La Liga Soccer: Spanish Football at its Best

Posted by maryparker on December 2nd, 2012

Soccer is one sport that is played in nearly every country of the world. This is a sport followed with passion by people around the world with football tournaments and leagues being the centre of attraction round the year. La Liga Soccer, the name of the first division of league soccer in Spain, is very popular among soccer loving people because of the high quality of players and the exciting matches it makes available to the fans around the world. 

La Liga is called LFP in Spain

English speaking fans of Spanish soccer tournament that is called Liga Nacional de Futbol Profesional  (LFP) in Spain, refer to it as la Liga Soccer, a name that is enough to pump up adrenaline as it involves some intense and exciting games of soccer played by some of the finest players in European football scene.  This league represents the best football played in Spain and consists of 20 teams. The teams that get the last three places in these 20 teams are relegated to Segunda Division and three top teams from this division II league get promoted to La Liga Soccer.

Real Madrid is a very popular team of the league

Till date, 59 teams have got a chance to play in La Liga League. Out of these, only 9 have won the coveted champion crown so far. Two of the most popular teams in La Liga League have been Real Madrid and Barcelona. According to fans and the critics, La Liga Soccer represents the best league football in the world after Barclays Premier League.   The kind of love and passion shown by the spectators for Spanish La Liga is also reflective of the popularity of this premier football league. It is not just the people turning up to see the matches in the stadiums but also people across the world watching live feed on television that make this league so very important.

The fact that Spain won the world cup in 2010 makes Spanish la Liga all the more important and drives more and more football crazy fans towards this premier league. After world cup and UEFA Champions League, This football league of Spain is perhaps the most avidly watched and followed by football fans not just in Europe but in many other parts of the world. One important feature of Spanish La Liga is the fact that it is one of top leagues where the average goals per game are perhaps the highest. Other attractive features of football played in this league are of course that the games are fast and entertaining and spectators get to see attacking football.

Top football players from around the world take part in Spanish la Liga and getting a chance to represent a club in this league is a proud moment in the life of a football player. If it was Diego Maradona in the past who played and took part in the league, we are honored to see greats like France’s Zinedine Zidane and Brazil’s Ronaldo playing currently in Spain’s premier football league.

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