Heavy snowfalls have pounded northeastern Spain, knocking out power for about 220 thousand users, cancelling flights and forcing the closure of schools in Barcelona and the surrounding areas, officials say.

The spokesman of the National Coordinator of the consultations, Carlos Mora reported that “The 94,88% of the poll on Sunday on the independence of Catalonia voted ‘yes’ and 3.21% said ‘no’ and there was a 0, 37% of invalid votes.

In an historic event, 166 villages from 29 districts, 700 thousand registered voters can go to the voting boxes in a referendum to decide if they agree that “Catalonia will become a country ruled by laws, independent, democratic and integrated into the European Union’.

The National team’s coach, Diego Armando Maradona, released the squad for the friendly to be played on Dec. 22 against Catalonia in Barcelona.

A Spanish court punished with up to six years imprisonment six players on the football team ‘Bada Bing’, of the Catalonian regional third division, for a racist attack on rivals Rosario Central, made up of Argentines and Uruguayans.

Lionel Messi has signed a new and improved long-term contract with Barcelona.

In Catalonia, a French driver, about 50 years was going the wrong way on AP-7 highway for some 10 km until he was finally arrested by the police.

Spain’s state television sacked its head of sports coverage on Thursday, saying it was a mistake not to have shown a football crowd from Catalonia and the Basque Country booing the Spanish national anthem during the country’s Cup final.