Deportes

Scarves in the air. It was a special edition with the colors of Barça and Birmingham City to celebrate the visit of the blaugrana team. The Beatles’ Hey Jude playing over the loudspeakers and the nearly 30,000 fans present singing the anthem a cappella. In the box, Jude Bellingham smiled. He is still a hero there. The sold-out sign with 30,000 spectators filling the stands – they paid 40 euros per ticket – capped off the atmosphere at the charming St. Andrew’s @ Knighthead Park, a stadium with a lot of history that will cease to be the home of Birmingham City in about four years. The English club plans to move to the new Birmingham City Powerhouse, a venue with a capacity for 62,000 spectators whose inauguration is scheduled for the 2030-2031 season. By then, that is at least the club’s goal, they hope to have regained their place in the Premier League.

The company Elite Exped confirmed this noon the death of one of its owners, Nirmal “Nimsdai” Purja, trapped on Thursday morning by an avalanche with nine other people on Broad Peak, 8,051 meters, in Pakistan. Purja, a Nepalese also with British nationality, had gained fame for being the first person to complete, in 2019, the 14 eight-thousanders in a record time, in just six months and six days, with the help of artificial oxygen. Colleagues from his agency have moved to the area to continue the search and recovery tasks of the missing bodies. “Today, with deep sadness and a broken heart, we confirm that Nirmal Purja tragically lost his life. We have also received confirmation that other members of the expedition sadly did not survive,” states Elite Exped in a statement.

The war between FIFA and UEFA over the privatization of the World Cup breathes like a feud between mob bosses. Something similar to the historical moment when the mafias debated whether they should open up to the drug and arms business or limit themselves to what they had been doing…

Gianni Infantino pensó que podía emular con el deporte rey lo que Trump hace con la política de su país. Tras convertirse en el títere del mandatario americano en los últimos meses, su último desatino puede convertirse en su tumba (con una reelección en el horizonte). Su…

The step back by FIFA, and its president Gianni Infantino, with the plan that sought to privatize part of its competitions, including the World Cup, has been celebrated by UEFA, the main opponent of the global organization on this matter. However, the European confederation denounces that football cannot “continue like this,” “with secret plans that are carried out in a rush, devised by anonymous individuals and of dubious benefit to the sport.”

The avalanche that yesterday trapped ten members of an expedition led by the well-known British-Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja on Broad Peak, the twelfth highest mountain in the world, at 8,051 meters, in Pakistan, has shocked the mountaineering world. Rescue teams recovered this morning “the bodies of Nadhira Ahmed Abdullah Al Harthy, from Oman, and Pur Bahaur Gurung, from Nepal,” according to the president of the Alpine Club of Pakistan (ACP), Major General Irfan Arshad, who confirmed this to Efe. The leg of a third person was also found, he added. Arshad indicated that search efforts will continue tomorrow, Saturday.

If Italy became in the collective imagination the country of great defenders, tough but elegant, capable of winning matches with intelligence even before strength, the footballer who best embodied that ideal was Franco Baresi. The legendary captain of Milan and the Italian national team died at 66, after a long illness that had progressively deteriorated his health in recent years. With him disappears one of the best defenders of all time and one of the great symbols of Italian sport.

Barcelona received this Thursday at the preseason stage in Birmingham the notification of the complaint filed by Atlético de Madrid to FIFA and the Federation (RFEF) because they consider that the blaugrana club tried to sign Julián Álvarez by forcing a departure for an amount lower than his release clause of 500 million euros following inappropriate procedures with a player under contract until 2030. The complaint was formalized on June 30 and Barcelona received the notification this Thursday through the RFEF, responsible for channeling this type of claims. The blaugrana club will study the response deadlines and will present allegations in the coming days.

Klassmark, a Catalan company organizing outdoor sports events, including The Traka, reached an agreement with RPM, a sports events company of the Godó Group, to join forces in the development of the events they carry out, sensitive to environmental respect. Klassmark’s motto, ‘No nature no future’, has always represented an organization focused on enhancing natural spaces. The Traka is a world reference in gravel cycling.

“UEFA and its federations will not participate in competitions organized by FIFA. We unanimously and unequivocally reject the plan to transfer the rights of the World Cup and other FIFA competitions to private investors.” UEFA and its 55 associations made this strong decision this afternoon in a telematic meeting. A real challenge to try to stop the plans of FIFA president Gianni Infantino to privatize part of FIFA by creating a corporate subsidiary to commercialize its competitions. From the very beginning, UEFA has opposed the plan and describes it as “crossing a red line.”