Barcelona
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Sports
At Barcelona, Timing Is Everything
The Barcelona team that faces Real Madrid in Saturday’s Clásico will be marked by youth, mostly because the club’s dire straits meant it had to be.
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Sports
A Barcelona Star Chases Trophies and Answers
Aitana Bonmatí always asks the same question. Every game Barcelona Femení plays generates a flood of performance data. The team’s fitness coaches know how far each player ran, how fast, how long. There is so much information, in fact, that they need ...
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Books
In Barcelona, City of Mega-Festivals, Small Venues Struggle
On a recent Friday night, a few dozen 20-somethings piled into Sidecar, a well-known concert venue in downtown Barcelona. The small space, with a low vaulted ceiling, was only half-full, but onstage, the singer Íñigo Merino and his band were ...
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Sports
Barcelona Goes to Court to Keep a Star Player on Its Roster
As rivals haggled over prices on the final day of the transfer window, Barcelona found a new way around the Spanish league’s financial rules.