No entiendo cómo puede ser. Vi a Michael Jackson morir, a Maradona morir, a Pelé morir, a la reina Isabel morir; vi pasar a tres papas. Sobreviví a una pandemia, vi el comienzo de internet. Vi el CD cambiar a Spotify, vi cambiar el DVD a Netflix, vi pasar del teléfono fijo a un iPhone. Y estoy viendo el surgimiento de la IA. Y solo tengo 30 años.
🗣️Almeida: "En el SANTIAGO BERNABÉU siempre suele haber espectáculo, este estadio puede acoger a Taylor Swift, a Bad Bunny, al Papa, un partido de la NFL o un partido de Champions."
CHAPÓ 👏�
🚨🇵🇹 Antonio José [President of Portugal]:
"Play for each other, and work for each other and for the memory of Diogo Jota
Above all, this immense joy of wearing the Portugal shirt
I ask the team to make the most of its talent & intelligence
The country believes in you."
Real Madrid hasn't won a major trophy in two years. It just became the highest-earning sports team in history anyway, beating the Dallas Cowboys. The man behind it isn't a coach or a player. He builds skyscrapers for a living, and he doesn't even own the club.
His name is Florentino Pérez, and he runs the biggest construction company in Spain, one of the largest anywhere. Real Madrid belongs to its fans, about 90,000 of them, who vote every few years on who runs the place. This Sunday they picked him again. It was the first time in twenty years that anyone even ran against him, and he'll be in charge until 2030.
His smartest move had nothing to do with football. When he took over in 2000, the club was buried under close to 300 million euros of debt. So he talked the city into letting developers build office towers on Real Madrid's old training ground. The land sold, four skyscrapers went up that still stand on the Madrid skyline, and the debt was gone almost overnight, with plenty left to start buying the best players alive. (Years later the EU looked into whether the city had overpaid on purpose to bail the club out. Nothing came of it.)
Then came the players fans still argue about, one global superstar nearly every summer: Figo, Zidane, Ronaldo, Beckham. Pérez never pretended it was only about football. When his marketing chief heard Manchester United would sell Beckham for about 35 million euros, he called Pérez yelling that it was a steal. United had priced a footballer. Madrid was buying a worldwide brand it figured was worth ten times more in shirts and sponsorship deals. Within a year of signing him, Madrid had passed United as the most profitable club on earth. Pérez wanted his club to run like Ferrari, a name so strong the money keeps coming whether you win on Saturday or not.
The new stadium is the same idea in concrete. He spent 1.3 billion euros rebuilding it over one thing that bugged him: a football ground hosts maybe 25 games a year and sits dark the other 340 days. His version barely sleeps. It hosts concerts and tours now, and last November it held an American football game. The pitch even slides underground so the place can be rented out without wrecking the grass. Running flat out, it's built to bring in close to a million euros a day.
He has still won plenty on the field, seven Champions League titles across his two spells, from Zidane's famous volley in 2002 to the trophies in 2022 and 2024. But the number that explains him best is simpler. Last year, with nothing big to show for it on the pitch, the club's value still climbed 41 percent. So this week 90,000 fans gave him four more years, and he still doesn't own a single share of the club he turned into the highest-earning team in world sport.
🗣️ David Bustamante: "Estoy en la casa del mejor equipo del mundo, el mejor estadio del mundo y el mejor presidente del mundo, lo mejor está por llegar y eso que ya tenemos 15, así que se preparen los demás equipos porque el REAL MADRID va a VOLVER."
Countless fans from all around the world will be up by midnight to watch the World Cup games..it’s not like we’re jobless or we don’t have a life we live outside football it’s just a part of us it’s an organ we cannot live without and the truth it we wouldn’t feel the same if by any chance we miss a moment of the game…don’t let anybody tell you that you’re not a real fan because you’re not watching the game live from the stadium…You’re a true fan ❤️✨
Negreira Case: Latest Claims by Barca PR and the Facts Behind Them
Argument 1: “New Tax Agency report confirmed that there is no proof against Barca”
Explanation:
No, this is an immense gaslighting attempt that came aftermath of Perez’s direct accusation in the press and subsequent spotlight the Negreira case had in the media.
This new tax agency report claim originated after Miguel Galan, shared excerpts from an old Tax Agency report and presented them in misleading way in X. Pro barca news outlets used this document and presented it as a new report from tax agency and it spread like wildfire. Let me explain:
As most people know, the payments from Barca to Negreira were initially uncovered by the Spanish Tax Agency. The Tax Agency’s role is to investigate potential tax irregularities and financial wrongdoing. After identifying these concerns, they had referred the matter to the Civil Guard and prosecutors for further criminal investigation.
At that point, the Tax Agency’s involvement is largely complete. The ongoing investigation is being conducted by the courts and public prosecutors, not by the Tax Agency, since 2023. So the argument that tax agency now released a report is completely illogical.
So, what happened is that a few lines from that old report were cherry-picked and circulated by pro-Barca accounts as if they were part of a new report clearing the club. This is very much similar to what happened when the cohecho (bribery of public official) charge was dismissed in 2024. Then, pro barca media outlets presented it as if the entire Negreira case had been closed, even though the broader corruption investigation continued. I used to get screenshots of "case closed" under my comments based on that. Even the LLMs like Gemini, chatgpt confused Cohecho and used to generate reply that case was closed in 2025. Barca fans were in denial until, Laporta and others testified and we had video proof in youtube. Their denial is sad to watch.
So in short, this new tax report is fake story created by Barca PR machine to remove Negreira case from the spotlight.