Valencia is a Mediterranean port and a thriving hub of both tourism and culture. The wealth generated from the largest port in the Mediterranean saw mass investment in city projects which means V...
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For anyone who has seen the film The Expendables, the idea of what Levante Union Deportiva are trying to achieve will not seem too dissimilar. However, this rag-tag bunch of has-beens is not led ...
Levante travelled to Andalucia sitting two points ahead of their hosts in the table and well-placed for an assault on the European places in the New Year. What promised to be an intriguing enco...
They defied the odds last season. In the earlier part of the campaign, the simply defied belief. As Halloween approached and as the cold winter temperatures slowly blew in, Levante were sitting v...
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A remarkable weekend of European football sees a host of grudge matches being played across the continent with Real Madrid’s trip to face Barcelona at the Camp Nou being the pick of the crop fo...
Now let’s be honest. How many of you thought that Levante would be fighting for their first division survival with just two fixtures of the La Liga season remaining? Instead, two favourable res...
GETTY IMAGES A banner at the Estadi Ciutat de Valencia reads, “We are poor, ugly and play no football.” However, the self-deprecating fans of Levante fail to mention that their side, full of ...
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Manuel Queimadelos Alonso/GETTY IMAGES At 6pm on Sunday, Valencia face what could prove a season-defining game at the Mestalla. Their opponents, and city rivals, Levante could move level on point...
La Rosaleda hosted two sides trying to finish fourth and qualify for next seasons Champions League. Málaga essentially lined up in a 4-3-3. Toulalan was behind Isco and Santi Cazorla in central ...
EFE The poem Tithonus by Alfred Lord Tennyson includes the famous line “after many a summer dies the swan”, a quote Aldous Huxley also went on to use as the title to his 1939 novel that t...
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GETTY Images/Manuel Queimadelos Alonso As is always the case in Spain, the monster that is El Clásico engulfed everything in its path this week. The Spanish press, already fixated on the big two...
It may be the season of goodwill to all men but that didn’t stop two La Liga managers entering this weekend with clouds of uncertainty hanging over their jobs. After disappointing starts to the...
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There is only one place to start this evening and that’s at the Bernabeau where Barcelona, despite conceding within the opening thirty seconds, were victorious in the first league ‘clásico�...