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Ever wanted to be a shareholder of a professional football team? Well this is your opportunity to be a Real Murcia shareholder. Be part of the action and help Real Murcia face the challenges of modern football. Real Murcia founded in 1894, is a team from Murcia's region in Spain which has on their aim to change football for the better. A football club with more than one hundred years of existing. Is well known along the country, for being the club that has played more seasons in the second Spanish division and the one that has managed to held champions titleof  tournament the most times. "With a new and revolutionary social policy, it seeks to continue forging a model that will make Real Murcia unique." The goal Real Murcia has set is to acquire 2,292,735 € in what is called Share Capital Increase 2020, so far the club has been able to gather 657,625€ since February 26th. Why this need? Real Murcia states:  "The world is changing faster and faster. It has n

Virtually every league came to a stop as a result of the pandemic, both female and male categories, and since the cease of activities the federations and leagues administration have been working towards the return of activities in the best scenarios or declaring the competition void or declaring a champion even though it wouldn´t be a complete league. Thankfully for the us the fans most of the leagues are headed to a return in mid-July with France and Germany being the exceptions since the first country declared a champion, Europe spots, and relegations and the Germans will restart their league this weekend. As its stated above most leagues are trying to achieve the goal finishing the competition and have set themselves a time table with the first step being testing the players to see how many have been infected and basing their strategy of starting again with that information. Spain is the home for one of the most followed national leagues and the Spanish federation has b

Team of the day An Empire established in Nicaragua: Diriangén FC  Facebook: Cacique Diriangén FC Also known by the local fans as “El Cacique” (The Cacique) or “La Tribu” (The Tribe), Diriangén FC is a football team based in the city of Diriamba, Nicaragua and it is recognized as the most successful team in the country. Furthermore, it is the oldest team in Nicaragua and the third oldest team of Central America with 103 years of existence, reason which the city of Diriamba is also considered as the cradle of the Nicaraguan football. They are also the only club in Nicaragua to have competed in every season of the Nicaraguian ́s football top level, since the Professional First Division started in 1933. As a result of this success, the club has become associated with the motto "Diriangén no tuvo infancia, porque nació grande" ("Diriangen never had childhood because it was born big"). History Diariangén FC was founded in May 15th, 1917, by young descen

Next Saturday will be marked by the return to activity of one of the big leagues of Europe, the Bundesliga will restart the competition after one month of inactivity due to the COVID-19 outbreak. And it´s return is marked by one of the biggest derbies in the competition Borussia Dortmund and Schalke 04 will battle it out in a match that will be perpetuated in history because of the context on which it´ll develop. One of the handicaps for both teams will be whether they were able to maintain a competition level physique or in its detriment, how much they lost and how will this be a conditioning factor in the first matches of the return.   Borussia started the second part of the season in outstanding form winning 6 of the 7 games they've played in the Bundesliga, yes, we need to consider the big setback of being eliminated of the DFB Pokal by Werder Bremen one of the lowest ranked teams in the league. The Champions League elimination at the hands of Paris Saint-Germai

European Leagues and their different endings Bundesliga - Comes back on 15th May Source: DW Kick Off German football will probably be the first out of the top 4 to come back. Despite criticism and positive cases being discovered in Koln for example, it’s set in stone and happens next week . The philosophy - efficient but bears considerable risk - seems to treat players with the virus as regular injuries, with 2 weeks quarantine away from the rest. The biggest risk is definitely dependent on the responsible reaction of german supporters. Fans gathering outside the stadium could lead to a second massive wave of positive cases in the general population. If the Bundesliga’s restart seems to be viewed as a failure when it comes to public safety, others could change their minds as well. British Premier League - Discussing  Source: Mirror UK Players and clubs don’t really like the idea of coming back but... if there’s a league who will face a lot of economic pressure

While countries around the world keep on working to flatten the curve of the current pandemia, us football fans receive a little sppon of hope to see the top competitions being continued. Of course the competition most desired to comeback is the UEFA Champions League, but how long are we willing to wait? In the french media RTL the president of Olympique de Lyon, Jean-Michel Aulas talk about the arrangement for Champions League 2019-2020 season to be continued on August 7th. He stated: "The game against Juventus is confirmed for the 7th of August, in Turin, behind close doors". Ligue 1 has already come to the decision of ending the 2019-2020 season, and named PSG as the champions of the season. On the other hand Serie A is closer every day to continue the current season returning rythym to the Italian clubs towards the resume of the Champions League. Aulas also talked about it: "If the appeals are not successful, it is to send Lyon and PSG to be massacred b

Great news for the hungarian football fans and any kind of football fans out there. The MLSz, the football federation from were Puskas was born, has taken the decision of resuming football activities in the Liga OTP Bank, Hungary's top division, as well as in the Cup competition on saturday May 23 and Wednesday 27. Second division and Third division will be concluded and promotions and relegations will be decided based on the last matchday played leaguetable. All this matches will be resumed under restrictions as they will be played behind close doors to public. In the Magyar Kupa, matches to be played will be the clash between two Budapest based clubs, MTK Budapest and Budapest Honved. This after they overpass in Quarterfinals to Dorogi FC and Paksi FC respectively. In the other side of the bracket we have Mezőkövesd Zsóry vs MOL Fehervar, the current title holders. The winners of each bracket will face each other next June 2nd. Parallel to this, there will have league m

Written by: Israel Benitez What has been happening in the last days with Mexican football is the perfect example that club owners and other business man involved in football will always focus in the money as priority. In Mexican football we can see that football isn´t the priority, is way far behind, coming after the personal interests of some few owners. All this has slowly taken the First Division of Mexican football into dark days. It all started when after Alebrijes of Oaxaca won Apertura 2019, Clausura 2020 tournament started with only 12 teams participating in the Silver category instead of 15, this after Loros Colima and Potros UAEM decided to abandon due to the lack of rentability to the respective owners, and after Bravos de Juarez bought their spot in First Division after acquaring the 'franchise' of Lobos BUAP, which may sound crazy but normal in mexican football. Before the tournament was stopped due to COVID-19 breakout in Mexico, 8 out of 11 Fixtures wer