Covering FC Barcelona as an international journalist is harder than it looks from the outside. The club operates a strict accreditation system, the Catalan sports press has decades-long relationships with the communications team, and access to players and managers happens through a dense network of trusted journalists and broadcasters.
This is where a local fixer becomes essential. We have direct contact with the FC Barcelona press office, work alongside the journalists who cover the club every day, and know how to navigate the rules — both written and unwritten — that govern access. For mixed zone interviews, off-record briefings on transfer windows, or interviews with former club presidents and directors, we open doors that international press cards alone cannot.
Beyond Barça, the same logic applies across the Catalan sports scene: cycling teams give access through known intermediaries, the Federació Catalana d'Atletisme works with trusted local press, and the regional sports federations (handball, basketball, water polo) move through Catalan-language press relationships. Our team includes journalists embedded in this scene.