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Real Madrid Club de Fútbol (Spanish pronunciation: [reˈal maˈðɾið ˈkluβ ðe ˈfutβol] Royal Madrid Football Club), commonly known as Real Madrid (and in Spain, in football circles, simply as el Madrid) is a professional association football club based in Madrid, Spain. It is the most successful team in Spanish football and was voted by FIFA as the most successful club of the 20th century, having won a record 31 La Liga titles, 17 Spanish "Copa del Rey" Cups, 8 Spanish Supercups, 1 Copa Eva Duarte, a record 9 UEFA Champions Leagues, 2 UEFA Cups, 1 UEFA Supercup, and 3 Intercontinental Cups. Real Madrid was a founding member of FIFA and the now-defunct G–14 group of Europe's leading football clubs as well as its replacement, the European Club Association. The word "Real" in the club's name is the Spanish term for "royal", and was given by the King in 1920 together with the royal crown in the emblem – several teams in Spain have got this royal distinction: Real Sociedad, Real Unión de Irún, Real Betis, and Real Zaragoza.

Founded in 1902, Real Madrid has spent its entire history in La Liga, the top league of Spanish football. In the 1940s, the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium and the Ciudad Deportiva had to be rebuilt following the Spanish Civil War. The club established itself as a major force in both Spanish and European football during the 1950s. In the 1980s, the club had one of the best teams in Spain and Europe (known as La Quinta del Buitre), winning two UEFA Cups, five consecutive Spanish championships, one Spanish Cup and three Spanish Super Cups.

The team's traditional home colours are all white, although it initially adopted a blue oblique stripe on the shirt. Its crest has been changed several times in attempts to modernise or re-brand it. The current crest is a modified version of the one first adopted in the 1920s. Real Madrid's home ground is the 80,354-seater Santiago Bernabéu football stadium in downtown Madrid, where it has played since 1947.

Real Madrid holds long-standing rivalries with other football clubs, most notably FC Barcelona, with matches between the two teams referred to as "el Clásico". Unlike most European football clubs, Real Madrid's members (socios) have owned and operated the club since its inception. The club is the world's richest football club (€401m) in terms of revenue and the second most valuable and was worth over €950m in 2008. Santiago Bernabeu Stadium held the final of the UEFA Champions League in 2010 which was won by Internazionale

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Webber insists he's taking each race one at a time

He might have reclaimed the advantage in the F1 2010 World Championship and have the fastest car in the field at his disposal, but with seven grands prix remaining that before season's end, Red Bull Racing star Mark Webber is adamant that he is taking absolutely nothing for granted and that he will then simply approach each race one at a time.

After looking down-and-out when the safety car has been appeared on lap 14 of last weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix – due to running behind team-mate Sebastian Vettel at the time and therefore facing a hefty loss of the positions for having to complete an extra lap whilst the majority of his rivals pitted – Webber brilliantly and bravely turned the situation around to his advantage to make his 'Option' rubber last all the way to lap 43, by which point he had established a sufficient cushion over the second-placed Fernando Alonso that he was in no danger of losing his lead.

“There was an element of the risk because we hadn't done anything like a 42-lap stint on the 'Option' tyre during practice,” the Australian confessed, revealing that he had to drive 'every lap like it was a qualifying lap'. “I had to drive what was effectively a three-part race, because I didn't pit for tyres when the safety car came out early on, but the strategy paid off and I won the race pretty easily in the end.”

Not only that, but Webber was able to briefly savour the moment when he put a lap on record-breaking multiple F1 World Champion Michael Schumacher – “I'm sure Michael wasn't having one of his strongest days, but he did a lot of that to me back in his day and it was nice to be able to do it [back to him]...with someone of his calibre, it doesn't often happen,” the New South Wales native quipped – but he has put any thoughts of following in the illustrious German's wheel tracks by clinching title glory for himself this year firmly out of his mind.

The last time the 33-year-old headed the points standings was prior to the Canadian Grand Prix in mid-June, but his fourth victory of the campaign in Budapest – making him once more the 'winningest' driver of the season to-date – saw him vault back ahead of the Lewis Hamilton, meaning he enters the mid-summer break a scant four markers clear of his McLaren-Mercedes adversary. As he keeps his feet firmly on the ground, however, the man from the Queanbeyan urges that he is far from complacent about his position – and well aware that anything can still happen.

“We are way too far out for that,” he told the Sydney Morning Herald. “We've got a lot of the people that can win races at this level, and we have already seen that. The most important thing for me is the next race. That's a bit boring, it's an old cliché, but that's what it is. It's unrealistic to think I'm going to win the next seven.”

De Puniet aiming for Brno return

Just 18 days on from the crash at the Sachsenring that fractured his left tibia and fibula the LCR Honda rider feels that ready to get back into action at the Brno.

The Frenchman underwent a successful two-hour operation to insert a titanium rod in his left leg on the Sunday evening of the German GP on July 18th, and then started with an intensive rehabilitation program to be fit in time for the Cardion ab Grand Prix Czech Republic on the August 15th.

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"Watching the first GP on the TV since I made my debut was a bit hard for me but in the meantime it was good for me to take some rest. A couple of days after the surgery I left the German hospital to begin the Hyperbaric Chamber sessions at the Saint Marguerite Hospital in the Marseilles under the supervision of Dr. Mathieu Coulange and his team. This machine increases both the pressure and the oxygen levels to help repair the tissues of the body at a faster rate. Then I moved to Cannes to pursue my rehabilitation. I underwent ultrasound sessions to strengthen my bones a little more. Last Monday I went back home to the Andorra to continue the ultrasound sessions with a domestic machine and I finally started to do some sport. Every day I go to the gym to cycle and I am training my upper body with the rubber bands and special exercises. The doctors are continually surprised with the speed with which I am recovering, and I have to admit that I am as surprised as they are! I am using my crutches less and less. I still hope to be back for the next Grand Prix, however the final decision will be made in Brno next Thursday when the circuit Doctor together with Doctor Costa will examine my leg and my overall physical condition.”