“Don’t hesitate, this has only just begun,” he yelled. Busquets, while the Camp Nou finally chanted his name. It says the captain who leaves Barça after 15 years and kissing his ninth League. “Pres…, we are not so bad & rdquor;Xavi then cheered, microphone in hand, paraphrasing Joan Laporta, the president of Barça, who gave him command of the project, just before being blanketed by his players.
The team lost to Real Sociedad (1-2), but that was the least of it because the barcelonism he gathered in his temple, which had one game left to live, to celebrate a League that should be the starting point of the reconstruction. With or without Messi. But Barça, connected like never before with its people (“you’ve been spectacular all year, it’s chicken skin & rdquor;, Xavi said, recalling the mythical phrase of Johan Cruyff), has risen in Spain, but it also needs to rise in Europe.
festive night. So festive that someone, like Koundé, took it prematurely, causing Real Sociedad’s goal. Everything happened in the penultimate night in the old Camp Nou. It started with a respectful corridor from the Basque team, which does not make a drama of something that is as simple as a gesture of admiration for the champion, with the Camp Nou happily chanting the cry that celebrates the title that the club needed so much to have the “stability” to promote the project led by Xavi.
With mateu alemany sitting, again, in the stadium box. As if he had never gone to the Premier. Actually, she didn’t leave. He said that he was leaving and after two weeks he was already knocking on the door of President Joan Laporta’s office. “Aston Villa had an impressive sports project, one of the best coaches in Europe. After a personal reflection my place is here, Barça is one of the best clubs in the world. My place is here& rdquor ;, said the Barca football director to DAZN. In those strange 15 days, Barça did not move from its place; Matthew, yes.
“Presi, we are not so bad & rdquor;
Once the party that served to commemorate that league so valuable where no one (neither Madrid nor Atlético) have been able to keep up with Xavi’s team, the Camp Nou, which touched 90,000 spectators (there were 88,049) became the perfect setting for the culé to display all possible feelings.
First, a minute of silence for a legend. They quietly honored Ferran Olivellathat captain who defended the Barça shirt with an indisputable commitment in those hard years of the journey of the 60s. A minute that served to remember the deceased Inaki Alkizaformer president of the Real, and also to Jaume Amatex-Barça manager.
Silence was the first prologue of the shout against the usual enemy (“Boat, boat, whoever doesn’t boat, is a Madridista,” thousands of people shouted) and then the inevitable journey into nostalgia. At minute 10, the Camp Nou thundered, united by a single name: “¡Messi, Messi, Messi!”. If Leo returns, something that has not yet been finalized, pending the fair play salary, it will no longer be at this stage.
I would return to the Olympic mountain where Barça will have to live rented for at least 18 months. Joy, silence, nostalgia and even a cry that had barely been heard and that he has spent fifteen years displaying his wisdom in the center of the field. But he has had to announce his goodbye so that Barcelona fans pay him the tribute that he deserved for years and years of oblivion, buried by that anonymity that his role conferred on him, others were dazzled by the light given off by Xavi, Iniesta and, of course, Messi.
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Just as he was leaving, his name was finally heard: “¡Busi, Busi, Busiiii…!”. Not even Real’s goal, after a mistake’koundenian‘, altered the mood of the culé, enthusiastic about that League that provides “credibility & rdquor;, as he himself said, to Xavi. When Busquets was replaced for Eric García, the stadium, which is living its last days of existence, trembled with emotion. And that Barça lost then 0-2.
But thousands of culés stood up to say goodbye to the captain, who then went up, after the match, to the box to receive the trophy from Luis Rubiales, the president of the Spanish federation. The protocol rules over football. The cup was collected in the box and not on the field where football is played, with thousands and thousands of culés happily attending the return of honor of a team that has brought joy back to them.