Deportes

Dani Carvajal was born in Leganés and before he had even started puberty, he was already wearing the Real Madrid jersey. He grew up idolizing the Galácticos during the era of Zidanes and Pavones and was the boy chosen to lay the first stone of the Valdebebas sports city alongside Alfredo Di Stéfano, as if the Arrow had already baptized him that day, predicting a glorious future. “A child’s dream, a legend’s triumph,” read a beautiful banner with that photograph. More than two decades later and six Champions League titles won, the captain of one of the best eras in the history of the white club played his last match at the Bernabéu. A protagonist from start to finish on a memorable night for his memory, with electoral drums and inhospitable in football terms.

Florentino Pérez has already made a move in the election campaign. On the same day that the board approved his candidacy for the Real Madrid presidential elections, a gigantic banner appeared on a street in the capital in the purest Joan Laporta style.

Enrique Riquelme appeared this Saturday in Valdebebas, where the headquarters of the Real Madrid electoral board is located, to submit all the necessary documentation to formalize his candidacy for the presidency of the white entity. This was the last step, and the most costly, to meet the requirements written in the statutes, tightened since Florentino Pérez’s arrival at the presidency two decades ago, coincidentally when the last elections were held.

El Barcelona, the new champion since May 10, can now rest. They deserve it. Some can already think about the World Cup and others about their trips. In fact, the blaugrana team left half an hour early for vacation. The season could have ended when the top scorer Lewandowski said goodbye with what he does best: a goal of opportunism and instinct. However, the disconnection was evident and Valencia did not miss the chance to come back with two goals in five minutes.

Girona went to the hell of the Second Division. It was unable once again to win, the only thing it could do to ensure survival, and Elche, with the draw, will remain in the top flight for another season. The dreams of greatness at Montilivi are over, which in three seasons has gone from amazing as the third team in the League, playing the Champions League, to ending up relegated.

The legacy of this champion Barça already reaches impossible places. The Rwenzori Mountains, on the border of Uganda and Congo, is one of the most remote places in Africa. It is not easy to get there: to reach its peaks, with summits over five thousand meters, you have to cross…

Barcelona achieved this Saturday at the Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo their fourth Champions, half of the eight accumulated by their rival, a surpassed Olympique Lyonnais who succumbed to an uncontestable 4-0. The blaugrana team has won four (2021, 2023, 2024, and 2026) of the seven Champions finals they have played between the years 2019 and 2026 and, along with Frankfurt, a German team, stands as the second club with the most continental titles. These are the notes of the exhibition by Pere Romeu’s team.

A pineapple of euphoria in the center of the field. A mountain of happiness. A panorama of immense and well-deserved satisfaction. Ewa Pajor, chosen as the best of the match, was vibrating. Salma Paralluelo was letting her hair down. Captain Alexia Putellas was smiling. A fantastic Cata Coll was clenching her fist.

Europe is blaugrana. Barça won its fourth Champions in Oslo, in the final between the two best teams in the world, sweeping OL Lyonnes of Jonatan Giráldez, of the millionaire Michele Kang, of Markel Zubizarreta. The French team conceded four goals against an unstoppable Barcelona, which recovered from the tough first half posed by the rival to overwhelm them like a champion in the second. Barça regains the European throne and makes a statement.

Romeu-Giráldez duel on the benches, reunions, farewells, rematches, and a crown at stake. The clash between FC Barcelona and OL Lyonnes this afternoon at the Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo promises to be one of the most thrilling of all time. It has all the ingredients to be one of those that go down in history, and Barça wants to engrave its name on its fourth continental crown. Against their archrival, who wants to become that Lyon again that once terrified Europe. The one with eight Champions in its trophy cabinet, now seeking the first in Oslo since Michele Kang took ownership of the French giant.