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Spain: Who's Going To Europe, Who's Going Down, Who's Going Up?

Here's a look at who's going where out of Spain after the recently concluded season:

2016-17 UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE:

Group Stage:

Barcelona
Real Madrid
Atletico Madrid
Sevilla (as winners of 2015-16 Europa League)

Playoff Round:

Villarreal

2016-17 EUROPA LEAGUE:

Group Stage:

Athletic Bilbao
Celta Vigo

RELEGATION TO SEGUNDA DIVISION:

Rayo Vallecano
Getafe
Levante



NOTE:  The top two teams in the Segund Division are assured of promotion to the top flight.  Only Alves has clinched automatic promotion thus far with Leganes and Gimnastic battling for second place.  The winner of the promotion playoffs involving the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth place clubs would also gain promotion.

SAMBA KINGS SPANK SPAIN, WIN THIRD STRAIGHT CONFEDERATIONS CUP TITLE

At Rio de Janeiro:

Goals from Fred (2', 47') and Neymar (44', the two are shown celebrating after one of the former's goals; that's Fred on the left) helped enable Brazil to dominated Spain 3-0 on Sunday to win their third successive FIFA Confederations Cup title at historic Maracana Stadium.  The defeat was the first for the Spaniards (who were reduced to ten men after Gerard Pique's red-card ejection in the 68th minute) in a competitive match since their group-stage opener against Switzerland in the 2010 World Cup (which Spain still won).  The Confederations Cup championship is the fourth overall for the Samba Kings, making this the third time that the tournament was won by the host nation (Mexico in 1999, France in 2003).  Brazil will host next year's FIFA World Cup.  

Photo from Yahoo-Eurosport website

2010 FIFA World Cup: Postmortems

While it may be true----and it is----that Andres Iniesta scored the winning goal in Sunday's championship match against the Netherlands, a valid argument can be made for the goalkeeper as the MVP of this year's World Cup.

It was certainly a busy night for referee Howard Webb as he handed out 14 yellow cards, a single-game record for a World Cup championship match.

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