At some point of every season there are the inevitable discussions over which major European league is considered the best although what the best actually comprises is seldom accurately defined. ...
https://www.centrocampista.com/2013/04/deportivo-vs-real-zaragoza-the-great-escape-part-1/
Zaragoza pulled the greatest escaped since Houdini last season avoiding relegation by winning their last four matches and seven of the last ten. However, this time around it seems that the ‘Ma�...
https://www.centrocampista.com/2013/04/zaragoza-and-their-quest-for-a-vital-win/
Barcelona secure their 11th league win from 12 league games played this season with a relatively comfortable victory over a resilient Real Zaragoza side. Setting aside their poor opening to the...
https://www.centrocampista.com/2012/11/barcelona-3-1-real-zaragoza-tactical-analysis/
A point each, two goals a piece, and symmetry in the goal scorers. The spoils were shared in the last meeting between Barcelona and Real Madrid, and though figures can be divided to add weight to...
ENRIQUE CIDONCHA ‘Sí se pudo’. Zaragoza’s 2-0 win at Getafe on Sunday night was enough to guarantee La Liga survival thanks to a remarkable run of seven wins in their last ten games, al...
By 10pm local time on Sunday night, Real Zaragoza supporters will finally know in which division their club will be playing its football next season. That it has taken until the last weekend o...
ANGEL DE CASTRO ‘Sí se puede’. (‘Yes, we can’) is a chant which has reverberated repeatedly around Zaragoza’s La Romareda home in recent weeks. However after a tumultuous week even ...
EFE Another weekend, another visit to the last chance saloon for Real Zaragoza. Three defeats in their last four games have left the club on the brink of relegation to the Liga Adelante, and o...
FELIPE GUZMÁN The evening of Thursday 12th April will almost certainly go down in history as the night when Real Zaragoza’s La Liga life support system was finally switched off, after a battle...
https://www.centrocampista.com/2012/04/game-over-zaragoza-on-the-brink-of-relegation/
Since the start of this season the bottom five La Liga clubs as of this week had all changed their coach at least once (Villareal and Racing have done so twice). So how have the new men got on ...
https://www.centrocampista.com/2012/04/five-new-la-liga-coaches-evaluated/
LigaBBVA.com ‘Sí se puede’. Yes we can. Fortunately this is not a reference to a new Spanish remake of Bob the Builder’s number one hit in the UK, but rather a phrase which sums up an ever...
EPA/ALEJANDRO GARCIA Even the news that two key players may miss the rest of the season seems not to have been enough to derail a Malaga train which is now picking up speed on the back of that ex...
https://www.centrocampista.com/2012/03/the-malaga-express-rattles-on-as-pelligrinis-men-eye-third/
AFP/GETTY IMAGES Just when Zaragoza fans thought their season could not get any stranger, along came this week. It started in familiarly disappointing mode, with a one goal lead established ag...
EFE It has been another strange and almost surreal week in the life of Real Zaragoza in the days leading up to its 80th birthday on Sunday. While concern continues to grow about the long term fut...
https://www.centrocampista.com/2012/03/twitter-and-the-taxman-another-surreal-week-in-zaragoza/
EL PERIÓDICO After months of protests, the news for which the vast majority of Real Zaragoza fans have been waiting finally arrived this week. Owner Agapito Iglesias, the man who many believe...
EFE After four and a half months of waiting, Real Zaragoza’s long-suffering supporters finally got their second home win of the campaign yesterday afternoon, and only their fourth in 25 league ...
GETTY IMAGES Supporters of Spain’s big three clubs have seen little to surprise them over the last week. Barcelona’s fans have watched their team drop yet more points on the road, before v...
A month has passed since Manolo Jimenez gave his first press conference as the new coach of Zaragoza, and little has happened in that time to convince the club’s supporters that they have any c...
https://www.centrocampista.com/2012/02/salvemos-el-real-zaragoza-crisis-deepens-at-la-romareda/
Those Real Zaragoza fans unfortunate enough to witness Saturday’s dire performance against Racing Santander, in a game widely billed as a ‘relegation six pointer’, will have started their w...
https://www.centrocampista.com/2012/01/real-zaragoza-crisis/
If any of the Racing Santander and Real Zaragoza fans making their way to ‘El Sardinero’ last night were disciples of Robert Louis Stevenson, they may well have been tempted to agree with his...
https://www.centrocampista.com/2012/01/bankruptcy-in-la-liga/
As you cross the Rio Ebro and head south along the wide avenidas towards its centre, the city of Zaragoza treats you to some magnificent sites. Its graceful fusion of Moorish, medieval and more r...
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Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia. There were tired eyes and sore heads aplenty around Spain yesterday morning as people arose to the full effects of the previous night’s party antics. And while Engl...
Real Zaragoza’s off-field turmoil continues to make headlines in Spain just one week before the Aragonese side resume their season with a crucial relegation six-pointer at Racing Santander. Th...
https://www.centrocampista.com/2012/01/michel-turns-down-zaragoza/
Javier Aguirre’s turbulent thirteen month spell as coach of Real Zaragoza seems destined to end once the Christmas weekend has passed, with the embarrassing Copa Del Rey exit against Liga Adela...
In Sunday’s early kick-off, Sporting Gijon secured three vital points thanks to a 3-1 win at Rayo Vallecano. The home side only had themselves to blame for the defeat however, as some comical d...