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Metropolitano Memories: Remembering the Trip of a Lifetime to Watch FC Barcelona Away at Atletico Madrid
08.11.26, 12:06 Updated 08.11.26, 12:07
The Sandersons won the lottery in mid-March, 2025.
As any soci will tell you, there are tense days ahead until the sorteo draw, after applying for the latest opportunity to support FC Barcelona on the road.
While we've missed out on trips to the Bernabeu and to the Metropolitano for the Champions League quarterfinal second leg last term (maybe that was for the better), this time we came up trumps.
For a family of four, it worked out more cost effective to drive from BCN than take the supporters' coach. After leaving our sausage dog at the farm suitably called La Masia, we set off to the Spanish capital hoping to come back with three points.
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has lived in Barcelona since 2019, when he became Forbes' lead reporter on FC Barcelona and Spanish football. He's been The Guardian's most prominent writer on Brazilian football for almost a decade as part of a journey that began in São Paulo. In London, he also became the Daily Mail's first-ever Spanish content writer in its sports department.