📹 Rafael Louzán: “We want everyone to be able to share in a collective success, such as the trophy won by Spain at the last @FIFAWorldCup.” 🏆🇪🇸 The president of the @rfef has opened the Kings of the World exhibition at Barcelona’s Casa de la Ciutat. https://t.co/i5EuvE7XoL

— RFEF (@rfef) November 2, 2026

Since Monday, the Gothic Courtyard of Barcelona’s Casa de la Ciutat has served as an emblematic home for the trophy awarded to the world champions, which will be making a stop in the Catalan capital this week.

Barcelona City Hall hosted the official opening of the Kings of the World exhibition, which has already welcomed more than 80,000 visitors at various locations across Spain. From Wednesday, it will also be on display at the Catalan Football Federation’s facilities.

The RFEF president, Rafael Louzán; Barcelona mayor, Jaume Collboni; Catalan Government Minister for Sport, Berni Álvarez; and Catalan Football Federation president, Joan Soteras, delivered speeches ahead of the exhibition’s opening to the public. Alongside the trophy won by Spain last July, the exhibition features some of the most treasured memorabilia and items from the historic tournament.

Speaking at Monday’s event in Plaça de Sant Jaume, Louzán thanked Barcelona’s mayor “for opening the doors of this emblematic building and this city’s square to us, so that everyone can share in a collective success for Barcelona and for all of Catalonia too, namely the World Cup.”

The RFEF president recalled that “we are already counting down to the next World Cup in 2030, and we have the foundations in place to lift this trophy again”, describing Spain’s role in organising the centenary World Cup as “a challenge” and “a genuine national project” that must demonstrate the country’s great capacity to organise major events.

For his part, Barcelona mayor Jaume Collboni expressed his gratitude to the RFEF president “for bringing this hugely important sporting symbol to the heart of Barcelona, a city that celebrated becoming world champions alongside fans from across our country.”

The same sense of joy was shared by Berni Álvarez, Minister for Sport of the Catalan Government, who said: “It is an enormous thrill to see the World Cup trophy here, and to think that it could be here again in 2030. We will work hard to make that happen.”

With nine Catalonia-born footballers among the reigning world champions, the region is the most represented in the squad. This achievement reflects “the work carried out in grassroots sport in this region by so many people at so many clubs”, according to Catalan Football Federation president Joan Soteras, who described the occasion as “a day to feel proud of everything Catalan football contributes to the sport”.

The speeches also included an emotional tribute to the victims of the rail accident that took place last week in the province of Toledo, with calls for “love and comfort for the families who have lost their loved ones”. The RFEF president said: “We stand with the families of those who died, and we must move forward together, because football owes a great deal to Spanish society.”