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Bernabéu

Juanma Trueba

18.95 euros

The Florentine of the 20th century

Before Florentino Pérez, Cristiano Ronaldo, the Galacticos, the three consecutive Champions Leagues, the impossible comebacks and the “90 minutes at the Bernabéu are very long”, a man had a dream: to make Real Madrid the greatest team … of all time. His name was Saint-Jacques and, although it may seem strange, he kept his promise. This is the starting point of the excellent pen of Juanma Truebarenowned sports journalist, a classic of the newspaper ‘As’ who, after his first book, “Cycling dictionary: a sentimental glossary” (2023, GeoPlaneta), tells the story of one of the most influential figures in football history, Santiago Bernabéu. From turbulent post-war Spain to the arrival of democracy and the rise of football as a mass phenomenon in our country, Trueba breaks down, with impressive documentation, a man “of a thousand faces”, silent, calculating, tough, characteristics which allowed him to forge in Madrid an empire never seen before in the beautiful sport. “In Spain, the smartest thing is to make yourself small, the unfortunate, not to arouse envy and, in the end, to be the biggest.”

The other champions

Sometimes you forget that basketball is so much more than the big NBA games or the weekly games they show. the real Madrid And Barcelona. This discipline, although invented so that children in Canada and the northern United States could practice sports during cold winters, was forged against all odds in the streets and over the years reached the status of an urban social movement, in the same way as graffiti or hip-hop. A form of expression, in short, which has become a weapon of personal development in a Palestinian refugee camp in Chatilain Lebanon, the incredible and moving story she tells Txell Feixascorrespondent with extensive experience in Middle Eastin his work “Allies”. The journalist tells how a group of girls, encouraged by the father of one of them, founded a basketball club, a way of teaching the world that women, in their culture, have a different destiny from child marriage, which sometimes ends in a spiral of abuse, drugs and honor killings. “The revolution in the Shatila refugee camp is bouncing a basketball,” the author said in an interview with this newspaper.

Last line

Kill the Rubiales

Luis Rubiales

22.70 euros

The nasty version

It is said that there is no such thing as bad publicity, and that is why many Spanish citizens have discovered that Luis Rubialesformer president of the Spanish Football Federation, launched a book the day his uncle started throwing eggs at him during the presentation ceremony in the center of Madrid. A crazy scene, so bizarre that it does justice to one of the most controversial figures in national football, who after being found guilty of sexual assault following his kiss with Jenni Hermoso In the antipodes, he set to work to tell his version of a story told a thousand times. In the text, Rubiales He shoots at everything that comes his way, such as “the government, certain political parties, football teams, the lucrative world of feminism, certain conveniently ‘oiled’ media and certain characters who would be nothing if they did not have an enemy in Luis”, as he himself admits. A work that will not revolutionize writing or language, but which has the necessary dose of morbidity for a reader to want to enter the mind of Rubiales.

HarperCollins

Assault on the Octagon

Alvaro Colmenero

10.44 euros

The blood ceremony

No sport in the world has experienced such meteoric growth as mixed martial arts, the famous MMA, in recent years. Now a phenomenon, ABC journalist Álvaro Colmenero, one of the most renowned analysts of the discipline in our country, embarks on the first book of his career to tell, in detail, with the vision of someone who has always been on the front line, how a sport went from niche status to that of a money and audience machine. Colmenero, to illustrate the story, selected 20 legendary fights featuring stars such as Jon Jones, Demetrious Johnson, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Conor McGregorRonda Rousey, Georges St-Pierre or Max Hollowaya firmament which culminates with the irruption of the ‘Matador, the great Ilia Topuria, who also writes the prologue of the book. Almost nothing.

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