Don Ball hangs up his boots after 36 years rolling

As if it were a footballer, the oldest magazine currently distributed in our kiosks, Don Ball, has hung up his boots. It has done so after a career that began an October 7, 1975. That day gave birth to a new weekly which soon became a gap between the national sports media, earning the respect and becoming one of the inescapable for any football fan headers on the street. The writer keeps in his particular jumble a bunch of issues of the journal, which has been forced removal as a penalty against that as things stand, it was impossible to stop. It was, for those who love the sport and have grown up with it on the shelf, like one of those places where we would have always wanted to put our passion.

Even the possibility of making monthly survived. "We just communicate Don Ball officially ceases to exist. So much for the road workers. " Thus, and through Twitter , it confirmed the worst predictions. And not just because of the headers disappear most influential in recent years, but because journalism, in this case sports, get a good blow. He joins the increasingly difficult situation facing traditional media in need of some sponsors and income are less and less for the work. The thing is complicated, but perhaps this is only a bye-bye.

And it is considering the possibility that the 'brand' Don Ball is transferred, but for now there is nothing concrete and the thing, if it is finally set, going for long. To the members of the monthly magazine and they should be until this issue is not settled and someone bet on a stamp as unmistakable as linked to the football life, Don Ball will no longer exist. "We do not know what will happen to the brand. We will continue communicating what is happening from Twitter account that is still alive, "added another tweet decision after learning of the publisher.

Remember, beyond metaphor, which was on 7 September when for the first time in 36 years Mr. Ball did not go on sale. The reason for the arrest of its editor, Rogelio Rengel Rengel Mercadé, for alleged illegal diversion of money from the companies that kept linking. Therefore, and as he explained his son, Rogelio Rengel Ros, "is a cause-effect relationship with this event" that prevented Don Ball move forward. Although Rengel Ros himself has said that it plans to launch a new magazine publishing similar but different, the fact is that until then twelve workers swell the unemployment rolls.

Headline my colleague Gabriel Caballero , last September 9, who had pointed a penalty against Don Ball. After fit, has not been forced to hang up his boots prematurely. While it seems his farewell indefinitely, will pull library to see the plays, which are numerous, which has signed over his long career. She missed.

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