There are swimmers who keep all the juice inside, whose talent only needs that day to come when someone or something uncorks it automatically. An emotion, a unique setting, an insurmountable challenge, or swimming alongside your idol in a European semifinal. And this last is what has happened to Luca Hoek (18 years old), the torpedo from Sitges, with a French mother and Dutch father, but born and raised by the Mediterranean Sea.

That Jose Mourinho will be the next coach of Real Madrid is already unofficial news. It only remains for the coach to say a proper goodbye to Benfica (this morning he has already spent two hours at the training ground with Rui Costa, president), sign his new contract, and for the entity presided over by Florentino Pérez to make it official. These steps will be different from those of other coaches, as the electoral process called the previous week by the white president himself is involved.