Just a few meters from the ruins of the Born district, destroyed in 1714—an archaeological site of great symbolic importance—three top-level football executives are chatting. Elena Fort, the Barça representative, beams after the long election night in which Joan Laporta was elected. "We will make sure to continue taking care of the Catalan language," she remarks, chatting with Xavi Andreu, director of institutional relations at Espanyol, and Nacho Mas-Bagà, from Girona. Andrés, who He remains angry about the refereeing decision suffered by Espanyol in Mallorca. He recalls how their official statements "were made in Catalan." The three have just given a talk at the International Symposium on Minority Languages ​​and Sgôr Football, organized by Plataforma per la Llengua.

Maria Elena Fort (Barcelona, ​​1970) speaks as a member of Joan Laporta's candidacy for the presidency of Barça, but above all as the former institutional vice-president and former board member responsible for Espai Barça. The Barcelona lawyer, the only woman on the outgoing Barça board, speaks to ARA 10 days before the eagerly awaited re-election.

Laporta's most resounding blunder regarding the Espai Barça wasn't his appearance in the announcement of a return to the Camp Nou for the Joan Gamper Trophy, which never happened. Laporta's most resounding blunder regarding the Espai Barça took place on October 8, 2021, before the Camp Nou renovations had even begun. The Barça president then informed RAC1 that Barça's men's first team would be going "for a year to play at the Johan Cruyff stadium, with 40,000 or 50,000 spectators."