Yesterday marked the first meeting of the season between Spain’s soccer powerhouses, Real Madrid and Barcelona. Any match between the two sides is billed as “El Classico” and their intense rivalry draws an incredible amount of coverage in the Spanish media, no more so than in print.
To many American sports fans there is not a whole lot you can say about games that frequently end with a score of 1-0. Yet sportswriters in Spain for years have been able to use up gallons of ink on the latest news from the world of soccer and other sports.
Spain has four newspapers, AS, Marca, Sport and El Mundo Deportivo, that focus exclusively on sports – an amazing amount considering that many a nation has nary a sporting quotidian to its name. The United States had a short-lived sports daily, The National, in the early 1990s.
Italy, France and several other European countries have sports dailies, but nothing that can compete with Spanish market. Earlier in the year the Economist noted how the steady decline of print media has not had an effect on the Spain’s sports dailies, in fact business has never been better.
Barcelona and Real Madrid tied last night 2-2.
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