Barça subdued Armani Olimpia Milan (81-89), an insipid rival that has only won one of the first seven EuroLeague games. Without many fans in the stands and without much competitive tension, the Italian team could not deactivate a Blaugrana side with the need to erase the bad taste of the Badalona game. The Culers added their fourth triumph on a night in which the 17 offensive rebounds were key.

Due to his age (he will turn 80 in five months), it escapes no one that the very long adventure of Florentino Pérez as president of Real Madrid is closer to the end than to the beginning. However, the powerful Madrid businessman renewed his status as the white leader last June in the first elections the club had held since 2006. He defeated the young Enrique Riquelme at the polls, who garnered 35% of the support despite being quite unknown to the general public, and secured four more years of government that will be stormy if the ball continues not to go in.

Leo Messi arrived in Oviedo today, where tomorrow he will receive the 2026 Princess of Asturias Award for Sports in a ceremony presided over by the King and Queen of Spain. The current Inter Miami player participated in an event with children and was welcomed with the traditional Asturian reception featuring bagpipers. Thousands of people waited for him at the doors of the Hotel de la Reconquista, among them a gentleman wearing a Cristiano Ronaldo jersey who did not exactly make friends with the other spectators present.

Espanyol cannot lift its head. Since the season began, it has only won two League matches, the last one on Osasuna's field, almost a month and a half ago. The defeats against Rayo Vallecano and Elche, the latter especially painful because the parakeets played the entire match with an extra man, set off alarm bells at the white-and-blue club. Monchi maintained his confidence in Manolo González, who survived the international break, but is back in the eye of the storm after drawing in Málaga, on the last-placed team's field, and losing against Atlético de Madrid at home.

Barça will experience a weekend marked by labor conflict with seasonal permanent workers, employees with indefinite contracts who work periodically according to the club's needs, and who have called a strike coinciding with the 'Clásico' against Real Madrid at Camp Nou (9 pm). The mobilization, promoted by CCOO, will begin at 12 am on Friday, October 23rd, and will last until 6 am on Monday the 26th. The union denounces a deterioration in working conditions, lack of personnel, inequality among workers, and breaches of agreements and the collective bargaining agreement. It also criticizes the progressive reduction of staff while some services are handed over to external companies.

When Clara Serrajordi (Llinars del Vallès, 2007) was told she was nominated for the Kopa Trophy, her reaction was spontaneous and natural. "Was it today?", said the young midfielder, surprised by the news. A response that shows what the blaugrana is like in her day-to-day life. "She is a person who experiences everything with great calm, serenity, and a cool head, with great normality", they explain from her inner circle. In one year, Serrajordi has gone from playing with the Barça reserve team to being a starter in a Champions League final against Olympique Lyonnais (4-0). In fact, the Catalan became the youngest player in the club [counting men's and women's teams] to start in a Champions League final. She did it at 18 years and 167 days old.

"His level is incredible". That is how Hansi Flick spoke of Xavi Espart in Paris. Barça lost the first match of the season against Paris Saint-Germain, but the Barcelona-born full-back shone with his own light at the Parc des Princes. He left the midfield to return to the right-back position and put on an exhibition, both in defense and in attack, and he also scored his first Champions League goal. In case there was any doubt, Espart has earned a place in the first team, he will be a starter in the 'Clásico' on Sunday, and even Luis de la Fuente is already thinking about calling him up for the senior Spanish national team. "He played a fantastic match, in the first and second half," Flick continued, praising him.

When Xevi Pujol designed Barça 2026-27, he was very clear about the style of play he wanted to bet on with Aleksander Sekulic. The proposal had to fill the games with fast actions and increase the number of possessions. The team has shown signs of the advantages of accentuating this style, but it has not yet found consistency in its game. Furthermore, the Barça side suffers from some of the logical consequences of this style, such as conceding more points than usual.

On March 30, 1989, hundreds of Catalan chess fans approached the Saló del Tinell to see the Soviet Garry Kasparov, the best player of the moment, in action. Kasparov, who was 26 at the time, defeated his compatriot Valery Salov in the fourth stage of the World Cup at that time. It was the last time the world's best player played in Barcelona. Until now. In 2027, the Norwegian Magnus Carlsen will be the main attraction of a new tournament that aims to revolutionize chess in our country. From January 18 to 20, the best players of the moment will face off in very fast games at the Move Cup, a tournament that blends sport, solidarity, and spectacle. But everything will revolve around Magnus, one of the best of all time. And according to some, a Bad Boy.

The two most in-form teams in Europe, led by two coaches who honor football by weaving together offensive and highly entertaining teams, offered a spectacle at the Parc des Princes in which they poured their hearts and talent for 90 minutes at a very high pace. In the era of streaming, digital platforms, and on-demand content, a duel between PSG and Barça reminds us that live sports are an inexhaustible generator of raw emotions. The Blaugrana stood their ground at the home of the two-time European champion, even though Hansi Flick rested players like Rodri with Sunday's Clásico in mind. It was not to be (4-2), but the Champions League is not decided now; it is decided in May. The first defeat of the season arrived where it is hardest to win, at the stronghold of the reigning champion.

The first defeat for Barça 26-27 arrived at the Parc des Princes. The Blaugrana fell to PSG 4-2 after an unfavorable exchange of blows in the final stretch. Below are some hot takes.

There are still a few days left until Sunday's Barça-Madrid match at the Camp Nou, but the classic has already started to heat up significantly. In this case, Movistar, one of the platforms with television rights for First Division football and the Champions League, has contributed to it. On its account on the X network, Movistar echoed clearly anti-Catalan content that has outraged many Barcelona fans.

As happens in many disciplines, playing in the top category of your sport does not always allow you to live exclusively from it. In futsal, this is especially the case in the women's category. For many players, competing at the highest level involves balancing training sessions and matches with another job or studies. Laia Rojo, a player for AE Les Corts-UBAE, the only Catalan team currently competing in the top national category, is an example of this: she has to study biomedicine to think about her future. “We cannot do anything,” she states.

Marc Muntané (Igualada, 1989) arrives at the Les Comes pavilion after a busy morning, as the President of the Generalitat has received the Igualada HC squad to celebrate the 2024-25 hockey League title. The club's first League in 29 years. And one of the people most responsible for the achievement is Muntané, a man of the house who always wants to learn. He always has questions. In fact, he returns enthusiastic from the Palau de la Generalitat. "The history hidden there is moving. All Catalan boys and girls should visit it at least once," he says. He is a person who transmits enthusiasm.

Barça faces one of the most demanding tests of the season this Tuesday (9 p.m.). Hansi Flick's team visits Paris Saint-Germain, the reigning Champions League champion, in the match corresponding to the third round of the league phase of the top continental competition. The Blaugrana arrive in Paris undefeated after stringing together eleven victories in the eleven matches played this season, but they will have to overcome absences in defense to obtain a good result against an opponent that has eliminated them on two occasions in recent years.

It is now definitive: the 2027 Dakar will take place. After many weeks of doubts, which had jeopardized the organization of the toughest rally on the planet, a solution has finally been reached. As ARA has learned, the event will change its venue and will be held between Europe and Africa, thus moving away from Saudi Arabia.

Mourinho's hostility towards referees has turned the Santiago Bernabéu into an especially uncomfortable stage for administering justice. Vinícius's expulsion against Villarreal added more fuel to the fire, with a controversy that culminated in the four-match ban imposed by the Competition Committee.

Lamine Yamal's exhibition at the Betis stadium went around the world in no time. It is already normal for the striker from Rocafonda to leave the footballing planet amazed match after match. Barça continues to be a steamroller, counting all their matches as victories and having their franchise player in sensational form, with goals, assists, and individual actions that are only within the reach of a chosen few. A complete guarantee for a club that, after winning the ten matches played so far, faces the reigning Champions League winners, Paris Saint-Germain, on Tuesday.

Sabadell suffered their second defeat of the season, after seeing how Burgos took advantage of a penalty that had to be retaken to take the three points (1-0). The arlequinat team strongly protested the referee's decision to order a retake of the penalty, which was initially saved by Fuoli. Curro, on the second attempt, did not fail, giving the victory to a local team that created the best chances of the match.

Asisa Joventut repeated their Supercopa Endesa exhibition and sent Barça back to the corner to think (113-89). La Penya, which thrives in scenarios that motivate them, made the 10,248 spectators at the Palau Olímpic go wild. Ricky Rubio, Nico Laprovittola, and Eli Ndiaye led the green-and-black triumph. Furthermore, the young Adrián Torres completed a great performance. "Catalonia is green-and-black," the pavilion ended up singing.