On January 3, 1971, Madrid visited Valencia in a great emotional atmosphere. First day of the year, also first of the second round. Di Stأ©fano was the coach of Valencia. The one from Madrid, Miguel Muأ±oz. Very close friends, even roommates, when they played together, the relationship deteriorated when Muأ±oz, already a coach, removed Di…
With the 9… Xavi Simons. Those who closely followed the Dutchman’s developments as a midfielder at La Masأa when he was a Barça player are surprised by the change of role he has assumed in his promising career, now that he is on the verge of the PSG first team. . For many he was…
The name of César, affectionately known by the fans as El Pelucas due to his early baldness, was heard again recently because his scoring record at Barça (230 goals between 1942 and 1955) had survived until Messi . He was a legendary center forward, elegant and a scorer, the axis of that attack that Serrat…
While everyone was messing around touching rolls of paper in quarantine, Marc Seguأ (Palma de Mallorca, 1998) wrote the song of the summer. Marc has appeared on the scene as an outstanding playmaker and in less than a year the big boys already want him. If we were him we would already retire at the…
Jorge Mendon was born in Luanda, where his father, who married an Angolan woman, had gone to work from Portugal to whose meteorological observatory. He excelled at Sporting Luanda, created by his own father, and from there he moved to Lisbon, and then to Braga. He arrived in Spain with his brother Fernando, hired by…
Between 46 and 47, San Lorenzo de Almagro (new Argentine champion) made a tour of Spain that was legendary. Of eight games they only lost one. He scored with ease, with touch-and-stop football, exquisite, unknown here. There were two consequences from that: the first, that the Federation forced, via circular means, all teams to play…
He is 1.70 tall, weighs just 63 kilos and is 15 years old. His name is Roger Fernandes, although he is known as Roger. Since this season, this small left winger has been pure history in Portuguese football. Carlos Carvalhal made him debut for Braga in the Super Cup against Sporting in the summer, and…
On September 27, 1980, Barcelona received Valencia on the fourth day of the League. Kubala had left the national team after nine years to take the bench (he committed just before the Euro Cup and brought two of his internationals to Barça, Alexanco and Quini, but that did not raise the dust of the Lopetegui-Real…
In Madrid He doesn’t go out so much in the afternoons anymore. Everyone is playing paddle tennis. And many do it with a shovel that is not even theirs. Ale Galأ،n nor that of Lebrأ³n: they play with the one recommended to them Manu Martأn (Madrid, 1983). Coach of professional players and the most recognized…
That 62-63 season was Barcelona’s third season without HH, whose departure left the club in confusion. After two failures, Kubala, recently retired, took over as coach. Barcelona signed two Uruguayans, Cubilla and Silveira, the first of whom did little and the second nothing. The last vestiges of the great Barأ§a of HH were retiring, or…
