The Movistar LaLiga Stadium experience arrives in Barcelona

Carles Puyol will visit the interactive installation on January 28 to share his legacy with attendees

23 january of 2025 at 09:43h

A digital game to take penalties with real players, a studio to temporarily tattoo shields and names of soccer stars and teams, and contests to win tickets and official jerseys. These are some of the experiences offered by the traveling exhibition Estadio Movistar LaLiga, which lands at the Movistar Center in Plaza Catalunya until next Saturday, February 1, in a technological and interactive experience.

The proposal will do so by merging football and technology, with activities and games and after having toured various Spanish cities during this season and the previous one, in which it already passed through the Catalan capital.

Games and raffles for football lovers

The space is open to the publicfor freebetween 9:30 a.m. and 9 p.m. until Saturday, February 1. In it, fans will be able to test themselves with a game of questions and answers about plays, celebrations, and tactical outcomes from different LaLiga seasons.

In addition, visitors to the experience will be able to simulate taking penalties with the digital version of their favorite players. To shoot penalties, the virtual players will do so with a particularity: they will do so based on real data about the footballer, which will allow anticipating details such as which side of the goal they will kick the ball to.

Through these games, visitors to the space will be able to opt for various prizes, and will also be able to participate in ticket raffles. These will be to see the match between RCD Espanyol and Athletic Club, or the one played by FC Barcelona and Rayo Vallecano. Both matches will take place next Sunday, February 16, in the stadiums of the teams from the Catalan capital.

In addition to raffling tickets, official team jerseys will also be raffled at Estadio Movistar LaLiga. Furthermore, some of them will be more than just an official jersey, as they will come signed by the players.

Estadio Movistar LaLiga allows temporary tattoos of team and player names.

Carles Puyol and other footballers in the Estadio Movistar LaLiga experience

As a main attraction, the Estadio Movistar LaLiga exhibitionwill receive a visit from Carles Puyol on Tuesday, January 28, at 5:30 p.m.. The iconic former Barça player will share his legacy and experience with visitors to the space.

Puyol, however, will not be the only footballer to visit the exhibition: RCD Espanyol players Joan García and Omar El Hilali participated in the inauguration of the space.

The experience opened its doors on Tuesday, at an event where the two Espanyol players signed autographs. Visitors, in addition to meeting both footballers, were able to try out the games and experiences, in an opening that caused queues at the entrance of the Movistar Center in the Catalan capital.

Joan García and Omar El Hilali signing autographs at Estadio Movistar LaLiga.

An itinerant experience that tours Spain

The itinerant experience returns to Barcelona afterthe past season attracted more than 33,000 visitors throughout Spain.The proposal arrived in Barcelona to offer football fans experiences through technology precisely at the end of January, which is why in this second edition it repeats dates in the Catalan capital.

Cities of the Movistar LaLiga Stadium experience

On this tour, the technological exhibition will visit a total of 18 cities through its Movistar stores. After its stop in Barcelona, it will continue through Córdoba, Getafe, Miranda de Ebro, Málaga, Seville, Vitoria, Valladolid, Zaragoza, and Bilbao.

This new tour, which has already visited more than a dozen cities, began at the Movistar Space on Gran Vía in Madrid, the new flagship reopened in September with the aim of becoming a unique space to offer technology, entertainment, and the legacy of Telefónica, which this year celebrates its centenary as a company.