The euphoria of the Spanish players during the World Cup trophy presentation was marred by an ugly gesture from the Argentine team, who chose not to watch or applaud their rival, setting a bad example of fair play. Instead, the Albiceleste decided to turn their backs on the champions as they celebrated on the podium with the trophy, appearing downcast by the match result.
After some controversial semifinals, marked by historical tensions between both nations, and with a bitter ending for England, the British press celebrates this Monday the victory of the Spanish team against Argentina in the World Cup final.
A thirteen-year-old teenager has died in Ciudad Rodrigo (Salamanca) and three other people have been seriously injured due to the collapse of a fountain while they were participating in the celebrations of the Spanish national team’s victory in the Football World Cup.
“I spoke with Lamine. He is calm and eager to play,” explained Abdul, Lamine Yamal’s uncle, to La Vanguardia hours before the final. He was speaking from Larache, the Moroccan city where he was born and to which he had traveled just 24 hours earlier. Because superstitions, those rituals or habits repeated with the belief that they bring luck, are not the exclusive heritage of Argentina. He also decided to keep his, the one that had brought him luck during the Eurocup. To do so, he closed the family business this week, Bar LY 304. Abdul did not know it yet, but the superstition would work again. It was not the only one.
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…
Justice, a highly elusive matter in football, answered the desperate call of the Spanish national team and granted them the second star late, in extra time, but with full merit. La Roja was overwhelmingly superior, dominating all aspects of the game…
From Iniesta to Ferran Torres. From Don Andrés to Mr. Ferran. From Fuentealbilla to Foios. From the right boot to the left boot. From the Jabulani to the Trionda. From Johannesburg to New York. From one Barça player to another blaugrana footballer. The second half of extra time was red again. Although the Manchego genius scored dressed in blue. He was looking for a successor to the person who stitched the first star on the crest and found it in the Valencian forward. A golden thread will unite them forever. So often debated but he always ends up sticking his head out, being the protagonist, making the headlines. The story is his. Ferran II, superstar.
Four decades pursuing artistic excellence and a single evening to celebrate all its legacy. The Peralada Festival gathered this Saturday a hundred and fifty guests at its Mirador del Castell for a dinner-show with which it rightly wanted to keep alive the flame that was first lit in 1987, when Montserrat Caballé sang alongside the orchestra and choir of the Liceu outside the castle in a Mozart Requiem conducted by Antoni Ros-Marbà. Since then, the Ampurdan festival can boast of having offered fifty operas between its own productions and contemporary creations for which they put all the effort.
Sixteen years after the South Africa World Cup changed their lives forever, Shakira and Gerard Piqué have crossed paths again at a World Cup. The Colombian singer and the former footballer were present this Sunday at the grand final between Spain and Argentina held at the New York New Jersey Stadium, although they did so from very different places and without any public reunion.