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Sociedad Deportiva Eibar is the Basque side from a passionate
football town one-third the size of the Camp Nou. Eibar the Brave
tells the amazing Cinderella story of La Liga's smallest club,
which has seen Barcelona and Real Madrid playing top-tier football
at Ipurua, the 5000-capacity stadium that Eibar calls home.
Promotion-party pitch invasions are not uncommon; but the night of
25 May 2014 saw a promotion with a difference, involving a wildly
unorthodox club. There weren't enough fans to cover the pitch. The
celebration was 45 minutes after the final whistle. The team was
wearing their away kit despite having played at home. And Eibar
could still potentially be relegated! Having followed Eibar and
witnessed the madness first-hand, Euan McTear documents the club's
first season in La Liga and discusses all the pieces put into place
over the years to make 2014/15 a season like no other.
Hijacking La Liga: How Atletico Madrid Broke Barcelona and Real
Madrid's Duopoly looks at what went on behind the scenes as
Atletico Madrid went from relegation to mid-table mediocrity to
seriously threatening the dominance of Spanish football's two
superpowers. For years, Barcelona and Real Madrid maintained a firm
grip on the country's and the continent's silverware, but Los
Rojiblancos have managed to turn La Liga into a three-team league,
with the help of a fiery Argentine coach, a squad of cast-offs, an
electric home support and an overarching commonsense financial
plan. In May 2000, the capital city side had suffered their first
relegation from the top flight since 1930, but just 14 years later
they would be crowned La Liga champions. Euan McTear explores the
key moments, decisions, goals and matches in their extraordinary
resurgence, one which has converted Atletico Madrid into one of
world football's most powerful clubs.
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