BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Espanyol, Barcelona’s other club, is perpetually in the shadow of the almighty Barça.

Its new American owner wants to change that by slowly yet surely working to create a winning mentality.

“That’s the ambition that we have: To change the mentality that we are always, always deserving to win,” Alan Pace said on Tuesday.

It was his first press conference at the team’s stadium since buying Espanyol this summer and becoming its new chairman.

The move came five years after Pace made his first major venture into European soccer when he bought English club Burnley through Velocity Sports Partners, the sports arm of his ALK Capital investment firm.

“I would love for this club as well as any club that I’m associated with to have the ambition to win the Champions Le

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