Joaquim Maria Puyal has received the Gold Medal for Sports Merit of the Barcelona City Council for his professional career of more than 50 years with the sport, especially for his role as a pioneer in the radio broadcasts of soccer matches in Catalan, since 1976 and always following FC Barcelona.

Puyal, recognised by Mayor Ada Colau as a “referent of journalism in the city”, thanked the acknowledgment at an event held at the Hall of Cent of Barcelona City Council, in which has pronounced a few words in support of the political prisoner Quim Forn, one of the followers of the journalist who wrote a letter full of feeling when he retired from the transmissions last summer.

In the photo with Josep Vives,  who, like me, has been a member of the football broadcasting team in Catalunya Ràdio and admires Puyal. In fact, for all the people that have been part of his team he always will be the master.