Levante

VALENCIA, Spain -The team is known as Levante UD and since 1939 it has spent only 10 percent of its history in La Liga, Spain's top soccer league.

NYT > Home Page By JAKE APPLEMAN 2011

Michael Laudrup's Real Mallorca recorded a 1-0 victory over visiting Espanyol, while the club the former Denmark international used to coach, Getafe, also of Madrid, drew 1-1 at home to Levante.

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But while his team-mates were largely scattered around the top flight, he was exiled to Levante.

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Barça now look set to wrap up the Primera Division title at Levante on Wednesday night, giving them more than two weeks to prepare for the showpiece at Wembley on 28 May.

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Real Zaragoza had started the day in 18th place but won 2-1 at already-safe Levante, Gabi scoring both goals for Javier Aguirre's side.

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Mourinho has substituted Ronaldo only twice all season, and not in a 4-1 rout of Real Sociedad or an 8-0 throttling of Levante in the Spanish Cup.

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The Levante striker Felipe Caicedo, on loan from Manchester City, scored his 11th goal of the campaign, a first-half header giving his side a 1-0 home victory over misfiring Espanyol.

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Felipe Caicedo first joined Levante for €1m, only to then to be given permission to travel to Russia and agree a deal with Lokomotiv Moscow, with the Spanish club making a tidy profit of €6m which could rise to €9m with add-ons.

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Kapo has also played for Auxerre, Juventus, Levante, Monaco and Birmingham City.

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