The forgotten academy: Real Madrid

Everyone in the world has heard about ‘La Masia’, Barcelona’s youth academy which year after year produces exceptional talent and has housed superstars such as Lionel Messi, Xavi and Andres Iniesta (just to name three). Almost every game they have many youth products in their starting eleven and the publicity their academy gets is understandable and justified. But what about their great rivals, Real Madrid?

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Under-rated Ramos reaches 100 caps mark (video)

Sergio Ramos celebrated his 100th cap for a Spain with a goal and the captain's armband on Friday night.

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Michael Owen deserves credit (video)

Please note that 'Owen deserves credit' is nothing to do with his current financial status at.

As we have heard by now, Michael Owen this week announced that he'll be hanging up his boots at the end of the season.

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Michael Owen's Real Madrid adventure

I was saddened to hear the news of Michael Owen's retirement this week because his was a careeer so full of brilliant potential that never quite reached the heights it was supposed to due to injury.

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Vintage Keane (Video)

In his post football career Roy Keane has managed to create almost the same amount of controversy as he did during his playing days.

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Premier League on the decline?

With there being no English representation in the last eight of the Champions League this season, there has been much debate on whether or not the Premier League is of the quality that it was just a few years ago.  Well, it depends how you look at it.

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Bayern Munich vs Juventus is pick of the bunch

As we enter the business end of the football season across Europe's leagues we also start to narrow down the field in that most hallowed of competitions the Champions League.

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PSG's Leonardo a smooth operator (Video)

With all the negative coverage that surrounds footballers these days it is sometimes easy to forget that they are, in fact, regular human beings just like you and I (some of them at least).

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Luis Figo: there's more to him than hair dye (Video)

I didn't know that Luis Figo had hit such hard times that he had to resort to doing adverts for a well know men's hair dye brand.

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5 of the greatest ever Premier League strikers: The poachers (videos)

The goal poacher - The man who was the goal hanger at school, the one who wants to bask in the glory and do none of the running, the player whose short sprints and clever movement inside the box sees  them create space and put the ball in the net.

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The European Golden Shoe 2013 (video)

Philip Hosiner and Arturas Rimkevicius find their names amongst Europe's elite in this season's race for the European Golden Shoe, however unsurprisingly Lionel Messi looks set to retain his title having scored 40 La Liga goals already this season.

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Ronaldo to United - could it happen?

Could Cristiano Ronaldo make a dramatic move back to his old stomping ground from Real Madrid?

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Gaizka Mendieta: Boro legend (Video)

Gaizka Mendieta had, by all accounts, a pretty interesting career.

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Esteban Cambiasso: an underrated great (Video)

Whilst most eyes tonight will be on Tottenham's man of the moment Gareth Bale, the Europa League tie between Spurs and Inter gives us a chance to take a closer look at one of the finest midfielders of the past decade: Esteban Cambiasso.

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Is this the end for Rooney at United?

Despite not being Wayne Rooney's biggest fan I have felt that the some of the abuse directed at the Manchester United frontman has been unjust.

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