Barcelona-based gaming video platform Gamestry has snatched up $5 million in seed funding, led by Goodwater Capital, Target Global and Kibo Ventures — turning investors’ heads with a 175x growth rate over the past 12 months. While the (for now) Spanish-language gaming video platform launched a few years back, in 2018, last year the founders […]
The Guardian view on Barcelona and Messi: decline and fall | Editorial
One of the world’s greatest sporting institutions lost sight of the principles on which its success was basedTen years ago at Wembley, FC Barcelona won football’s Champions League with a performance that established an absolute hegemony in the world’s …
Difficult days for Real Madrid and Barça plunge La Liga into uncertainty
Lionel Messi and Sergio Ramos are gone, while Diego Simeone’s Atlético Madrid will fancy their chances of back-to-back titlesZinedine Zidane was the first one out, so early it feels like a lifetime ago. Then Sergio Ramos departed, the full-time whistle…
Lionel Messi heading to Paris to seal PSG move after agreeing two-year contract
Deal worth about €35m a year net and has option to extendMessi in talks with PSG since plan to stay at Barcelona collapsedLionel Messi has agreed a two-year contract with Paris Saint-Germain and is due to fly to France to complete the transfer. The dea…
Messi’s case shows clubs, not elite players, are the real powerhouses of football | Jonathan Liew
Even in his moment of greatest sadness there was no recrimination, only departing tears, which Barcelona then repackaged as contentFittingly, it began and ended with a napkin. Lionel Messi’s first Barcelona contract was signed hastily on a restaurant s…
‘I wanted to stay’: Lionel Messi tearful at Barcelona exit as PSG move looms
Argentinian leaves Barça after more than 20 years at clubHe denies deal already agreed with Paris Saint-GermainLionel Messi hadn’t even started talking when he started crying. Holding a tissue handed to him by his wife, Antonella, he leant on the lecte…
Lionel Messi leaves with Barcelona in financial abyss … and it is not over yet
If there is one thing guaranteed to make it difficult to sell players, it is other clubs knowing you have to sell players“I don’t want to create false hopes,” Joan Laporta said, but that was all they had left. Barcelona’s president had been explaining …
PSG closing in on a deal for Lionel Messi after forward talks to Pochettino
Club discussing financial fair play, contract length and salary Barcelona president explains why Messi deal was impossibleParis Saint-Germain are closing in on a deal to sign Lionel Messi after making progress in negotiations with the forward’s represe…
Church bells in Catalan town chime again after residents’ pot-banging protests
The bells on the Santa Maria dels Turers church in Banyoles stopped ringing at night after complaints from touristsAfter a series of raucous protests involving pots and pans, residents in a small Catalan town near Barcelona have won a victory in their …