The build-up to the Bernabeu clash has been overshadowed by fractious exchanges between Madrid and La Liga and the RFEF over ...

Real Madrid is currently leader of the La Liga standings, while also still in the Copa del Rey and UEFA Champions League, with the FIFA Club World Cup not set to kick off until the summer.

The International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) has crowned Spanish giants Real Madrid as the best ... of Atalanta before winning the FIFA Intercontinental Cup in Doha.