Real Madrid Update

 In the past week Real Madrid C.F. has played three games, one in La Liga (the Spnanish League) and two in the Champions League (where the best clubs in Europe compete).
 In their La Liga game they played against FC Barcelona, their rival Spanish club, in which they won 2-1, making a break away from their constant losing against their rival.

From Real Madrid

 In their Champions League game they played against Bayern Munich (a German club) twice, the first one in the home stadium of Bayern and the other in Santiago Bernabeu, the stadium of Real Madrid. In their first game Real Madrid lost to Bayern 2-1, while in their second game they scored 2-1 making both teams have a even score in terms of goals and wins, but since this is already the semi-finals of the Champions League, a penalty shootout was necessary. In the penalty shootout Bayern scored 3, while Real Madrid scored 1. It would have been a tie, but a Real Madrid player's shot went over the goal. Bayern wasn't able to score more than two goals in the penalty shootout because Real Madrid's goalkeeper (Iker Casillas) saved the rest of the shots and that's one of the reasons why he is considered the world's best goalkeeper.

From Real Madrid

 Bayern Munich will proceed to the finals, and will play against Chelsea on May 19.Chelsea is an English club that defeated FC Barcelona recently and is a top club in the English Premier League.

'El Clàsico'

  'El Clàsico' is a Spanish phrase meaning 'The Classic', it's now the title given to the matches between the two top clubs in Spain. The two rival  teams that participate in this matches are Real Madrid C.F. and F.C. Barcelona. The rivalry is said to have started around the 1930's, and starting from then until now many people have watched their games, since their rivalry has lasted for such a long time it has been given a name-'El Clàsico'.They have both fought and won many leagues and cups, although they don't meet often, when they do, more than a hundred million people watch there games worldwide. What makes the games even more exciting is that each team has one of the top strikers of the Spanish leagues, Real Madrid has Cristiano Ronaldo, while Barcelona has Lionel Messi. All in all they have played 218 matches against each other, each one with different winners. I found the statistics in Wikipedia so I posted it here:

Real Madrid wins	86
Draws	46
FC Barcelona wins	85
Real Madrid goals	364
FC Barcelona goals	351
Total matches	218

  There will be an 'El Clàsico' game this coming April 21 at 8:00 p.m. CET. It will be held at Camp Nou, the stadium of F.C. Barcelona.

Although I'm trying to make this an unbiased post, the team I'll be cheering for is Real Madrid, so if your cheering for Barcelona, no hard feelings even if Barcelona wins.