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🚨 Laporta and Font in the running to lead Barça, Ciria misses out
The elections for the presidency of FC Barcelona will be a duel between two. After the validation of signatures, the Electoral Board of FC Barcelona officially announced the presidential candidates for the upcoming elections.
In the end, only former president Joan Laporta and the leader of the Nosaltres candidacy, Victor Font, will take part in the blaugrana elections.
Both candidates secured the necessary support to run on March 15, unlike Marc Ciria. The third contender in the race for the presidency submitted 2,844 signatures on Monday but did not reach the 2,337 valid ones required to run.
Laporta submitted 8,169 signatures on Monday (7,226 valid), while the leader of 'Nosaltres' handed in a total of 5,144 (4,440 approved).
The next step in the electoral process will be the start of the campaign for both candidates tomorrow, Friday, during a period that will last until March 13. The elections will take place two days later.
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Rory McIlroy reveals what he told Shane Lowry the day after his collapse at the Cognizant Classic
Shane Lowry’s collapse at the Cognizant Classic is one that can change the entire trajectory of his season.
With three holes to go, Lowry looked to be cruising to his first individual PGA Tour victory since 2019. He had a three-shot lead and had played all weekend impeccably. Then, disaster struck.
He hit the water with a three iron on 16 on his way to a double bogey, then sliced his tee shot into the water again on the par three 17. The Bear Trap, designed by Jack Nicklaus at PGA National, had claimed another victim.
Lowry lost the tournament by two shots, a five-shot swing over three holes. And how he responds to that will define his season.
No one knows how to rebound from bad results better than his good friend, Rory McIlroy, and the grand slam winner gave Lowry some key advice this week to help the Irishman bounce back.
Rory McIlroy reminded Shane Lowry about his 2014 season
Until last year, 2014 was undoubtedly the best season of McIlroy’s career. He won two majors, had three PGA Tour wins, and won the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth. But it could have gone very differently.
At the then-called Honda Classic at PGA National, McIlroy also fell into the Bear Trap. He blew a two-shot lead on the back nine before losing in a playoff to Russell Henley.
McIlroy rebounded to have an all-time great season, and he reminded Lowry of that in the week. Speaking before the Arnold Palmer Invitational, the Northern Irishman said, “I played golf with him on Monday morning. He was fine. He was in good spirits.
“I reminded him, I double-bogeyed the 16th at PGA National in 2014 to lose the tournament. And I went on to win two majors that year. So I was trying to, yeah, like, look, it’s one event, it was two bad holes, two bad swings.
“It doesn’t mean that the rest of the year’s going to be bad. Again, I had a horrible finish there in 2014 and ended up going on to have one of the best years of my career. So I just reminded him of that.”
It’s exactly what you’d want to hear if you were Lowry, so hopefully it gives him confidence heading into one of the most difficult events of the season at Bay Hill.
Shane Lowry learning from other sportspeople after Cognizant Classic
Lowry spoke about the Cognizant Classic before the Arnold Palmer Invitational, and revealed that he has been getting calls from other sportspeople who have given their own experiences to him.
He said to Chantel McCabe, “It’s been tough, I’m not going to lie. Sunday night, I didn’t sleep at all, really. You go through all the scenarios in your head and the regrets you have, but you know, I’m very fortunate, I’ve got a great support network around me and I had some amazing people reach out to me after the 24 hours after that.
“People I look up to. I got one particular phone call off an Irish sportsperson who I really admire. He was very, very kind to me. I’m friendly with him and I know him pretty well, but to hear other people who have been in that situation, to hear their thoughts on it and learn from it is the biggest thing.
“Obviously, it’s very disappointing. It’s so hard to win on the PGA Tour, and I had a tournament in my hands, and I let it go. I’m going to have regrets over it in the days after that, but that’s where we put ourselves on the PGA Tour, playing on the best tour in the world on the toughest golf courses. I put myself out there, and unfortunately, I didn’t deliver.
“Hopefully, I can keep putting myself out there. I think that’s all I can do. If I keep putting myself there and try to focus on the positives out there. I think I played for a lot of the tournament, some of the best golf my whole career. I felt so in control out there, and one bad swing took it all away from me.
“But it is what it is, and we move on onwards and upwards.”
It’s extraordinary that Lowry has been able to recover mentally from the loss in less than a week, and hopefully, that puts him in good standing for a good result this week.