Marca Names Zizuo's First Madrid Win As "Hand Of Zidane"

Popular and respected Spanish football website Marca.com has come out in support of Zidane as the much viewed outfit as labelled his first debut as "hand of Zidane"

Hand of Zidane is easy to interpret, what they mean is simple.... the superb tactics of Zidane is now a delight at Madrid but how long will that last? for eternity or a short space of time?

Zinedine Zidane enjoyed a successful debut as Real Madrid manager with a 5-0 victory over Deportivo on Saturday night at the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu in Madrid.Gareth Bale scored a hat trick which was book-ended by Karim Benzema goals in what was a straightforward win for Los Blancos.Zidane gave little-used Isco a start in his first match in charge, as the former Málaga man joined Toni Kroos and Luka Modric in the midfield.

Real Madrid Sacks Rafa Benitez - Marca

According to well trusted Spanish website Marca.com coach Rafa Benitez as been sacked by Real Madrid.

Rafa Benítez has been given his marching orders at Real Madrid. Florentino Pérez dismissed the coach early on Monday afternoon, with Zinedine Zidane poised to take the step up from B-team Castilla in order to assume the reins. An official announcement confirming these changes is expected imminently.

Spanish Papers Back Ronaldo To Win Third Ballon d' Or

Unless something hugely remarkable happens, Cristiano Ronaldo will today win the Ballon d’Or in Zurich.The two famous Spanich papers AS & Marca have thrown their weights behind Ronaldo abandoning Messi. Ronaldo certainly had his best year as a footballer in 2014.

The front pages of both Marca and AS are tipping the Real Madrid superstar to walk home with the gold ahead of Bayern Munich goalie Manuel Neuer and Barcelona forward Lionel Messi.

MARCA's 2013 TEAM OF THE YEAR: No Premier League Player on list

As 2013 draws to a close, newspaper’s attempts to get out their pick for Team of the Year.
L’Equipe and Gazzetta dello Sport both published interesting sides.
Spanish newspaper Marca today published their XI and it contains zero players from the Premier League. The team was actually picked by readers with over 300,000 votes counted in the poll.
3 Bayern players, 3 Barcelona players, 3 Real Madrid players and 2 PSG stars feature in their 2013 XI. Xabi Alonso’s place in central midfield is certainly questionable.

Marca lists UEFA XI

MARCA highly value their readers’ input, and often put interesting surveys to them.
This week they asked their readers to choose their team of the year from UEFA’s 40-man shortlist, and revealingly have only chosen one Spaniard, Sergio Ramos, at the heart of their defence. Read more after trhe cut....

Spanish top Newspaper, Marca campaigns for Christiano Ronaldo

MARCA have trumpeted up their campaigning for Cristiano Ronaldo to win the 2013 Ballon D’Or. The unapologetically pro-Real Madrid paper produced a surprisingly biased piece of Ronaldo propaganda, even by their standards. Along with the headline, ‘Vote for Cristiano’, MARCA have upped the ante for the Ballon D’or by depicting Cristiano Ronaldo in the iconic image of US President Barack Obama, accompanied by the famous slogan, adapted to Ronaldo – ‘YES CRIS CAN’.
Can CRIS win???