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As the end of the season beckons across Europe, in some form, it is time for us at Outside of the Boot to recognize...
As the end of the season beckons across Europe, it is time for us at Outside of the Boot to recognize the accomplishments of...
Om Arvind writes a detailed tactical analysis about the La Liga game that finished Athletic Bilbao 1-2 Real Madrid Real Madrid managed to squeeze past the...
Edin Halilovic writes a detailed tactical analysis about the La Liga match that ended Athletic Bilbao 2-2 Atletico Madrid. Athletic Bilbao hosted Atletico Madrid at San Mames...
Matt Gunn writes a comprehensive tactical analysis about the Europa League match that ended Athletic Bilbao 3-2 Sassuolo. Matchday five of the Europa League settled a tense...
Ross Eaton analyses Granada’s 2-1 loss at home to Athletic Bilbao in the La Liga Paco Jemez’s sixth game in charge of Granada was sure...
Rahul Warrier writes a detailed scout report about Athletic Bilbao’s talented youngster, Inaki Williams. Most well-tuned football fans around the world are well aware...
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In the 1st leg of the Spanish Super Cup, Barcelona had huge problems dealing with the high-press of Bilbao in Barcelona’s own half-pitch, while...
San Mames is a notoriously hard stadium to play in, as visiting teams often find themselves wavering in front of the intense Bilbo crowd...
Guardiola’s Barcelona and its tiki-taka way of play dominated Europe but soon enough, teams got around to figuring a way to make them ineffective....
A brand new feature on this website is the introduction of weekly & fortnightly columns focusing on various leagues, countries and regions across the...
A brand new feature on this website is the introduction of weekly & fortnightly columns focusing on various leagues, countries and regions across the...
A brand new feature on this website is the introduction of weekly & fortnightly columns focusing on various leagues, countries and regions across the...
This list contains the Best Young Players from the La Liga 2013/14 season. Note that the players that qualify as ‘young’ are those that...
Regular member of that thrifty defence at San Mames is a certain 19-yr-old Aymeric Laporte, only the 2nd Frenchman to represent Bilbao in their entire history....
It was just over a year ago that Marcelo Bielsa’s Athletic Bilbao were the envy of most European clubs. With a squad assembled mostly...
Every season a young player catches everyone’s eyes, and becomes the next big thing, last season a certain Iker Muniain fell into this category, but after a horrible start...