Basque Resistance: How Athletic Bilbao’s Hyperlocal DNA Fractured Football’s Global Empire for One Night
Athletic Club 1–0 Girona: A Basque Brick in Football’s Global Glass House By our man in Bilbao, nursing a sidra hangover and a mild existential crisis Last night, at a rain-softened San Mamés, Athletic Bilbao did something that, by 2024 standards, felt almost rebellious: they won a football match without a sovereign-wealth fund, a petro-dollar…