3.Convention

    
    There are other conventions in Liga Eapanola, for example Copa del Rey, Supercopa de Espana, UEFA Champions League.

    First I explain Copa del Rey. Copa del Rey is oldest convention of soccer in Spain. First of all, I explain history of Copa del Rey. In 1902, Copa de la Coronacion began. Carlos Padros who made Real Madrid proposed it. Four teams took part in it. Athletic Bilbao won the first convention. It became Copa del Rey in 1903. In 1928, Liga Espanola began, so from 1903 to 1927 Copa del Rey was main soccer convention in Spain. Next, I explain rule of it. Entry qualifications is teams of first parts,20 teams in Spain League, and second parts,22 teams, five teams of third parts. It holds from August to May when Liga Espanola is conducted. System of tournament divides into three methods. Lower round is knockout system which is one-shot deal. Best 32 round to semifinal is home and away system. Final is conducted at neutrality stadium. Winning team gets the entry right of Supercopa de Espana and UEFA Champions League.

    Second, I explain Supercopa de Espana. It is convention which is that the victory of Liga Espnola fight with the victory of Copa del Rey. If there are team wins Supercopa and Liga Espnola, the team fights with second place of Copa del Rey. It is conducted before opening game of Liga Espanola, so we know team condition this year.

      Third, I explain UEFA Champions League. It decides strongest team in Europe. First of all, I explain history of it. Gabriel Hanot who was journalist of a sports newspaper in France suggested it in 1955. Until 1992, entry teams were limited to the victory teams of domestic league. In 1997, second place teams of domestic league were able to enter it. Recently, various teams in Europe participate it. 4 teams of Liga Espanola get the entry qualifications. Next, I explain system of it. In game of qualifying, 32 teams divide into 8 groups and contends with points. The team gets three points when the team win and one point when draw, doesn’t point when lose. And, 2 teams in each groups can progress to a final tournament. In a final tournament and qualifying, home and away system is used. Final is conducted at famous stadium in Europe. The team which won the victory gets the

entry qualification of Club World Cup which decides strongest team in the world from 2005. Final is watched by 100 million people, so UEFA Champions League is famous sports event. Every year, the team which won the victory is different. Thus, many people is hard to expect its team, which is very interesting for many people. 
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2.History of Liga Espanola

The origin of soccer is general rules of football were decided at England in 1863. At this time, England made many colonies and trade at various places in the world, so went to oversea. In 1872, Soccer travel to Huelva in Spain by the England . Huelva is southwest of Spain and port town. Many the England operate copper main there. Capitalists and laborers of copper main made club team in 1870s. This team is Recreative Huelva. This team was made in 1889 and is oldest club team in Spain. At that time, soccer was popular at other area in Spain. In 1899, Catalonia Joan Gamper who was the business of Swiss made FC Barcelona at Barcelona. Barcelona city is northeast of Spain. It was famous as the city of fiber, so many foreigner lived there by the industrial revolution. Soccer was famous in 1890s at north of Spain, Basque region. The English mined copper mind and coal there. The English began to do soccer. Bilbao Football Club was made by workers of British in 1898. In 1901, Bilbao Football Club became Athletic Bilbao. When some teams were made, the football tournament to cerebrate the coronation of King Alfonso 13^th (called Copa del Rey) began in 1903. Liga Espanola began in 1928. The number of teams of Liga Espanola was 10 teams in 1928, 14 teams in 1940, 18 teams in 1971, 20 teams in 1987.

I explain history of FC Barcelona and Real Madrid in detail. In 1899, FC Barcelona was established and dark red and blue was decided as its team color. The chairman of the first was Walter Wild. FC Barcelona win Copa del Rey in 1910. It built Camp de Les Corts stadium in 1922. In 1929, it won Liga Espnola. From 1936 to 1939, civil war was conducted in Spain. Catalonia opposed dictatorship of Francisco Franco who was military, so J・Sunyoru who was chairman of FC Barcelona at that time was assassinated. But Catalonia don’t lose and FC Barcelona was maintained as symbol of Catalonia’s democracy. In 1957, It sold Camp de Les Corts and built new stadium, Camp Nou. Now, FC Barcelona is strong team in the world.

   






    Second, I explain Real Madrid. In 1895, graduation students of Oxford and Cambridge university established Football Sky at Madrid. New Foot-Ball de Madrid and Club Espanola de Madrid were made in1900. Juan Padros were chairman of Real Madrid established Madrid Foot-Ball Club in 1902. In 1905, Real Madrid won Copa del Rey. In 1912, it built O’Donnell stadium. In 1920, name of club became Real Madrid. In 1924, it built Estadio Chamartin stadium. Now, Real Madrid is famous team in the world.

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1.Explanation of Liga Espanola

     Liga Espanola is soccer league of Spain. UEFA ranking decide rank of each soccer league in Europe. UEFA ranking of Liga Espnola is first, so Liga Espanola is best soccer league in Europe. It takes place from September to May.
     It is consisted of Primera Division and Segunda Division and Tercera Division. Primera Division is first league and Segunda Division is second league, Tercera Division is third league. Primera Division contains 20 teams and Segunda Division 22 teams, Tercera Division 20 teams.
    The games are performed by home and away. Ranking is determined by the points. The team gets three points when the team wins. The team gets one point when the team draws. The team doesn’t get point when the team loses. Three teams lower of Primera Division are demoted to Segund Division and three teams higher of Segund Division are promoted to Primera Division.  Four teams higher of Primera Division can take part in UEFA Champions League. Fifth and sixth team get the qualification of UEFA Europe League. Average audience is 29430 and this figure is the third in the world, so many people note the league.
    There are some features of Liga Espanola. Main teams of its league are Real Madrid and FC Barcelona in its league. Two teams very strong and have many funds. The disparities of between two teams and other teams spread, so there are many problems. The character of Liga Espanola’s is soccer technique, ball possession, side attack and interesting content. The character of Liga Espanola is the strength of local consciousness, because Spanish have consciousness that local player is brought up in the area. For example, Athletic Bilbao is consisted of only Basque, which is very rare in the world. There are organization is called cantera. Cantera is youth academies of top team. The purpose of cantera is team grow young talented players. The teams conducting cntera are Real Madrid, FC Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao etc. Cantera in Spain is very famous in the world, because there are two reasons. First, cntera of Spain is very strong. Second, there are many top players from cantera. Recently, Japanese young player of FC Barcelona’s cantera attracts attention in Japan. I want him to succeed and to go into FC Barcelona’s top team.

Liga Espanola contract with BBVA, so Primera division is called Liga BBVA. BBVA is big bank in Spain. Liga Espanola is one of most famous league. Thus, I recommend you to watch it

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