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A list of all projects and series that are currently ongoing. Click on them to find out more.
Las perspectivas: A search for a profile, a painting of the football fan, a sculpture of the various complexities of supporting a club in Spain.
Albacete - with Ángel Galdón Rodrígu
Almería - with James Dodd
Burgos - with @SomosBurgosCF
Córdoba - with Adrián Fernández
Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa - with El Periscopio
Extremadura - with Juan Diego Rodríguez
Fuenlabrada - with Ivan Cruz
Girona - with Adam Selby
Girona - with Jordi Agusti
Girona - with Ivan Quirós
Málaga - with Paul Schrijver
Real Zaragoza - with Magnus Skjeltorp
Reus Deportiu - with Andreu Rauet
Santutxu - with Thomas Sargent

The Rayo aficionado: "Obviously, this project is about interviewing Rayo fans. And obviously, this project is about bringing Rayo fans from around the world together...But this project is also about building this profile of the Rayo fan, capturing local and international similarities and differences in thought"
Alberto Alonso
Daniel Kobe
David Méndez
@DonDiegoVaula
Edyta
Elizabeth Carr-Ellis
Juan Manuel Sánchez Fornell
Mark Rickling
Oscar Salto Acevedo
Richard Wyatt
Tapani Olkku

The Rayo Report: An attempt to tactically analyze each and every Rayo league game. Emphasis on the word attempt.
2017-18:
J1: Real Oviedo 2-3 Rayo Vallecano - Midfield Madness and Wingers Win
J2: Rayo Vallecano 2-2 Numancia - 2 mindsets, 2 poor Athletic players. And Diamanka
J3: Lorca 0-0 Rayo Vallecano - Wasteful finishing & familiar woes
CdR: Rayo Vallecano 0-3 Tenerife - Experiments, errors and the experienced
J4: Rayo Vallecano 0-3 Osasuna - A Rattled Rayo against an Organized Osasuna
J5: Sevilla Atlético 0-0 Rayo Vallecano - Captains, carelessness and courage
J7: Huesca 2-1 Rayo Vallecano - Class is called Cucho. And a suicidal substitution
J8: Rayo Vallecano 4-1 Real Valladolid - The new Rayo vs The old Rayo
J9: Rayo 1-0 Almería - A prime performance against a plucky but poor team
J10: Reus Deportiu 0-2 Rayo Vallecano - Exemplary Embarba and a Daring Deportiu
J11: Rayo Vallecano 1-1 Sporting Gijón - Michael Santos, and a Sporting surrender
J12: Cádiz 0-0 Rayo - Curious Cádiz but a reasonable result
J13: Rayo Vallecano 1-1 Albacete - Risky Rayo vs Abject Albacete
J14: Real Zaragoza 3-2 Rayo Vallecano - Versatility beats the Vallecanos
J15: Rayo Vallecano 1-0 Barcelona B - Beating Barcelona B by battling back

The Rayo Vallecano A-Z guide: Do you want to become a Rayo fan, or at least find out the tenets of Rayo Vallecano? In dire circumstances, when the big clubs don't satiate your appetite, this guide can be prescribed to indoctrine help non-Rayo-believers convert to Rayo-hood.
Addition edition: Learn more about the most inspired signings to have graced the club, but also for the most underrated ones - for even at an underrated club such as Rayo Vallecano, some players can go under the radar.
A is for Alcorcón
B is for Barcelona
C is for Celta de Vigo → Part 1 | Part 2
D is for David Aganzo
E is for Espanyol
F is for Fuenlabrada
G is for Gerhard Poschner
H is for Hernández. Máximo Hernández
I is for Iriney Santos
J is for Jaén. Real Jaén
K is for Kazan. Rubin Kazan
L is for Leganés
L is for Linares
M is for Mérida
N is for Nieto and Nacho
O is for Oviedo. Real Oviedo → Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
P is for Porto
Q is for Quintas. Hugo Álvarez Quintas

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