Podcast Districte Esportiu

Every Monday evening, Sants 3 Ràdio turns its attention to the sport happening within walking distance of the studio. The district is Sants-Montjuïc, in Barcelona, and the show treats its clubs as the main event rather than an afterthought. Voices rotate through the show — Jan Gómez, Cristina Sebastian, Irene Latorre, Nil Piera, Pau Massana and Adrià Fernández are among them — and the structure is announced as it goes. The basketball folder opens. Then it closes and another begins. Basketball, water polo and the district's other sides all get their turn, and the handoffs between presenters are part of the rhythm. Results lead. A side led by 13 points with ten minutes remaining, then conceded a 16-31 run and lost 80-82 to the league leader. A water polo match ended 7-7 and was settled 10-9 on penalties, with the deciding goals credited to named players. A basketball team lost by the narrowest margin after a poor opening quarter, though almost every player scored. Another dropped a fourth straight defeat with bad shooting numbers to explain it. The program does not soften these; it reads them out and moves on. Coach voices are a fixture. Sergi Pla breaks down a game decided by a single point across three quarters. Mariana Díaz had set a top-three finish as a target, and the show tracks whether that target is being met. One coach explains, half apologetically, how he ended up back in charge of a senior squad he had planned to step away from. Women's teams are covered as a matter of course, and the presenters state plainly that new sides keep being added because neighbourhood sport belongs to everyone. Language is Catalan, casual and serviceable, with practical framing: what happened, why it matters, what comes next. There is live match narration and immediate postgame reaction. There are also rough edges, overlapping talk and short detours into club logistics, all of which mark it as broadcast rather than assembled. The closing minutes thank sound technicians Pau Gatell and Olaguer Forcades and route listeners to the station's other sports programming, including live coverage of Unió Esportiva de Sants. Nearly 465 episodes deep, the show is less a highlights package than an archive of a district's weekends. For anyone in Sants-Montjuïc, it is the only place these results get said out loud.