Deportes

“You came at a very difficult time and we are very grateful. From your arrival, with your effort, discipline, and attitude, we grew a lot as a team.” On behalf of the entire squad, Fran Araújo made Robert Lewandowski the protagonist – along with the absent Fermín – of the party that the squad and their partners, the technical staff, and the blaugrana board celebrated yesterday at the CBC Beach in Castelldefels to bid farewell to a successful season.

The forensic doctors who examined José María Enríquez Negreira on March 24 have concluded that he is not fit to stand trial due to the Alzheimer’s disease he suffers from. In a report accessed by La Vanguardia, the professionals from the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences of Catalonia indicate that the former vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees suffers from a “major mixed-type neurocognitive disorder” which entails “moderate cognitive impairment.”

UEFA has decided to modify the national team calendar starting from the 2028-2029 season, that is, at the end of the Euro, in a new and revolutionary model that will resemble the current Champions League. That is, the qualifying phases for the Nations League and for World Cups and Euros will be played in longer single groups with only one match against an opponent, either away or at home, not two as has been the case for a long time in the group stage.

Pep Guardiola’s cycle at Manchester City comes to an end. After ten years in charge and a historic record, the Sampedor native will announce his departure from the club in the coming days, according to various British media reported this Monday. Likewise, sources close to the Catalan coach told La Vanguardia that they do not deny the information. His official farewell would take place at the Etihad Stadium, coinciding with the last Premier League match against Aston Villa.

That Jose Mourinho will be the next coach of Real Madrid is already unofficial news. It only remains for the coach to say a proper goodbye to Benfica (this morning he has already spent two hours at the training ground with Rui Costa, president), sign his new contract, and for the entity presided over by Florentino Pérez to make it official. These steps will be different from those of other coaches, as the electoral process called the previous week by the white president himself is involved.

Fermín López, who played the first 45 minutes yesterday against Betis at the Spotify Camp Nou, will miss this summer’s World Cup with Spain due to a fracture in the fifth metatarsal of his right foot. The midfielder from Huelva was unable to finish the match against the Betis team and had to be substituted at halftime by Alejandro Balde. What was initially interpreted as simple discomfort has ended up resulting in an injury that sidelines the Barça player from the World Cup dream.

Felipe VI will travel on June 26 to Guadalajara (Mexico) to attend the football match between the Spanish national team and Uruguay in the group stage of the 2026 World Cup, according to sources from Zarzuela announced this Monday.

An unavoidable reality of the great cycling tours with kilometer-long stages and hours on the saddle is that cyclists must hydrate, something that the International Cycling Union (UCI) accepts and promotes within the rules. Another reality is that this hydration must be released, which makes cyclists need to urinate. And they do so, usually, on the same bicycle and in precarious balance, to avoid stopping and losing seconds and rhythm in the race. And in this regard, the UCI has its reservations.

When Andrea Fuentes, coach of the Spanish artistic swimming team, heard Rosalía’s ‘Berghain,’ she considered making her team’s new creative proposal revolve around that piece to continue revolutionizing the world of artistic swimming. And she changed the initial plan. She discarded keeping the choreography that won two bronzes in 2025, at the European Artistic Swimming Championships in Funchal (Portugal) and at the World Swimming Championships in Singapore, to the rhythm of Lady Gaga’s ‘Abracadabra’ and created a new choreography. Spain will officially debut its new routine in exactly two weeks at the 2026 Artistic Swimming World Cup in Pontevedra, which will be held from May 29 to 31.

Àlex Márquez will be discharged from the hospital this afternoon after successfully undergoing surgery for a fracture of the right clavicle. The Catalan rider suffered a dramatic crash yesterday in Montmeló, where he was thrown through the air during the Catalunya GP race.