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The ‘Financial Times’ dedicates an extraordinary article to Athletic and their...

Athletic’s Iñaki Williams in action against Espanyol last month. ‘We are doing everything right and that is something that other clubs can’t buy,’ says the star striker © Daniel Castro Garcia
Our regular readers will know that we don't normally talk about sports, especially soccer, unless the articles highlight other aspects that go beyond the...

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 Basque exile who made Caracas the world capital of soccer

This article was translated by John R. Bopp The stories we hear about Basques around the world never cease to amaze us.  Just when we’d thought...

Le Figaro: “to play in Athletic, all you need is a...

Iñaki William, un jugador vasco, en un equipo vasco
  This article was translated by John R. Bopp Our regular readers will know that we don’t usually talk about soccer.  There are four reasons why: We...

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...

Real Sociedad is news around the world (and not because of...

El otro protagonista de esta historia solidaria de la Real Sociedad
This article was translated by John R. Bopp Our readers will know that we don’t talk about Basque sports news when it comes to who’s traded...

Interest in the “Eibar model” reaches the US

Campo de la SD Eibar (fotografía de J.M Serrano Arce)
This article was translated by John R. Bopp Philly.com is the digital version of The Inquirer in Philadelphia, and a Basque soccer team, Sociedad Deportiva Eibar...

Iñaki Williams is Black? My God, we had no idea!*

As we always say, soccer doesn't really interest us.  But what does interest us is the image of the Basques that is projected to...