There are scripts that seem to be written. And this Champions League's could only have one winner: Barça. Pere Romeu's team – who wins the Women's Champions League in his second year in charge – regains the European crown it lost a year ago in Lisbon and now has its fourth Champions League title (4-0). The Blaugranes draw level in second place with Eintracht Frankfurt with four titles each, only behind Olympique Lyonnais, who has eight.

Flick's Barça is going on vacation. With a very high note and a grim face, as this team doesn't want to lose even a game of Parcheesi, they fell at Mestalla to end a magnificent season. Precisely in the stadium where Flick debuted as a coach in a league match two years ago, they had to lose in a game that also didn't have much history, in terms of Barça. Many players are already thinking more about the World Cup, which in a few weeks will arrive like an informational avalanche in our lives. If you've already won the league and there's not much at stake, you can't blame the international footballers, especially after seeing that one of theirs, Fermín López, won't be able to go to the United States due to an injury in the last match. The last game became the last chance to have a final photograph of Lewandowski in a blaugrana jersey. Scoring a goal, of course.

The images of Ewa Pajor celebrating the second goal, lifted by her teammates, with a fist in the air, will remain in the memory of Barça's women's team's fourth Champions League title. Or that of the players embracing after Salma, with two more goals, sealed the thrashing of Olympique de Lyon in the Oslo final (4-0). But the title would not be a reality without the performance of the player who was a hundred meters away, being the team's last bastion, keeping a clean sheet and holding the team together when it was going through its toughest moments.

This Saturday (6:00 PM, TV3), Barça will once again be the center of attention across Europe. For the sixth consecutive year, the blaugranes will compete in the Champions League final. It will not be just any match. Pere Romeu's team will face Jonatan Giráldez's Olympique Lyonnais, the former coach of the Catalan team. The two best teams in Europe will meet at the Ullevaal Stadium in Oslo. The final has been preceded by the difficulties fans –and the press– have had in reaching Norway, but UEFA has already posted the sold-out ticket sign. Thousands of culers will fill the streets of Oslo and will try to win the battle in the stands, where 28,000 people are expected. Among them, the family of Caroline Graham Hansen, who will be playing at home.

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 clothing and merchandise business has become one of the central levers of the sports economy. FC Barcelona knows this well, as it has in the Barça Licensing and Merchandising (BLM) brand one of the jewels in the entity's economic crown, with revenues last season that will break 200 million euros. So much so that fashion retail brands, both sports and general consumer, seek to control the entire market: the primary one, which operates through official or licensed stores; but also the secondary one, now concentrated on external platforms such as Wallapop, dedicated to second-hand items and products, or those outside the usual channels. It is in this effort that Drelife emerges, a start-up founded and led by former professional handball player Alberto Miralles, dedicated to building and operating "second life" channels for clothing brands that wish to access these segments.

The name Rosalía often takes us to the singer from Sant Esteve Sesrovires, but at Barça there is another Rosalía who is looking to make her mark among the great stars of the first team. “It has been a very special season and, above all, one of great learning,” reviews Rosalía Domínguez (Camas, 2008), one of the jewels of the academy, to ’ARA. The Andalusian midfielder – who arrived at the Catalan club in the 2024-25 season – renewed her contract a few weeks ago until 2029. She is one of the eleven players with a reserve team contract who Pere Romeu has debuted in the first team, in addition to Sydney Schertenleib, Clara Serrajordi, Aïcha Camara, Martine Fenger, Carla Julià, Ainoa Gómez, Lúa Arufe, Adriana Ranera, Laia Martret and Maria Llorella.

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.

Barça once again touched the sky in Oslo with a landslide victory against Olympique de Lyon to win their fourth Champions League in history (4-0). The players will celebrate this Sunday starting at 7:00 PM with all the fans. It will not be a parade like the men's team had a few weeks ago, but rather a celebration with the fans in Plaça Espanya and Avinguda Maria Cristina, as reported by ARA.

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.

Barça and Betis will face each other this Sunday (9:15 PM) at the Spotify Camp Nou stadium in a match corresponding to matchday 37 of La Liga. The Catalans are coming off a loss against Alavés in Mendizorrotza, making it impossible for them to reach 100 points in the league. For their part, the Andalusians are already mathematically qualified for the Champions League. The two teams only have to put on a good show in the last two remaining matches of the competition.

Barça is now the best team in Spain after winning the Super Cup, the League, and the Cup. One more season. The Blaugranas thrashed Atlético de Madrid (3-1) to continue expanding their state hegemony with a new Copa de la Reina, the twelfth in their record. Pere Romeu's team played a very serious match from the first moment and settled the final in the first half after goals from Claudia Pina, Esmee Brugts, and Salma Paralluelo.

It was an open secret that yesterday at noon it was confirmed. Robert Lewandowski announced with a message on Instagram that he is leaving Barça after four years. The Polish forward will say goodbye to the fans in tonight's match at Camp Nou against Betis (9:15 PM, Movistar LaLiga), the last one the Blaugranas play at home this season.

Six years ago, the life of Virginia Torrecilla (Cala Millor, 1994) changed completely. At just 25 years old, and right when she had just arrived at Atlético de Madrid, she was diagnosed with a brain tumor. A very big impact – even more so in the midst of the covid pandemic – for a footballer who saw how, suddenly, she lost everything.

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.

He who takes a flag takes a burden. Of all symbols, the colored cloths representing countries are the most epic. And although he is only 18 years old, we will agree that Lamine Yamal is fully aware of this.

The Vega Andújar family founded a project in the sports events sector in 1999. They organized a Coca-Cola Cup and some summer camps. The idea evolved towards the distribution of sportswear, and at the beginning of the 2000s, it grew to have eight multi-brand stores. From this initiative, Gedo (Gestión de Eventos Deportivos y Ocio) was born, founded in May 2002, and it grew to the point of outfitting more than 800 sports clubs throughout the country. In Catalonia, l’Hospitalet, Llagostera, Terrassa, and Reus were part of its client portfolio. But what seemed like a solvent business was not so much in reality. In fact, up to five transactions by brothers Ricard and Jordi Vega to raise funds for the company have ended up in court due to non-payment. Other attempts to capitalize Gedo, which today is a project in limbo, have involved several professional footballers. Most have lost their money and their faith in recovering it.

In an effort to put names to things, some Barcelona fans have dubbed the season the "Clàssic League," for having won it just against Real Madrid. Others have simply called it Flick's second league. Some wanted to name it by reaching 100 points, but it won't be possible because the team won't reach that figure after the defeat at Alabès' ground (1-0) when there was nothing more at stake than honor. But the title, achieved three matchdays before the end, could be called the "Catalans' League." And it's because it had been half a century since there was a Barça with such participation of players born in Catalonia: almost half of the available minutes.

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.