Think of sport in Spain and you probably imagine a man with a red flag facing a charging bull. But bullfighting is no longer the most popular sport in Spaniards’ hearts. The (somewhat) new game on the block is soccer.
From Minnow to Hero
Spain’s love of soccer (called futbol throughout the world) got off, literally, to a rocky start. British mining companies working in the country’s south brought soccer to the region in the 1870s.
Over the next half century, regional
