Don Balón

Don Balón
Editor-in-Chief Juan Carlos Casas
Categories Sport
Frequency Weekly
First issue 7 October 1975
Final issue 2011
Company Editorial Don Balón, S.A.
Country Spain
Based in Barcelona, Spain
Language Spanish
Website www.donbalon.com

Don Balón was a Spanish weekly sports magazine specialising in Spanish and international football. It was distributed on five continents.

History and profile

The magazine was founded in 1975 by José María Casanovas, a very well known Spanish sport journalist, who had the idea of creating an internationally recognized sport magazine.[1] In the same year he also founded the daily sport newspaper Sport, which focuses on FC Barcelona.[1]

Don Balón was a member of the European Sports Magazines association along with similar publications World Soccer, Kicker, and A Bola.

Don Balón published special magazine supplements every year on La Liga and European competitions. In 1976 the magazine launched the Premio Don Balón (Don Balón Award) yearly to the best Spanish player, the best foreign player, the best coach, the best referee and the breakthrough player in La Liga.[1]

The magazine disappeared on September 2011 due to the economic crisis and a scandal which brought on the arrest of its lead editor Rogelio Rengel.[2]

The magazine also produced an annual list of 100 young players, who they felt had huge potential, from across the world. When the magazine ceased publishing, In Bed with Maradona, an online football journal, continued this list [3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Prasidh Kumar Mishra (10 October 2010). Sports Journalism. Pinnacle Technology. p. 91. ISBN 978-1-61820-463-9. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  2. ↑ Exclusive: Siempre Football meets… Don Balón, Siempre Football
  3. ↑ , In Bed With Maradona

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