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Sergio Busquets will retire from football at the end of the Major League Soccer Season (MLS) in December. The 38-year old is widely regarded as the greatest midfielder of all time. He has been with the Catalan giants for 18 years after joining their youth ranks at the age of 15. He made a whopping 722 appearances for Barca – …

LIVERPOOL’S US owners Fenway Sports Group have officially walked away from a deal to buy Malaga CF – with Getafe now emerging as their top target in Spain. Back in March it was revealed that FSG, the £10bn conglomerate that owns Liverpool, the Boston Red Sox and even has LeBron James on its books, had been running the rule over …

SPAIN’s property market continues its upward trend with a record number of 64,730 homes sold in the month July. It is the highest ever recorded figure since records were first kept. The record-breaking tally comes fresh off the heels of news that property prices nationwide are on course to rise by over 7% this year – with the average value …

Interpol led an international campaign to identify a woman whose body had been discovered in Barcelona, Spain more than 20 YEARS AGO. On Thursday, an international policing organization announced that Liudmila zavada, 31, was the woman. Previously known as ‘the woman in pink’, the female’s body was found on July 2, 2005 in Viladecans, near to the busy Barcelona El-Prat …

The NAZI theme stag night on the Costa del Sol marked the end of an infamous football hooligan drug-trafficking firm. The boss is the Suburbios firm, Daniel MF – also known as El Ratilla – and his crew of thugs shocked locals by parading bright red T-shirts emblazoned with large swastikas through the streets of Malaga earlier this month. They …

Could all of this be part The Masterplan? Rumours are circulating that British rockers Oasis might return to Spain in the summer of next year for the first time since 17 years. The president of Atletico Madrid has hinted at a possible agreement for a number of gigs. The Gallagher brothers – Liam and Noel – are mid-way through a …

A BRITISH assassin who had stabbed to death a Liverpool man in Portugal was arrested in Spain, after 17 months on his run. William Hunter, 34 was arrested by Guardia Civil in Alicante, Spain, on 15 September as he left an apartment complex with a suitcase, a black bag, and other items. Undercover officers are seen tackling Hunter, handcuffing and …

A FIRE tore through a portion of the Acerinox stainless-steel plant across Gibraltar’s bay early Thursday morning. The fire started at 5.30am on a pickling line of the Los Barrios complex. It was visible from Gibraltar Rock and the Bay of Gibraltar. Fire crews from Los Barrios, Algeciras and the Cadiz Fire Consortium with six vehicles and seven firefighters rushed …

SPAIN has gone to great lengths in order to portray itself as a champion of multilateralism and cooperation, while also promoting dialogue during the 80th United Nations General Assembly this week. Both Pedro Sanchez, the Prime Minister and Felipe VI, the King used the platform to emphasize the country’s unique identity as a nation that is rooted in the international …

A RUTHLESS mafia group’s plot to recruit a Belgian teenager for a hit on the Costa del Sol has been given the terrifying title ‘violence-as-a-service’. The boy – under 18 at the time – was contracted in the Netherlands, supplied with a military-grade assault rifle smuggled from Paris, and sent to Fuengirola to kill a 25-year-old Dutchman last December.  The …