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RCD Espanyol or the Reial Club Deportiu Espanyol de Barcelona is a Catalan football club, which was formed in 1900; it boasts an incredible record in the Spanish La Liga over the past few decades. RCD Espanyol's strengths have been in the youth academy and the club is extremely popular for spotting and nurturing young Spanish talent. The team is based in Barcelona and their home ground is Estadi Cornellà-El Prat, which has a capacity of seating 40,000. The team has won the Spanish league three times and was considered a force to reckon with in the late 80's.
Today, the RCD Espanyol football team is still popular among the locals and boasts a large number of fans from Europe and America. Tourists visiting Spain who are fans of football should include watching a football match at the Estadi Cornellà-El Prat as a must-do on their travel itinerary list. Matches between this team and FC Barcelona, the team's rivals are particularly exciting and the enthusiasm expressed by football fans in Spain is something that every traveller to the country must see for themselves.
Some of Reial Club Deportiu Espanyol de Barcelona's signings include the Japanese playmaker, Nakamura from Glasgow Celtic, whose range of passing is expected to be an asset to the Catalan club. Other popular players in the Reial Club Deportiu Espanyol de Barcelona club include Ben Sahar, forwarder Jose Maria, Raul Tamudo and Luis Garcia. Their defence is also quite solid with Nicholas Pareja and David Garcia
One of the most popular players in the team's history was the late captain Dani Jarque, who died in 2009. After Jarque's demise, Ivan de la Pena, a veteran midfielder took over this position. Espanyol are currently ranked 9th in the La Liga and are only 13 points behind their league leaders and rivals, Barcelona.

Jeremy lives and works in Spain dealing with Barcelona Karting and Barcelona Stag weekends and spends his spare time playing golf and reading.

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