"I know [the chants] were for the rival team [Egypt], but as a Muslim person it is a lack of respect and an intolerable thing [...]. For those who sing these things: using religion as a mockery makes you look like ignorant and racist people," published on Wednesday on his social networks the star of Barça and the backbone of Luis de la Fuente's squad. On Tuesday, after the duel against Egypt and the globally shameful scenario that was experienced in the match against the North African team, the footballer left Espanyol's stadium with his head down and without greeting the local fans. Afterwards, he passed through the mixed zone in a hurry, absorbed, looking at his mobile phone, barely even wanting to lift his gaze to see the press who were interviewing some of his teammates. Lamine Yamal was restless.

The Islamophobic shouts at the Cornellà-El Prat stadium during the match between Egypt and Spain have gone around the world and are a very worrying exponent of the level of disinhibition of the extreme right everywhere. The case is especially regrettable because the best player of the Spanish national team and probably of the world is a Catalan of Muslim religion named Lamine Yamal, raised in the Rocafonda neighborhood of Mataró. The Barça star has sent a forceful message through social networks and has branded the "racists" and "ignorant" the scoundrels who on Tuesday chanted all sorts of insults, including to Pedro Sánchez, at the Espanyol stadium.

Right across from the church in Riudarenes, a town of just over 2,500 inhabitants, stands a farmhouse with stone walls and a beamed ceiling, over 300 years old, proudly displaying the flags of Girona and Catalonia. This is Restaurante Can Cordons. "We try to make dishes respecting traditional cuisine, but with a modern touch," says Pau Turon (Riudarenes, 2000), its owner for the last eight years. "We met at the Girona Hospitality School," replies Gerard Picard (Girona, 1995), the chef. "Even though I'm now in the dining room, I'm also a cook," Turon asserts. That's not all they share, as they are also big Girona fans, although Picard has a bit of a Barcelona side. "Now I'm a little more of a Girona fan than a Barça fan," he admits. Míchel's team visits Osasuna this Saturday (6:30 p.m., Movistar LaLiga).

"People have expected me to score 100 goals a season since I was 16; I'd like that too, but it's very difficult," Lamine Yamal said just a week ago, after scoring his first goal against Villarreal. hat trick as a Barcelona player in his third season with the first team. The winger from Rocafonda, who made the decisive goal in Barça's victory this Saturday at San Mamés, He's enjoying his best season in this regard: in the 2023-24 season he scored 7 goals in 50 matches; in 2024-25, 18 in 55 matches; and this season he has 19 in 36 matches. These figures make him the top scorer in the entire Barça squad, a statistic that speaks volumes about the Blaugrana star but, at the same time, highlights that the other forwards should improve in this area.

"Ramada Mubarak!": This is how Muslims greet each other at the start of Ramadan. During this month, eating and drinking are prohibited during daylight hours. That is, food can only be consumed in the early morning and after sunset. This year it runs from February 17th to March 19th. Lamine Yamal is among a large group of athletes who combine elite sports with fasting. This leaves their bodies much more worn out after a match than usual, increasing the risk of injury and directly impacting performance. The Rocafonda winger celebrates its second Ramadan And Barça's medical staff are working meticulously to take care of him. "We follow a clear plan: we monitor him, we see how we can help him, when he should eat, when he should train..." said Hansi Flick in the lead-up to last Sunday's Barça-Levante match, the first of four La Liga games that Lamine, at 4:15 p.m., must play while observing Ramadan. This Saturday, against Villarreal, Barça will play again at the same time. Afterwards, they will host Atlético de Madrid on Tuesday (9 p.m.) in a Copa del Rey match, but the next two league games are again at the worst possible time for footballers observing Ramadan: a visit to San Mamés on March 8 and a match against Sevilla on March 15, both scheduled – at this point – for the 5th.

The Spanish Super Cup final, a minor tournament played wherever the highest payouts are, is a key barometer of the season, a match that sets trends. Proof of this is that whoever wins it usually gains a decisive boost in the fight for La Liga. In the last four editions, the winner in Saudi Arabia went on to lift the trophy in the domestic league. And in the current edition, which will once again be decided in a Clásico between Barça and Real Madrid, it is the Blaugrana, leaders in La Liga thanks to a less brilliant (but much more solid) version of themselves, who enter the final as favorites (8 pm, Movistar). With nine consecutive victories after a A worrying setback at Chelsea's ground, Hansi Flick's team threatens to turn Xabi Alonso into another failed experiment on the Real Madrid bench, a position that in the last ten years has only been safe when occupied by Zinedine Zidane and Carlo Ancelotti. The egos in the dressing room and Florentino Pérez's power leave little room for maneuver for coaches, who, if they want to survive at the Santiago Bernabéu, must limit themselves to managing and selecting the lineup.

A match between Barça and Real Madrid, the Ballon d'Or gala, or withdrawing from the Spanish national team and returning to Barcelona to recover from pubalgia. These three events, among others, made Lamine Yamal the primary target of racist insults on social media: from "dude" to "I'm dying of shit." According to the latest study by the Spanish Observatory Against Racism and Xenophobia, the Barça star is the athlete who receives the most insults based on his skin color or beliefs, among other reasons linked to hate speech. Lamine Yamal is the focus of 60% of the insults, more than double that of Real Madrid's Vinícius (29%). To a lesser extent, Real Madrid's Mbappé and Brahim Díaz, Barça's Balde, and Athletic Club's Iñaki Williams have also been targeted.

Lamine Yamal continues to expand his social media presence: the Barcelona star has now decided to launch a YouTube channel to connect directly with his fans. The Catalan striker debuted on the platform with a video showcasing his house, or rather, what is now his former home, as he explains in the video that the disarray is due to a move. The striker is relocating to the former home of Piqué and Shakira, a mansion that became the scene of a highly publicized separation. During the tour of his house, Lamine Yamal shares various personal details with the camera, such as his obsession with vanilla: "In my house, everything has to smell like vanilla. I love it." In fact, the young footballer shows how, room by room, he has air fresheners with that scent everywhere. He also reveals that his little brother's favorite spot in the house is where the caganer (a traditional Catalan Christmas figurine) with his image is located. "Whenever he came over, he would make me hold the caganer until he broke it," he explains. Interestingly, everything... house tour He does so wearing a Luis Díaz football shirt, a player who was heavily linked to Barça this summer.

In this chapter, we talk about the loves and heartbreaks of 2025. "Is this news?" is the question we often see in the comments on gossip and pop culture articles. And, obviously, these aren't headlines, but they are topics we often discuss with friends or family around a table or at a bar to review some social news stories that serve not only to keep up with the most prominent gossip, but also to talk about love, friendship, or breakups.

"There's been a lot of talk about my pubalgia, that I was sad... And it was all a lie [...] I've always been happy, focused on myself to get back to my best level, which is when I enjoy myself the most." These statements by Lamine Yamal are from early November. After playing, probably his best match of the season in Bruges (3-3), The young talent from Rocafonda addressed the comments surrounding the injury that has officially justified his absence from five matches with Barça and two international breaks. His health has been a source of conflict between the coaching staffs of the Spanish national team and Barça, with strong messages exchanged between Luis de la Fuente and Hansi Flick. In fact, at the height of this dispute, at the end of the September international break, the Barça coach accused his Spanish counterpart of "not taking care" of his players, of administering painkillers to mask their discomfort. But to what extent has Lamine Yamal's case always been handled with medical certainty? Where does the Mataró native's injury stand now? Is it really "all a lie"?

Aitana Bonmatí has received the The BestThe award for best female player of 2025. After winning her third Ballon d'Or last September, the footballer from San Pedro de Ribes has received this accolade for the third consecutive time. Former Barcelona player Ousmane Dembélé received the award in the men's category, in which Pedri, Lamine Yamal, and Raphinha were finalists. The ceremony was held in Qatar without any Barcelona players in attendance. PSG, however, was present, and they will play Flamengo in the Intercontinental Cup final this Wednesday.

Mounir Nasraoui, Lamine Yamal's father, was escorted out of La Cartuja stadium after being involved in an incident with Betis fans. This occurred during the second half of the match, which Barça won 5-3 at La Cartuja, and in which his son scored the fifth goal for the Catalan side.

Football always insists on reminding us that it is much more than just results. It also tells stories, creates idols, and establishes a connection with its legends. At Barça, few figures have emerged with such force as Lamine Yamal, a young teenager who has burst onto the scene with the naturalness of a veteran and forced everyone to rethink their mental map. Analyst and commentator Albert Blaya (Manresa, 1997) writes about this phenomenon in the book Lamine Yamal Universe (Ara Llibres), which aims to be a footballing and emotional portrait of what is already one of the figures of Barça's present and future.

At just 18 years old, Lamine Yamal is already considered by the entire world to be one of the best footballers of today, if not the best. His humble background and his roots in the Rocafonda neighborhood have only served to fuel his superstar status. Now, a new anecdote has come to light about the moment the young footballer arrived at Barça: "He walked badly, a bit strangely," explained Jordi Roura, director of La Masia when the Mataró native joined Barça, on Ràdio Igualada. Roura, who was also the assistant coach of the first team during Tito Vilanova's tenure, explained that the Catalan winger had a rather odd gait.

International breaks are a headache that, in a World Cup year, turns into a nightmare. Clubs tremble because they lose control of their players. Everything changes: the routines of physical preparation and training, the management of effort during matches, and much more. And to this disruption, we must add the players' legitimate desire to secure a place in the most prestigious competition. This means they aren't always entirely honest about their feelings or how they should pace themselves on the pitch. They don't want to fall behind in a crucial race: the superstars, to prove they are undisputedly the best; those fighting for a place, to leave no room for doubt. All of this exacerbates the already strained injury lists.

For the Spanish Football Federation to reprimand Barça for starting medical treatment at Lamine Yamal is absurd. If Spain has made any impact on the European and world football scene in the last two decades, it has been thanks to the players, both men and women, developed at Barça, capable of playing a technical, brilliant, and winning style of football that put an end to all those years of...developmentalismfootballing so well summarized in the expression "the Spanish fury", invoked with a glass of Soberano in hand, that"It's a man's thing."A club that has contributed a list of players that could start with Puyol, Xavi, and Iniesta, and end with Pedri (whom Real Madrid didn't want) and Lamine, deserves gratitude, not this nonsense. But seeing that the Federation has had presidents like Luis Rubiales, the nonsense is understandable.

A new chapter has unfolded in the ongoing conflict between Barcelona and the Spanish national team over Lamine Yamal. The Barça player, who only joined the Spanish squad this past Monday, was released from duty this Tuesday. The Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) explained this in a strongly worded statement.

If the king wants a crown... then let him work and prove he deserves to wear it. With his last two goals, Lamine Yamal has chosen not to make that crown-wearing gesture he'd made fashionable. Against Elche, he opted instead to angrily kiss the badge. Against Club Brugge, he flashed his mischievous grin, aware he'd scored a fantastic goal, and embraced his teammates. The way you celebrate a goal isn't terribly important, but I think it's a significant detail. I want to believe that Lamine himself has realized he wasn't doing something right, that his level hasn't been optimal lately. Perhaps he's sensed that at Barça, if you're a good player and you lose your way, the fans won't show any mercy, as happened to Ronaldinho. Few players inspire love at first sight like Ronaldinho. I remember him and I still get emotional. He brought joy; it was a gem to watch him play. But in recent years, he ended up being whistled at and booed. And rightly so. He lost his way.

Where would a well-known brand of sneakers find an antique bathtub? Why did they want it? For an advertisement starring Lamine Yamal. He had to get in it. There aren't many places in Barcelona where you can rent one. It was easy for them to head to Otranto, on Passeig de Sant Joan between Carrer de Còrsega and Carrer de Roussillon. And yes, that's where the match. Brothers Adrià and Sandra Ortega, who have been running this business selling, renting, and restoring antique architectural elements since 2023, explain it to us.

Barça, without fanfare, has done its job and has beaten Elche (3-1) With goals from Lamine Yamal, Ferran Torres, and Marcus Rashford. Here are some immediate highlights of the match: