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.
About twenty radicals violently attacked a group of fans who were watching the World Cup final in a bar in the Navarrese town of Berriozar. In a coordinated action, the attackers, with their faces covered, broke into the establishment’s terrace around 10:30 p.m. and threw chairs and tables at the customers, who were watching the match on television.
The 30-year-old woman who had been hospitalized since February due to the severe burns suffered in the attack carried out by two hitmen on the orders of her husband in Sevilla la Nueva (Madrid), has died this Saturday, according to sources from the Government Delegation. The incident was being investigated as a gender-based crime.
Los Bombers de la Generalitat have declared stabilized a fire of reeds and scrub that has been burning since early afternoon in El Prat de Llobregat, next to the B-250, which has been closed, between the highways C-31 and B-20, near the Nus del Llobregat. The firefighters of Barcelona and ADF have also worked on extinguishing the fire.
The fire declared in Orés, which since Wednesday has struck the Zaragoza region of Cinco Villas and has burned 14,400 hectares, has been brought under control, according to the Vice President of the Government of Aragón, Mar Vaquero.
The Dane Jonas Vingeggard was forced to abandon the Tour de France after suffering a dramatic crash 20 km from the finish of the fifteenth stage, which was held between Champagnole and Plateau de Solaison, in which the Mexican from UAE Isaac del Toro was also involved. Vingeggard, winner of two Tours de France and one of the favorites in the current edition, went down in a curve along with other riders, but the Dane got the worst of it with a strong blow to his right shoulder.