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FC Barcelona face Bruges this Wednesday, in the fourth round of the UEFA Champions League. Hansi Flick's men are looking to return to winning ways after losing in the last continental competition against Luis Enrique's PSG, in Montjuic. The Blaugranas travel to Belgium to visit one of the lowest-ranked teams in the competition: Bruges are in twentieth place after two defeats in three days (against Bayern and Atalanta; however, they beat Monaco).Continue reading

Fran Garagarza, sporting director of RCD Espanyol, suffered a heart attack this Tuesday morning and is admitted to the cardiological Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Hospital Sant Pau, in Barcelona, ​​according to the blue and white club. Garagarza, 56, suffered an acute myocardial infarction and is “stable in serious condition”, according to Espanyol. Given the situation and circumstances, the club also informs that Jofre Carreras' press conference scheduled after training this Wednesday morning has been cancelled. The Mutriku (Gipuzkoa) coach is stable and awake, but will continue to be monitored to check his progress, dealing with the situation with discretion and respect as it is a private and health problem. Several First and Second Division clubs sent messages of support through social m...

Robin Le Normand, Atlético de Madrid's Spanish international defender, will be absent for at least a month and a half due to “a high-grade injury to the posterior capsule and semimembranosus muscle” of his left knee, but without ligament or meniscal involvement, suffered this Tuesday in the Champions League game against Union Saint Gilloise. The new assessment of the first diagnosis, initially a “hyperextension” in that joint, and the carrying out of additional tests determined that the central defender suffers “a high-grade injury to the posterior capsule and the semimembranous muscle with ligamentous and meniscal integrity”, according to the medical report published this Wednesday.Atlético de Madrid does not specify the defender's recovery period, although this type of injury requires at...

Her name is Vitória and she has just turned five. It is the name chosen by her parents, basketball player Achille Polonara and his wife, Erika Bufano, when the girl was born in 2020 in the capital Álava, a gesture of affection from the couple for the city that welcomed the family during the two seasons in which the Italian striker played for Baskonia (2019-2021).Vitória celebrated a very special fifth birthday these days. For just a few hours, his father was allowed to leave Bologna's Sant'Orsola hospital after being on the verge of death. Polonara recently woke up from a nightmare of 10 days in a coma, the result of a blood clot that affected him during his fight against leukemia. Papa Achille opened his eyes just in time for his daughter's party, while even the doctors feared the worst.“...

Flick's Barça is going through a strange moment. It alternates bittersweet victories, like against Girona and Olympiacos, with more encouraging ones, like Sunday's against Elche, but also with worrying defeats, like the one in the classic. Now they added a draw that doesn't matter much in Bruges. Barça still hasn't woken up and the best Lamine Yamal has appeared.More information“If you concede three goals, it is very difficult to win,” analyzed De Jong. Eric García agreed with the Dutchman: "They create a lot of danger for us, with two passes they plant themselves inside the area. It's something that obviously needs to be improved." Flick is worried about the game, but apologizes for the repeated injuries: 13 this year, half of those suffered last season. It's not the only fear in Ciudad D...

Euroleague day 9BasconiaVirtus BolognaThis Baskonia has definitely changed its face. There is nothing left, or very little, of that sad team overcome by circumstances that suffered a painful 0-6 at the start of the Euroleague. Paolo Galbiati's team seems to have finally found its way and has now won four consecutive victories, three in European competitions (Dubai, Efes and Virtus) plus a very worthy one in the Liga ACB against Tenerife, who arrived as leaders against Vitória and left with their first defeat of the season. This Thursday they minimized Virtus Bologna in the first quarter, with an advantage almost always above ten points. The fact that Carsen Edwards, a lethal shooter, finished the first ten minutes with zero points says a lot about the defensive work of Galbiati's team. The...

Lamine Yamal wanted to give a message. This time he chose to send him to the field first. However, he saved one card: after showing that his talent was back against Bruges, on the 10th he showed his self-confidence. “If they whistle at me”, he warned about the few whistles he received from the Bruges fans, still with bitterness on their lips after a difficult-to-digest draw for Barcelona, ​​“it’s because they know I do my job well”. He then recalled how he lived his last two months, when his name jumped from Hansi Flick's mouth to Luis de la Fuente's, both fighting over the management of Lamine's minutes. "There was a lot of talk about my pubalgia, which was very sad, but it was the same as always. I was focused on what I was doing and trying to play at this level, which is how I feel best...

A great friend of mine says that losing at Anfield Road always entails a double punishment: defeat on the pitch, with all the possible pain condensed in the final result, and torture practiced in the stands in the form of an anthem, a song. I admit disagreements regarding this. I don't consider myself a monster and everyone is very free to be enthusiastic about what touches their heart, but I wouldn't be at peace without pointing out that You'll Never Walk Alone seems to me to be the most persistent epidemic in all of world football, a mix of religion and karaoke that Liverpool fans practice at every game as an Anglo-Saxon substitute for Cuban Santeria.I could feel envious of such a black attitude, but no. We, Galicians, have A Rianxeira, which is not far behind in terms of pop iconography...

On an afternoon in November 2012, a few days before Real Oviedo welcomed Coruxo to the Carlos Tartiere stadium, already accustomed to seeing his team suffer in the third and fourth categories of Spanish football, a message crossed the Atlantic in the form of a tweet. The recipient was Sid Lowe, an English journalist who, passionate about the club, carbayón Since his Erasmus in the city, he launched the campaign SOS Real Oviedo look for shareholders.The tweet in question, published at 5:47 p.m. on November 9, 2012, said: "I just bought a share, am I possibly the first shareholder of Maine-based Real Oviedo? The sender, one of hundreds at that time, remained completely unknown for years, until this Sunday, more than a decade later, he became the new mayor of New York City."In addition to bei...

Javier de Dalmases i Subirana (Barcelona, ​​​​1948, Corbera de Llobregat, 6 November 2025), sold a toucan to the Count of Godó. It was in 1989, when cycling wanted to spread across the American continent and a race called the Tour of the Americas was organized, halfway between Venezuela and Florida. The organization invited a large group of journalists, including Dalmases, who upon returning, after receiving a request from the governor of Puerto Rico, to greet Felipe González, - whom he had never seen in his life - had the idea of ​​buying a baby toucan, which he hid as best he could on the flight back. But the animal grew and then the Count of Godó, owner of the newspaper, appeared. World of Sportsnewspaper where he worked, who discovered that the journalist had the bird in his home. He w...