Lamine Yamal has scored a goal in the World Cup and has not provided an assist, according to official data. Lamine’s numbers are very meager for those obsessed with statistics and those who do not pay attention to the subtleties of football. The fact is that Spain will play the semifinal on Tuesday…
The controversial words of the former Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy about the French team continue to cause a stir. The former leader stated in a column in the newspaper El Debate that France, Spain’s next opponent in the World Cup semifinals, “has a very high-level squad, that is true, but without French players.”
The World Cup already has its four semifinalists. France and Spain were the first to confirm their place among the top four, and last night it was the turn of the other two: England and Argentina, who sealed their qualification in two matches marked by refereeing controversy. Switzerland is outraged by Embolo’s expulsion, who saw the second yellow card for a dive in the middle of the field; while in Norway they denounce the strangest play of the tournament. In Nylland’s goal kick, the ball strangely changes trajectory, it seems to touch the aerial camera, and seconds later the play ends with a goal by Bellingham, which went up on the scoreboard.
Surrounded by members, emblems, and fan club members, Florentino Pérez’s last campaign event before the elections was marked by a full-frontal attack against his rival, Enrique Riquelme, whom he tried to discredit by all means in an extremely harsh speech. Without constantly mentioning him, but with direct references to his candidacy, Pérez built his intervention on the denials regarding his rival’s signings. “We campaign from the truth. Others prefer lies and hoaxes” and criticized that “a televised hoax is launched and then denied” by those involved.
Amid great anticipation, in true American style, including a speech by the mayor and a marching band, the Spanish national team’s expedition landed on Friday night in Chattanooga, a beautiful town located in the southeast of the state of Tennessee, where Luis de la Fuente and his team will establish their base camp throughout the first phase of the World Cup. “A team takes off. A country flies”, read the personalized Airbus 350-Next that transported ‘La Roja’ from Rosalía de Castro airport, in Santiago de Compostela, to Chattanooga, after a stopover in Nashville.
New times are dawning, the same or worse (not better), and the media ring has moved to television sets as exotic as they are phenomenally popular. The candidates for the presidency of Real Madrid have understood this and have adapted without hesitation. If Enrique Riquelme was the guest on Wednesday of El Hormiguero on Antena 3, where he promised Haaland, Florentino Pérez appeared the next day on the Horizonte program, a device originally created to talk about paranormal phenomena, now dedicated to all kinds of analysis, including political covens with psychedelic effects.
The elections for the presidency of Real Madrid have turned into a media battle between Florentino Pérez and Enrique Riquelme, which reached its peak yesterday. Candidate Riquelme gave an interview on El Hormiguero in which he announced that he has secured Norwegian striker Erling Haaland, current player for Manchester City. Pérez counterattacked by buying the first advertisement after the Antena 3 program, in which the Portuguese José Mourinho appeared wearing a Real Madrid shirt and saying ‘sí’.
Real Madrid presidential candidate Enrique Riquelme emulated Florentino Pérez last night on El Hormiguero. As the current Real Madrid president did in 2000, Riquelme announced a stellar signing and publicly committed to compensating Real Madrid members if that player did not join the white club. In 2000, it goes without saying, Florentino Pérez’s big signing was Luis Figo. Riquelme, in this 2026, announced that he has signed Erling Haaland, Manchester City striker; that the commitment is sealed by a notary and that “if I fail to fulfill any of my electoral promises, I will pay 100% of the membership fee for the 100,000 Real Madrid members”.
The open war for the presidency of Real Madrid between Florentino Pérez and Enrique Riquelme continues to accumulate episodes. After last night’s televised battle on Antena 3, this morning Riquelme’s candidacy went on the attack by hanging a banner in which he subtly accuses Florentino Pérez of wanting to sell the club.
No one expected high-altitude guide Hillary Dawa Sherpa to appear alive after he went missing last May 29 above Camp 3 of Everest, at over 7,300 meters of altitude, in the death zone. The best and surprising news arrived this morning when it was confirmed that the Nepalese high-altitude guide “was found crawling towards base camp by a team from the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC, in its English acronym),” as confirmed to AFP agency by Pemba Sherpa, from 8K, the company that had started his search this week. The veteran Sherpa, over 50 years old, has been transferred to a hospital in Kathmandu with frostbite, but his life is not believed to be in danger.