In 1982, José Mourinho was beginning to suspect that he would not succeed as a footballer. His dream was to score goals. But he lacked talent. On every pitch, people said about him that he was just the son of Félix, his father. A man who had played more than 10 years as a goalkeeper in the First Division, in which he had won a cup with Vitória de Setúbal and had played a match with the Portuguese national team. The father was working as a coach at the time and tried to help him. In fact, he even called him up for a Rio Ave match, an act that caused a fight with the president, who accused the father of wanting to nepotistically slot in a son without talent. The fight was so notorious that both the father and the son ended up being fired. To understand José Mourinho's mind, one must understand the wounds, defeats, and frustrations that he carried for many years.

Raphinha is Barça's King Midas this season. To find similar statistics, one must speak of a certain Lionel Messi. With an exhibition from the Brazilian, the blue and garnet team continues winning and continues scoring goals. And, in this case, in a complicated scenario such as Sevilla's stadium. Barça can now go on vacation now that the League is pausing.

The 23-year-old Catalan speed skater Nil Llop is hospitalized in the Netherlands after suffering "a severe inflammation of the spinal cord caused by an infection," as reported by the Spanish Ice Sports Federation. The athlete from Baix Llobregat, who in February 2026 became the first national ice skater to qualify for a Winter Olympic Games, was in the Netherlands preparing for the upcoming season with his new professional team, Team X²O Badkamers, the federation adds.

Trouble is brewing at Real Madrid. José Mourinho will have to put out another fire burning around his two big stars, Vinícius and Kylian Mbappé, who during the pre-match between Elche and Real Madrid did not want to show the support shirt for Ceuta that the footballers of both teams were wearing. The Frenchman and the Brazilian wore it rolled up almost to their chests, so that the slogan "Todos somos caballas" was cut off. Furthermore, they took off the shirt before the protocol greeting with the Elche players, while the rest of the footballers from both teams kept it on until after the greeting. The Frenchman Konaté also did not want to wear it. Sources from the white club state that they will not be reprimanded for anything, as a dressing room with different sensitivities is respected, but many fans and journalists who follow the white club have already criticized them. Also some politicians, such as those from Vox, who have branded them as "three millionaires who live in Spain" but do not respect it. The PP spokesperson in Congress, Ester Muñoz, stated: "I think it is a humanitarian issue and they will have to explain why they did what they did. Honestly, it made me feel quite embarrassed, but perhaps it didn't for them".

Happiness has settled at the Camp Nou. Fans enter with the same excitement that children have when arriving at an amusement park, aware that they have a date with magic. For the older ones, watching this team allows us to forget for a while all the problems that us mortals carry on our shoulders. Seeing this Barça in action is a joy. A treat for the eyes. A team that goes on scoring against rivals with such ease that one might think it is easy. But no, it is not. Only Barça knows how to do it like this. And to think that not long ago, the debate was who would score the goals that Lewandowski used to score. And it turns out that without the Pole, the club has an offensive surplus, Raphinha has statistics worthy of Messi, and even Joao Cancelo scores goals two by two. At the Camp Nou, the goals fall as naturally as the rain, which also made an appearance.

The Saló de Cent at Barcelona City Hall seemed small on Monday afternoon, packed to the rafters with a crowd eager to greet Pere Miró i Sellarés (Manresa, 1955). He is one of those people who can walk down the street calmly, without being recognized by the many pedestrians who do not know that standing before them is one of the Catalans who has gone furthest on an international level. Those who know him highlight the same thing: he will not pin medals on himself in public, he will not exaggerate what he did. A modest and hardworking man. That is why it is fitting that others pin the medals on him, as Jaume Collboni did when presenting him with the city's Gold Medal for Sporting Merit. Miró's career deserves it.

Everything was set for Carlos Alcaraz to be the US Open champion for the third time and to return triumphantly after months of being injured. But the one who has reigned in New York has been Alexander Zverev. The German, for years the player who carried a curse according to which he would never win a major tournament, has shaken off his fears in a 2026 in which he surprised everyone by winning two Grand Slam titles: first in Paris and now at Flushing Meadows, by defeating the American Ben Shelton 6-3, 7-6, 5-7 and 6-2. The key? Concentration. Focusing on every second, on every point, on every detail. He did it so well that when he won the tournament he didn't know it. He was focused on winning every point and for a few seconds he was ready to play the next one while everyone was already standing up to cheer for him.

First defeat for Sabadell in the year of their return to the Second Division. Ferran Costa's team was defeated on the field of a Mallorca side that took advantage of two defensive errors by the Vallès team in the first half to take the three points and strengthen their position in front of their home crowd (2-0). The arlequinat team showed ambition against one of the favorites to climb to the First Division, but they lacked accuracy in attack to earn points on Mallorca's ground, where they have not won a league match since 1965.

Enric Mas has done it. "I have dreamed my whole life of winning like this," he said in Granada. At 31 years old, he has climbed to the top of the Vuelta a España podium in Granada. After years of dreaming of being able to win one of the three grand road cycling tours, the greatest triumph in the history of Mallorcan road cycling has arrived. If in track cycling the rider from Porreres, Joan Llaneras, broke all records with his four Olympic medals, in road cycling Enric Mas will be the benchmark from now on. "I have felt nerves, a day with a mixture of emotions, all positive. Now I must continue with what I am doing, I am already thinking about the next objectives. In sports, sometimes there is no time to enjoy the victories," explained the Mallorcan, who was accompanied by friends and family from Artà.

Barça continues to score goals, but they had to suffer quite a bit against a daring opponent like Levante (2-4). A perfect start to the season in which Hansi Flick's team does not need to play at their best level to leave rival defenses shredded in their wake. The victory at the Ciutat de València will serve to remind everyone that opponents play after the final scare. It is good to keep that in mind. In football, nobody gives you anything for free.

Marc Márquez (Ducati Desmosedici GP26) is experiencing a sweet moment. And he has decided that he will end up celebrating this World Championship in Cervera. If he succeeds, it would be his tenth. The Catalan rider has triumphed at the San Marino MotoGP Grand Prix at the Misano Adriatico circuit and has prevailed over his brother, Àlex Márquez (Ducati Desmosedici GP26), and Pedro Acosta (KTM RC 1). A perfect day that has allowed him to reach the lead of the MotoGP World Championship at the home of Marco Bezzecchi, third in the World Championship, who crashed in the first laps.

On August 23rd of this year, Àlex Palou looked up and saw Donald Trump approaching him, surrounded by bodyguards and his entourage. To celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States' independence, Trump organized a host of bizarre events, such as a martial arts fight and an IndyCar Series race, the most important open-wheel car racing series in North America. And the best driver in these races right now is a guy from Sant Antoni de Vilamajor, a town in the Baix Montseny region that doesn't even reach 7,000 inhabitants. Here begins the story of one of the best motor racing drivers in the history of Catalonia, a man who chose to pack his bags and head very far away to succeed. To the other side of the world.

"If you can walk again, come back and I'll eat my tie," a doctor told Zach Washington-Young when, after a serious accident, he lost mobility from the waist down. "I've never gone back to tell him, although I suppose he knows he was wrong," explains Zach as he sits down to talk to ARA at a hotel in the center of Barcelona, where this Englishman who lives in Ibiza, his new home, is visiting. He apologizes for arriving five minutes late: "I was at the pool with my son, who won't stop moving," he says. He doesn't stop moving either. Almost 15 years after the accident that seemed to condemn him to a wheelchair for life, Zach has run a marathon and this summer he swam across the Strait of Gibraltar, the latest of his milestones.

It is the Cup that everyone desires. The one that the 'barcelonistas' dream of, be it Lamine Yamal or an anonymous member. After two years of winning the League, the challenge is the big-eared cup and the final at the Metropolitano. The League is magnificent, but it does not quite fill the belly of a hungry team that, to debut in this edition, signed an offensive festival turned into a statement of intent. The competition is long, but Barça already commands respect after thrashing a Feyenoord that ended up drenched at the Camp Nou (5-1). They were hit by a downpour from the sky and a downpour on the grass led by Raphinha, who scores goals in twos. For the Dutch, it was a day to forget: they found neither the sun they thought they would find in Barcelona. Quite the opposite. The sky fell on top of them.

“Straight to Potocari!”, ordered General Ratko Mladic to his troops on July 11, 1995. Potocari is a town north of Srebrenica where thousands of Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) had taken refuge from Mladic’s Serbian troops, as there was a United Nations Blue Helmets base there. However, they did not protect them and Mladic’s troops entered Potocari, where they separated the men and women and executed more than 8,000 people. Today, in Potocari, thousands of white headstones rise in the cemetery next to the museum dedicated to the Srebrenica crimes. Mladic was arrested in 2011 in Serbia, where he had been hiding for 15 years, and sent to The Hague to be tried for crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Tribunal. During the trial, he confronted the judges and was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2017. Last week he died in prison at 84 years old.

Sabadell continues to live a fairy tale in its return to the Second Division, after defeating Córdoba 3 to 2 thanks to a penalty goal by its captain, Albert Orriols, in the final minutes. The 'Arlequinat' team now has eight points and occupies a surprising third position. The match, played just on the day the city's main festival ended, was electric and had plenty of plot twists. In the end, the joy remained at the Nova Creu Alta, where they rub their eyes at a team that, having the fourth most modest budget, is currently standing up to the giants of the division.

For decades, a Valencia crest presided over the Mestalla stadium, installed at the very top of the grandstand. Until some fans found it on the ground, smashed to pieces. During some improvement works at the old stadium, it was removed and the workers did not look after it enough. The board announced they would put up a new one, but the fans saw it as another symbol of the owners' way of managing the club.

Fireworks to say goodbye to Mestalla (0-5). Barça, which has put all its repertoire of offensive tricks on the table, has thrashed Valencia in a match in which it was favored by the calamitous state of a rival that, normally, used to make things difficult. Now it is experiencing an internal civil war that is bleeding it dry, with the fans fed up with a management that is sinking them. If Barça lives relatively happily, Valencia does not. And the match, which could be Barça's last at Mestalla pending a possible duel in the Cup, has highlighted this reality. In fact, attacking as it has done today, Barça would also have won at the Mestalla of before, the one where all rivals suffered greatly. Barça has scored five goals and did not even need to play at 100% during the second half.

Tragic night for Real Madrid at Betis' stadium, where they suffered their first defeat of the season. In a very heated match, Mbappé missed a penalty in the final seconds that the Madrid supporters demanded be retaken because a local player had allegedly entered the area (1-0). The Frenchman did not have his day, as in the first half he would miss an opportunity almost at an empty goal, and when he could have avoided defeat, he would run into a great Álvaro Vallés on the penalty kick.

Paula Ramírez (Sant Cugat del Vallès, 1996) has just retired after almost 15 years in the pool. With six World Championship medals and an Olympic bronze, she is one of the benchmarks of European artistic swimming. A few weeks after winning a silver at the European Championships in Paris, she welcomes ARA at the CAR in Sant Cugat. She does so on the day the young people who will train here in the triathlon discipline arrive, accompanied by their parents, who want to see the facilities and meet the coaches. "I organized it," she explains. After years of training at the CAR, she will now work there in the institutional department. Same setting, new life.