FC Barcelona has taken an important step in the operation to try to sign Rodrigo Hernández. According to this newspaper, the blaugrana club already has the approval of the captain of the Spanish national team to open negotiations with Manchester City, a change of scenario that brings closer the possibility of addressing the transfer.
UEFA maintains its boycott of competitions organized by FIFA despite Gianni Infantino’s withdrawal of his plan to privatize part of the World Cup rights. “The conditions to lift our boycott are not met. We have lost confidence in the FIFA president,” stated the governing body of European football in a statement. According to UEFA, in its position last week, they demanded two things. The first, the withdrawal of the plan. And, the second, that conditions be established so that a similar project could never be proposed again. “This second issue has not been fulfilled,” UEFA says. The organization chaired by Aleksander Ceferin does not believe in the unity front that Infantino wants to recover and has challenged him with the aim that the FIFA president does not remain in office.
Real Madrid, one of the market agitators without a doubt, continues to advance in the purpose of creating a better squad for the current season. After the signings of Dumfries, Bernardo Silva, Konaté, Cucurella, and Carlos Espí, comes Diomande, the 19-year-old Ivorian winger who two years ago played for Leganés and this last season in German Leipzig.
Under the cover of night, FIFA released its conclusions about the summit held in Rabat on Wednesday. Under the cover of night as is becoming customary and with an official version adjusted to the wishes of its president, Gianni Infantino. The leader is trying to weather the storm, to survive his biggest internal crisis caused by himself and his attempts to bring private capital into the World Cup business, and is trying to arrive in the best possible condition for the March elections. That is why FIFA issued a statement saying that the president admitted mistakes in the presentation process of his failed plan, in which he offered excuses and warned that he would not tolerate attacks on his integrity. It was also emphasized that Infantino has the support of his top management, despite the fact that his secretary general, Mattias Grafström, present at the Moroccan meeting, questioned him last week.
The president of FIFA, Gianni Infantino, is said to have promised Morocco the organization of the 2030 World Cup final in exchange for political support amid an institutional crisis that threatens his continuity at the head of the organization. This is reported this Wednesday by the British newspaper The Times, which cites sources close to the entity.
There are golds that over time get lost in any box and silvers that are remembered forever. The eternal dichotomy between winning or leaving a mark, which many times do not go hand in hand. With that metaphor, the result of the last of the artistic swimming events at the European Championships in Paris is explained, the acrobatic, which crowned Russia on the podium, achieving a triple in the team events, but also brought Spain to the top in the memory of the synchro family.
Barça is moving for Julián Álvarez, even knowing the difficulty involved in signing the Argentine footballer. The Barcelona sporting director, Deco, has traveled to Madrid along with one of his collaborators, Joao Amaral, with the intention of meeting today with the attacker’s agent, Fernado Hidalgo, according to the newspaper ‘Sport’ and ‘Jijantes’ and this newspaper was able to confirm. Julián, who is still on vacation after the end of the World Cup, must rejoin Atlético’s discipline next Monday. During the World Cup tournament, the Argentine already took a step forward and stated that he wanted to leave the rojiblanco team to fulfill his dreams. Since then, he has maintained absolute silence. Deco seeks to unblock the signing and design, together with the footballer’s environment, the steps to take to approach it definitively.
“Show that they want me, that they come to negotiate and, in the end, it’s all talk. The good thing is that since I have a contract, I can wait and decide on my own,” Ferran Torres responded to Sportico during his media tour in the United States when asked what Barça should do to keep him. “For now, the only thing I know is that on August 12 I have to join there (in Barcelona) to train with the team. We’ll see what happens,” he added later on CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins. He had said something similar a few hours earlier on NBC’s Today show: “I have a contract (until June 30, 2027) with Barça but in football, you never know.”
At the Yeomju Gymnasium in the remote Gwangju of South Korea, next to the football stadium where Gamal al Ghandour’s most famous refereeing took place, the Iris Tió phenomenon emerged. It was July 2019 and the Barcelonan, barely 16 years old, attended as the youngest member of the team coached by Mayuko Fujiki, which had the undisputed star Ona Carbonell, who at those World Championships achieved the record for the most medals by a woman (22). Beside her, Tió, just a shy teenager with a wonderful future predicted. In the midst of that whirlwind that the mixed zone becomes, improvised next to the locker rooms in that inhospitable place, Andrea Fuentes appeared, who at that time was beginning her journey with the United States.
There are few sports as tough as swimming and gymnastics, whether in its artistic or rhythmic form. Thousands of hours in the pool in the first case, feeling the effort, the pressure, the pain in arms and legs, and the loneliness, do not forget the loneliness, as few specialties…
