{"id":44233,"date":"2026-02-17T19:32:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=44233"},"modified":"2026-02-17T19:32:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:02:25","slug":"some-people-absolutely-do-not-want-us-to-win-la-liga-joan-laporta-explodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/la-liga\/some-people-absolutely-do-not-want-us-to-win-la-liga-joan-laporta-explodes\/","title":{"rendered":"Some people absolutely do not want us to win La Liga: Joan Laporta explodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FC Barcelona president Joan Laporta has made a strong and emotional statement, claiming that there are people who do not want the Catalan giants to succeed, not only for sporting reasons but also for \u201cnon-sporting\u201d motives.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after Barcelona lifted the Spanish Super Cup, Laporta expressed full confidence in head coach Hansi Flick and the atmosphere inside the dressing room, insisting that the club remains mentally prepared to fight for the La Liga title despite recent challenges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are people who absolutely do not want us to win, not only from a sporting point of view, but also for non-sporting reasons,\u201d Laporta said. \u201cI know Hansi Flick, Deco, and the atmosphere in the locker room, and I am sure we will win La Liga.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona have endured a mixed run of form in recent weeks, raising doubts over their consistency in domestic competition. However, Laporta believes that Barca are in the right direction under Hansi Flick and will continue fighting for trophies just like they did last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FC Barcelona president Joan Laporta has made a strong and emotional statement, claiming that there are people who do not\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":44234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4651],"tags":[681,661,1823,3796,3774,564,2027,3738,3789,4804,227,3356],"class_list":["post-44233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-la-liga","tag-barca","tag-barcelona","tag-fabrizio-romano","tag-football","tag-girona","tag-hansi-flick","tag-joan-laporta","tag-lamine-yamal","tag-laporta","tag-latest-football-news","tag-president","tag-raphinha"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44235,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44233\/revisions\/44235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}