It's hard to take Hansi Flick's smile off his face, but the Spanish national team has managed to do just that. Lamine Yamal didn't take to the pitch for training this Saturday, and in the press conference prior to Sunday's match against Valencia (9 p.m.), the German coach confirmed that the Barça star would be out. "He went to the Spanish national team with discomfort. He played both games, 73 and 79 minutes, even though the team was winning by a landslide," Flick insisted, "with painkillers. He didn't train, but he played. I don't think this is the way to take care of the players. I'm very sad, I'm very sad, I'm very sad, I'm very sad." Barça.

Club Deportivo Sant Gabriel is one of the temples of youth football in our country. It was once a benchmark for women's football in Catalonia, reaching the First Division for five consecutive years between 2010 and 2015. However, in recent years, the club's women's section has gradually been dissolving due to a lack of resources. The men's section, which also enjoyed golden ages and produced great players such as Luis García and Oleguer Presas, is now proud to have produced four players who have started this season with Barça's first team: Alejandro Balde, Gerard Martín, Sergi Domínguez, and Àlex Valle.

"At that time I didn't know where to find most of the countries we went to. These are experiences I will never have. They are unrepeatable. At 15 I had already travelled more than my entire family," admits Eric Vega (Masquefa, 2003). With Barça they travelled all over the world – to Colombia, the United States, Japan and all over Europe – but there is one trip that has remained etched in their memory above all the rest: in Senegal, in the winter of 2017, alongside Alejandro Balde, Marc Casadó, Fermín López and Xavi Simons, another of the talents of La Mas. They were the U19 A team. "It's an unforgettable trip," he adds. He remembers looking up where Senegal was on a map at home, with his parents. "I knew it was an African country, but I had no idea where it was." Vega has just signed for Sabadell B, in the Third Federation, after months without being able to enjoy football due to two injuries to his left knee.