There are many culés, thousands, among them the President Joan Laportawho, right now, are thinking that if the regime’s team had won the six professional leagues that are at stake in Spain, the six! Surely that news, that conquest, that sports prodigy and the name of its author would open the Newscastthe newscasts, of all the television channels in the country.
What rounded off last night FC Barcelona, in Jaén, with a tremendous comeback in the final of the futsal championship, since they started losing by a resounding 2-0 and ended up winning by a landslide (2-5) is, let’s say it now, one of the greatest feats of Spanish sport . Barça, ladies and gentlemen (from Madrid), has won, in the same season, the six Leagues that were at stake: soccer, women’s soccer, futsal, basketball, handball and roller hockey.
That has only happened once in a lifetime and the feat was also carried out by the Barça sections although, on that occasion (1998-99), curiously the year of the Culé Centenary, ‘only’ four titles were at stake (soccer, basketball, handball and hockey), since there was no women’s football or futsal. What’s more, if big football, professional football, the Camp Nou tenants hadn’t failed in the 2011-12 and 2020-21 campaigns, Barça would also have won all the titles.
I repeat, if Real Madrid, from whom Barça has snatched three league titles this year (soccer, women’s soccer and basketball) had achieved the ‘six out of six’ that a Barça in ruins has just crowned, indebted up to 1,350 million euros or , if they want to tell the truth, at 2,800 million, well they will soon have the entire Espai Barça (1,450 million), a good part of Spain (the entire capital, of course) would be celebrating and praising the teams of Xavi Hernandez (professional soccer), Jonatan Giraldez (Women’s Football), Jesus Velasco (indoor football), Saras Jasikevicius (basketball), Antonio Carlos Ortega (handball) and edu castro (roller hockey).
Everyone looks at Budó
The terrible thing, the most terrible or symptomatic of this grotesque situation, is that Barça is about to enter its fateful week, the one in which the month ends and the sales start wildly, both in the completion of hundreds of contracts ‘1006’, since many of them will not be renewed and, of course, the one in which those responsible for each section and the good old man will continue to be remembered Xavier BudoDirector of Sports, that they must reduce their budgets by 20%.
The only precedent is also from Barça: 4 out of 4 (soccer, basketball, handball and hockey) in the Culé Centenary season
That means, I insist, in the great year of ‘more than a club’, in the season where greatness is demonstrated, the sporting immensity of Barça, which will not only Nikola Miroticthe great Montenegrin pivot, but it sounds, yes, it sounds, that the best handball player in the world, Gonzalo Perez de Vargas, you can also leave Barça; let’s hope it doesn’t run away Alexia Putellas, the best soccer player in the world; nor does futsal lose a goal if it escapes Ferrao; or hockey, which does lose to Helder Nunesis also left without Pau Bargallo.
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None of this would have to happen, but the economic situation of the entity, which in the two and a half years of Laporta’s government has not reduced the debt by one euro (a fact, whether Mr. eduard romeushocking), seems to indicate and none of the directors have denied it, that the important part of the budget will be destined to reinforce (even more) Xavi’s team and not the sections.
It is evident that there is a certain division in the board, but nobody will dare to raise their voices before Laporta. Budó defends, I won’t say that with blood, sweat and tears, although sometimes it makes him want to cry, that Barça must not lose the multi-sports force that has kept it as the best multi-sports club in the world, but the managers are not the majority who support him, no. And, therefore, in the current context, the sports stars now champions are in danger of having to leave the club or accept serious reductions in their chips.