Managing Madrid Podcast: Las Blancas Season Preview; Ignoring Naysayers; Castilla Corner

This episode of the Managing Madrid Podcast comes in three parts.

Part One (Las Blancas with Om Arvind and Grant Little)

- History of Levante

- Levante’s interesting formation

- Levante’s clever use of their wing-backs

- María Pry’s tactical ingenuity and trailblazing

- History of Rayo Vallecano

- Rayo Vallecano’s overreliance on Oriana Altuve

- Rayo being fortunate to beat Logroño

- Rayo’s formation being the antithesis of Levante’s

- Sporting de Huelva’s history

- Huelva’s strange manager/sporting director/founder situation

- Sporting de Huelva’s transfers

- Huelva’s offensive struggles

- Explaining the structure of Reto Iberdrola (Segunda División)

- Eibar’s history

- Ranting about the poor camera angles and the general poor broadcasting quality in Spain

- Eibar’s tactics

- And more

Part Two — 1:15:57 — (Journalism Corner with Kiyan Sobhani)

• How to not care what people think of your work.

Part Three — 1:32:56 — (Castilla Corner with Sam Sharpe, Kristofer McCormack, Ruben Skjerping)

• The UEFA Youth League final
• What it means for La Fabrica
• Who deserves more credit; Poyatos or Raul
• Standout performers
• the Castilla squad next season
• Alvaro Fidalgo leaving
• Reinier Jesus to Dortmund
• Our favourite Brazilian players.

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Hosts this week:

Kiyan Sobhani (@KiyanSo)

Om Arvind (@OmVAsports)

Grant Little (@grantlittle09)

Sam Sharpe (@CastillaStats)

Kristofer McCormack (@K_mc06)

Ruben Skjerping (@RubenPMN)