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A Catalan takes a look at the ‘soul’ of Athletic, from...

Urban Pitch. artículo sobre el Athletic
Urban Pitch is a US-based website that is looking to cover urban soccer culture and its connections to fashion, art, music, and everything that...

La Real vs. Becerril on Copa: after 8 goals, they invite...

Partido de Copa entre el  Becerril y la  Real Sociedad
We find ourselves once again getting to talk "around" soccer, rather than "about" it. La Copa, a championship known as the "KO Tournament", is where...

Who is Basque? Who can play for Athletic?

Bibiane Schulze Solano una vasca nacida en Alemania que quiere jugar en el Athletic
This article was translated by John R. Bopp As you may have noticed, soccer is not one of our favorite subjects.  Normally, we only bring it...

Brazilian soccer historian, grandson of one of the founders of Athletic...

El historiador John Mills en SPAC Biblioteca en Sao Paulo Rafael Valente / ESPN.com.br
This article was translated by John R. Bopp We found this story, penned by Rafael Valente, on the ESPN Brazil website.  It's the sad news of the passing...

Iñaki Williams explains the obvious: “I’m Basque”

This article was translated by John R. Bopp The Fox Sport Italia website has just shown a clip from the documentary “Six Dreams”, produced by Amazon...

The Shanghai Daily talks about Eibar: “The Eibar example shows ‘another...

El diario chino Shanghai Daily recoge hoy en su dominical un artículo de AFP sobre la SD Eibar
  This article was translated by John R. Bopp This Sunday, January 8, which has reached China but is still just around the corner here in the...

The only Basque soccer team in the Spanish Premier League with...

Imagen de aficionados vascos
This article was translated by John R. Bopp Journalist Ian Hawkey has published an interesting article in the Irish daily The National in which he states...

The Times of India summarizes the “Athletic model” for its readers

Athletic Bilbao’s Raúl García (22) after his team scored in a 5-1 victory over Partizan Belgrade. All of Athletic’s players have Basque ties. Credit Alvaro Barrientos/Associated Press
This article was translated by John R. Bopp In these six years that we’ve been doing this blog, we’ve made many references to information we’ve collected...

Olarticoechea: a book protagonist, Argentine, footballer, national team selector, and Basque.

Julio Jorge Olarticoechea, seleccionador del equipo olímpico de futbol de Argentina en las Olimpiadas 2016
  This article was translated by John R. Bopp A month ago, on this blog we talked about a biography about an Argentine footballer who was known...

A book about a Basque from Saladillo, Argentina

Agustín Di Benedetto autor del libro sobre Julio Olarticoechea, el "Vasco de Saladillo"
This article was translated by John R. Bopp A while back, one of those “anti-Basque satellites” that occasionally pops up in the social network of this...