Alinghi Red Bull Racing is determined to win the America's Cup in 2024. For this reason, it has been the first team to settle in Barcelona, where it has been dedicated to its work for several months now. While the time for the competition arrives (between September and October of next year) both its crew and its engineers will work to win a trophy that was won for the last time in 2007, in Valencia.. Now they are looking for the perfect combination of muscle and technology. If necessary, they will speed up the time to the last second.

«Everything is highly regulated, but it is clear that we will go to the limit to scratch a thousandth of a second. engineers are like that. If they tell us that it has to be there by the 23rd, for example, we ask if in the morning or in the afternoon”, says Nicolás Bailey, responsible for the design of the foils.. «The foil is in charge of making the hull not touch the water, you have to lift all the weight of the boat with the least possible resistance. Once out of the water, you reduce the resistance by 70 or 80%. Anything you can file will mean a huge jump in performance. In addition, it also plays an important role in balance.. You have to design them not only taking resistance into account, but also so that the boat is as manageable and stable as possible”, he explains.

For that, taking into account the rules imposed by Team New Zealand, defender of the trophy, as he confesses, you have to rack your brain a lot. Above all, now that espionage between teams is not only allowed, but is also public and notorious.. “It's fundamental. What has changed in this Copa América is that espionage has become public.. Before, each team had its spies and it was even a bit ridiculous, because you went with your boat, your three motorboats, and then there were five more motorboats from other teams who wanted to take photos.. You have to put the infrastructure in place so that they can spy on you, you have to give interviews about what we have been testing and all of that is public, it is uploaded to YouTube and is common to all the teams”, Bailey points out.

“You Can't Buy Time”

To compete, yes, both technology and the human factor are important. «It is a mixture between engineering and sailors. In the previous campaign the design of the ship completely changed, they went from being catamarans to monohulls and, when a new class starts, the differences are so great that, in a first cycle, all the engineering part, the ship, plays a role very big. For this second cycle, all the designs are converging a lot and more is being played with the details.. I think that we will all have similar boats and that the weight of the sailors will be more important than in the previous season,” he says.. the sailors also work to the limit.

«Normally, a normal training day starts in the gym. There we warm up, do activations and work on mobility. Then we put the boat in the water, the engineers test everything we have on the boat, we test the controls, the communications. Later, we eat, have a short after-meal moment, and then spend five or six hours browsing. At the end, it is time to take the boat out of the water and clean it well, because the salt is not very good for all the equipment we carry, we return it to its hangar, we check that everything is fine and, meanwhile, the sailors and the staff do a debriefing and we prepare for the next day”, says Florian Trüb, crew member of Alinghi Red Bull Racing.

The team tries to have at least one day off, usually on the weekend.. Although, if the weather is good, they also sail. When the wind is too strong, they do not go out and take care of the maintenance of the boat. «There is a saying in the Copa América: you can buy all the equipment you want, hire all the people you want, but what you cannot buy is time.. You never have enough to try everything. That's why there are a lot of people here who work almost every day,” says Florian Trüb.

Alinghi Red Bull Racing is determined to win the America's Cup in 2024. For this reason, it has been the first team to settle in Barcelona, where it has been dedicated to its work for several months now. While the time for the competition arrives (between September and October of next year) both its crew and its engineers will work to win a trophy that was won for the last time in 2007, in Valencia.. Now they are looking for the perfect combination of muscle and technology. If necessary, they will speed up the time to the last second.

«Everything is highly regulated, but it is clear that we will go to the limit to scratch a thousandth of a second. engineers are like that. If they tell us that it has to be there by the 23rd, for example, we ask if in the morning or in the afternoon”, says Nicolás Bailey, responsible for the design of the foils.. «The foil is in charge of making the hull not touch the water, you have to lift all the weight of the boat with the least possible resistance. Once out of the water, you reduce the resistance by 70 or 80%. Anything you can file will mean a huge jump in performance. In addition, it also plays an important role in balance.. You have to design them not only taking resistance into account, but also so that the boat is as manageable and stable as possible”, he explains.

For that, taking into account the rules imposed by Team New Zealand, defender of the trophy, as he confesses, you have to rack your brain a lot. Above all, now that espionage between teams is not only allowed, but is also public and notorious.. “It's fundamental. What has changed in this Copa América is that espionage has become public.. Before, each team had its spies and it was even a bit ridiculous, because you went with your boat, your three motorboats, and then there were five more motorboats from other teams who wanted to take photos.. You have to put up the infrastructure so that they can spy on you, you have to give interviews about what we have been testing and all of that is public, it is uploaded to YouTube and is common to all the teams”, Bailey points out.

“You Can't Buy Time”

To compete, yes, both technology and the human factor are important. «It is a mixture between engineering and sailors. In the previous campaign the design of the ship completely changed, they went from being catamarans to monohulls and, when a new class starts, the differences are so great that, in a first cycle, all the engineering part, the ship, plays a role very big. For this second cycle, all the designs are converging a lot and more is being played with the details.. I think that we will all have similar boats and that the weight of the sailors will be more important than in the previous season,” he says.. the sailors also work to the limit.

«Normally, a normal training day starts in the gym. There we warm up, do activations and work on mobility. Then we put the boat in the water, the engineers test everything we have on the boat, we test the controls, the communications. Later, we eat, have a short after-meal moment, and then spend five or six hours browsing. At the end, it is time to take the boat out of the water and clean it well, because the salt is not very good for all the equipment we carry, we return it to its hangar, we check that everything is fine and, meanwhile, the sailors and the staff do a debriefing and we prepare for the next day”, says Florian Trüb, crew member of Alinghi Red Bull Racing.

The team tries to have at least one day off, usually on the weekend.. Although, if the weather is good, they also sail. When the wind is too strong, they do not go out and take care of the maintenance of the boat. «There is a saying in the Copa América: you can buy all the equipment you want, hire all the people you want, but what you cannot buy is time.. You never have enough to try everything. That's why there are a lot of people here who work almost every day,” says Florian Trüb.

Real Madrid returns to balance on the abyss, to explore the impossible, in an ACB final in which Barça has them against the ropes after the first two meetings at the Palau. To the resurrection against Partizan in the Euroleague quarterfinals, with that 0-2 that no one had ever overcome, the whites hold on. The Catalans fear this precedent, on notice of the irredeemable character of the European champion. This Tuesday the series goes to WiZink (9:00 p.m., Movistar) and Chus Mateo needs something to change, despite the fact that they have been really close in the first two rounds. All eyes are on the player who has scored the most points in his team throughout the season.

Dzanan Musa's undoubted talent so often collapses with his own anxiety, with his desire for prominence, with his lack of tactical experience when defenses close in on him.. That leadership over a leading team in Europe was one of the aspects that aroused the most expectation of his signing after his stupendous season of redemption at the Río Breogán. Jasikevicius's plan against the rival's offensive reference has not only managed to annul the Bosnian forward, it has made Musa a burden at times for Real Madrid itself and not only because of its defensive gaps.

With the impeccable work of Alex Abrines and Nikola Kalinic on him, Musa has barely managed to score seven points in the first two games of the final. On Sunday he hit bottom, completely desperate: he only made one of his seven shots and lost two balls for a rating of -3 in almost 23 minutes on the track. In none of his more than 70 white games had he assessed negatively until now. «Barcelona demands the maximum from you and you can notice a certain fatigue in the team. But we are ambitious, we have a player that we miss, “Mateo already warned after the initial duel, in which the forward only tried four pitches.

ACB PHOTO / D. GRAU

The annulment of Musa is not a trivial matter, since Madrid loses its main source of damage in the opposite ring, so many times points out of the blue when the systems do not work and it is the quality of the Bosnian that resolves one on one. The former Breogán player, MVP last season in ACB and chosen in the best five in the current season, has averaged more than 14 points this season in both the Endesa League and the Euroleague. In the current playoffs, it was above 17: only in the second of the semifinals against Joventut did it not exceed 16 (it stayed at five). And always above 40% in triples.

At the age of 24 and after a career start marked by his premature unsuccessful jump to the NBA (he spent two seasons with the Nets without shame or glory), it is not the first time that Musa has not displayed his full potential at a moment in the game. TRUE. In contrast to the winning character of Llull, Rudy, Sergio Rodríguez and company, the Balkan was not able to display his immense talents in the recent Final Four either, seven points in the semifinals against Barça and six in the final, in which Chus Mateo He only had him on the track for 15 minutes. Neither in the series against Partizán did they finish finding. If only a miracle would cause Barça to escape the league reconquest, the revival of Musa is the starting point for Real Madrid. Because, as Llull says, that mirror in which to look at oneself, “giving up is not an option”.

On May 21, 2011, Jose Mourinho's Real Madrid faced the last day of the League with the title lost to Barcelona. The appointment was a commitment without more, but the whites took it out on Almería, bottom team that season. Cristiano Ronaldo (2), Adebayor (3), Benzema (2) and a boy from the subsidiary who made his debut that same day scored. Joselu Mato, born in Stuttgart in 1990, raised in the small Galician town of Silleda and arrived in Valdebebas in 2009 after touching the roof of Celta's first team, took to the field that afternoon and scored Madrid's eighth goal from a pass from Cristiano Ronaldo. That fast, that easy. Like the two goals he scored in the 83rd and 85th minute for Spain against Norway in March and the 2-1 goal he scored against Italy in the 88th minute of the Nations League semifinal. All that Madrid needs.

Twelve years after his debut, the striker returns to the Santiago Bernabéu converted into a Spanish 'pichichi' and a new tank for Chamartín, who recovers the guarantees in the role of substitute striker after too many years depending solely and exclusively on Karim Benzema. Joselu arrives on loan from Espanyol, which has just been relegated to the Second Division, in exchange for 500,000 euros and with a purchase option of 1.5 million, becoming the fourth Real Madrid signing of the summer after Fran García, Brahim Díaz and Jude Bellingham .

The footballer asked for more interesting challenges after scoring 16 goals in the League and the economy of the parakeet team will appreciate freeing one of the most important chips in the squad despite losing all his scoring ability.

His landing in Valdebebas means recovering a striker for the Madrid cause, an endangered species in the white coliseum. Since the departure of Álvaro Morata in 2017, the most prominent substitute attacker has been Mariano, who has hardly counted for his coaches. In his last year at Madrid, Morata scored 15 goals and became the best substitute in the competition. Before him, the Madrid '9' had been divided between Benzema and Higuaín, two more than proven footballers.

Joselu has scored three goals with his head and has been the player who has finished the third most crosses (15), ahead of Benzema's 13, and the sixth who has taken the most shots on goal after receiving a through ball. That is to say, he mixes power in the aerial game with an interesting intelligence in the game into space.

Since he left the Premier League in 2019 to sign for Alavés, he is the fifth player with the most goals in Spanish football (52), behind Benzema (90), Iago Aspas (58), Gerard Moreno (57) and Leo Messi (55). His experience in competition is more than proven.

In addition, outside of the goalscoring records, his mastery of other situations stands out. He has been the leader in the League in games won per game (8.1), a statistic that has also made him receive many fouls: the ninth in the League that has suffered the most infractions.

On May 21, 2011, Jose Mourinho's Real Madrid faced the last day of the League with the title lost to Barcelona. The appointment was a commitment without more, but the whites took it out on Almería, bottom team that season. Cristiano Ronaldo (2), Adebayor (3), Benzema (2) and a boy from the subsidiary who made his debut that same day scored. Joselu Mato, born in Stuttgart in 1990, raised in the small Galician town of Silleda and arrived in Valdebebas in 2009 after touching the roof of Celta's first team, took to the field that afternoon and scored Madrid's eighth goal from a pass from Cristiano Ronaldo. That fast, that easy. Like the two goals he scored in the 83rd and 85th minute for Spain against Norway in March and the 2-1 goal he scored against Italy in the 88th minute of the Nations League semifinal. All that Madrid needs.

Twelve years after his debut, the striker returns to the Santiago Bernabéu converted into a Spanish 'pichichi' and a new tank for Chamartín, who recovers the guarantees in the role of substitute striker after too many years depending solely and exclusively on Karim Benzema. Joselu arrives on loan from Espanyol, which has just been relegated to the Second Division, in exchange for 500,000 euros and with a purchase option of 1.5 million, becoming the fourth Real Madrid signing of the summer after Fran García, Brahim Díaz and Jude Bellingham .

The footballer asked for more interesting challenges after scoring 16 goals in the League and the economy of the parakeet team will appreciate freeing one of the most important chips in the squad despite losing all his scoring ability.

His landing in Valdebebas means recovering a striker for the Madrid cause, an endangered species in the white coliseum. Since the departure of Álvaro Morata in 2017, the most prominent substitute attacker has been Mariano, who has hardly counted for his coaches. In his last year at Madrid, Morata scored 15 goals and became the best substitute in the competition. Before him, the Madrid '9' had been divided between Benzema and Higuaín, two more than proven footballers.

Joselu has scored three goals with his head and has been the third player who has finished off the most crosses (15), ahead of Benzema's 13, and the sixth who has taken the most shots on goal after receiving a through ball. That is to say, he mixes power in the aerial game with an interesting intelligence in the game into space.

Since he left the Premier League in 2019 to sign for Alavés, he is the fifth player with the most goals in Spanish football (52), behind Benzema (90), Iago Aspas (58), Gerard Moreno (57) and Leo Messi (55). His experience in competition is more than proven.

In addition, outside of the goalscoring records, his mastery of other situations stands out. He has been the leader in the League in games won per game (8.1), a statistic that has also made him receive many fouls: the ninth in the League that has suffered the most infractions.

The Sevillian goalkeeper of Paris Saint-Germain Sergio Rico has come out of a coma, he is already conscious and communicates with his family and doctors with gestures, after twenty-two days admitted to the ICU of the Virgen del Rocío hospital in Seville after suffering an accident with a horse in the pilgrimage of El Rocío (Huelva).

The soccer player's wife, Alba Silva, pointed this out this Monday after going to visit him and told journalists that “he is taking little steps forward” and that they are already seeing “the light thanks to the hospital and the health personnel “.

He added that the footballer has communicated with gestures and has recognized his family, still unable to speak due to the time he has been intubated, and stressed that “from the beginning I knew he was going to get ahead, because he is a champion”.

The 29-year-old goalkeeper, trained in the Sevilla youth academy, in whose first team he was from the 2014-15 to 2018-19 season, was on Saturday, May 27, called up by the French team for the penultimate game of the French league , who was playing in Strasbourg, where PSG drew 1-1 and became champion of the tournament.

The goalkeeper, after that game, moved to the village of El Rocío, where he had the accident for which he was evacuated on Sunday, May 28, to the Seville hospital, where he has been since then.