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Forbes
29-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
FC Barcelona Star Breaks Internal Club Record
An FC Barcelona star has broken an interesting internal club record as revealed by numerous ... More reporters that cover the Catalan club. An FC Barcelona star has broken an interesting internal club record as revealed by numerous reporters that cover the Catalan club. Marc Bernal took advantage of an opportunity handed to him by then-new head coach Hansi Flick, which entailed him training with the first team in preseason. The lanky midfielder impressed the German to the point of being taken on the preseason tour of the United States. Strong performances alongside Marc Casado against the likes of Real Madrid and Manchester City on American soil then meant that the two namesakes became Flick's starters in a double pivot as the 2024/2025 campaign got underway. Just three games into Barca's eventually successful attempt to wrest back the La Liga title from bitter rival Madrid, however, the teenager rupture his ACL and was ruled out for the rest of the term. With a season that saw Barca end up treble-winning kings of Spain now wrapped up, Bernal is back on the training pitch with Culers worldwide excited about their team essentially welcoming what will be a new signing to its squad. Bernal has reportedly grown two inches since we last saw him on a competitive pitch, and he's also set a new record as highlighted by Mundo Deportivo. Just three days after turning 18, which is the minimum age to complete such a feat in Spain, Bernal has passed his driving test and can now head out on the road behind the wheel if he wishes. This seems him surpass teammate Pau Cubarsi's own impressive work, with the center back tipped to win the Golden Boy award later this year passing the exam aged 18 and eight days. Next up of course will be Lamine Yamal, who this week signed a new contract which will keep him at Barca until at least June 30, 2031 barring a major plot twist. Lamine turns 18 on July 13, and he can pick up some pointers from fellow La Masia graduates that made it out of the talented class of 2007 to the FC Barcelona first team on how to breeze past his driving test later this summer.
Forbes
29-05-2025
- Business
- Forbes
FC Barcelona Has Two New Signings For Preseason
FC Barcelona head coach Hansi Flick will have what Catalan press outlets such as SPORT essentially dubbed two new 'signings' for the 2025/2026 preseason campaign. When taking over the reins from fired club legend Xavi Hernandez last summer, Flick took advantage of many of his international players being at Euro 2024 or the Copa America to familiarise himself with the club's young players. Many of them were taken on the preseason tour of the United States which brought about friendly meetings with the likes of Real Madrid and Manchester City, and this development saw Pau Victor, Marc Casado and Marc Bernal promoted permanetly to the first team off the back of impressive performances. While Pau Victor took a backseat to striker Robert Lewandowski on the bench, the two Marcs became Flick's starting choices in a double pivot in midfield, which was cruelly broken up when Bernal suffered an ACL rupture and was ruled out for the rest of the campaign. While Bernal is expected to return to the fold and provide positional rivalry to Frenkie de Jong with Casado, Flick has repeated his method by deciding that two La Masia prospects will train with the seniors when it's time to get back to work. Namely they are Pedro Fernandez, known as 'Dro', and Juan Hernandez. While both players had already been training with the first team last week, they did not go to San Mames to form part of the squad that beat Athletic Club 3-0 on the last day of a domestic treble-winning La Liga season. Both promises are capable of playing as false 9's or on the left wing, and are simultaneously talked up as playmakers. Should they impress, it is likely they will be taken on Barca's next foreign tour with Jofre Torrents, a left back, another candidate to have a plan ticket in July. Though it has enjoyed preseason friendlies on American soil for the past couple of summers, FC Barcelona is expected to head to the Far East in 2025. As explained by Barca Universal, citing anonymous sources, Barca could head to Morocco for a match before then flying to Japan and South Korea around July 24.
New York Times
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
The issues Barcelona need to solve next season after winning La Liga
Lamine Yamal grabbed the corner flag and decided it would be a good idea to take it with him during his lap of honour at the Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys. He then met CAT, Barcelona's popular new mascot modelled after a wildcat, and started dancing with it. While he was doing his lap with the corner flag, Marc Casado saw him and decided to grab another one to follow him. They both played with them until Yamal pointed to the people on the pitch waving giant flags. They went straight over to them, greeting every single person in a reflective yellow vest who was working there. Advertisement The pair took the flags, stopped in the middle of the pitch and started waving them. Yamal chose the club flag, with blue and red stripes. Casado chose one that said 'soc cule' ('I'm a Barca fan'), which couldn't have been more fitting after he was seen walking alone to Canaletes, the fountain in the city centre where Barca fans celebrate their titles, after winning La Liga at Espanyol's RCDE Stadium on Thursday. lamine dancing with cat 😭😭 i love himmm — emi (@taypedri) May 18, 2025 On Sunday, Barcelona celebrated its great season for the last time — La Liga, the Copa del Rey and the Spanish Super Cup — after the nighttime celebrations of the last few days and the parade through the streets of Barcelona. It also said goodbye, hopefully for good, to Montjuic hill, a place that did not always bring them joy, but which they knew how to bid farewell to in style with celebrations. The aim is not to play there again next season and to return to their new home, the renovated Camp Nou. These celebrations took place after the last home game against Villarreal, a match that served more to bring together 49,558 people at the stadium to celebrate than anything else. Barcelona were already league champions but Hansi Flick preferred to field a full-strength side so as not to spoil La Liga's competitiveness. Villarreal were the special guests at Barca's party but they also wanted to secure their place in next season's Champions League — and they achieved this, beating Flick's side 3-2. You could tell that Barca had been celebrating in the days leading up to Sunday's game. There was a noticeable drop in intensity, especially when they didn't have the ball, although they came close to getting a point. Another moment of genius from Yamal and a goal from Fermin Lopez would have been enough if the team hadn't been so soft in defence. Advertisement Yamal has scored the same goal in three consecutive games. The 17-year-old dribbles diagonally past the opposing defence, positions himself in front of goal and fires a shot into the top corner. He did it against Real Madrid in the last Clasico, in the derby against RCD Espanyol and again on Sunday to equalise against 'the Yellow Submarine' after Ayoze Perez's early opener. Lopez is not far behind. He came close to scoring in El Clasico — his effort was disallowed for a handball in the build-up — he scored the last goal against Espanyol and found the net again against Villarreal, but goals from Santi' Comesana and Tajon Buchanon sealed a crucial three points for the visitors. Marc-Andre ter Stegen also played his second game after returning from a long injury to his right knee tendon, which he sustained on Villarreal's pitch in September. It wasn't the best game and Barcelona were beaten but it was a bittersweet result that didn't spoil the party for anyone given how little it meant for Flick's side. The season has ended with two major titles, the Spanish Super Cup and a Champions League semi-final against Inter. Barca have the whole summer to enjoy the party but a busy summer lies ahead. 'It's not that it's over now. We've just started this journey and for me, it's important that we improve a lot of things next season, but I also know that we have a lot of potential,' Flick said in his post-match press conference. 'The president (Joan Laporta) wrote me a letter and told me that it wasn't just about winning: it was about playing good football.' To do that, Flick will need to answer other questions this summer. The Villarreal match, although insignificant, once again exposed one of the team's problems: defence. When they had the ball, it was fine. Barca knew how to create and were dominant. Without it, they took too many risks that cost them three goals in this match and many others during the season. Advertisement Flick's team needs to return to the point in the season where they were able to play with a high defensive line but do so with confidence. Because what this team have done this season has made them one of the most entertaining teams in Barcelona's history. They were capable of the unpredictable. They were the Barca of comebacks, with nine completed throughout the season. But being unpredictable also makes you imperfect, and Flick's team were superb in attack and in creating chances, but not so much in defence. 'Defence is not just about the back four — it starts at the top, with the forwards,' Flick said in the build-up to Sunday's game. 'We need a compact system. With possession, it's important to be in the right position too. When we make a mistake, we talk about it at half-time and the players know how to correct it. I want everything to be clear from the start, for everyone to know how to press and what each player's job is. Also with the ball.' Two of the big issues to be addressed by the board in planning for next season are bringing in a No 9 who can give Robert Lewandowski a rest and eventually become the starting centre-forward, and a goalkeeper. A 7-6 aggregate defeat against Inter showed how crucial this position is, and the club understands that it needs a goalkeeper who can win games, as Yann Sommer did for the Italians in both the first and second legs. Wojciech Szczesny exceeded expectations and his experience was key at certain moments of the season, such as in the first leg of the Champions League round of 16 against Benfica, but the team lacked a decisive goalkeeper who could make saves to earn them points or a place in the final. Now Ter Stegen is back and several issues will have to be resolved in goal. By signing the Pole when the German was injured, the club sent a very clear message to the team's second goalkeeper, Inaki Pena: they are not betting on him. Although the Catalan goalkeeper played as a starter until January, he arrived late for the pre-match talk for the Spanish Super Cup semi-final and Flick punished him by not playing him in that match. Szczesny played and kept his place. Flick has acknowledged in press conferences at the end of the season that this was the most difficult decision he had to make this year. The Polish player has a two-year contract renewal offer from the club, and the next step will be to see whether he accepts it or not. It's a shame that he left the Montjuic party after the match against Villarreal looking very unhappy, as he could be one of the departures this summer. This will be the first summer that Barcelona will start from the 1:1 rule — when all money raised by the club can be spent on new players — in order to be able to sign players in the summer after many seasons of not being able to do so. The club's financial situation is still not the best but the sale of VIP seats at the new Camp Nou allowed Dani Olmo and Pau Victor to be registered at the time, and also allowed the club to return to operating under this rule. Advertisement However, La Liga later reported the auditor who certified the income (€100 million) from that sale to the authorities because it no longer appeared in the club's accounts. 'We are working to ensure that our accounts allow us to be in fair play compliance next season. We think we are on the right track,' Barcelona president Laporta said in an interview with La Vanguardia this week. 'What happened a few weeks ago was a matter of time. When the interim financial statements arrive at La Liga, they arrive on March 31, and at that time we had a change of auditors and the new ones did not accept transactions that have served to get UEFA to recognise the work we have done. When it came to accounting for VIP seats, they said there had to be one more step. This step has now been taken and they will be accounted for shortly.' Then there are other cases that need to be resolved. The players on loan: Clement Lenglet, to Atletico Madrid, Alex Valle, to Como 1907, and Oriol Romeu, to Girona. Lenglet and Romeu do not seem to have a place at Barcelona as the centre-back and midfield positions are more than covered. There is also the futures of players such as Pablo Torre, Ansu Fati and Pau Victor, who have barely played this season. Of the three, Victor is the one who has seemed to count most for Flick in recent games, coming on as a substitute in the second half on Sunday. The last game of the season is still to come, at San Mames against Athletic Club on May 25, but with their homework done, Barcelona are facing a much quieter summer than last year, with two months to resolve all these issues. And let's not forget that, when in doubt, they always have the talent of La Masia.
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
🎥 Is this a new TikTok trend? Yamal dances his socks off
This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇩🇪 here. What can't the boy do? After FC Barcelona was finally able to celebrate the title at home last night, one of them really got going. Lamine Yamal breaks out the dance moves. Son como niños... 💙❤️#InsideLALIGA | #DesenlaceLALIGA — LALIGA (@LaLiga) May 19, 2025 First with the flag and teammate Marc Casado ... EL BALL DELS CAMPIONS ~ THE DANCE OF THE CHAMPIONS 💙❤️(Barcelona Lamine Yamal Pedri Cat) — Catculer (@TheCatculer) May 18, 2025 Dance like Lamine Yamal 🕺😻 — Catculer (@Catculer_) May 18, 2025 ... then with the mascot. Have we missed any TikTok trend? In any case, someone knows how it's done - on the field and on the dance floor. 📸 MANAURE QUINTERO - AFP or licensors
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
🎥 Is this a new TikTok trend? Yamal dances his socks off
🎥 Is this a new TikTok trend? Yamal dances his socks off This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇩🇪 here. What can't the boy do? After FC Barcelona was finally able to celebrate the title at home last night, one of them really got going. Advertisement Lamine Yamal breaks out the dance moves. First with the flag and teammate Marc Casado ... ... then with the mascot. Have we missed any TikTok trend? In any case, someone knows how it's done - on the field and on the dance floor. 📸 MANAURE QUINTERO - AFP or licensors
