The glassy building once home to a literary vision in a League district has long shed its translucent veil. It now presents an opaque wall, yet it still gathers voices from the world of ideas. Think of authors such as Jose Saramago, Rosa Montero, Laura Restrepo, Javier Marías, and Arturo Pérez-Reverte, whose works have become touchstones for readers and thinkers alike.
With Alfaguara dedicated to publishing literature, Santillana designed that building as a sanctuary for imagination. The exterior and interior are layered with tributes to thought and to creators who shaped languages and cultures, in Spanish and many other tongues.
nice one year hobby
The author spent years immersed in a vibrant cadence of reading incentives, a childhood routine that eventually drew him toward journalism. The literary world grew broader, and so did the reach of stories across sports, politics, and daily life. Today, the backdrop of LaLiga, once a stage for football’s grand narratives, stands as a hub where sport and storytelling intersect in full view.
It is as if someone whispered encouragement to the writer while he stood in a glass-walled space, watching the movement of a road toward Madrid airport. The moment felt like a nod to thinking aloud, a quiet invitation to invent new ways of seeing the game and the culture surrounding it.
Football could be one of the fine arts if given room to grow.
Football could become one of the fine arts if its stage were patient enough to welcome poetry and prose. In this narrative, sport becomes a fountain of inspiration, where writers shape the game as much as athletes do. Journalists write with a sense of myth, crafting sentences with the precision of a master, while on-field displays of skill echo the graceful arcs of great pirouettes by players like Pelé, Di Stéfano, and Lionel Messi. These moments have fed generations of creators who document and reimagine football’s evolving history.
Yet the metaphor of closeness to football’s old soul remains in tension with the present. LaLiga now appears guarded behind an opaque pane, where the joy of narrating football as passion, tragedy, and comedy competes with a harsher tone that some call the result of ongoing conflicts and criticism. The sport still lives, but the management and governance—frustrated and tired—are often seen as disconnected from the exhilaration that fans crave, a contrast to football’s competitive spirit in other leagues.
LaLiga is locked in opaque glass, missing the chance to celebrate football as a living blend of passion, tragedy, and comedy.
a humanistic dimension
Spanish football deserves a renewed line of thought, one that leans into risk and artistic focus. The aim is to bring a human dimension to the public’s encounter with football players who should expand their vocabulary through the written word and reading. It invites a culture of openness instead of the silence that often accompanies rigid rules laid down by those at the top.
Recent episodes have shown leaders from LaLiga and the Football Federation letting harsh or belligerent language slip into public spaces. What reaches the microphones or sits in offices shapes the field’s perception, as if the arena itself inherits a mind that may drift from the sport’s true spirit.
Football deserves a new mode of storytelling from those who steer its course, so fans do not feel a sense of meaninglessness or neglect. If centers for learning and culture are prioritized, the game can redefine itself, and even football leadership may learn to approach the sport with a renewed sense of responsibility and care.