La Coruña

[lah kaw-roo-nyah]

noun

1. a seaport in NW Spain.

La Coruña

/ la koˈruɲa /

noun

1. English name: Corunna. Galician name: A Coruña. a port in NW Spain, on the Atlantic: point of departure for the Spanish Armada (1588); site of the defeat of the French by the British under Sir John Moore in the Peninsular War (1809). Pop: 243 902 (2003 est)

Example Sentences

Deportivo La Coruna, against AC Milan in 2004, and Roma, in 2018 against Barcelona, are the only other teams to have come back from three goals down after a first leg in the Champions League era.

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It's the "deep, emotional connection" between Deportivo La Coruna and a passionate fanbase that stuck with the club through the highs, when they won La Liga and the Copa del Rey, and the lows, when Spanish football obscurity beckoned.

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Monaco produced a scintillating attacking display at Stade Louis II to put eight goals past Deportivo La Coruna.

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The Verity was travelling from the northern German city of Bremen to Immingham in the UK when it collided with the Polesie, which had departed from Hamburg on a journey to La Coruña in Spain.

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Deportivo La Coruna, currently plying their trade in the third tier of Spanish football, are no longer associated with the Champions League - but they carried out an unforgettable fightback against heavyweight opposition in 2004.

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