Today we will have new revelations about the judicial investigation into the lobbying activity of the former Spanish president Zapatero, because the judge will deliver to the parties everything that is in the initiated file. And, of course, with new revelations the pressure on Sánchez's government to step down will increase. On this front there is a significant novelty: the PNB, through its president, Aitor Esteban, said yesterday that it would be “irresponsible” for Sánchez to want to exhaust the legislature in 2027, that is to say, that in view of everything that has come out (the Zapatero case, but also the Cerdán and Ábalos cases) it would be imprudent to want to go beyond this year.What Esteban is telling Sánchez is that he should not abuse his patience and the deadlock in which the parties that voted for the socialist president's investiture find themselves: it is unlikely that the PNB, Junts, and not to mention the so-called "plurinational lefts" will vote for Feijóo as president of the government with Vox in a motion of no confidence, but if corruption continues to tarnish Sánchez, it is the Spanish president who should be obliged to call early elections. After all, Sánchez came to power with a motion of no confidence after corruption drowned Rajoy and the PP government.As always happens in these cases, now there are voices demanding that the law better specify the limits between lobbying and falling into the crime of influence peddling. And the convenience of rescuing the Plus Ultra airline during the pandemic is also being reviewed in hindsight, because it was not essential for air traffic between Spain and Latin America. If it wasn't, why did they rescue it? The PSOE is crossing its fingers that the judge hasn't found anything else and can recover the discourse of “lawfare” (a possibility that, given what we have seen in the Spanish justice system, would not be so dismissible), but everyone you talk to tells you that, at the very least, Zapatero acted very much on the edge.While the socialists are crossing their fingers so that nothing else comes out, in our country, tomorrow there will be another meeting between the Government and the education unions. The teachers' strikes are more than a stone in the government's shoe, they are a rock in the road that does not allow it to finish circulating with confidence and optimism after having been able to present a budget that will be approved. We are at the end of the sporting seasons, and Catalonia has lost a team in the First Football Division, Girona. After having reached to play the Champions League, it drops to the Second Division: the team could not withstand the departure of key players who had made a name for themselves. Not all news is bad. Two Catalans who are succeeding in the world: the Barça women's football team, which tonight was welcomed in Barcelona by 10,000 people after havingwon the Champions League, the fourth in the Club's history, in a perfect season that includes the three Spanish titles. And wait, because Alexia Putellas, after the Champions League on Saturday, could very well win the Ballon d'Or again. For the visibility of professional women's sport, the service that Barça is providing is extraordinary. And Pep Guardiola, who was bid farewell yesterday at City's stadium after 10 years as its coach. The mark Guardiola has left on football can only be defined by "a before and an after"; this can be said of very few coaches in history. By the way, both celebrations, that of the Barça players and that of the Santpedor coach, were united by the estelada:

Barça has been reported to the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office due to the "sponsorship signed in mid-2025 with the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo. In the document registered on May 5, which ARA has accessed, it is specified that the complaint is directed against the club, against "the [Barça] directors responsible for the litigious contract" and against the Central African country's Minister of Sports, Didier Budimbu Ntubuanga. It is requested that they be investigated for alleged crimes of money laundering, prevarication, and embezzlement of public funds. The procedure arises from an initiative by Congolese citizens residing in Spain and is coordinated with another action that was launched regarding the sponsorship that the Congo itself signed with Monaco. This complaint has been investigated by the Principality's justice system since March 6, after the French system declared itself incompetent in the first instance.

Despite Joan Laporta's electoral theatrics, everyone at Barça knew Robert Lewandowski's days were numbered. He never received a formal offer with concrete figures for renewal: since he was neither sportingly nor economically of interest, the club had been planning the future without him for months. A logical decision by Deco: it's time to rebuild the attack. Although the nuances of the story don't deceive, the Pole's farewell has been hygienic, a story of an unblemished record, and fitting for the star who decides when he wants to leave. It's healthy that there were no recriminations, only tears of emotion and gratitude. The 2022 bet has yielded four good seasons: especially the first with Xavi and the first with Hansi Flick. There was no need to drag it out or agonize. All parties have handled it well. All parties have handled it well.

The FC Barcelona first team squad, the coaching staff, and the board celebrated the end-of-season dinner this Wednesday at the Restaurant Casanova Beach Club in Castelldefels, with about 150 guests. The gathering, initially planned as a celebration for the League and Super Cup titles, also ended up becoming a tribute to Robert Lewandowski, who announced his departure from the club on Saturday. In fact, he already said goodbye to the fans in the last match at Camp Nou against Betis. The Polish forward received recognition from his teammates and the coaching staff in an internal event, even though there is still one match left to play.

The real estate bubble had catastrophic consequences for Spanish football. Many clubs depended on construction companies or businesses linked to the property sector that went bankrupt, leading to global non-payments to players and social security. In 2012, the Spanish government said enough was enough and threatened to intervene in the football business. To protect themselves, the clubs decided to create a mandatory regulation that not only required accounts to balance, but also demanded that entities demonstrate at the start of the season that they would have sufficiently good budgets to pay all debts for the season. At that moment, financial fair play was born.

In a very short time, two decades will have passed since Joan Laporta chose Pep Guardiola as first-team coach. Besides sporting a few more gray hairs, can you imagine how the path of our Barça would have been if José Mourinho had taken the reins of the bench? Laporta, with all his strengths and weaknesses, chose with his heart. And he was absolutely right. No one can doubt his intuition: Hansi Flick is the contemporary example. Guardiola arrived at the bench after winning the Third Division league with Barça Atlètic. A title that he has always made sure to highlight in an extensive and successful record that, if it doesn't make him the best coach in history (for the one writing these lines, he is), it's close.

The Barça-Betis match on Sunday was supposed to be a fantastic farewell party at Camp Nou. The team, already champions, were playing their last game at the stadium, where they were set to achieve their 19th victory, thus completing a perfect home season, a feat never before accomplished in the league tournament. Beyond the three points, which would eventually come with a 3-1 win, several players were receiving awards accrediting them as members of the competition's ideal eleven. And the main event was Robert Lewandowski's farewell, who was saying goodbye with full honors after four years wearing the blaugrana. Nothing suggested that anything could go wrong, until yesterday morning Fermín López went through the blaugrana medical center.

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).

Barça closes a perfect home season with a new victory. The azulgranas beat Betis on the day that Robert Lewandowski said goodbye to the azulgrana fans after four seasons. Here are some immediate thoughts.

"Success is never accidental." This is one of the mottos of Barça's medical services, which have made creatine the invisible fuel for a club always attentive to the latest medical innovations. The blaugrana entity uses this supplement in both its youth and professional teams.

Barça fell in Vitoria in the first of the three formalities left in the League (1-0). Hansi Flick presented a team rich in rotations. Next, some quick notes.

If a fan wants to buy the official jersey of the Barça women's goalkeeper, Cata Coll, they won't find it. It doesn't exist in the club shop or on the club's website. Barça, a global benchmark in women's football, fills stadiums and racks up titles, but doesn't sell its goalkeeper's jersey. Even the club's own employees in the official stores are surprised: "We don't have it, I'd never really thought about it."

The flag of Palestine that Lamine Yamal waved for about five minutes from the bus of the Liga del Barça celebration was held by a fan who was following the parade for a while. The azulgrana star maintained a low profile during the party, until on Passeig de Gràcia, before reaching the parade stop right in front of Casa Batlló, he himself asked for the flag to be brought to him. He did not shy away from the cameras while waving it: many fans captured an image that ended up going around the world for its symbolic and political weight.

Barely 24 hours had passed since winning the League title when Barcelona took to the streets again to celebrate the championship. The first team players of Barça treated themselves to a massive crowd shower in a multitudinous parade, with 750,000 attendees according to City Council figures, which started and ended at Camp Nou and passed through some of the most central points of the Catalan capital. Celebration, chants, humor, pyrotechnics, and demands, such as Lewandowski waving an estelada or Lamine Yamal with the flag of Palestine. Two iconic images, especially the second, which quickly began to go around the world.

Asistencia Sanitaria has its own healthcare model, founded, managed, and directed by doctors. With medicine at its core, it offers the highest quality, personalized, and socially responsible care. True to its founding values, doctors and users lead a unique cooperative healthcare model where medical judgment prevails over any other interest.

League champions on the field. And for the first time in history, in a classic against Real Madrid. The script dreamed of by the Barça fan has been fulfilled. It is the club's 29th League title, Hansi Flick's second in a row, just the day his father died. The coach decided to stay on the bench in a key match. An example for the locker room and further evidence of Joan Laporta's success in giving him command of the first team. The team had three matchdays to spare.

Barça is once again the League champion. In his second season as a blaugrana, Hansi Flick has achieved a historic feat that fills Barcelonism with pride: to crown the League against Real Madrid and, moreover, in a Camp Nou packed to the rafters that was a celebration from even before the start of the match. Barça once again rules the championship. Below, 10 key moments from the journey to the re-edition of the title.

Barça is once again the League champion. In his second season as a Blaugrana, Hansi Flick has achieved a historic feat that fills Barcelonism with pride: to put the finishing touch to the League against Real Madrid (2-0) and, moreover, in a Camp Nou packed to the rafters and which has been a party since even before the start of the match.

Taking advantage of a match against Manchester United, the Barça ticketing team became interested in the English club's business model at the Old Trafford stadium. At that time, Josep Maria Bartomeu was still in charge and the Camp Nou renovation project was being polished. The Blaugrana executives were surprised when they were explained the star product: it consisted of picking up the fan from the hotel, taking them by helicopter to the stadium, giving them a private tour, enjoying a luxury catering service at all times, and returning this spectator to the hotel, also by air, after the match. The price: 10,000 pounds. However, it only cost the club 2,000. The profit margin was extraordinary.

The Spanish government is shining with the public differences of opinion maintained by the Ministries of Health and Defense on whether quarantine is mandatory or not for people who have been in contact with infected individuals by hantavirus. And it is true that the procedures for the outbreak were activated late and poorly, and here we are, urgently searching for passengers who were in contact with the infected and counting cases of people who have isolated themselves in Singapore or are under surveillance in the United States. But what I find unbearable is the political outcry, practically hysteria, surrounding the case. The Canary Islands government does not want the ship in port (as if they were not bringing the affected people to port); Ayuso – who is now dedicated to imitating Pedro Sánchez to play on the international stage as a reference for the most rancid right-wing and goes to Mexico to defend Hernán Cortés to see if she provokes a global scandal – wonders why they have to bring affected people to Madrid (as if they didn't have a reference hospital there), and the PP goes around shouting "This is chaos!" It is a shame, because we know that hantavirus is not like covid – the WHO has said so –, and we live in a developed country, a member of the European Union, with the capacity to treat this disease. We come from a pandemic in which many people suffered a lot and became very anxious, which triggered mental illnesses, and now what would be appropriate would be to have a sense of state. When a crisis is still open, one must think twice about the messages and leave the criticism for when it is resolved.Regarding open crises, the war in Iran continues but has already reached levels of confusion that begin to resemble that Gila war, where a general would pick up the phone and ask for the enemy. At this moment, officially, the ceasefire holds, but the United States and Iran continue to exchange attacks. Trump doesn't know how to end this war, to which he was dragged by Israel, which is making gasoline more expensive for him and, therefore, angering his voters. That's why he continues to say things from the height of a bell tower, opening controversies and alternative fires, such as when he said that the Pope was endangering many Catholics because he didn't care if Iran had the atomic bomb. But the Pope put him in his place with a sentence destined to go down in the history of his pontificate: “If anyone wants to criticize me for announcing the Gospel, let them do so with the truth, because the Church has spoken out against all nuclear weapons for years, and there is no doubt about it.” Very well said.Another political crisis: teaching unions have reported detecting undercover police officers at teachers' assemblies. An explanation from the Government is urgently needed. It would be unacceptable, typical of an authoritarian regime. This morning, when asked about the matter on SER, President Illa brushed it off saying the minister would provide explanations, implying the president knows nothing and has no reason to know anything. It doesn't look good, especially in the midst of the labor conflict between teachers and the department, as it seems they were spying on them. I certainly think explanations are needed.