For just 41 thousandths of a second, a breath, Àlex Márquez maintains dominance in his territory. The Cervera rider won the Sprint of the GP of Catalunya over Pedro Acosta in an intense duel that was decided on the last lap, after 12 laps of battle between the Catalan and the Murcian.
“Robert has to say something,” Hansi Flick hinted to his players in the last training session before the final match of the season at Camp Nou. And the professional Lewandowski spoke. Four seasons after his arrival, the Pole, who will turn 38 in August, will not renew with FC Barcelona. After informing his teammates, Lewandowski announced the end of his time at the club in an emotional video published on his social media. This Saturday he will play his last match wearing the Barcelona jersey at Spotify Camp Nou. And he will be a starter so the fans can say goodbye to him.
The last few weeks have been very eventful within Real Madrid. After the fight between Fede Valverde and Aurélien Tchouameni and the tense situation inside the Real Madrid locker room, this Thursday the Madrid fans had Kylian Mbappé as a target to direct their criticism towards.
The new Rafa Nadal Museum opened its doors this Thursday in Manacor after an event where Rafa Nadal himself was the host and introduced what is “one of the most special projects” of his life.
The clock was approaching 9 p.m. at the Santiago Bernabéu, with a still poor attendance, and the Real Madrid players came out to warm up on the pitch. At that moment, it seemed like the rival team was doing so. The few fans showed from the beginning that they wanted to express their dissatisfaction with whistles over a blank season and all the mess that has happened this course in the locker room: the Tchouaméni-Valverde fight, Mbappé’s shirking and messages, or the situation experienced with the dismissal of Xabi Alonso due to the attitude of the hard core, led by Vinícius and the Uruguayan player himself, captain and still in the infirmary.
“I would have loved to play the classic,” said Kylian Mbappé. The French star came out to the mixed zone to face the music and stand up for himself: “I know there are many people who don’t speak and I have to look at the press to know what they say. I prefer to speak here and face it.”
There are matches that last a sneeze; others, on the other hand, are as long as a night watching over a baby. The Madrid-Oviedo (2-0) with nothing at stake falls squarely into the second category. What is the point of the game of a team whose motto is only to win when it can no longer do so? That is what the white footballers who took to the pitch would have thought, whistled at by their fans during the warm-up, then victims of a sepulchral silence in a half-empty Bernabéu. It is more interesting to spend the San Isidro holiday elsewhere than watching Camavinga lose balls in his season to forget, the icing on the cake being that, hours before the match, it was made official that he would miss the World Cup. “I understand that he is pissed off,” said the eloquent Didier Deschamps.
Israel goes on the offensive against Lamine Yamal. The initiative of the Barcelona forward to wave a Palestinian flag during the blaugrana parade celebrating the League title last Monday through the streets of Barcelona continues to generate reactions. On this occasion, it was the Israeli Defense Minister, Israel Katz, who intervened in the matter by posting a strong message against the footballer on the social network X this Thursday, a message written in Spanish. “Lamine Yamal chose to incite against Israel and promote hatred while our soldiers fight the terrorist organization Hamas, an organization that massacred, raped, burned, and killed Jewish children, women, and elderly on October 7,” Katz stated. The minister did not stop there in his diatribe. “Those who support this type of message should ask themselves: Do you consider this humanitarian? Is this moral?”
The Israeli Defense Minister, Israel Katz, criticized footballer Lamine Yamal this Thursday after images were released this week showing the FC Barcelona player waving a Palestinian flag during the celebration of the League title in the Catalan City.
Real Madrid announced this Thursday that it officially calls elections for President and Board of Directors of the club and sets the dates to submit candidacies, which range from today until May 23, both included, that is, 9 days.