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Julian García Candau

Nation in Vila-real (Castelló). Journalist

He was head of Sports for “Ya”. Head of Sports, Editor-in-Chief and parliamentary columnist of “El País”. Sports Director of Spanish Television. Sports Director of the EFE Agency. Director of the newspaper “AS”. Currently he is a collaborator of “Levante”.

Books: “Santana”, “Lawless football”, “History of the World Cups”, “Madrid-Barça – History of a heartbreak”, “The morals of Alcoyano”, “Bernabéu, the president”, “Jealousy, love and death. Tragedies and passions of bullfighting” and “Sport in the Civil War”. This book won the Critics’ Prize in Valencia on April 26, 2008.

He has collaborated in the Espasa Encyclopedia and in several books by various authors, including “History of entertainment in Spain” and “Specialized journalism”. Currently he is the only active journalist who reported on the victory of the Spanish soccer team in the European Cup in 1964. Subsequently, he attended those in 1968, 1980 and 2004.

He has been a match reporter for the Spanish soccer team since 1963. He is the sports journalist who has dedicated the most chronicles to the national team.

He has been a special envoy in the World Championships in Germany-74, Argentina-78, Spain-82, Mexico-86, Italy-90, United States-94, France-1998 and Germany 2006.

He has directed summer courses at the Menéndez y Pelayo University in Santander and Juan Carlos I in Ronda, on sports issues.

He has given lectures on sports, Olympics and sports language at various Spanish universities. He was part of the Press Commission of the International Olympic Committee for five years.

In 1975 he was awarded the Promosport Award in San Sebastián.

In 1989, he received the Journalist of the Year Award from “El Mundo Deportivo” in Barcelona.

In 1992 he was awarded the Víctor de la Serna award from the Madrid Press Association. He is the only sports journalist who owns it.

In 2006, he was awarded the silver medal for Sports Merit. He was also awarded the Baron de Coubertin Medal awarded by the International Olympic Committee.