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First off, Hercules has been the best squad this season in nearly every statistic and is in a well deserved position of first place right now.  But what about the rest of the squads contending for postseason awards.  Lets break it down:

BEST OFFENSE

Hercules leads the league by a mere three goals over two squads this season.  Those two clubs are FC Cartagena and Rayo Vallecano.  Cartagena is on pace to finish in the promotional ranks this season, but Rayo has actually struggled to middle of the pack results this season.  You probably guessed why too.  Rayo has given up nearly as many goals as they have scored this season.

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Briefly lets take a look at the best squads in the Segunda Division:

1)  Hercules

Living up to there name Hercules has been the top offense and defense this season and the club is 11-1-1 at home.  Last year they were robbed with a 4th place finish in the league, but this season they have an 8 point advantage over the rest of the pack.

2)  Real Sociedad

Always a strong second division club Sociedad was on the top level three years ago, but recently finishing just out of promotion on the second teir has been their thing.  Hopefully this year they can change that trend and earn a spot on the top level once again. 

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Higuain is Heating Up

by The Yank

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He is heating up.  He’s on fire!

With all the big multimillion dollar transfers made by Real Madrid this season, Gonzalo Higuain was often considered an afterthought to the squads great multitude of stars.  And the irony is that the LLTO Best Player 22 & Under scored over 20 goals last season and was among the best forwards in La Liga in that critical statistic. 

And despite all the stars being brought in, Higuain has seen a great deal of time and the guy has made every minute on the pitch count. 

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Real Madrid has once again regained the top spot the Deloitte Football Money League, but that is only because of the continuing decline of the pound against the euro.

The Deloitte Football Money League list is based on clubs’ revenue excluding transfer fees

Dan Jones, partner in the sports business group at Deloitte, said:

“All the English clubs were impacted by the continuing depreciation of the pound against the euro and the scale of this is shown by the fact that if exchange rates remained at their June 2007 level, United would be top of the money league table.”

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The Two Horse Race

by The Yank

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I know it may sound a little bit crazy to say about the record breaking club, but Barcelona is having a less then spectacular year so far this season. 

I realize they just recently lost their first league match of the year, and they are currently in first place in La Liga and fifteen points ahead of third place Valencia, but when you are the first treble winners in your league’s history then the expectations for the next season become nearly impossible to reach because you have already accomplished so much. 

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He has kind of fallen off the face of the earth since his days in Barcelona, Inter, and Real Madrid, but the man who owns the record for the most career goals in the World Cup recenty announced that he soon plans to hang up the football boots for good.   Ronaldo recently signed a new two-year deal at Corinthians and the legendary striker has claimed that after that contract runs out in December of 2011 he will retire from football.

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Two of the best strikers in the Spanish league face-off this weekend (3PM on Sunday) as Diego Forlan’s Atletico Madrid play host to David Villa’s Valencia squad.  And Forlan is having a bit of a down season having only scored a measly 10 goals compared to Villa’s 17, but keep in mind that both of these guys are in that rare caliber of being 30 plus goal gamebreakers.  And does it get any better then this in European football?

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Atletico Madrid-Valencia

Got to love those matches between offensive juggernauts and this week is a special one.  Valencia has impressed this season and they possess the third best offense in the league which is a spot that many thought belonged to Atletico before the season began.  But can the home defense do what no one has been able to do this season and contain David Villa?  I doubt it simply because Villa has had a wonderful year and has been unstoppable; whereas the Atletico defense has been anything but spectacular this season.

Final Preditcion: Valencia 3-1

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Doesn’t this man have enough to deal with?

Ronaldo has another man-crush.  This time he’s REALLY crushing on Wayne Rooney.  You know, Wayne Rooney…Manchester United.  Yeah, totally different league.  Totally different team.  In fact, the team Ronaldo USED to play for.  Here we go again.  There’s something afoot when you have a superstar that you mortgaged your future to get talking about reuniting with a guy on another team who you know WILL NOT leave that team.

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The Pick: Jose Luis Chilavert, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways: (1) I love that you – the greatest Paraguayan player ever and one of the best GKs the game has ever seen – valiantly tried to keep your squad’s sheets clean in over 500 pro matches; (2) I love that you were never afraid to unleash your eccentric (and sometimes extremely volatile) personality on the pitch; and (3) I love you most of all because you were a great goal scorer.

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