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Football affects us all:




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Real Madrid around the world

Real Madrid are a HUGE club. They have 32 La Liga's, 3 Intercontinental cups and a record 10 Champions Leagues/European Cups. Stars such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale, Sergio Ramos, James Rodriguez, Isco all play for the club and are paid thousands in just a week. They not just a great club but an international club, In a recent game vs. Las Palmas(2-1 to Real Madrid) the starting 11 had 6 different nationalities:

• Spain(5)
• Portugal(2)
• Wales(1)
• Brazil(1)
• Costa Rica(1)
• Croatia(1)

And in the full 22 player squad there is:

• 9 Spanish players
• 3 Brazilian players
• 2 Portuguese players
• 2 French players
• 2 Croatian players
• 1 Colombian player
• 1 Welsh player
• 1 Costa Rican player
• and 1 German player

9 different nationalities!!!


Real Madrid's training camp is located in Valdebebas outside of Madrid near Barajas Airport. It is known as Ciudad Real Madrid (Real Madrid city), it has two full sized natural grass pitches for both the first team and youth team, three full sized synthetic turf fields, and the youth team (Real Madrid Castilla) stadium, Alfredo di Stéfano Stadium.

As you can see Real Madrid is a very international team.....

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This video can show you the global community of footballers and how they can unite as a team.

Arsenal around the world

Arsenal is a big club and is recognised around the world due to it's successful history and huge stars, I'll be taking you around the world to show you where they have connections, where they go for pre-season training and matches, and whether this is successful.




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Arsenal is a very successful club and has been fighting in with the "big boys" (Real Madrid, Bayern Munich) in the champions league for the last 18 years or so in a row. They are known for bringing up young players to be on of the greats, such as Cesc Fabregas, Jack Wilshere or Niall Quinn, but where did they get trained to be the great players they are today?

Arsenal's training ground is located North-West of Watford in the outskirts of London. There many youngsters that have been signed by Arsenal train at the high tech ground to become the best of the best. There is a lot of talented young players from all over the globe. There is:

• Players from France: Reine-Adelaide, Bennacer
• Players from Greece: lias Chatzitheodoridis and

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• Players from England: Dan Crowley, Tafari Moore and Ryan Huddart
• Then there is players from all over: Krystian Bielik - Poland, Alex Iwobi - Nigeria, Vlad Dragomir - Romania

And the list goes on and that's just the youngsters! But I guess you can see what I mean now that Arsenal brings in talent from all over

Global Support:

Arsenal is supported world-wide in great numbers. The Arsenal supporters club has more than 60,000 members, and there are 124 other supporters clubs (and 20 more have put in requests for one) world-wide.

Arsenal reported back in 2011 that they had over 100 million supporters around the world and a few years ago it was found that arsenal had the most supporters on twitter compared to any other English team.

But Arsenal's supporters aren't just normal civilians as there are also some Gooners in higher society such as:

• Queen Elizabeth II
• Prince Harry
• Jim Carey
• Zac Efron
• Kevin Costner
• A.P. McCoy
• Jack Whitehall
• JZ
• Ian Poulter

(Source: Wikipedia)


So as you can see Arsenal is affecting people all over the world

Introduction to the Blog

Hello and welcome to the blog, my name is Christopher. I have an assignment in Geography to do a blog online and so I am going to be focusing on a topic I am interested in which is football(soccer). Over the next few weeks, I'll be going through different teams(Arsenal, Man United, Real Madrid) and the different areas of the globe their players come from. I'll look through some of the clubs they're connected with and how successful those connections have been.