**Title: “Derbi Català 2.0: Why the World is Suddenly Obsessed with Atlètic Lleida vs. RCD Espanyol”** Alright, folks, buckle up! The internet is abuzz with a football (or soccer, for our American friends) rivalry that’s hotter than a Catalan paella on a summer’s day. Atlètic Lleida and RCD Espanyol are back at it, and the…
Girona 1 – Levante 0: A Small Earthquake in the Pyrenees, Barely Felt in the Rest of the World By Dave’s Locker’s Resident Cynic-at-Large The final whistle at Estadi Montilivi echoed like a polite cough in an empty cathedral: Girona had beaten Levante, 1–0, thanks to a late Yangel Herrera header that sent the 11,810…
From the Pyrenees to the Pacific: How the Word “Espanyol” Became a Global Rorschach Test BARCELONA—Last week, in a fluorescent-lit classroom in Seoul, a teenager practiced rolling the Spanish “r” in the word “espanyol,” blissfully unaware that 10,000 kilometers away a Catalan separatist was spitting it out like cheap vermouth. Meanwhile, on a Reddit thread…
