When Robert Lewandowski announced on Saturday that he would leave Barça, he explained that he had found his corner of the world in Catalonia. Not everyone finds it. He has found it near the sea and Barcelona. And thousands of Barça fans returned this appreciation by bidding him farewell as they should have in a Spotify Camp Nou that was moved when, five minutes from the end, he left the pitch crying. His teammates rallied around him, hugging him, in a memorable image. Only his goal against Betis in the last match of the season was missing in a stadium where only victories have been seen (3-1).

In Sant Bartomeu del Grau, they have the Vic plain at their feet. “We are a borderland,” they say half-jokingly, as the town is within Lluçanès but administratively attached to Osona. One spring weekend, residents arrive at the municipal building where the assembly hall is located. People of all ages. Some children are playing football outside, and inside, tables are being prepared for a fellowship meal where local cured meats are not lacking. The Barça supporters' club is organizing an event, and it seems half the town will be there.

After the confirmation of a blank season, with the defeat in the classic against Barça at the Camp Nou, the players, the coach, and the president of Real Madrid had to answer to the fans. And the Bernabéu delivered its verdict. Well, partially, because Madrid's stadium had the lowest attendance of the season in the inconsequential duel against an Oviedo that is already relegated to the Second Division. It didn't help that it was San Isidro's festivities and the poor results of Álvaro Arbeloa's team. But the spectators responded with whistles, especially towards Kylian Mbappé, and also with banners directed at Florentino Pérez, who lately doesn't have a moment's peace.

Shortly after Tuesday lunchtime, many Madrid journalists received news of an impromptu press conference by Florentino Pérez. More than one thought it would be to dismiss Álvaro Arbeloa and others thought he might be considering stepping down, as he had done the first time he had gone two seasons without titles, in 2006. But within minutes, club sources were already informing them they were quite mistaken. Quite the opposite: Pérez would go on the offensive and many of those journalists would be publicly attacked. The white president will call elections to make it clear who is in charge, but the move could end up being a shot in the foot, as on this occasion there is indeed a member ready to confront him. Madridismo is living through key days.

When in 2019 everything went wrong, surely few people imagined that the city of Reus would continue to enjoy its football. After years of irresponsible management that caused shameful scenes, La Liga decided to expel Reus Deportiu with the season already started in the Second Division. Joan Oliver, former general director of Barça in Joan Laporta's first tenure, had managed to bring Reus to the Spanish Second Division for the first time, but he did so by playing so hard that he burned his fingers. He fell out with the fans, stopped paying, and couldn't find anyone to sell the entity to. Instead of bringing glory to Reus football, he sank it.

Thousands of people have filled the streets from the upper part of the city to Plaza Catalunya to participate in another edition of the now traditional Carrera de El Corte Inglés. This year, more than 50,000 people were registered for an edition that finally avoided the rain that fell on Saturday. With a sun that was gradually warming the city, the runners completed the 10 km route approved by the Catalan Athletics Federation.

Lleida CF has reported that it has reached an agreement with an investor that "guarantees the continuity, stability, and future growth of the club". The club, which has just been relegated to Tercera RFEF after years of struggling to avoid disappearing, has celebrated a step that "is a decisive step that opens a new stage full of enthusiasm and ambition for the entire blue family, and that must allow the viability plan to be fulfilled within the framework of the insolvency proceedings in which the club is involved".

Lleida CF has reported that it has closed an agreement with an investor that "guarantees the continuity, stability, and future growth of the club". The club, which has just been relegated to Tercera RFEF after years of struggling not to disappear, has celebrated that "this is a decisive step that opens a new era full of hope and ambition for the entire blue family, and that should allow the viability plan to be fulfilled within the framework of the insolvency proceedings in which the club is immersed".

The Real Madrid dressing room is on fire just days before visiting Barça's ground in a match where Hansi Flick's team can be crowned Liga champions. For the second consecutive day, Federico Valverde and Aurélien Tchouaméni allegedly fought, to the point that their teammates had to separate them, and the Uruguayan ended up at the Valdebebas Hospital with a craniocerebral trauma that will keep him out of action for two weeks. It all allegedly started when Valverde refused to shake Tchouaméni's hand to make peace, as both had fought during Wednesday's training session, an incident that ended with punches and insults. But Valverde wanted nothing to do with the Frenchman, whom he accused of having explained the first fight to the press. The result was a very tense training session. Back in the dressing room, the two footballers allegedly exchanged more reproaches and fought again. As their teammates were separating them, the Uruguayan allegedly fell, hitting his head. Arbeloa allegedly accompanied him to the hospital, where he received a few stitches on his head.

Axel Corres's life (Barcelona, 2000) changed in August 2025. It was the first day of training for the CN Sabadell men's water polo squad, one of the League's best teams. Corres was starting his second season with the Vallesà team after a first year in which he had performed so well that he had been pre-selected to go to the Singapore World Cup. But in that first training session, he felt like he was suffocating. A few hours later, he was told he had testicular cancer, which would lead to eight months of fighting the disease and the removal of a kidney. A few days ago, he returned to training.

After almost two years, it seemed that Barça would draw a goalless match, a forgotten result for Barcelona fans. But Lewandowski made the difference with a good header and the game broke open in the final minutes. If Espanyol helps, the title could fall in a few hours. Who knows if Arbeloa's team will have to give a guard of honor to a team that knows how to win even in complicated contexts.

It was almost 11 o'clock at night on Wednesday when Aliona Bolsova Zadoinov (Chișinău, Moldova, 1997) played her last singles match as a professional tennis player. After having a set point to prolong her career a little longer, the Palafrugell player was eliminated in the second round of the Catalonia Solgironès Open in La Bisbal d'Empordà by her friend Marina Bassols in two sets. The next day, she receives ARA at the facilities of the club that organizes the best women's tennis tournament in the country. At 28 years old, she has decided that she does not want to continue competing. Here ends the career of one of the Catalan tennis players with the most personality.

The fans of Sant Andreu and Europa have celebrated as if it were a goal in the last minute of a derby, the sweetest goals to sing about, the City Council's decision to put natural grass on their fields. The mobilization of the Sant Andreu fans, just after a well-deserved promotion, has joined the struggle of the Gràcia residents in recent months. If you add that elections are approaching, the result has been that both clubs left the first meeting with the council with the most desired news. The City Council had it well prepared. It had listened to what people were saying. It had reacted.

Enric Casacuberta jokes imagining what he might find in a few months when he reaches the state of Illinois, in the United States. “I imagine myself a bit like Forrest Gump, running in front of a crowd,” he says, laughing. He's not wrong. An American NGO awaits this 61-year-old official from the Moià Town Hall with open arms, as if he were a rock star, to accompany him and take photos with him, he explains. “The truth is that this has gotten very big. I don't quite understand how it all happened so fast.” And how did he get here? A few months ago, Enric announced his project, "Route 66 x ELA". The idea was to run the nearly 4,000 km of the famous American highway, Route 66, to raise funds for research into Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). “I am a lover of this Route 66. I've been several times, the last in 2023. I've done it by car, I've done it by motorcycle... I've done it whole and in sections. It fascinates me. You cross eight very different states of the United States. You see a bit of the history, the culture... and I had the idea of doing it running. I contacted Victor Muntané, who has written a book about Route 66, and I asked him if he thought it was feasible, since Route 66 as it was initially no longer exists. Many sections have been swallowed by the highway, where you can't run. And Victor told me that it was feasible. And that was it, he encouraged me. And I roped in a friend, Jordi Castellet, to start building the structure. You need a support team, you need sponsors... we have created a website to raise funds... and created a website to raise funds... and

Sant Andreu and Europa, the teams that in recent years have seen a lot of people fill their stadiums, have lifted a weight off their shoulders, celebrating a victory off the field that could change their future. After months of debates, meetings, and controversies, the two clubs were able to announce that after a meeting held this Monday with the mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni, the Barcelona city council will assume the installation of natural grass on the fields where they play, the Narcís Sala in Sant Andreu and the Nou Sardenya in Gràcia, in the coming weeks. The city council, owner of the fields, will also carry out the necessary renovations so that their first male teams can play at home next season, undertaking actions such as improving the lighting of the Sant Andreu facilities.

Athletics has seen one of the barriers that seemed impossible to overcome fall. For the first time, an athlete has run a marathon in under two hours under normal race conditions. Sabastian Sawe did it, leaving speechless everyone who was waiting at the finish line of the London Marathon, in Saint James's Park, just in front of Buckingham Palace. A titanic feat. Never before had a man run a marathon in under two hours officially, as Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge had done so in 2019 in Vienna but as part of an experiment programmed by the INEOS brand on a closed circuit. Kipchoge had had coaches, support staff, pacemakers, and all sorts of facilities to prove that running under two hours was feasible. He was right. And today, a compatriot of his has proven it.

Nine-thirty in the morning. A group of people are gathered a few meters from Can Ruti, in Badalona, at the start of a small path that leads into a wooded area. A different Badalona, rural, with orchards and places where wine is still made, as in the Vall de Betlem. The nearly forty people gathered here will begin a walk towards the beautiful monastery of Sant Jeroni de la Murtra. And to start, they pass by two flags with the names of two of the country's best athletes: Ricky Rubio and Kilian Jornet.

On June 6, 'Els segadors' will sound in the heart of Paris. To understand how we got here, we need to pull a thread that takes us back to the years of the Civil War in l'Espluga de Francolí. Josep Guasch, a militant of Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya who had held a position in the mayor's office, fled to France, where he ended up in the Argelers prisoner camp, enduring hardships on the sand of this beach where so many Republicans were interned. A few years later, his wife and children reunited with him there and put down roots in Perpignan. Josep dedicated himself to being a farmer, as he had done in Conca de Barberà. And one of his sons, also named Josep, would stand out as a rugby player for both USAP of Perpignan and for XIII Catalan, a team that played a thirteen-a-side rugby game, a version of this sport in which it is not played with fifteen players. They say that when XIII Catalan negotiated his signing, Josep told them he had a job in a butcher shop and was not sure if he could train. The club, therefore, bought the butcher shop and gave it to him. As the owner, he could then train and play as he pleased.

Barcelonism is excited about the possibility of winning the League title against Real Madrid. The fans look at each other, with knowing glances, imagining that in a few days Hansi Flick's team can lift the title for the second consecutive year, achieving the definitive result against an Arbeloa's Real Madrid that walks through the championship like a lost soul. In fact, perhaps they will win it sooner. In that case, the whites should give them a guard of honor. That would also be funny.

Four European Cups, four World Cups, 7 Leagues, 5 Cups... The list of trophies won by Anna Casarramona i Vivas (Manlleu, 1994) seems endless. For 18 seasons, she has become one of the best Catalan athletes, leading the wave that changed women's roller hockey, and taking it to the brink of professionalization. Now she is retiring and will play her last matches with HC Palau, which has become a model club, with hundreds of boys and girls on wheels and a first-class locker room for the women's first team where Anna receives ARA.