EXTRA FA CUP TICKETS
March 30, 2010
There’s an extra 800 tickets available for the FA Cup semi-final clash with Aston Villa, taking place at Wembley on Saturday 10 April.
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March 22, 2010
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March 22, 2010
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March 9, 2010
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Real Madrid Tickets
March 8, 2010
Real Madrid (and in Spain, within an adequate context, simply as el Madrid), is a professional football club based in Madrid, Spain. It is the most successful team in Spanish football and was voted by FIFA as the most successful club of the 20th century.
Accomplishments
They have a record of winning nine European Cups and two UEFA Cups. Real was a founding member of FIFA and the now-defunct Gâ14 group of Europe’s leading football clubs as well as its replacement, the European Club Association. The word “Real” in the club’s name is the Spanish term for “Royal”, and was added in 1920 together with the royal crown in the emblem.
History
Real Madrid started when football was introduced to Madrid by the professors and students of the Institución Libre de Enseñanza, which included several Oxbridge graduates. They founded Football Club Sky in 1897, playing on Sunday mornings at Moncloa. In 1929, the first Spanish football league was founded. Real Madrid lead the first edition until the last match, a loss to Athletic Bilbao, meant they finished runners-up to Barcelona. In the 1970s, Real Madrid won 5 league championships and 3 Spanish Cups. The club played its first UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup final in 1971, being defeated by English side Chelsea with 2-1. By the early 1980s, Real Madrid had lost its grasp on the La Liga title until a new batch of home-grown stars brought domestic success back to the club.
Spanish sport journalist Julio César Iglesias gave to this generation the name La Quinta del Buitre. In the early 1990s, La Quinta del Buitre split up after MartÃn Vázquez, Emilio Butragueño and MÃchel left the club. In 1996, President Lorenzo Sanz appointed Fabio Capello as coach. In July 2000, Florentino Pérez was elected club president. His campaign vowed to erase the club’s debt and modernize the club’s facilities. Ramón Calderón was elected as club president on 2 July 2006 and subsequently appointed Fabio Capello as the new coach and Predrag Mijatovi? as the new sporting director. Real Madrid won the La Liga title in 2007 for the first time in four years but Capello was sacked. In the 2007â08 season, The Whites won the domestic league for the 31st time, achieving their first consecutive league title in eighteen years.
Stadiums
After moving between grounds the team moved to the “Campo de O’Donnell” in 1912, which remained its home ground for eleven years. A new stadium was built and was inaugurated on 14 December 1947. This was the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium as it is known today, although it did not acquire this name until 1955. The Bernabéu has hosted the 1964 European Championship final, the 1982 FIFA World Cup final, the 1957, 1969 and 1980 European Cup finals and is due to host the 2010 Champions League Final.
The stadium has its own Madrid Metro station along the 10 line called Santiago Bernabéu. On 9 May 2006, the Alfredo Di Stéfano Stadium was inaugurated at the City of Madrid where Real Madrid usually trains. The inaugural match was played between Real Madrid and Stade Reims, a rematch of the 1956 European Cup final. Real Madrid won the match 6â1 with goals from Sergio Ramos, Cassano (2), Soldado (2), and Jurado. The venue is now part of the Ciudad Real Madrid, the club’s new training facilities located outside Madrid in Valdebebas. The stadium holds 5,000 people and is Real Madrid Castilla’s home ground.
Statistics and records
Raúl is Real’s all-time top goalscorer, with 318 goals in 718 games (1994â). Four other players have also scored over 200 goals for Real: Alfredo di Stefano (1953â64), Santillana (1971â88), Ferenc Puskás (1958â66) and Hugo Sánchez (1985â92). Sánchez holds the record for the most league goals scored in one season (38 in 1989â90). Di Stéfano’s 49 goals in 58 matches was for decades the all-time highest tally in the European Cup, until it was surpassed by Raúl in 2005. The fastest goal in the history of the club (15 seconds) was scored by Brazilian Ronaldo on 3 December 2003 during a league match against Atlético Madrid.
The “Whites” also hold the record for winning the UEFA Champions League nine times and for the most semi-final appearances (21). Raúl González is the all-time UEFA Champions League top scorer, with 66 goals. The team has the record number of consecutive participation in the European Cup with 15, from 1955â56 to 1969â70.
Supporters and rivalries
During most home matches the majority of the seats in the stadium are occupied by season ticket holders, of which there are average of 68,670. To become a season ticket holder one must first be a socio, or club member. Not all members are able to get a season ticket. In addition to members, the club has more than 1,800 peñas (official, club-affiliated supporters’ groups) in Spain and around the world. Real Madrid has the highest average all-time attendance in Spanish football and regularly attracts over 65,000 fans to Santiago Bernabéu; it was the second best-supported La Liga team in the 2004â05 season, with an average gate of 71,900.
The club has a large and diverse fanbase, who hold some long-standing rivalries with other clubs; It semiannually contests the El Clásico with FC Barcelona, its most notable rival. Real Madrid’s hardcore fans are the so-called Ultras Sur supporters. They are known for their right-wing politics. The Ultras Sur have developed an alliance with some S.S. Lazio Irriducibili fans. On several occasions they have racially abused opposing players, and have been investigated by UEFA for doing so.
The Champions League tickets of all matches are now available for sale. Real Madrid Tickets of its matches around the World are for sale at ticket4football.com, you can buy the Champions League final Tickets also here.
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