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Torna per i tipi di Sur «Splendori e miserie del gioco del calcio» MASSIMO RAFFAELI Il Manifesto - Mercoledì 29 aprile 2026 Pagina 12 Disse una volta di avere scritto la sua bibbia calcistica allo scopo di convertire i pagani, invitando i fanatici del leggere a superare la paura del calcio e i fanatici del calcio a superare la paura dei libri. Lo scrittore è Eduardo Galeano (Montevideo 1940-2015) mentre il libro in questione è Splendori e miserie del gioco del calcio (Sur, pp. 409, euro 20) un’opera del ’95 che ora torna nella edizione integrata nel ’14 e per la nuova smagliante versione di uno scrittore, Fabrizio Gabrielli , peraltro arricchita da testi inediti ed entrambi consonanti di Federico Buffa e Darwin Pastorin . Viene mantenuto il titolo della balzachiana Comédie humaine che fu scelto, ed evidentemente accettato dall’autore, per la prima versione italiana del ’97 ma è probabile che l’originale, El futbol a sol y sombra , meglio alludesse al contenuto con il suo violento ta...

Luis Enrique on the touchline during his  Paris Saint-Germain side’s 5-4 win against Bayern Munich.  Photograph: Chris Brunskill/Fantasista/Getty Images https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/apr/29/champions-league-paris-saint-germain-bayern-munich-luis-enrique-vincent-kompany?CMP=share_btn_url A record nine goals in semi-final first leg ‘We fought and we’re back in the tie,’ says Harry Kane Barney Ronay at the Parc des Princes Wed 29 Apr 2026 01.08 CEST Luis Enrique called it “the best match I have ever coached”. Vincent Kompany called it “unbelievable”. Marquinhos said it was “crazy”. Harry Kane took a different tack, choosing instead to praise the defending on show after Paris Saint-Germain’s 5-4 defeat of Bayern Munich , the most goal-laden Champions League semi-final first leg ever staged, and perhaps also the most relentlessly exciting. PSG edge breathless 5-4 classic as Bayern Munich rally after Dembélé’s double Read more “It was amazing,” Luis Enrique said. “It ha...

The youngest son of Atlético’s manager Diego Simeone has had to earn his chance, but is now making the most of it 29 Apr 2026 - The Guardian Sid Lowe At the beginning of the final training session before their biggest game in a decade, Atlético Madrid’s players lined up by the centre circle at the Metropolitano and waited for their coach to come. Diego Simeone arrived and ran through the middle of them, from Juan Musso and Jan Oblak at one end to Antoine Griezmann and Ademola Lookman at the other. As he passed, head down, they cheered and hit him – if not quite as hard as they do when it’s a player’s turn. Gauntlet run, applause echoed round the empty stadium. Happy birthday, mister. Simeone turned 56 yesterday. He has spent almost 20 of those here: first as the captain who won the double, then the coach who lifted Atlético’s next league title, 18 years on, and now leads them into his fourth and their seventh European Cup semi-final, nine years since the last. “I have no birthday wish,...

ROBERTO SALOMONE/ THE GUARDIAN  Ashley Cole is in his second stint in Italian football,  having joined Roma in 2014 and played there for 18 months Ashley Cole, in his first manager's job, on attacking football and aiming for promotion with Cesena 'The fans are humble people who work every day to afford a ticket.  We need to reflect that' 29 Apr 2026 - The Guardian Emanuele Giulianelli It has been a long journey for Ashley Cole, but also for his wife, Sharon Canu. It took seven years for Cole to get his first job as a head coach, with Cesena in Italy, having retired from playing. During that time, Sharon had to endure many dinner table tactical briefings with salt and pepper shakers. The pair met a decade ago while Cole was playing for Roma – Canu is from Italy – and that period clearly left a lasting mark beyond the pitch. “I bored her a lot,” Cole says, smiling. Now that he has a dugout of his own, Sharon may finally get the seasoning back. “It was always in our plans to...

Vallecas n’est pas à vendre, le stade ne se privatise pas »,  clamaient les supporters, le 19 mars, à Madrid. Le club centenaire de Vallecas, quartier ouvrier de Madrid, accueille le tc Strasbourg en demi-finale aller de Ligue Conférence, jeudi. Ici, attachement au maillot et conscience politique vont de pair. 29 Apr 2026 - L'Humanité NICOLAS GUILLERMIN Le Racing Club de Strasbourg se déplace, jeudi 30 avril, à Madrid pour affronter en demi-finale de Ligue Conférence le Rayo Vallecano (Canal Plus, 21 heures). Dans l’ombre des géants madrilènes, le Rayo incarne un football indissociable d’une identité populaire, forgée dans un quartier ouvrier, où l’attachement au maillot se mêle à une forte conscience sociale. Là où le club alsacien se débat toujours face à la résurgence dans ses tribunes de hooligans des Offender, groupe d’extrême droite dissous par le gouvernement en septembre, les supporters du club de Vallecas revendiquent haut et fort leurs valeurs sociales, antifascistes et p...

BOURGENLIESSE À la dernière seconde, la « Jeu » de Frédéric Fauthoux a crucifié Besiktas dans une ambiance volcanique pour cueillir l’Eurocoupe, son premier sacre européen. À sa manière, en outsider. «On est allés se chercher le trophée avec le coeur,  la fierté, le talent et le travail»    -  FRÉDÉRIC  FAUTHOUX, LE COACH DE BOURG 29 Apr 2026 - L'Équipe SAMI SADIK BOURG-EN-BRESSE (AIN) – En attendant l’incontournable We are the champions, la musique de Pirates des Caraïbes enflamme Ekinox alors que la liesse a commencé sur le parquet. À leur manière, ces Bressans sont des pirates, des corsaires affamés, qui ont détroussé un à un les cales turques d’Ankara en demi-finales puis de Besiktas en finales (72-60 à l’aller, 73-71 hier), deux galères, bien plus riches et pourtant si loin, si loin de la flamme et de la force collective dans l’équipage de Frédéric Fauthoux. Mais les 3400 furieux installés dans les travées – en enlevant la centaine de fans turcs – ont été s...

KEYSTONE  Già impostosi due volte su territorio rossocrociato È scattato nel segno del velocista il Tour de Romandie 29 apr 2026 - la Regione Archiviata una stagione delle classiche dominata (tanto per cambiare) da uno straripante Tadej Pogacar, il grande ciclismo è ripartito da quel Tour de Romandie antipasto delle grandi corse a tappe. La 79esima edizione ha preso il via dal tradizionale prologo di 3,2 km a Villars-sur-Glâne. E, inevitabilmente, i riflettori erano puntati sul fuoriclasse sloveno che non è tuttavia riuscito a imporsi a due giorni dal quarto successo alla Liegi-Bastogne-Liegi. Sì, perché il Cannibale ha chiuso in quinta posizione – subito alle spalle del campione rossocrociato Mauro Schmid – mancando l’assalto alla maglia gialla. A sorridere infatti è stato il francese Dorian Godon, che ha coperto il poco tecnico percorso di 3,2 km in 3’35” conquistando in questo modo la vetta della classifica. Hanno chiuso appaiati, a 6”12, il portoghese Ivo Oliveira e lo svedese ...

Dorian Godon a signé sa quatrième victoire de la saison hier,  en remportant le prologue du Tour de Romandie. À bientôt 30 ans, Dorian Godon plane, vainqueur hier du prologue du Tour de Romandie comme sur toutes les courses où il s’aligne, épanoui chez Ineos et devenu, sur le tard après ses études de kiné, l’un des meilleurs puncheurs du peloton. “J’avais l’objectif de gagner sur toutes les courses  par étapes auxquelles je participais.  Là, on verra au Dauphiné, au Tour…     - DORIAN GODON 29 Apr 2026 - L'Équipe PIERRE MENJOT (avec L. He.) VILLARS-SUR-GLÂNE (SUI) – Un sac à dos en guise de récompense sur le podium? Pas le plus courant ni le plus simple, mais pas de problèmes. Dorian Godon l’enfile, dos au public pour bien exposer l’objet, montre les biceps façon Popeye et jette le bouquet dans la foule. Rien ne peut perturber le Lyonnais, qui vit sa meilleure vie cette saison et a triomphé sur le prologue du Tour de Romandie en mettant plus de six secondes...