“Gentlemen, we have a date with History. We are going to be the first to arrive.” Luis de la Fuente dressed up the World Cup final, as it could not be otherwise…
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…
A Marc Cucurella, aka ‘Cucu’, ‘Pelos’ and in recent days ‘Secadora’, a nickname created by Mikel Merino, everyone loves him. He is a smile…
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…
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…
El Javits Center is a giant convention center. It is in Hudson Yards, on the west side of Manhattan, right next to the river. FIFA has turned it into a kind of center of…
Spanish refereeing has not been a protagonist in this 2026 World Cup because it has not had the trust of the FIFA Refereeing Division led by the former Italian referee…
To Lionel Scaloni (Pujato, 1978), the members of his coaching staff and the players of the Argentine national team have affectionately called him La Llorona for years, as a result of…
Castelldefels, 2006. “Come, Dani, Messi is here, do you want to take a photo with him?” Miquel Olmo asked his son, who was kicking a ball…