Iberian Snapshot – Spain, Portugal & Catalonia 2013

Welcome to World Footy News Friday, February 27 2026 @ 10:21 am ACDT

Iberian Snapshot – Spain, Portugal & Catalonia 2013 | 3 comments | Create New Account

The following comments are owned by whomever posted them. This site is not responsible for what they say.

This site requires you to be logged in to post a comment. If you have an account already (or need to create one), please login here.

Iberian Snapshot – Spain, Portugal & Catalonia 2013

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Wednesday, March 27 2013 @ 01:15 am ACDT

It's good to get an update on this region, but sadly it seems things haven't gone so well in recent years. Back in 2005 we had Spain attend the International Cup, and there were efforts to develop another club to play the Madrid Bears. That seemed to wane but then Catalonia gained momentum and had quite a few 9-a-side teams playing in a regular league, but that seems to have ceased too.

It would seem that the last few years has seen equal doses of ups and downs in Ireland, the UK and Scandinavia, encouraging signs in France and Germany, and mixed news from Eastern Europe. I wonder if the GFC is the biggest factor in the lack of progress - as I've said before, Australia has for the most part been blissfully unaware of the extreme financial woes in much of the rest of the world. Unemployment rates (from the last few months): Australia 5%, Spain 27%, Portugal 16%, Ireland 15%. A lot of countries are in the 7 - 10% bracket which is seen as a bit grim, let alone 10 - 30%.

---
Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

Iberian Snapshot – Spain, Portugal & Catalonia 2013

Authored by: Harley Vague
on Wednesday, March 27 2013 @ 06:14 am ACDT

Money, is deffinitely an issue when you consider youth employment is typically twice the adult rate. Youth employment in Spain is a catastrophic 50%. Along with that you have the difficulty in obtaining affordable playing fields and equipment,If you don't have a local league then travel is a significant added problem.

---
Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

RSS news	RSS events
Twitter	Facebook

World Footy News

Search

Translate

User Functions

Events

Featured Sites

Older Stories

Friday 11-Apr

Sunday 30-Mar

Thursday 27-Mar

Friday 21-Mar

Thursday 06-Mar

Wednesday 05-Feb

Tuesday 04-Feb

Socials

Who's Online

Random Image

What's New

Articles last 2 weeks

Comments last 2 weeks

Links last 2 weeks

Advertisements