This is Atleti

September 12th 2011

Episode17-Hail, hail the Celts are here! (The One with Kieran Canning)

We go over the disappointing 1-0 defeat vs Valencia and meet a very special guest as a warm-up for the Europa League match versus Celtic Glasgow with a lifelong Celt supporter and reputed sports blogger and podcaster Kieran Canning (@kierancanning on Twitter) from http://www.SpanishFootball.info (@EspanaFutbol on Twitter) Kieran started writing about Spanish football in 2009 during a year’s study in Pamplona. He joined the spanishfootball.info team for the 2010/11 season. Kieran also writes on Spanish football for the Press Association and contributes on all matters of European football for The Scotsman newspaper. An entertaing and wonderful conversation with someone so insightful on Scottish and Spanish football brings all there is to know about the upcoming UEFA Europa League as well as a neutral view on the rojiblancos.

Belated Happy Birthday to Centuria Germana president and great buddy André Kahle.

This is Atleti is cohosted by Ricardo Menéndez, Gary Nunn and Derek Maaijen (@rickyam, @madridatleticos @AtleticoFans on Twitter)

Gary is cofounder of www.madridatleticos.com writes for Irish site The Score and Madrid based magazine European Vibe.

Ricardo Menendez co hosts the Spanish version of the show Esto es Atleti. He writes for www.forzaatleti.com and has contributed to www.lavidaenrojiblanco.com www.spanishfootball.info and www.madridatleticos.com.

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Co hosted by Ricardo Menéndez, Gary Nunn and Derek Maaijen (@rickyam, @madridatleticos @AtleticoFans on Twitter)

Gary is cofounder of www.madridatleticos.com writes for Irish site The Score and Madrid based magazine European Vibe.

Ricardo Menendez co hosts the Spanish version of the show Esto es Atleti. He writes for www.forzaatleti.com and has contributed to www.lavidaenrojiblanco.com www.spanishfootball.info and www.madridatleticos.com.

Derek is part of the dutch Atletico Peña. He writes for and co owns Atletico Fans www.atleticofans.com

16 The First One of the Second Season

We could have perfectly well called this "The One we recorded inside Gary's car" because we did a sophisticated 3G connected program Madrid-Holland from inside Gary's car right after Diego Ribas' presentation. We missed the unexciting 0-3 friendly vs Fuenlabrada to have the program recorded but we did have time to comment extensely on the Europa League qualifying round, the first slightly disappointing draw in Liga vs Osasuna, the close of the transfer market and how it had gone for the club as well as other rojiblanco news.

We hope you enjoy our audio and musical selection improvements. We try to always bring you the best Atletico news in English.

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Atletico de Madrid held the presentation of Diego Ribas at the VIP room of the Vicente Calderón stadium. The event was hosted by Gonzalo Miró with the participation of José Luis Pérez Caminero, sports manager and Roberto Simon Marina, 80s midfielder and club lifelong member (youth talent, player, assistant coach various times with Luis Aragonés and currently second coach of Atletico de Madrid B).

This recording is the full presentation event recorded and dubbed to English by Gary Nunn and Ricardo Menéndez.

Atletico de Madrid held the presentation of Radamel Falcao at the VIP room of the Vicente Calderón stadium. The event was hosted by Gonzalo Miró wit the participation of Enrique Cerezo, president of the club, José Luis Pérez Caminero, sports manager and Paulo Futre, legend player who made the move as well from Porto to Atleti 24 years ago.

This recording is the full presentation event dubbed to English by Ricardo Menéndez.

28th July 2011

We asked Fran Mérida for his view on how the dressing room felt after the slightly disappointing 2-1 win over Stromsgodset on the 1st leg of the 3rd qualifying round of Europa League. We also wanted his views on how the dressing room saw the way stands rejected De Gea and Kun's manner of exiting the club. Finally we wanted to know how he faces the new season and whether he held higher hopes to play more often.

New club policy added to audio and editing setbacks have kept us from offering the regular share of post match player and coach views. We expect to correct this in the future.

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27th July 2011

Co hosted by Ricardo Menéndez, Gary Nunn and Derek Maaijen (@rickyam, @madridatleticos @AtleticoFans on Twitter)

Gary is cofounder of www.madridatleticos.com writes for Irish site The Score and Madrid based magazine European Vibe.

Ricardo Menendez co hosts the Spanish version of the show Esto es Atleti. He writes for www.forzaatleti.com and has contributed to www.lavidaenrojiblanco.com www.spanishfootball.info and www.madridatleticos.com.

Derek is part of the dutch Atletico Peña. He writes for and co owns Atletico Fans www.atleticofans.com

15 The One when the vikings came

We asked our Norwegian football expert and good buddie Ole Aasheim, president of the Norwegian Peña to analyze our Europa League opponent Strømsgodset IF.The Norwegian cup champion is a young and unexperienced squad but full of spirit to make things hard for us and live this once in a lifetime European experience to the maximum. Gary and Ricky attended the prematch press conferences the same afternoon Kun was definitely sold to MCFC closing finally the Kun Agüero soap opera that lasted over two months. Forlan is back triumphant from the Copa America willing to carry the weight of the badge on his shoulders and lead the team to the league stage of Europa League.

Meet the Atléticos spotlight on Ole and the Norwegian peña by www.MadridAtleticos.com: http://www.madridatleticos.com/?p=2970

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Atletico Norwegian Peña www.atleticomadrid.no (@ATMadridNOR) and Ole Aasheim is @oleaasheim on Twitter

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July 12th 2011

Co hosted by Ricardo Menéndez, Gary Nunn and Derek Maaijen (@rickyam, @madridatleticos @AtleticoFans on Twitter)

Gary is cofounder of www.madridatleticos.com writes for Irish site The Score and Madrid based magazine European Vibe.

Ricardo Menendez co hosts the Spanish version of the show Esto es Atleti. He writes for www.forzaatleti.com and has contributed to www.lavidaenrojiblanco.com and www.madridatleticos.com.

Derek is part of the dutch Atletico Peña. He writes for and co owns Atletico Fans www.atleticofans.com

14 The One when Gary went to LA

Gary is really busy this summer. He decided to pay a visit to the boys at the Los Angeles de San Rafael training facilities. The traditional summer preseason headquarters where the team prepares for the long season ahead. With Ujfalusi and De Gea out of the picture and Kun wanting to bail we ponder on how the situation might unfold and have our first one to one interview with a team player. In this case Juanfran, a real team player and team builder. His constructive spirit can be felt in every training session. We'd like to thank the new people at the press department for be so helpful in getting the interview.

We mention our good frien André Kahle from the German Centuria Germana Peña. His Twitter nick is @husky_38

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June 29th 2011

Special episode hosted by Gary Nunn @madridatleticos on Twitter)

Gary is cofounder of www.madridatleticos.com writes for Irish site The Score and Madrid based magazine European Vibe.

Ricardo Menendez and Derek Maaijen couldn't be with Gary on this special one to one interview but will be back on the next episode

13 The One with Tim

In-depth chat with La Liga expert Tim Stannard. Tim a.k.a. @LaLigaLoca on Twitter is a confessed Getafe supporter, he writes for the prestigious football site FourFourTwo and contributes to Football365.

Gary had the chance and pleasure of chatting with right before De Gea's presser so though they chat about La Liga and specially Atleti's present and future, De Gea's sale to ManU is more than present in the conversation.

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June 21st 2011

Co hosted by Ricardo Menéndez, Gary Nunn and Derek Maaijen (@rickyam, @madridatleticos @AtleticoFans on Twitter)

Gary is cofounder of www.madridatleticos.com writes for Irish site The Score and Madrid based magazine European Vibe.

Ricardo Menendez co hosts the Spanish version of the show Esto es Atleti. He writes for www.forzaatleti.com and has contributed to www.lavidaenrojiblanco.com and www.madridatleticos.com.

Derek is part of the dutch Atletico Peña. He writes for and co owns Atletico Fans www.atleticofans.com

12 The One when almost everyone got sold

Our first summer interrim special episode to sum up the (mainly depressing) new around the rojiblancos. Manzano's appointment, a possible buyer for the club, lack of signings, the Kun soap opera, Ujfalusi's transfer to Galatasaray, Reyes rejecting to follow, Forlan being publicly invited to leave...

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May 27th 2011

Co hosted by Ricardo Menéndez, Gary Nunn and Derek Maaijen (@rickyam, @madridatleticos @AtleticoFans on Twitter)

Gary is cofounder of www.madridatleticos.com writes for Irish site The Score and Madrid based magazine European Vibe.

Ricardo Menendez co hosts the Spanish version of the show Esto es Atleti. He writes for www.forzaatleti.com and has contributed to www.lavidaenrojiblanco.com and www.madridatleticos.com.

Derek is part of the dutch Atletico Peña. He writes for and co owns Atletico Fans www.atleticofans.com

Season finale with the complete crews of AtleticoFans and MadridAtleticos.

The Atleti world is shattered with the news of Kun Agüero deciding to leave the squad and David De Gea seeming to be on his way out as well. We deal with the mostly disappointing news that this week to forget has brought and that will probably bear effects for many seasons to come as the whole sports area has to be reconsidered in the light of the team being torn apart.

The two biggest English speaking Atletico sites tell us how it all started for them and how they became the leading sites they now are.

The AtleticoFans - @AtleticoFans crew is formed by our cohost Derek Maaijen, Martin Rosenow and Nick Poskitt (@DerekMaaijen @atletideneptuno @nickposkitt on Twitter) The MadridAtleticos - @madridAtleticos team is the Irish couple, cohost Gareth Nunn a.k.a. GaryMadrid and his non tweeting mate Peter Anderson a.k.a. KillickThere. The 5 form an excellent panel to end the season with an in-depth analysis of how (disappointing) the season went, what will happen in the following weeks and biggest challenges the club now faces.

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P.S. We changed the intro and ending music (ending is from the tunnel in Hamburg...those days...)