruising speed at the right time: just on the eve of facing Barcelona, a Classic that can modify their travels trought the Spanish League. The great wins against Deportivo (5-1) and Ajax (1-4) killed the doubts with which the Mourinho's team started the season, while talking to us about the perfect set-up of their most crucial players, Cristiano and Benzema, with Kaka

Kaka is rehabilitated after the match in Amsterdam

Florentino Perez said to the members assembly that "Kaka is a club asset value" and the price of Brazilian player has skyrocketed in four days. The player claimed on September 1: "I do not want to burden the club and if I did not leave it was because I had no offers". Now, after his big game against Ajax, Brazilian contemplates his future in another way: "I am at the disposal of the coach for the

Cristiano Ronaldo: 15 hat-tricks playing for Real Madrid

Cristiano Ronaldo was once again the star of the match against Ajax. The Portuguese repeated his performance on Sunday against Deportivo and again scored three goals. After the match, his delight to the media and dismissed importance of his hat-trick: "We played a good match in all aspects and we are happy. It is very important for me to score goals, but the most important thing is the team".

Ajax 1 - 4 Real Madrid (Champions League, Day 2)

Players of Ajax seem better guys than footballers. There are surprising ripenings (Sofia Vergara and others), but the feeling is that from the Dutch team will not come out a shining star. They handle the conventional, but unknown the extraordinary. It is a shame there is no fertilizer to grow the talent, nor Cruyff's plant cuttings.

Real Madrid, however, and preferably in Amsterdam, is like a

Mourinho: "My relationship with my wife is better than my relationship with Sergio Ramos"

José Mourinho appeared in the press room at the Amsterdam Arena the day before the match against Ajax. The Portuguese coach spoke about his team’s first match away from home in the Champions League: "I studied Ajax as usual and they are a better team than last year. I have not stayed at home as many would, I came to see them live and to do my job better. We have worked on some things yesterday

Preview: Ajax vs Real Madrid (Champions League, Day 2)

Through the respect inspired by Ajax you could determine the age of a fan of Real Madrid. While those over age 40 will adjust the tie to talk about tonight's opponent, those under 20 will show the same consideration that to Dinamo Zagreb and APOEL Nicosia. It is not uncommon. It is almost two decades that Ajax disappeared from the European elite (won the 1995 Champions League and lost the final

Sergio Ramos keeps his fight with Mourinho

After the win against Deportivo, Sergio Ramos talked to the media: "I die with my ideas and my principles, and if there is something I do not like, why do I have to keep quiet? I do not have so much experience as the coach but nobody can doubt my work and loyalty to the club".



Sergio Ramos and Jose Mourinho


The message was clearly aimed at Mourinho, who had spoken the day before about the

Cristiano Ronaldo continues in the fight for the Golden Ball

Cristiano Ronaldo is back to his best scoring version just in the week of the Classic. The Portuguese did not look the same after finishing the last league (46 goals in 38 games) and after showing a great level at the Euro 2012. He had scored only 3 goals in 5 league matches and saw himself walk away from the fight for the Spanish Top Scorer (Pichichi) and the Golden Boot (Messi had scored 6

Real Madrid 5 - 1 Dep. La Coruña (Spanish League, Day 6)

Real Madrid have a squad so varied and of such quality, that the order of the factors does not alter the product. Even a starting line-up out from a lottery drum would be convenient and winner. And do not understand this as a slight to the coaching staff, it's almost a compliment: it was they who chose the players. Its tasks also is exploring new avenues and yesterday, with drum or method, opened