Sid Lowe

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Co-Host at The Spanish Football Podcast (Podcast)

Football, politics, history, sunsets, shit jokes, Estela, stuff. On the pages of the Guardian, the screens of ESPN and in your ears at TSFP. Usually at a game.

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Is the Club World Cup actually … quite good? – Football Weekly podcast

4 days ago | theguardian.com | Max Rushden |Barry Glendenning |Will Unwin |Sid Lowe |Joel CooperAlex Grove |Danielle Stephens

Rate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email. On the podcast today; the Club World Cup might have started to entertain? South American sides are enjoying themselves, Nicolas Jackson is not.
‘Trent’ brings fluency and ‘impeccable’ Spanish to grand Real Madrid unveiling

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Sid Lowe

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‘Call me Trent’: Alexander-Arnold arrives at Madrid with dreams of Alonso and glory

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Sid Lowe

Well, that was unexpected. Trent Alexander-Arnold took out the earpiece, made his way to the stage at Real Madrid’s training ground and said: “Buenas tardes, a todos”: Good afternoon, everyone. So far, so standard. But then he delivered the next line in Spanish too, then the one after that, and the one after that.
Dean Huijsen shrugs off pressure of being Real Madrid’s most expensive defender

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Sid Lowe

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Dean Huijsen admits ‘I don’t care’ about being Real Madrid’s most expensive defender

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Sid Lowe

“I don’t care,” Dean Huijsen said and there was a shrug to go with his answer. The former Bournemouth player had just become the most expensive defender in Real Madrid’s history for £50m, but while the 20-year-old talked about “living a dream” on the day he was presented at their Valdebebas training ground, the price didn’t seem to bother him much. Not least because nothing did. “I’m quite calm,” he said.
Portugal sink Spain in penalty shootout to win Nations League crown

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Sid Lowe

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Portugal sink Spain in penalty shootout to win Nations League crown

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Sid Lowe

When the moment came, Cristiano Ronaldo hid his face and leant on his international teammates. Over on the touchline at the Allianz Arena he couldn’t watch but he heard the roar as Rúben Neves scored the penalty that took Portugal to the title and then the tears came. It had taken a shoot out but Portugal have their second Nations League, defeating Spain in Munich.
Portugal sink Spain in penalty shootout to win Nations League crown

2 weeks ago | sg.news.yahoo.com | Sid Lowe

When the moment came Cristiano Ronaldo hid his face and leant on his teammates. He scored the goal that put Portugal level in this final but had been withdrawn, exhausted, late in normal time and now, as the men left on the field lined up on the halfway line, he stood on the touchline where he could not watch but could hear the roar as Rúben Neves scored the penalty that took Portugal to the title, and then he slipped to his knees and the tears came.
Barcelona’s rebirth and one last job for Szczesny: La Liga season review

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Sid Lowe

The day La Liga 2024-25 began, Wojciech Szczesny was sitting on the beach in Marbella lighting up a cigarette, enjoying his retirement. The night it ended, he sat in the dressing room in Cornellà, 1,000km round the coast, and lit up a cigar instead. He had walked away in August, at 35 years old, unwanted and his heart no longer in it, or so he thought. Nine months on, here he was surrounded by kids half his age, a footballer again and winner of every trophy his new home country had to offer.
Lamine Yamal dazzles as Spain win goal-fest with France to set up Portugal final

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Sid Lowe

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