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It's been all about the R-word in Madrid over the last week. Not Real Madrid and not Ronaldo. Not Ramos and no, not even Raul Albiol, despite the back-up defender enjoying a good game in Madrid's 2-1 derby victory against Atletico at the Vicente C...

Real Madrid boss Jose Mourinho has put his focus on a solid defence for his side's Champions League semi-final first leg clash at Dortmund on Wednesday night, but it'd be wrong to suggest Los Blancos will travel to Germany with a defensive approach. ...

David Beckham, ICBC, Angela Merkel, Dustin Moskovitz, Carlos Slim and now Real Madrid. An eclectic mix but names that all share common ground. Madrid were absent from that group until Wednesday, when Forbes Magazine confirmed Los Blancos as the mo...

They said it was going to be an impossible task for Galatasaray to overhaul a 3-0 deficit against nine-time European Cup winner Real Madrid, but the Super Lig side gave Jose Mourinho and his men a scare at the Turk Telekom Arena before eventually bow...

Cuneyt Cakir's name won't be forgotten in a hurry at Old Trafford. Real Madrid progressed to the quarter-finals of the Champions League with a 2-1 victory at Old Trafford, giving Los Blancos a 3-2 win on aggregate, but all the talk post-match was of ...

The Correspondent Q & A before the first leg of the last-16 Champions League tie between Real Madrid and Manchester United proved a big hit, so much so that ESPNFC Manchester United blogger Mark Payne and I thought we would do it again for Tuesda...

If Jose Mourinho is playing out his final months at the Santiago Bernabeu, he's certainly playing them out with a fire in his belly that has been missing for too long this season. Real Madrid's league form has been horrible, but their campaign may be...

Well, what a 90 minutes that was. "The match the world is waiting for," as it was billed by some, including the managers, was certainly up there as far as top-drawer matches go. Prematch drama, end-to-end action, goals, debatable decisions, misses...

One would be forgiven for thinking the Champions League is further down the line than simply the first knockout stage. A good stage to be at, granted, but not yet the "business end," where you can sniff the trophy, and in Madrid's case, sniff a tenth...

Like a neat one-two between Cristiano Ronaldo and Mesut Ozil - or should that be Robin van Persie and Wayne Rooney? - I've linked up with ESPNFC's Manchester United correspondent Mark Payne to do an inter-blog question-and-answer piece ahead of Wedne...

All eyes were firmly on Manchester United and the Champions League at the Bernabeu on Saturday night, but an under-strength Real Madrid side was still good enough to stroll to a 4-1 victory over Sevilla in La Liga. - Ronaldo nets hat trick in win ...

Hurray! Hallelujah! Yippee! All is well in the world again -- in Cristiano Ronaldo's world, at least. Real Madrid's Portuguese star has declared he is happy at the Santiago Bernabeu again, just months after claiming he was anything but. "I am unh...

There may be plenty of problems at the Santiago Bernabeu this season but Cristiano Ronaldo is not one of them. The Portuguese has been a beast of a player on the pitch for Real Madrid ever since his arrival but Madrid's talisman and top-scorer has...

"We want to show that we're improving and recovering our form from last year," Madrid defender Raul Albiol said before his side's 5-0 thrashing of Valencia at the Mestalla on Sunday night - Los Blancos' second victory over Los Che in less than a wee...

No Cristiano Ronaldo, no spark. That was the outcome of one of Real Madrid's most lacklustre performances of the season Saturday night in Pamplona as La Liga basement dwellers Osasuna held the champions to a 0-0 stalemate. Los Blancos' Portuguese ...

Smile and clap, Cristiano. Smile and clap. As the cameras panned to Cristiano Ronaldo, applauding Lionel Messi for winning the Ballon d'Or award for a record fourth consecutive time, it was hard to imagine anything other than one of those scenes f...