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		<title>The weekend preview</title>
		<link>http://www.pitchpassion.com/2009/10/16/the-weekend-preview-12/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
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Spain – La Liga: Champions Barcelona are off to La Mestalla to play Valencia. The Catalan club are sweating on the fitness of midfield playmaker Xavi, who came back injured from the international break. Star striker David Villa is out for the home team.
Real Madrid are at home to Valladolid and are expected to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The weekend round-up</title>
		<link>http://www.pitchpassion.com/2009/09/28/the-weekend-round-up-13/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spain &#8211; La Liga: Barcelona and Real Madrid both kept up their 100 per cent records, Barca thanks to a 2-0 win at Malaga and Real with a 3-0 win over Tenerife, with Karim Benzema scoring twice.
Valencia drew 2-2 with Atletico Madrid at the Mestalla on Saturday, with Maxi grabbing a last-gasp equaliser for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The weekend preview</title>
		<link>http://www.pitchpassion.com/2009/09/25/the-weekend-preview-11/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spain &#8211; La Liga: Barcelona and Real Madrid are now the only two sides left with perfect records after Athletic Bilbao went down in midweek. Real are at home to Tenerife on Saturday and Barcelona travel to Malaga on the Sunday.
Both Ronaldo for Real and Lionel Messi for Barcelona have started the season in frightening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ronaldinho&#8217;s endless panto</title>
		<link>http://www.pitchpassion.com/2009/09/23/ronaldinhos-endless-panto/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Oh yes he is&#8221; followed by &#8220;oh no he isn&#8217;t&#8221; have been the words ringing inbetween Ronaldinho&#8217;s ears for quite some time now.
The AC Milan midfielder is constantly the subject of debate as to whether or not he will recover his best form and fitness &#8211; which now seems a pointless exercise given how long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The weekend round-up</title>
		<link>http://www.pitchpassion.com/2009/09/21/the-weekend-round-up-12/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Italy &#8211; Serie A: We start here thanks to the progress of Sampdoria, who are level with Juventus at the top after taking 12 points from 12- one of the few &#8217;smaller&#8217; clubs from the big European leagues to still hold a 100 per cent record.
They overcame Siena 4-1 on Sunday and owe much of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The weekend preview</title>
		<link>http://www.pitchpassion.com/2009/09/18/the-weekend-preview-10/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spain &#8211; La Liga: Champions Barcelona are top of the table and host Atletico Madrid on Saturday night, while Real Madrid, who also have six points out of six, host newly-promoted Xerez on Sunday.
Valencia have started strongly with David Villa and David Silva (pictured) back in the goals again. They are at home to Sporting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The weekend round-up</title>
		<link>http://www.pitchpassion.com/2009/09/15/the-weekend-round-up-11/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spain-La Liga: Real Madrid tonked Espanyol 3-0 away at the host&#8217;s new stadium thanks to goals from Granero, Guti and Ronaldo as Manuel Pellegrini rested one or two key players but came up trumps in a win which maintain&#8217;s Real&#8217;s 100 per cent record.
Ironically it was Granero (pictured), a former Real youth team player who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The weekend preview</title>
		<link>http://www.pitchpassion.com/2009/09/11/the-weekend-preview-9/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:56:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back to the domestic scene then after a week of international distraction. More on the World Cup qualifiers so far over the weekend.
Spain &#8211; La Liga: Saturday&#8217;s early kick-off sees Getafe host Barcelona, while the defending champions Espanyol and ex-player manager Mauricio Pochettino (pictured)  welcome Real Madrid to their brand new 40,000-seat stadium at Cornellà-El [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Gaddafi really buy Milan?</title>
		<link>http://www.pitchpassion.com/2009/09/09/will-gaddafi-really-buy-milan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Italian newspaper La Republica printed a front page last week with the headline &#8216;Gheddafi, Do You Want To  Buy Milan?&#8217;, it stirred up the unsettling but familiar brew of politics mixed with football.
In its article the paper claimed Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi had personally offered to sell AC Milan to Libyan leader  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The weekend round-up</title>
		<link>http://www.pitchpassion.com/2009/09/01/the-weekend-round-up-9/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
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Spain-La Liga: Real Madrid&#8217;s new &#8216;Galactico&#8217; era got off to a winning start thanks to a 3-2 home victory over Deportivo La Coruna on Saturday night.
Ronaldo scored a penalty, Raul (pictured) got a tap-in and Lassana Diarra drove home a long-range effort to give Real three points, but attention is very much on their back [...]]]></description>
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