Don Balón

Don was a Balón From 7 October 1975 to September 2011 in Barcelona, ​​Spain by Don Balón SA weekly published, internationally respected football magazine. Don Balón also had a separate output for Chile. Founder was Josep Maria Casanovas (also José María ~ ), previously among other journalist at Mundo Deportivo and also also chief editor of FC Barcelona precious fanzine sport, which he founded in 1979 - both from Barcelona. Don Balón in 1989 a member of European Sports Magazines, later the European Sports Magazines, an association of leading European sports magazines such as kicker, A Bola and World Soccer.

Don Balón also published several special editions such as Todofútbol, Extra: League, Extra: Copas Europeas - and in South America in several years for the Copa Libertadores. Since 1976, the magazine awarded the prestigious Premios Don Balón for the best Spanish players, the best foreign players and the best coaches in the Spanish Primera División. Between 1984 and 1997, Don Balón also awarded the Premios Literarios Don Balón for various contributions to the sport literature, essays, and novels as well as poetry.

On September 6, 2011, the immediate cessation of the magazine was announced. Reasons were sustained economic bottlenecks, and ultimately the arrest of the chief editor Rogelio Rengel Mercadé for embezzlement.

Bequellung

• Javier Martín: Don Balón se Acerca al cierre tras 36 años en los ininterrumpidos quioscos, elEconomista.es, September 7, 2011
• Cierra la revista Don Balón, Mundo Deportivo, Barcelona, ​​September 22, 2011

• Magazine (Spain )
• Magazine (Chile)
• Football magazine
• Media ( Barcelona)
• First publication in 1975