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Álex López (footballer, Born 1997)
Alejandro "Álex" López Moreno (born 2 June 1997) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Marbella FC. Club career Born in Terrassa, Barcelona, Catalonia, López joined RCD Espanyol's youth setup in 2009, from UFB Jàbac Terrassa. He made his senior debut with the reserves on 2 November 2014, coming on as a second-half substitute for Julián Luque in a 1–2 Segunda División B away loss against Elche CF Ilicitano. López was definitely promoted to the B-team in July 2016, and scored his first senior goal on 17 December of that year by netting the opener through a penalty kick in a 3–0 home defeat of CE Sabadell FC. On 11 July 2017, after suffering relegation, he renewed his contract until 2022. On 28 May 2018, López was definitely promoted to the main squad in La Liga ahead of the 2018–19 campaign. He made his professional debut on 1 November, starting in a 1–2 away loss against Cádiz CF, for the season's Copa del Rey. Lóp ...
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Terrassa
Terrassa () is a city in central-eastern Catalonia and in the province of Barcelona (Spain). It is one of the two capitals of Vallès Occidental county, being the larger in both area and population. The name ''Terrassa'' derives from Latin ''Terracia'', either from earlier ''Terracium castellum'' (“earthen castle”), or meaning "terrace", "area of flat land". Historically, the name of the city has been spelled ''Terraça, Terraza, Terraca'' and ''Tarrassa'' in the native Catalan language whilst it's been traditionally spelled ''Tarrasa'' in Spanish language, Spanish. The Spanish spelling is now largely out of use given its ties with the Francoist Spain, Francoist Regime and the sole official spelling being the Catalan ''Terrassa'' since 1978. Terrassa is known for its industrial past and present, its lively cultural scene, its industrial modernist architecture, its status as a "City of Film" and as the seat of several universities such as Polytechnic University of Catalonia, ...
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Penalty Kick (association Football)
A penalty kick (commonly known as a penalty or a spot kick) is a method of restarting play in association football, in which a player is allowed to take a single shot at the goal while it is defended only by the opposing team's Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper. It is awarded when an foul (sports), offence punishable by a direct free kick is committed by a player in their own penalty area. The shot is taken from the penalty spot, which is 11 metres (12 yards) from the goal line and centered between the touch lines,Penalty only give if a foul start inside the 16m50 area,if a player fall in 16m50 area but the foul start outside the 16m50,it not a penalty Procedure The ball is placed on the penalty spot, regardless of where the foul occurred within the penalty area. The player taking the kick must be identified to the referee. Only the kicker and the defending team's goalkeeper are allowed to be within the penalty area; all other players must be within the field of pla ...
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2019–20 Segunda División
The 2019–20 Segunda División season, also known as LaLiga SmartBank for sponsorship reasons, was the 89th since its establishment. On 12 March 2020 after most of teams had played 31 games, the league was suspended for at least two weeks due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain. The league was suspended indefinitely on 23 March. The season recommenced on 10 June and was initially planned to be completed on 20 July. On 20 July 2020, the final day of the regular season, Deportivo de La Coruña's match against Fuenlabrada was suspended indefinitely due to several Fuenlabrada players testing positive for COVID-19, therefore, delaying the official end of the season, whilst relegating Deportivo without even playing their match. The match was finally played on 7 August, resulting in a 2–1 win for Deportivo. Teams Promotion and relegation (pre-season) A total of 22 teams contested the league, including fifteen sides from the 2018–19 season, three relegated from the 2018–19 La Li ...
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Segunda División
The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Segunda División, commonly known as Segunda División or La Liga 2, and officially known as LaLiga HyperMotion for sponsorship reasons, is the men's second professional association football division of the Spanish football league system. Administered by , it is contested by 22 teams, with the top two teams plus the winner of a La Liga play-offs, play-off Promotion and relegation, promoted to La Liga and replaced by the three lowest-placed teams in that division. History The Second Division National Championship was inaugurated concurrently with the La Liga, First Division, during the 1928-29 season. This setup comprised twenty teams divided into two groups: A and B. Group A functioned as the secondary national level, where the leading team would contest promotion to the First Division and the bottom two faced relegation to the Third Division. Conversely, Group B represented the third tier, wherein two teams were promoted to the Second Divisio ...
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Real Sociedad
Real Sociedad de Fútbol, more commonly referred to as Real Sociedad ( ; ''Royal Society'') in English, and Erreala or Reala in Basque language, Basque, is a Spanish professional sports club in the city of San Sebastián, Donostia / San Sebastián, Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Country, founded on 7 September 1909. It plays its home matches at the Anoeta Stadium. Real Sociedad won the Liga title in 1980–81 La Liga, 1980–81 and 1981–82 La Liga, 1981–82, and finished runner-up in 1979–80 La Liga, 1979–80, 1987–88 La Liga, 1987–88, and 2002–03 La Liga, 2002–03. The club has also won the Copa del Rey three times, in 1909 Copa del Rey, 1909, 1986–87 Copa del Rey, 1987, and 2019–20 Copa del Rey, 2020. It contests the Basque derby against rivals Athletic Bilbao. Real Sociedad was a founding member of La Liga in 1929; its longest spell in the top flight was for 40 seasons, from 1967 to 2007. Traditionally the club followed a policy (Athletic Bilbao s ...
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Óscar Melendo
Óscar Melendo Jiménez (born 23 August 1997) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a right winger for Chinese Super League club Shanghai Port. Club career Espanyol Born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Melendo joined RCD Espanyol's youth setup in 2003, aged six. On 8 June 2016, he was promoted to the reserves in the Segunda División B, and signed a three-year deal with the club on 20 July. Melendo appeared in his first professional match on 20 August 2016, starting in a 1–1 away draw against UE Llagostera. He made his first-team – and La Liga – debut on 20 November, coming on as a second-half substitute for Hernán Pérez in the 1–0 away win over Deportivo Alavés. On 1 February 2017, Melendo renewed his contract until 2022 and was definitely promoted to the main squad ahead of the 2017–18 season. On 17 January of the following year, he scored a late winner to help the hosts defeat FC Barcelona 1–0 in the first leg of the quarter-finals of the Copa del Re ...
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Copa Del Rey
The , commonly known as , or (in English) the Spanish Cup or King's Cup, and formerly known as Copa del Presidente de la República (1932–1936) and Copa del Generalísimo (1939–1976), is an annual knockout football competition in Spanish football, organized by the Royal Spanish Football Federation. The competition was founded in 1903, making it the oldest Spanish football competition played at a national level. Copa del Rey winners qualify for the following season's UEFA Europa League. If they have already qualified for Europe through their league position, the Europa League spot is given to the highest-placed team in the league who has not yet qualified (until 2014 this place was awarded to the Copa runners-up, unless they too had already qualified via the league). Barcelona is the most successful club in the competition, having won 32 titles. Athletic Bilbao has the second-most wins with 24, while Real Madrid is third with 20. Barcelona is also the most recent winn ...
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Cádiz CF
Cádiz Club de Fútbol, S.A.D. is a Spanish professional football club based in Cádiz, Andalusia. Founded in 1910, the club competes in Segunda División, holding home games at Nuevo Mirandilla, with a seating capacity of 20,724. Salvadoran legend Mágico González played for the club during the 1980s and the early 1990s, and is widely recognized as the best player to ever play for the team. Between 1929 and 1977, Cádiz played in either the second or third tier of Spanish football. In 1977, Cádiz achieved promotion to La Liga for the first time. Since then Cádiz has played sixteen seasons in the first tier, as well as spending several at the second level. History The first documented game of Cádiz CF was played against Cádiz Sporting Club on Thursday, 8 September 1910. Cádiz CF won it 1–0. Two days later on 10 September 1910, several Cádiz citizens appealed to the Civil Government to register a club under the name Cádiz Foot-Ball Club. One of the founders was Jos ...
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Marca (newspaper)
(), stylised as , is Spain's national daily tabloid sport newspaper owned by Unidad Editorial. The newspaper focuses primarily on football, in particular the day-to-day activities of Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, and Atlético Madrid. It has a daily readership of over 2.5 million, the highest in Spain for a daily newspaper, and more than half of Spain's total sports readership, as of 2007. Since February 2001, there has also been an association 24-hour/day sports radio station, Radio Marca. In 2010, the TV channel MARCA TV was launched, before being closed in 2013. History and profile was founded on 21 December 1938, at the height of the Spanish Civil War, in nationalist-held San Sebastián. Its founding editor was Manuel Fernández Cuesta, uncle of businessman Nemesio Fernández-Cuesta. On 3 September 1987 Luis Infante became the editor of the paper. Punto Editorial SA was the owner of . In 1984 Espacio Editorial, which would be later called Recoletos, acquired the paper ...
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2018–19 La Liga
The 2018–19 La Liga season, also known as LaLiga Santander for sponsorship reasons, was the 88th since its establishment. The season began on 17 August 2018 and concluded on 19 May 2019. Fixtures for the 2018–19 season were announced on 24 July 2018. This was the first La Liga season to use the VAR. Barcelona were the defending champions, and they secured a second consecutive title with three games to spare following victory over Levante on 27 April. Huesca, Rayo Vallecano and Valladolid joined as the promoted clubs from the 2017–18 Segunda División. They replaced Málaga, Las Palmas and Deportivo La Coruña, who were relegated to the 2018–19 Segunda División. This is the first season since 2008–09 that did not feature the league's all time second-highest scorer Cristiano Ronaldo, who departed to Juventus in the summer. Summary Several clubs made managerial changes before the start of the season. Among them were Real Madrid, when Zinedine Zidane resigned follow ...
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La Liga
The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Primera División, commonly known as the Primera División or La Liga, and officially known as LaLiga EA Sports for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Spain and the highest level of the Spanish football league system. It is controlled by the Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional and contested by 20 teams over a 38-matchday period. Since its inception, All-time La Liga table, 62 teams have competed in La Liga, with nine teams crowned champions. Real Madrid CF, Real Madrid and FC Barcelona, Barcelona have dominated the competition, winning 36 and 28 titles respectively. In the 1940s, Valencia CF, Valencia, Atlético Madrid, and Barcelona emerged as the strongest clubs. Real Madrid and Barcelona led the charge in the 1950s, each winning four titles. During the 1960s and 1970s, Real Madrid dominated with fourteen titles, with Atlético Madrid winning four. During the 1980s and 1990s, Real Madrid remained prominent ...
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