Deportes

First day of school. In the senior one. In the Champions League, that competition which, needless to say, Barcelona fans want to embrace in the final on June 6 at the Metropolitano. Just in case, don’t make plans. Beating the innocent Feyenoord 5-1 will not be the most meritorious victory of the league phase where, among others, PSG and Manchester City are present. But seeing Barcelona enjoy Raphinha’s double, the acrobatic goal of the exotic Adeyemi, Lamine Yamal’s direct free kick with the captain’s armband, and even Gabriel Jesus’s header is something to savor. This is the Champions League and Barça asks for and deserves a license to dream.

The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande Marlaska, announced this Wednesday that a file has been opened for an “alleged very serious or serious offense” against the agents who beat a Barcelona supporter from whom they took an estelada flag before the match between this team and Elche on August 23.

The result could have been scandalous, such was the flood of chances missed by both teams, especially when the match completely opened up in the second half. But before that, what was seen was one team that proposed, Inter, and the other, Madrid, which took advantage of their opponent’s ridiculous blunders to take control of the match. Mbappé and Valverde were the ones to thank Inter for their mistakes and put Mourinho’s team in the lead, who ended up securing a hard-fought victory in their Champions League debut.

More than 40 years after the last official race at the Jarama circuit in 1981, Madrid returns to the world calendar in grand style. Banco Santander also makes its return, the global official sponsor of Formula 1 since 2025. Before that, there were 20 years of sponsorships of teams and drivers. The world’s top motorsport competition returns to the Spanish capital with the Formula 1 Tag Heuer Gran Premio de España. The event will be held from September 11 to 13 at MADRING, an innovative semi-urban circuit designed around IFEMA Madrid and Valdebebas.

Insatiable and impeccable, he is one of the players who best represent the voracity stamp that Hansi Flick imprints on his Barça. Goal scorer, assistant, runner, midfielder, and forward. He is Fermín. A total Fermín. A superlative Fermín. A general Fermín who was not a world champion due to the misfortune of an injury, but who has returned hungrier than ever, more eager to earn his place. For now, he has left Dani Olmo, who came from the United States strengthened, on the bench. But the Andalusian is on fire.

The pessimists no longer have anyone to write to them. We are referring to the culés, obviously. Barça under Flick is in a mode that leaves no complaints worth mentioning. The blaugrana group has started the season like a rocket. In Mestalla, an old pressure cooker now turned inward…

The blue and red thrashing was uncontestable. Deafening. Mestalla counted up to five. Rarely have there been more contrasting soundtracks than those played by Valencia and Barcelona. The former was a victim of fear. The latter set a leader’s pace. Of a champion licensed to dream of a third consecutive League title. Even if it’s only matchday 4. Even if the thermometer read 36 degrees. It doesn’t matter. There were five great goals. Lamine Yamal scored a double. And Fermín joined the party. And Raphinha. And Pedri. The lone leader shone at the old Mestalla, a stadium that is beginning to say goodbye to its fans in the worst possible way while waiting for the New Mestalla: more hostile than ever. Propelling from their throats boos much louder against Peter Lim and his management than against Barcelona itself. An atmosphere that terrifies its own team, a soulless group at the mercy of Barcelona.

There are defeats that are written on the scoreboard and there are defeats that are written in the soul. Valencia CF has been stuck in the latter for too long. What is truly serious is no longer that the team plays badly, that it signs few players, that it strings together mediocre seasons or that the…

A 1,000-square-meter children’s amusement park next to Barça Café, on the esplanade of the Spotify Camp Nou, and an agreement with Ohana Real Estate Development to create a real estate project in Dubai inspired by the Barça brand. These are two of the projects that began to be created at the end of 2025 and that the club will now take to the assembly on September 19 for the members to decide.

Real Madrid once again left the Betis field empty-handed. Neither at Benito Villamarín nor at La Cartuja has the white team won since 2021, succumbing to the frenzy of the Olympic stadium in a crazy ending, controversy included. A goal by Parrott in the 80th minute brought down José Mourinho’s team, leading to their first defeat, but Madrid resisted falling. They found the goal in an acrobatic shot by Espí just after coming on, which was disallowed for offside, and Mbappé missed a penalty in the 95th minute, the icing on a disastrous night for the Frenchman.