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If your a Facebook friend of mine you might have noticed that I regularly play two games on the social networking site, Premier League Picks and La Liga Picks.  Even though I spent almost two months in Spain earlier this year I was completely unaware of the quiniela, a Spanish national betting competition, that is very similar to Facebook’s La Liga Picks.  Participants guess the winners of the ten Primera División fútbol matches and five other matches from the Segunda División (Facebook’s version only offers the first division).

ESPNSoccernet’s Eduardo Alvarez introduced me to the Spanish tradition two weeks ago even though I had been playing the game in another form for months.  The idea is to correctly guess the outcome of the weekend’s selection of games, choosing ’1′ for a home win, ’2′ for an away win, and ‘X’ for a draw.  Cash prizes in Spain are possible for strong performances and two people even won over €600,000 in 2006!  With my blog’s new focus on Spain and Latin America, I am going to publish my quiniela picks every week but my picks will only cover the Primera División.

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