Estrumero Ibai Llanos creates a football club that will play in the Catalan Federation.

BarcelonaIbai Llanos has announced the official launch of Rōnin FC, the football team he created, which will begin playing in the Catalan Fourth Division. The former player had already announced in recent months that he intended to create his own team, and it was through a video posted on social media that he announced its founding and registration with the Catalan Football Federation. The announcement has received much criticism, especially because the communication was made in Spanish even though the club was founded in Catalonia.

"For those who don't know, ronin means ownerless samurai", says Llanos in the video where he shared the news. The name was the result of a selection process in which hundreds of proposals made by his followers were considered. The objective, as he explained in the video, is to start from scratch and grow organically with the community and build its own identity: "It's a low-profile project where only you are." coach, but he has not revealed his name and assures that he will reveal it later.

The announcement has generated a flood of comments on social media. Users question the creation of the project, which they consider artificial and born of a whim of the Estrumero. The use of Spanish as the official language is criticized, as is the Japanese origin of the name. Some users even encourage a boycott because they believe it goes against the values and history of Catalan football. "Catalan football is for the Catalan people; you are a team without roots or soul, created on the whim of a billionaire," comments one user.

Llanos has participated in the organization of sporting events such as La Noche del Año (The Evening of the Year), whose fifth edition was held on July 26 and achieved a record number of live streams—with more than 10 million users connected to the Twitch platform. Regarding football, he partnered with Gerard Piqué to organize the Kings League. He is not the only content creator to have founded his own team: Papi Gavi has announced the creation of Perreo FC; Spursito, Rayo de Santa Coloma, and the Buyer brothers have been competing with XBuyer Team for some time. Rōnin FC will play at the Rubí municipal stadium in Vallès Occidental, and will debut on September 21st at 12 pm against Vallirana.