Forza Futbol podcast week 12 is now available for your listening pleasure!

Special Edition - Vamos La Liga - our Yearend Review of the Spanish League

We review the Highs and Lows on a Team by Team basis.

At last! We roll out the red carpet and dish out our Best and Worst Awards!

Team of the Season - Best and Worst
Player of the season - Best and Worst
Best and Worst Signing or Transfer
Coach of the year - Best and Worst
Best and Worst Game
Best Goal
Best and Worst Rumor
Best and Worst Italian player playing abroad
Best and Worst Hair
Best and Worst Kit
Who's Hot and Who's Not
Top 11 of the Season

We also briefly highlight some Copa America games.

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FORZA FUTBOL PODCAST WEEK 10 IS AVAILABLE FOR LISTEN!

In this episode we discuss-

La Liga Final Round 38-
We review the final round and crown the campeones of La Liga.  (Real Madrid v Mallorca, Nastic v Barcelona, Sevilla v Villarreal). We also review the relegation games and who is going down to Segunda. (Athletic Bilbao v Levante, Valencia v Real Sociedad, Celta Vigo v Getafe, Racing Santander v Real Betis)

Serie A and La Liga - It's silly season and it's getting sillier and sillier!

Gold Cup round up - quartefinals update and who will match up in the Semis.  Is a US v Mexico final destiny?

Up Close and Personal with Forza - we find out how Hannah got into the beautiful game.

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In this episode we discuss- 

La Liga Round 37 - the title race is on -Real Zaragoza v Real Madrid, Barcelona v Espanyol, Mallorca v Sevilla, best of the rest, and as the relegation battle turns...

Internationals round up (España v Liechenstein, Lithuania v Italia and England v Estonia)

Serie A and La Liga- transfer rumors, news and gossip aka silly season gone wild!

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Wags Of Madrid: Putigol

Guti, or Puti, or whatever we may want to call him was born José María Gutiérrez Hernández and began his not-so-spectacular career for the Merengues as a forward, a striker, a target man for all intensive purposes, but he soon discovered that his calling in life was not to attack, to succeed Raul as a number 7 for Madrid, but to toil away further back, sometimes giving and sometimes receiving (nudge, nudge. . .), but always fabulously, showcasing his "talent" for hair, makeup and design, his skill on the pitch, but unfortunately his lack of smarts as well. On and off as it were.

There was always something a bit off about Guti; the fact that the Madrid papers characterized him as being shocked that his actress/singer girlfriend at that time was a transvestite, made all comers laugh with a knowing nod, thinking, 'oh well, that's Guti for you.' Just added to his legend as you would say.

Well, the story is a little more complicated than that. The girlfriend in question was actually noted cabaret singer Bibiana Fernandez, more commonly known by her stage name Bibi Andersen, than by her birth name Manuel. The Madrid papers made it into a comic farce, but Bibi does have an extensive resume and was in at least 3 of Pedro Alomodovar's movies in the 1990's. I must say that despite being of basketball height, the distinguished Bibi is well over 6 feet, she does exhude her femininity well, ignoring the large hands and the Adam's apple, so Puti (that aptly named male bimbo) should be excused in his gender confusion. More on that later.

Well, to illustrate Puti's character further (thanks to Sid Lowe for this quote in the Guardian), after a game against Malaga that was over-filled with his particular brand of whiny play, one-legged Uruguayan striker Dario Silva (of course, before he lost the leg) called our boy a "poof and a baby." Guti responded fittingly, "no comment. . .but I do have a wife and a baby."

Two for that matter, a girl named Zaira and a boy with the unfortunate name of Aitor, and he still he seems confused by those little pecadillos. He has also been married, since the early part of this century, to an almost double of his previous "girl"-friend, if almost mean lacking the former's height, wingspan, or genetic structure, in Arantxa de Benito, a presenter in the television genre that Spaniards lovingly call "telebasura" or tv-trash, who was once hypnotized on camera with a finger up her nose looking for loose change, and you can see why everyone was so surprised when the happy couple parted ways. Arantxa, holding back tears in a television interview afterwards was quoted as saying that while the separation was recent, there has always been "something" separating the two. Was it the nose-picking?

Thanks to those who asked for Guti. I'd say that all requests will be answered in full, but I have a schedule to keep and a format to follow. Who am I kidding? See you next time.

Since this is the inaugural Forza Futbol WAG's edition, I thought we'd begin with the wives and girlfriend for another year and for another league and especially that of the biggest, most dysfunctional club in the world let alone La Liga: Real Madrid. 9 European Championships, and FIFA chiming in calling you the greatest club of the 20th century, and something must be a-foot, but frankly it's more what's underfoot.

First we'll begin with Raul Gonzalez, he of the one name moniker usually reserved for celebrities or South Sea Islands, and his lovely wife Maria del Carmen Sanz whom everyone inexplicably calls Mamen. More like an order given to nursery babes to suck rather than a nickname for a wife, mother of four and ex-supermodel, this Spanish beauty was discovered by "el capitan" at a bar in which she worked as a waitress and that he either frequented or owned (the data is very shaky either way).

Well he partied, often, during his oat-sowing years . So much in fact, that his superiors amongst the marbled halls decided it was becoming a distraction. An internal memo which has since disappeared was dispatched. "Get a steady girlfriend", it supposedly urged.

They married a short time later. He was 22 and she was 24, and the baby factory opened for business. First Jorge, named after famed Real Madrid nutter Valdano, and then came second child Hugo (named after Hugo Sanchez) who apparently catapulted out a somersault shortly after birth. Soon came a set of twins named Hector and Mateo who are both peripherally named after Madrid players. Personally I would have chosen the name Manolo or Venancio but I'm just warped.

And then the rumours started about trouble in paradise. Another memo was released which has since disappeared. He started kissing his ring during goal celebrations and she barely noticed since the goals themselves started to dry up. She returned to the catwalk and he and Moro got matching tattoos on their ankles. The rest. Stay tuned.