The multi-sports vocation of barca it is well known. The quality of its sections is sufficiently contrasted. And the unanimous, common success of all of them, the professionals, brand a milestone in the history of world sport. Other clubs such as Galatasaray from Turkey or Benfica from Portugal are distinguished by the different disciplines they host, but they do not have the international dimension of Barça, which has a total of 46 European Cups between the six sections that this year they can culminate with the six Spanish leagues.
The achievement of this 2023, with the club cutting budgets due to the debt it carries from its former leaders, exceeds that of 1999, and of which commemorative t-shirts were made, when he joined in the year of the centenary four leagues: soccer, basketball, handball and roller hockey. It’s already six. Women’s football and futsal have joined the winning bandwagon. Each team and each championship had its history.
football smiles again
The first football team is the locomotive of the club and its results mark the pulse of Barcelona fans. He went from being very weak, in October, eliminated from the Champions League for the second time and defeated at the Bernabéu, to beat strengthened as soon as the year began with the Spanish Super Cup through a football lesson about the great rival that made him so self-conscious.
Xavi’s team passed with authority –it was not a walk, but a steady brisk walk– until reaching a dissuasive advantage of 15 points which was cut as soon as the alirón was sung. With the greatness of a magnificent champion, beating Espanyol in their stadium. Protected by the security of Ter Stegen (the Zamora trophy) and the effectiveness of Robert Lewandowski (the Pichichi trophy), Barça closed the League four years in advance after the last one (2019) with Ernesto Valverde.
League and Champions without Alexia
More incontestable was that of the female version, overwhelming as was the march of the section, since the title was the fourth consecutive notch. With 28 victories in 30 days (the draw and the defeat came with the work completed), the team was able to prepare for the great challenge: the reconquest of the Champions League. And it didn’t fail either. The treble was frustrated by the bureaucratic elimination of the Cup, when the overwhelming victory over Osasuna (0-9) was nullified by the improper alignment of Geyse.
Without Alexia Putellas, injured, Jonatan Giráldez’s Barça played all year. The absence was not accused in a team that works like clockwork (118 goals for, 10 against) and that conquered the Eindhoven final with the honor and the claw that he had not needed until then when he came back from 0-2 at halftime.
A team without rival (only Magdeburg)
Mirotic’s best farewell
If handball was comparable to women’s football due to its dominance, basketball is similar to men’s football due to the presence and grace of Real Madrid compared to Barça. The resounding 3-0 over the white quintet, with the last victory at home, has eased the pain of the section, which began in the defeat of the semifinal in the Euroleague and continued with the outburst of the march of Nikola Mirotic, the most expensive tile in the section as it represents almost a third of its budget.
With the doubts of a section threatened with cuts, and the epic that is so generously granted to Madrid, the group Sarunas Jasikevicius (the only foreign coach compared to the other five Catalans), has won a magnificent series, well prepared and better executed until it led to the happy ending: Mirotic raising the trophy, proclaiming his Barcelona support and thanking the fans for their love.
Treble with another brilliant 3-0
The most successful section, with 22 European Cups, double that of handball (11), has once again kissed the league champion trophy, reconquering the title. The ninth of the last 10 years, the 33rd of the discipline. Thus added another triplet, the fifth, since Barça had previously pocketed the Copa del Rey and the Spanish Super Cup.
finished set of edu castro the regular league as undefeated leader and consummated a full of victories in the playoffs for the title. He had won the first two matches against the Liceo (5-1 and 4-1) and finished off the Galician side at his home in A Coruña with another wide victory (3-6). Same as basketball: an incontestable 3-0 away from home.
The auction of futsal in Jaén
The team of Jesús Velasco flew with the 2-0 of Palau factor (3-2 and 5-2) to Jaén, a comfortable advantage but a difficult track, that of the applicant, who was playing his first final against a Barça that appeared in the sixth of the last seven. The League title encloses as an added prize qualifying for the Champions League, meaning “save the season”, recognized the coach before leaving.
And Barça fulfilled its mission, which began its appointment this Friday with difficulties, with two goals against that put their victory uphill (2-5). The Barcelona team, however, reacted big with a spectacular second part. the goals of Sergio González, Dyego, Matheus, Ferrao and Catela they sealed the historic plenary session of the club.