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Diario AS

Spanish sports newspaper

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Diario AS (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈdjaɾjo ˈas]) (sometimes stylized as AS or As; Spanish pronunciation: [ˈas]) is a Spanish daily sports newspaper that concentrates particularly on association football.

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Diario AS is part of PRISA which also owns El País and Cinco Días. The paper particularly covers news of the Community of Madrid football teams: Real Madrid, Atlético Madrid, Getafe CF, CD Leganés, and Rayo Vallecano. It competes directly with Marca. In addition to Madrid, the newspaper also has satellite bureaus in Barcelona, Bilbao, A Coruña, Seville, Valencia, and Zaragoza.

In May 2012, the newspaper launched an English language sub-site offering original journalism and articles translated from the original Spanish by native English-language speakers, as well as their own content. The circulation of Diario AS was 181,172 copies in 2001 and 176,892 copies in 2002. It rose to 214,654 copies in 2006.

02MeriStation

MeriStation is a digital magazine dedicated to video games, operated as a subdirectory of AS since 2011.

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