Villarreal return banking on Dos Santos and stability


  • Football
  • Thursday, 15 Aug 2013

MADRID (Reuters) - Exploiting the talents of the nomadic Giovani dos Santos will be the key to Villarreal's attempts to reclaim their mantle as the model for smaller clubs to aspire to when they return to La Liga this weekend.

The team known as "the Yellow Submarine", because of their canary-coloured strip, won promotion back from the second division, along with Elche and Almeria, after a year in the wilderness following a dramatic fall from grace.

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