Deportes

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.

Real Madrid has reached an agreement with José Mourinho for the Portuguese coach to take charge of the team, according to Fabrizio Romano. The return of the current Benfica coach to the Santiago Bernabéu will take place at the end of the season.

Carlos Sainz, driver of the Williams team, has become the first driver to complete a lap of the Madring, the circuit of the Spanish Grand Prix of Formula 1, which will be held in Madrid on the weekend of September 11 to 13, 2026.

Earthquake at the Palau. If the first and glorious stage of Xavi Pascual (Gavà, 1972) at Barça lasted eight years, the second will barely reach eight months. The coach made the decision this Sunday to leave the club at the end of the current season, fed up with the lack of demand he detects in the entity and the numerous unfulfilled promises by the section leaders and the board. His destination will be the Middle East, specifically an exciting project like Dubai Basketball, already established as one of the teams in the EuroLeague, which guarantees him the financial muscle necessary to tackle more ambitious goals than those currently managed by the team of his heart.

The tragedy has hovered over the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in the MotoGP race. Àlex Márquez suffered a brutal accident halfway through the race (lap 12 of 24) when his Ducati collided with Pedro Acosta’s KTM as they were fighting for the lead. The rider from Cervera went off into the gravel, fell violently, and narrowly avoided being hit by his bike and crashing into the wall before turn 10.

After the results of the penultimate matchday, five teams will fight next Saturday to avoid the last two relegation spots. The teams that will fight to stay up are Levante, Osasuna, and Elche (42 points), Girona (40), and Mallorca (39). On the other hand, Alavés and Sevilla, along with Espanyol, have secured their safety.