Don Balón
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Don Balón is a Spanish weekly sports magazine specialising in Spanish and international football, founded in 1975. Based out of Catalunya, it is distributed on five continents.
Don Balón features special supplements every year on La Liga and European competitions. Since 1976 the magazine confers the Premio Don Balón (Don Balón award) yearly to the best Spanish player, the best foreign player, the best referee and the breakthrough player in La Liga. Don Balón is a member of the European Sports Magazines association along with similar publications World Soccer, Kicker, and A Bola.
Jose Maria Casanovas, a very well known Spanish sport journalist, had the idea of creating an internationally recognized sport magazine. In 1975 he founded Don Balón as well as the sport newspaper "SPORT," which focuses on FC Barcelona.
