New Catalan sports paper to be launched

Spanish news agency EFE claims that a new Catalan sports paper will be launched in January.

A source of the new project reportedly confirmed that former sports paper Dicen..., that definitely stopped in the mid-1980s, would now reappear and become the fourth Catalan sports paper, besides Sport, El Mundo Deportivo and El 9 Esportiu.

A Spanish investment group would have bought the rights on the title and plans to start the paper next year after having prepared the re-launch for two years. The plan is to start with a group of 30 journalists and they are at this moment negotiating the appointment of an editor-in-chief.

The new paper would cost 0,60 euros and socios of Barcelona would get a free suscription for the first three months. The source assured that the re-launch of Dicen... isn't directly linked with the upcoming presidential elections and that the club nor any of the presidential candidates are behind it.


This blog has been in contact with the journalist who wrote the story for EFE. It was confirmed to us that one of the key men behind the project is Ángel Blanco, who owned the rights on Dicen... for a few years and who was the editor-in-chief of the free Spanish sports paper El crack 10, that was stopped in 2006.

The plan would be to gain momentum with the presidential elections coming up next year, although Blanco denies to be linked to one of the presidential candidates and says that their pages will be open to all candidates.

Our source thinks that it's indeed not likely that a candidate would be behind this, although there could be doubts on the project that doesn't seem to be very concrete at the moment, despite the fact that an editor-in-chief would in the meantime have been chosen.