Two police tapes, one on the second floor and another before reaching the landing of the third, warn you that you are near the scene of a crime. More than 15 hours have passed, but on the floor there are still traces of blood, a blanket from the medical services, and various traces of an unsuccessful resuscitation attempt. It was 8 p.m. in the Bon Pastor neighborhood of Barcelona, ​​​​in the Sant Andreu district, when a young man in his early twenties lay on the floor, badly injured, on this landing. He had been stabbed and hit on the head, according to initial observations. Just at that moment, a 90-year-old neighbor was going up to her house and observed the scene: the medical services were trying to resuscitate the young man, without success. She was unable to recognize him.

When Taito Suzuki (Shizuoka, 1978) saw a photograph in the press of Takefusa Kubo with tears in his eyes after his team's elimination from the Tokyo Olympics, he decided to invest in Mallorca, the club where his compatriot played at the time. He did so through his company, Taica Corporation, a Japanese multinational with more than a thousand employees and prominent in the technology sector. Originally from Shizuoka, known as Brazil of Japan Because of his passion for football, Suzuki's life has always been linked to the beautiful game. As a youngster, he played it – "I was like a Japanese Drogba," he says, laughing – and as an adult, he became involved by sponsoring Shimizu S-Pulse, his hometown club, and the team at Xuo University, where he studied.

Visiting sporting events in other countries is a trend. Participating in tours foreign stadiums, too. Even competing to see who's been to the most stadiums in a group of friends is a growing trend among football fans. The Futbology app allows users to log all the football stadiums they've visited. Felipe Teijeiro is a user and boasts about his repertoire on social media. "Every year I travel to see a Barça match in Europe. The trio depends on the history of the club and the stadium I visit," he says in a conversation with ARA.

Years ago, when professional teams didn't go on overseas tours in exchange for tickets, the big draw of preseason training was the summer tournaments. The Gamper or Teresa Herrera, who now have a residual significance, were unmissable events; also the Ramón de Carranza in Cádiz, considered the Champions League of the dog days, which took place at the end of August and marked the start of the season.

Catalan football is no stranger to housing drama, and especially the smaller clubs below the Second Division, are suffering. The most affected are the technical secretaries, especially those from Barcelona and the surrounding areas, who are working to build squads that perform well with little money and local players. "It affects us a lot. Resources are limited, and we have to rationalize them. As a general rule, we focus on signing Catalan players who don't need housing, because renting an apartment is a very significant expense," says Josep Maria Gené, European sporting director. which has risen to First RFEF, the third national division, with one of the lowest budgets in the Second RFEF.

A little more than a year ago, Barcelona City Council presented an agreement sealed with the owners of the plot where the old Mercedes-Benz factory used to be in Bon Pastor, Conren Tramway, to convert this space –in disuse since 2007– into a new estate with up to 1,450 homes (3,500 residents), universities (some 2,000 students and 500 professors) and economic activity to attract over 4,000 workers. This is what the promoters of the project claim will be the city's first eco-district, because they want plenty of green spaces and no traffic, becoming an urban link between Sant Andreu de Palomar and Bon Pastor. But once the project's specifics have become known and, above all, the developer has revealed its first simulations, neighbourhood tensions have arisen over to overcrowding concerns. The City Council insists, in the face of criticism, that nothing is definitive yet.

A few days ago the girl, 14 years old, attempted suicide. The family had been attentive for some time, because they knew that this could happen at any time. "When she was 11 years old, she already verbalised every day that she wanted to kill herself, but she didn't know how to do it", explains Pilar, her mother, who found out during a visit to the psychiatrist at Sant Joan de Déu that the girl had been "thinking about how to do it" for a year and a half.