Espanyol Team News
Goodbye Dani Jarque
By: Armando |
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It’s not that I didn’t want to write anymore on Dani Jarque, that I didn’t think the story was important to continue, not at all, but I didn’t want to belabor the point. I didn”t want to drag it out or be disrespectful, or even take advantage of it at all. When tragedies like this [...]
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Random Thoughts
By: Armando | 9 Comments
When a tragedy happens in sports, especially in football where people identify so strongly with their own and you have derby games or rivalry matches that bring the worst emotions out of people, more than just competitiveness I mean, real hatred for the shirt of your opponent, and something like this happens, you find all [...]
Category: Espanyol Team NewsDani Jarque, Espanyol captain RIP
By: Armando | 28 Comments
When you’re 26 years old and the starting central defender for an up and coming club like Espanyol, recently made Captain of the squad in fact under Mauricio Pochettino, you shouldn’t be expecting that it can all be taken away from you, that you could go to your hotel room on a tour of Italy [...]
Category: Espanyol Team NewsEspanyol Notes: New Stadium
By: Armando | No Comments
Today is the day for the official grand opening of the new stadium at Cornella el Pratt, the Nou Sarria as some of my colleagues are calling it, or officially the new RCD Espanyol Stadium. It’s an important game for Liverpool, they start their season sooner than Espanyol do and I’m sure Rafa will urge [...]
Category: Espanyol Team NewsEspanyol Notes
By: Armando | 5 Comments
Today is the day for the official grand opening of the new stadium at Cornella el Pratt, the Nou Sarria as some of my colleagues are calling it, or officially the new RCD Espanyol Stadium. It’s an important game for Liverpool, they start their season sooner than Espanyol do and I’m sure Rafa will urge [...]
Category: Espanyol Team NewsTamudo
By: Armando | 3 Comments
When you’re club captain for so long and a talismanic figure to the only club you have ever played for in the first division, I realize he was on loan at Alaves and LLeida early on in his career, it is surprising to hear that the club is not only refusing to renegotiate the contract [...]
Category: Espanyol Team NewsEstadio de Cornellá – El Prat
By: Armando | 1 Comment
The new stadium is ready, we’ve got the keys to the Ferrari, and all we’re waiting for is Liverpool to inaugurate it in August. In the mean-time, let me get out some facts about the new place as like all pericos, I am very proud of our “new birdhouse” and glad that the bad taste [...]
Category: Espanyol Team NewsEspanyol 3-0 Valencia
By: Armando | 3 Comments
Let me just stop and say that again. Espanyol 3 and Valencia 0. This is the same club last week that should have beaten Barcelona soundly at the Mestalla, a club with the likes of Villa, Silva and my favorite new player Mata, of course he’d be a lot better if he came out in [...]
Category: Espanyol Team NewsDipinto di bianconeri?
By: Armando | No Comments
No you are not reading the wrong blog. I just wanted to give you a taste of what might have been coming out of the new stadium next year. According to some websites, primarily Italian calcio sites with nothing better to write about this time of year, there are talks ongoing between Sanchez-Llibre and the [...]
Category: Espanyol Team NewsFC Barcelona 1-2 RCD Espanyol
By: Armando | 4 Comments
Sometimes in football, like in this match, the most incomprehensible things occur; the littlest player on the field (Ivan de la Pena) comes through with an unlikely header, unmarked and unchallenged, and then he adds to the tally with a monumental gift by Victor Valdez chipping it over the keeper after receving a wayward clearance [...]
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