MADRID — The Spanish soccer club owned by former Houston Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow secured promotion to the top tier of the Spanish league on Sunday. Its promotion came four years after it was relegated, and two years after the investment group led by Luhnow bought the modest club based in a neighborhood of southern Madrid. Leganes finished with …
New Leganes president Jeff Luhnow is talking football at his office at the Segunda Division club’s tidy Butarque stadium in suburban Madrid. And that’s the model I want for Leganes, sustained success.” Luhnow’s success and downfall at the Astros mean his name is associated with baseball for all US sports fans. “There’s a high price of entry into MLS,” Luhnow …
Title race in the Spanish first division went right down to the wire. Leganes face Rayo Vallecano in one semi-final and Almeria will be up against Girona in the other semi-final. All four teams vying to go up to the ‘big league’ have played in the first division in the last 10 years. We have to be positive and just …
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