| 1 Sep 2001 |
Real Sociedad 7 - 0 AIK Solna
Another friendly during
international weekend against Asper's old side as part of transfer fee. Barkero
(3), Alejandro (2), Loren, Llorente. Solna put up a poor performance against
side made up of reserves. |
| 2 Sep 2001 |
Alavés 1 - 0 AC Milan
"Diputación" trophy following the
transfers of Javier Moreno and Contra. Milan were missing many stars on
international duty, so Javi Moreno and José Mari (who injured himself)
played up front. Geli got the only goal for Alavés in front of a
capacity crowd. |
| 2 Sep 2001 |
Deportivo La Coruña 2 - 0
Bordeaux
Friendly match. Small crowd turned up to see non-regular
players beat the French team with goals from Changui and Pandiani in the second
half. César Sampaio made his first appearance since picking up an injury
9 months ago. |
| 2 Sep 2001 |
Tenerife 0 - 1 Real Madrid XI
Veterans benefit match for Pier
to help him pay Pta 150 Mio to Sporting Gijon after court case. Sides from
1992/3 played, including the "Quinta de Buitre", (Butragueño, Michel,
Sanchis, Martín Vázquez and Pardeza) plus Buyo, Chendo etc., with
Valdano as manager of Tenerife and Pepe Mel playing for the team he currently
manages. Butragueño got the only goal. |
| 2 Sep 2001 |
Oporto 1 - 1 Celta Vigo
International trophy of the city
of Porto in Portugal. Almost a local derby for Vigo, situated in the south of
Gallicia near the border with Portugal. Oporto won the trophy on penalties
after Luccin put his kick over the bar. Berizzo equalised for Celta in the
second half after Alessandro gave the home side the lead . |
| 8 Nov 2001 |
Recreativo 3 - 0 Newcastle
Inaugural match of Nuevo Colombino stadium
in Huelva. With 4 players sent home in disgrace Newcastle turned up with a
reserve side and were thrashed. Goals from Pavón (2) and
Canteria. |
| 27 Dec 2001 |
Andalucia 3 - Tunisia 3
Olympic stadium, Sevilla. Celta's Jesuli
scored the opening goal on the half hour mark, with Boukadida levelling the
scores for the visitors at the beginning of the second half. Two goals in five
minutes from Diego Tristán, the first from the penalty spot after
Sevilla's young striker Reyes was brought down, appeared to have given the home
side the victory. However a Badra penalty and another late goal from Gabsi
saved the honour of the North Africans. Real Madrid's Hierro was given an award
before the match as the best Andalucian player of all time. |
| 28 Dec 2001 |
Cataluña 1 - Chile 0
Pep Guardiola returned to Camp Nou to
captain Cataluña to a narrow victory over a young South American side
missing several of their big names. Guardiola was given permission by the
Italian authorities to play in this friendly match despite his one year ban,
and the record 56,000 crowd gave him a rousing reception, especially when he
was replaced by Xavi early in the second half. The only goal of the game came a
few minutes later when Xavi found Valladolid's Luis García with a long
pass for him to run on and score. Guardiola insisted on taking a dope test at
the end of the game as part of his appeal against the sentence. |
| 28 Dec 2001 |
Valencia 4 - Lithuania 1
Inter Milan midfielder
Farinós came back to his old hunting ground at Valencia's Mestalla
stadium to delight the crowd with a hat-trick. This was the first game that the
Comunidad Valencia had arranged in many years, and Farinós lined up
alongside such well known names as Juanfran, Albelda and Rufete. Lithuania took
the lead through Lukosevicius in the tenth minute, but the Spanish
international scored three times in a fifteen minute period around half time to
turn the game around. Sevilla's Luis Gil added a fourth a few minutes later to
send the 15,000 crowd home happy. |
| 29 Dec 2001 |
Euskadi 3 - Ghana 2
Two goals from Real Sociedad's De Paula
were enough to give the Basque country side victory over the African team at
Athletic Bilbao's San Mames stadium. De Paula was one of seven substitutions at
half time with the home side behind to an early Derrick goal. Rayo Vallecano's
Bolo also came on at the break and levelled the scores within a minute of the
restart, and Mensah pulled one back for the visitors later on. Ghana's
Princeton was sent off in the last minute for a second bookable offence. The
Basque captain Gaizka Mendieta was not allowed to play in the match by his club
Lazio. |
| 29 Dec 2001 |
Asturias 6 - Lithuania 1
The Asturian selection beat a
poor Lithuanian side in a festival of goals at Sporting Gijon's Molinón
stadium. Oviedo's Oli opened the scoring in the third minute. Pablo Lago and
and Juanele added two more before half time, and Juanele got his second goal of
the night shortly after the interval. The blue shirts continued to attack and
José Manuel got another before Dancenko pulled one back from the penalty
spot. Ten minutes from the end César got the final goal for the home
side. |
| 2 Jan 2002 |
Osasuna 5 - Dream team 1 - Ex Compañeros
0
Osasuna won
a triangular tournament played in their own stadium in honour of ex right
winger Jon Andoni Goikoetxea, better known as a member of Johan Cruyff's 'dream
team' which won the European cup in the nineties. Almost all the ex Barcelona
stars turned up, including Stoitxkov, Koeman, Guardiola and Cruyff himself, who
managed the side. The third team in the competition was made up of ex team
mates and friends of Goiko, and results of each 35 minute period went as
follows:
Dream team 0 - Ex Compañeros 0
Osasuna 3 (Aloisi,
Goiko, Palacios) - Ex Compañeros 0
Osasuna 2 (Gorka 2) - Dream team
1 (Goiko penalty) |
| 2 Jan 2002 |
Real Madrid 3 - Atlético Madrid 2
Real Madrid
opened their centenary year with a 3-2 victory over city rivals Atlético
Madrid. It was a typical friendly game, with both sides changing their line ups
completely at half time, although they still gave the 55,000 crowd a spectacle
of football. Raúl, Helguera and Celades scored for Real, with Fernando
Torres and Roberto replying for Atlético. Iván Campo returned for
the home side and gave the referee a kiss after the game. Not to worry though,
SHE was Carolina Domenech, the only lady referee in the second division and the
first woman to take charge of a game in the Santiago Bernabeu stadium.
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| 14 Feb 2002 |
Marbella 0 - Alavés 1
Valentine's day friendly against holiday
resort's third division team . Ibon Begoña got the only
goal. |
| 5 Mar 2002 |
Levante 1 - Valencia 2
Valencia won the Copa de la Generalitat
Valenciana thanks to two goals from Carew in the first half after Javi
Peña had given the second division side the lead. |
| 13 Mar 2002 |
Osasuna 3 - Burgos 2
Aoiz. Osasuna won this friendly game
between neighbours. The first division side went ahead with goals by Palacios
(2) and Rivero in the first half, and Burgos came back with strikes from Merino
and Cuyami in the last 20 minutes. |
| 1 Apr 2002 |
Celta 1 - Benfica 0
Parque des Princes, Paris. Copa de la
Amistad in honour of Spanish and Portuguese workers in France. Celta won with a
goal from Edu. |
| 7 May 2002 |
Real Madrid 1 - Japan 0
World cup warm up game as part of Madrid
centenary year. Proceeds went to the fight against drugs. Only Figo and Roberto
Carlos played of the big names, and Madrid won with a first half goal by
transfer listed Congo. Match was preceded by veterans game between Madrid
veterans and All Stars XI which ended 1-1 with goals from Camacho for Madrid
and Klinsmann (from Cantona pass) for opponents. |
| 7 May 2002 |
Terrassa 1 - Barcelona 1
Catalan cup final. Second
division B side Terrassa beat a watered down Barcelona team to win the cup for
the first time in their history. Xavi gave Barça the lead with a first
half free kick, but Besora made it all square in the second half and their
keeper Morales saved penalties from Motta and Iniesta to win the shoot out
4-1. |
| 13 May 2002 |
Deportivo 1 - Sporting Braga 0
End of season friendly. Scaloni
got the only goal. |
| 16 May 2002 |
Jaén
0 - Athletic Bilbao 4
La Victoria stadium. Testimonial for Quico Alvarez, ex manager
of the Andalucian side and fan of Bilbao, who died recently. Goals by Julen
Guerrero (3) and Ezquerro. |
| 17 May 2002 |
Alavés 5 - Osasuna 3
Trofeo Compañón. New trophy
in memory of ex club president. Festival of goals: scorers: Mara (2), Magno,
Rubén Navarro and Iván Alonso for home side, Rivero, Diego Vera
and Mateo for visitors. |
| 18 May 2002 |
Catalunya 1 - Brazil 3
Brazil came to Barcelona's Nou Camp for
World Cup warm up match in front of 97,000 capacity crowd. Ronaldinho scored
twice in first half, and although Luis García pulled one back, Edmilson
scored a third goal near the end. |
| 19 May 2002 |
Sporting Lisbon 3 - Deportivo 2
Friendly fixture as part of
Duscher transfer fee. |
| 19 May 2002 |
Porto 3 - Celta 0
End of season friendly match in Portugal.
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| 22 May 2002 |
Mirandés - Alavés -
Valladolid
Triangular match in Miranda de Ebro for 75th anniversary of
local side. Valladolid won the tournament after beating Mirandés 0-2 and
drawing 1-1 with Alavés. Earlier in the evening Alavés beat
Mirandés 1-2. |
| 22 May 2002 |
Elche 0 - Valencia 3
Another post season friendly between
neighbours. With many players off on international duty, a chance for
Benítez to try out some youngsters, including Xisco, back from Tenerife.
Goals from Fabio Aurelio, Juan Sánchez and Rufete. Borja got sent off
for Elche early on. |
| 23 May 2002 |
Talavera 1 - Real Madrid 4
Madrid won with a team made up of reserves
and youngsters. Goals by Congo (2), Sestelo and Ricky, with Morilla replying at
the end. |
| 26 May 2002 |
Sporting Braga 1 - Celta 2
Friendly in Portugal. Víctor
Fernández had already gone. Goals by Vagner and Jesuli, with Odair
scoring a penalty for the home side after the break. |
| 24 to 26 May 2002 |
UE Sevilla 2012 tournament
Post-season tournament. Betis lost on
penalties to Maritimo Funchal in one semi-final and Sevilla beat Copenhagen in
the other, and then came from behind to beat Maritimo 2-1 in the final, despite
ending the game with nine men. |
| 29 May 2002 |
Thailand League All Stars 0 - Barcelona 0
Short trip
to Thailand to play Bec Tero All Stars, missing World Cup players of course. A
long way to go for a score-less draw. Barça won 4-3 on penalties.
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