If Argentina wants to lift the fourth World Champion trophy this Sunday, they will have to raise their level; the performance shown against England will not be enough. Carlos says…
On Saturday morning, in the lobby of a hotel next to Madison, an Argentine guy about 50 years old was talking on the phone: «How much does that tray cost me?», and…
They say Jorge Valdano said it. Others, that it was Arrigo Sacchi. Or Eduardo Galeano. Who knows. The fact is that once someone uttered the mythical phrase: “Football is…
A Marc Cucurella, aka ‘Cucu’, ‘Pelos’ and in recent days ‘Secadora’, a nickname created by Mikel Merino, everyone loves him. He is a smile…
El 24 de Melanie Lane, exact address of the Red Bull NY training center, the field that FIFA assigned to Spain to train in the days leading up to the final in New…
Joan Capdevila, Euro Cup and World Cup champion with the Spanish national team, cannot enter the United States to attend the World Cup final because ten…
16 years ago Spain lifted the World Cup in South Africa, after a bad start, with a team that went down in history for its tiki taka and that, at first glance, might seem…
It is inexplicable, really. As if Michael Jordan had bathed baby LeBron James or Rafa Nadal had bathed Carlos Alcaraz. The photograph of a twenty-year-old Leo Messi holding the…
On July 11, 2010, Rodrigo Hernández Cascante, Rodri (Madrid, 30 years old) was in the middle of a forest in Connecticut, not too far from where tomorrow he seeks to complete the…
The hero of Spanish football, the one who heard the silence at the supreme moment, recalls, 16 years later, the feat of the Johannesburg final and calls for a companion in…