Espanyol Offside

By: Mando | June 26th, 2011

   

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You might be wondering why, after over a year away from the site, I´d come back and start contributing to the Offside again. The website at Forzafutbol.com is getting great coverage, and I take great pride in that and will continue to provide some good commentary about the league as whole with daily updates and features. Our podcast is growing: the Forza Futbol Virtual Spanish Pub is a weekly event where the craziest supporters and pundits come on with us so you can listen into that pub argument you always wanted to chime in on but couldn´t. Well, we´re looking to find a way for you to do that as well.

So why would I start this up again just as my plate is getting full? Well, I love to talk to people about their passionate support of clubs, and I love to write opinions about La Liga which is my favorite league bar-none, but I was neglecting something.

I´m not just a guy who covers the sport. Soy hincha. I am an Espanyolista. I love my club. I love my club so much I started a Supporter´s Club in Los Angeles, California which is 6,000 miles from Barcelona. We have a website at EspanyolUSA.info where you can contact us about joining our penya. I have been interviewed by Radio Marca Barcelona and Cadena Cope and you can find a huge write-up about us at RCDEspanyol.com.

Plus, with all the marketing and web-design stuff taking up most of my time on Forza Futbol, I wanted to set aside part of my day for putting on my scarf and my hat, and rooting on my beloved blanquiazul and then posting stuff here, where all I need to do is write and not have to worry about the ancillary stuff.

The Offside guys let me join their site fours years ago and I´ve been wishy-washy about covering Espanyol for them. That´s going to change. So stay tuned current and future pericos for some interesting coverage of RCD Espanyol at the Offsides.

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• Jose P |  June 28th, 2011 at 4:10 pm

  
  
  

  crazy! i posted a few days ago regarding the issues with osvaldo and afterwards i decided to take a look at espanyol’s website, not being too familiar with espanyol. my only knowledge of your club comes from what i’ve read in Morbo and Wikipedia. (i have a love for spanish and italian football and i try to read about as many clubs as i can.) anyway, on the RCD Espanyol website i was trying to look for the socio webpage and stumbled upon the supporter page for USA fans. lo and behold it linked me back to this page. awesome! look forward to reading your blog if you keep posting.

  

• Mando |  June 30th, 2011 at 1:27 am

  
  
  

  Thanks Jose. Glad you found us at EspanyolUSA and that you were able to find the blog back here. I had a blog at EspanyolUSA, but I want to concentrate my efforts to build the penya in Los Angeles not to market or run a website. I already do enough of that. Here I get to be a fan. Thanks for stopping by. I won´t promise to post every-day (there just isn´t that much news right now) but I´ll try to make it regular.

  

• Carey Calix |  June 30th, 2011 at 12:54 pm

  
  
  

  Do you people have a facebook or myspace fan webpage? I looked for for one on facebook or twitter but could not locate one, I would love to become a fan!

  

• Mando |  June 30th, 2011 at 4:09 pm

  
  
  

  Carey, try this link for the espanyol usa page on facebook
  http://www.facebook.com/pages/RCD-Espanyol-USA/110710538966913

  

• Janella Boswell |  July 2nd, 2011 at 4:33 am

  
  
  

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• Samara Fendley |  July 3rd, 2011 at 12:15 pm

  
  
  

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• Mando |  July 3rd, 2011 at 1:51 pm

  
  
  

  I could have thrown the other two posts into the spam folder, but I thought twert funny. These are so clearly spam, keep them coming though

  

• Maurice Provencal |  July 14th, 2011 at 4:44 pm

  
  
  

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• windeleimer |  July 17th, 2011 at 7:35 pm

  
  
  

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