This Sunday, Athletic Bilbao coach Marcelo Bielsa finally returns to face an Espanyol side he managed 13 years ago. It won´t be an easy reception. He left us in the lurch. It was early on in the season when he left for Argentina but we were bottom of the table after an uncomfortable series of [...]
The new Espanyol USA blog is now a go. If you are coming here from my previous work at the Espanyol: Offside Blog then congratulations for finding me. I hope to continue to provide news and insight about my favorite club in La Liga. Nothing will change, just the title on top and the name [...]
Mes que un club, sorry to say it but I laugh every-time I hear the blasted phrase. Sure, they say that the club is a Catalan club, but will we argue who is more Catalan if they live there much as we do? More than a club. A slogan of Catalan independence and identity and [...]
Some of you might have wondering what a Barcelona player is doing on an Espanyol website and you’d probably be right on most occasions, but this is a special player and more than that, a special person. Scoring the decisive goal in a World Cup final is the culmination of many a kid’s dreams, and [...]
This is from the Espanyol website regarding the release of a special preseason strip: Espanyol today unveiled the new limited edition shirt that Li-Ning has prepared for the preseason. It is a very special piece presented today, in a ceremony that took place in the RCDE Stadium newsroom, by Minister Augustus Newton, Coach Mauricio Pochettino, [...]
Coming into the match all anyone wanted to talk about was by how much the visitors would beat the host, what sort of goleada the blaugranas would defile the brand, spanking new stadium at Cornella-el Pratt by. It was an obvious discussion really, Barcelona were rolling and Espanyol had just come off a midweek loss [...]
