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Don Balón Editor-in-Chief Juan Carlos Casas Categories Sport Frequency Weekly First issue 7 October 1975 Company Editorial Don Balón, S.A. Country Spain Based in Barcelona, Spain Language Spanish Website www.donbalon.com Don Balón was a Spanish weekly sports magazine specialising in Spanish and international football. It was distributed on five continents.
The magazine was founded in 1975 by José María Casanovas, a very well known Spanish sport journalist, who had the idea of creating an internationally recognized sport magazine. In the same year he also founded the daily sport newspaper Sport, which focuses on FC Barcelona.
Don Balón was a member of the European Sports Magazines association along with similar publications World Soccer, Kicker, and A Bola.
Don Balón published special magazine supplements every year on La Liga and European competitions. Since 1976 the magazine confered the Premio Don Balón (Don Balón Award) yearly to the best Spanish player, the best foreign player, the best coach, the best referee and the breakthrough player in La Liga.
The magazine disappeared on September 2011 due to the economic crisis and a scandal which brought to the arrest of its editor.
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