Four years ago, Girona became the first pet friendly football club. Now, that decision has turned it into a “club different from the others," because they go beyond what a traditional football club does. "We create moments that are unique for people who are never the protagonists, who live in the shadows or are only highlighted for their difficulties or disabilities,” explains Albert Marquès, director of the CTAC Girona center and the handler of Canya, an 8-year-old Labrador Retriever who has won the hearts of all the red-and-white fans.

Lamine Yamal has once again surprised several fans on the streets of Barcelona. The winger from Rocafonda promised that, if he won the World Cup with Spain, he would raffle off 100 wireless headphones. And he followed through. The Barcelona footballer has posted a video on his YouTube channel—where he has accumulated more than four million subscribers—in which he drives around Barcelona giving these headphones to various people he meets on the street.

The current top scorer in the major European leagues, Raphinha Dias, has just renewed his contract. In accordance with the new clauses, the Brazilian forward, who offers stratospheric performance when muscular injuries respect him, signed until June 30, 2030, when he will be about to turn 34. Beyond the heterodoxy of the fact that the agent who brought him to Barça –Anderson Luis de Souza, Deco– is now the club's sporting director, the agreement will have a positive short-term impact on the club's accounts and on the calculation of financial fair play. Since the footballer's amortization is spread out and the bulk of the salary increase will not become effective until next summer, the 1:1 rule is maintained by the skin of its teeth for the winter market, in which if there is any exit like that of Alejandro Balde, it will be possible to aim to sign a center-back.

In Sabadell, we live with the fear that a team with more money will come and snatch Quadri Liameed from us. We really love this Nigerian boy who arrived two years ago with a shy face and has become one of the pillars of the team. We love players like Quadri, Albert Orriols, or Ton Ripoll, as their stories are moving. Young people who dream of being footballers, who work hard but are over 20 years old and are still not professionals, having to earn money by working as waiters or youth counselors, as their football salary doesn't allow them to make ends meet. And suddenly, everything changes. They arrive at Sabadell and they don't stop growing. Now they play in the Second Division for a club that has over 11,000 members, they are professionals, and they won't lack offers. That is why we don't want to lose them.

Barça women's team has grown great thanks to Alexia Putellas, Patri Guijarro, Aitana Bonmatí…, but also thanks to Sandra Paños (Alicante, 1992). The goalkeeper, who was at the blue and garnet club between 2015 and 2024, was a key figure in the growth and consolidation of the Catalan entity at the European elite. Now, after winning the league and the Concacaf Champions with Club América of Mexico, she is experiencing a new challenge in the United States with the San Diego Wave. “I was leaving my comfort zone, but I am enjoying it a lot,” explains Paños to ARA.

When Brian Fariñas was still a young lad, his father would pick him up early from the Jaume I school in Benicarló to take him to Vila-real, where he was already beginning to stand out as a football player. That commitment has been repeated many times throughout history, where some families have nurtured the early talent of their sons and daughters. Everyone wants to have the next Lamine Yamal. Andre Agassi, who ended up hating tennis, Tiger Woods, who received military-style training when he was not even the height of a golf club, or the Williams sisters, who started training when they were three years old, are extreme examples of determined parents.

Valentino Rossi has once again fiercely criticized Marc Márquez, coinciding with the presentation of his long-awaited autobiography, titled Valentino Rossi, la mia storia, co-written with the specialized journalist Giorgio Terruzzi.

Seven years after arriving at Barça, Frenkie de Jong played one of his best matches at the Metropolitano in the blue and garnet shirt. And that's despite only being on the pitch for 45 minutes. First as a full-back and then as a pivot, the Dutchman perfectly fulfilled everything Hansi Flick asked of him. And, most importantly, everything the team needed to take home the three points against Atlético de Madrid, a direct rival for the League. A performance that received unanimous recognition from the dressing room and that could mark a turning point.

Very important victory for Barça at the Metropolitano. After the comeback thanks to two goals from Fermín (1-2). Below, some hot takes.

Montilivi emptied out knowing that Girona will need to change many things if it truly wants to aspire to return to the First Division this season. The white-and-red team will have to carry out strong internal self-criticism to discover how it can fix the drift it is taking: it fell against Almeria (0-1), a direct rival, which is starting to pull away, and it is not even in the play-off zone when thirteen matchdays have already passed and we are already in mid-November. Terrifying.

The Johan Cruyff stadium is an almost impregnable fortress when the women's Barça plays. Pere Romeu's team defeated Madrid CFF (5-1) and took advantage of Real Madrid's draw at Athletic Club de Bilbao's stadium (1-1) to extend their lead at the top of the standings to four points. A special duel in which Marta Torrejón reached 500 official matches in the blue and garnet jersey. She is the third player to reach this figure after Melanie Serrano (517) and Alexia Putellas (508).

Barça deactivated Río Breogán in time (99-91) and added their seventh consecutive victory. The blue and garnet team, who lost Kevin Punter to injury, recovered from an eight-point deficit. The game was tied entering the final five minutes, but the 60 points scored in the second half were decisive. "We did many things well to overcome the injuries," said Sekulic. Darío Brizuela celebrated his birthday with 16 points.

When in a few years the Camp Nou is finished and operating at full capacity, it is very likely that all the delays and setbacks that have occurred in the remodeling will be forgotten. Or that they will be remembered as mere anecdotes. But a long time is still needed to reach that point. Not even now, when it is supposedly in the final stretch, is there any sense of calm in a club that cannot afford any more delays in this last stage of the renovation.

There are scenarios that would overwhelm anyone, but not Fermín López. Not him. What began as a nightmare at the Metropolitano ended with a dream finish (1-2) for a Barça side that goes into the international break as leaders thanks to the faith and talent of an Andalusian midfielder who speaks Catalan. When the Blaugrana side was struggling the most, Fermín equalized after a magical play by Pedri that marked the start of a comeback of the kind that can be worth a championship. In a match that had to be turned around completely, Hansi Flick's team exhibited a great version of themselves in the second half, capped off by another goal from the number 7, this time assisted by Lamine Yamal. It is impossible not to love them. Barça not only reaffirms their lead in the League, but also demonstrates that they know how to win convincingly in big matches.

The Eder Sarabia era began with the Basque coach in a grandstand at the RCDE Stadium and his assistant, Jon López, directing from the bench due to the one-match suspension the new blue and white manager was carrying. The perspective granted by the height of Cornellà-El Prat allowed him to scrutinize the strengths and weaknesses of a team unaccustomed to taking the initiative, which lacked a bit of ruthlessness to turn the good football shown against Deportivo de La Coruña (0-0) into three points. It became clear that from now on the blue and white fans will be entertained, though it remains to be seen if they will also celebrate victories. With the first diagnosis in hand, Sarabia now has two weeks of the international break to polish the details of a proposal that, for the moment, is more convincing in its play than in its results.

Marc Márquez has taken another step towards being crowned MotoGP world champion for the eighth time. The rider from Cervera could have secured it this Sunday in Qatar if he had won the race and his rival, Jorge Martín, had not scored any points. A long shot, too difficult to become reality. However, with his second-place finish in Lusail and Martín's seventh, he has widened the gap and is well-positioned to celebrate his tenth World Championship in two weeks' time in Portugal (adding his 125cc and Moto2 titles), surpassing Valentino Rossi (9) and becoming the rider with the most titles in the premier class, tied with Giacomo Agostini (8). In fact, he only needs to win the sprint race on Saturday.

When he finished his shift from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Rieju factory, August Castellà (Figueres, 1992) would go out for a ride on a motorcycle. The next day, all his colleagues already knew they would have work to do. Castellà, a mechanical engineer and head of development for the Rally and Trail projects of the Empordà-based brand, would return with ideas to improve the Rieju 307 Rally that he himself had developed. And after testing it, he would tweak things to make it more competitive. At first he didn't know it, but he was beginning a path that this January will take him to the Dakar Rally. Always on top of the Rieju 307 Rally he has been working on for nine years.

Marc Pubill will meet Barça again this Sunday (9 pm, Movistar LaLiga), this time from a place that only a few years ago seemed difficult to imagine. The Atlético de Madrid defender is now a starter on a Champions League team and has just been proclaimed world champion with the Spanish national team. In front of him will be a club that knocked on his door several times and was interested in him both during his time at Levante and after winning the Olympic Games. Pubill's path to the elite had begun long before, when Espanyol decided to let him go and he had to return to Manresa.

"A 30-year-old boy cannot die playing football". This was stated by Faustino Afonso, one of the CD Tenerife doctors, after the death of Jesús de Miguel. The striker collided with the Andorra goalkeeper in a dispute for the ball during the final minutes of the match at the Heliodoro, suffered a cardiorespiratory arrest and died the following day at the hospital.

Perhaps because he is Andorran and grew up among mountains, Uri Pujol Sans dreamed of seeing Everest. And a few years ago, in 2020, he already reached its base camp on foot. One dream was ending, but others were being born. This November he will return to run 170 km through the Himalayas to help children and young people with neuromuscular diseases; it will be in the framework of the Everest Trail Race, one of the most demanding stage races on the international mountain racing calendar.