Mundo Deportivo Explained

Mundo Deportivo
Type:	National daily sports newspaper
Format:	Tabloid
Owners:	Grupo Godó
Editor:	Santi Nolla
Language:	Spanish
Headquarters:	Barcelona
Sister Newspapers:	La Vanguardia

Mundo Deportivo (pronounced as /es/; meaning Sports World in English) is a Spanish nationwide daily sports newspaper published in Barcelona.

History and profile

Mundo Deportivo was first published on 1 February 1906,^[1] as a weekly newspaper, and since 1929 daily. It is the oldest sports newspaper still published in Spain, and the second one in Europe, after the Italian La Gazzetta dello Sport which was founded in 1896.^[2]

It is published in Barcelona and is owned by Grupo Godó.^[3] The group also owns La Vanguardia.^[3]

Mundo Deportive focuses primarily on the performances of FC Barcelona, but also covers the Spanish basketball league (ACB), Grand Prix motorcycle racing and Formula One car racing, amongst others.

Both Mundo Deportivo and Sport are the predominant sources of sports news in Catalonia.

External links

Official website

Notes and References

Prensa, deporte y cultura de masas. El papel del periodismo especializado en la expansión social del deporte en Cataluña hasta la guerra civil (1890–1936) . Xavier . Pujadas i Martí . Carles . Santacana i Torres . 2 October 2012 . 3 September 2019 . Historia y Comunicación Social . Press, sport and mass culture. The role of specialized journalism in the social growth of sport in Catalonia until the civil war (1890–1936) . 17 . 141–157 . 1137-0734 . 10.5209/rev_HICS.2012.v17.40603 . es . . free . 17 October 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201017225221/https://www.recercat.cat/bitstream/handle/2072/336465/40603-53565-3-PB.pdf?sequence=1 . live .
Web site: International Association of Sports Newspapers (IASN) . Association Members . 3 September 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100325194342/http://www.press-iasn.org/members/members.html . 25 March 2010.
Enric . Castelló . David . Domingo . Spanish media facing new media: a challenge to journalists? . International Journal of Iberian Studies . 1 July 2005 . 18 . 3 . 10.1386/ijis.18.3.181_1 . 181–200 . Intellect.