The Spanish national football team has excited not only for having won the World Cup, but also for how they achieved it. To the undeniable talent of the players has been added the exaltation of teamwork, humility, and the importance of the culture of effort….
The days leading up to the start of the World Cup, we asked the chief sports editor of La Vanguardia, Joanjo Pallàs, if he believed this was going to be the strangest World Cup edition in history due to the circumstances surrounding it: Three host countries, long…
Three in the afternoon today in New York, when the World Cup final kicks off, is the right moment for the aliens to finally land and analyze the behavior of the dominant species on planet Earth. Thanks to their advanced technology, they will observe that, except…
The Barça Masia football factory had a day of glory to remember in its history: January 10, 2011. That day, Leo Messi won a new Ballon d’Or and the two players who preceded him in the voting were Andrés Iniesta and Xavi Hernández. The three…
I don’t know if you have noticed the disproportion with which we usually respond to a complex question that we adopt lightly and pronounce as a greeting. Some applications for learning English warn that you should never ask “How are you?” if you don’t want to…
Friedrich Merz and Emmanuel Macron held a summit yesterday to advance defense agreements, following the fiasco caused by the cancellation of the joint FCAS fighter project due to disagreements between the German and French industries. The two most powerful countries in Europe…
“I hope the next article I write is in New York, without knowing how a final between Spain and, for example, Argentina ends. Just imagining it seems crazy to me.” That’s how my article ended last week. And here we are, living all this, caught in a story that has something of…
The patriotic fanatic is like that partner you sleep with today so there won’t be a next time, but there is. He or she is all heart, you know. Toxic relationships ooze that sticky stuff. There are couples who, when they seem lost in thought looking out the car window…
When the Congress of Deputies approved the Amnesty law in May 2024, we wrote, with candid innocence in this same section, that history would forget the noise generated by the entire debate of this regulation and that the common sense of normalization would prevail…
The Catalan business fabric remains very strong and also very complex. For this reason, the organizations that aim to represent it live in a constant tension with interests that do not always align. Their confrontations resemble literary disputes, like those of the…