Busquets after picking up the LaLiga trophy: “This has only just begun” | LaLiga Santander 2022

At the end of the game, the 1-2 defeat against Real Sociedad, the first in the League this season at home, was the least of it. What the more than 88,000 spectators who gathered at the Camp Nou Spotify wanted most was for Sergio Busquets, the captain, to pick up the League title from Luis Rubiales.

To do so, he had to go up to the box while all his companions, including Pedri, Araujo y Gavi, casualties in the duel due to injury, waited expectantly for him to lift the trophy to heaven. When he did, he was accompanied by a burst of glee muffled almost a week ago now in Cornell-El Prat.

When at last Busquets went down to the grass again to raise the cup in front of the fans, he was accompanied by another explosion: that of several confetti cannons with the colors of the sign and the azulgranas of the team. Immediately afterwards, he had to start a round of parliaments in which there was no lack of a special mention for the teammates who started the season as Barcelona fans and who are no longer in the club, as Bellerin, Aubameyang, Depay o Piqu. “First, I want to thank Hector, Auba, Memphis Geri, all the teammates from the subsidiary who have helped us achieve this title and also all the staff who are in the shadows and who are as important as us,” he assured. the captain.

“We wanted to win titles and we have achieved it by being a great team and above all with great fans. Thank you very much for the support because without you it would not have been possible. Finally, do not doubt that this has only just begun. ‘Visca Bara and Visca Catalunya’“, aim to finish one Busquets that he would even end up embedded in the animation stands, microphone in hand, to participate in the chants of encouragement for the club that came out of the stands.

Before, yes, the players jumped to the cry of “Madridista whoever doesn’t bounce” and there were also much less kind references to the eternal rival. Only after a Xavi Hernandez that revealed his taste for some historical quotes, to define them that way, one of his own John Laporta and another of Johan Cruyffwould also deliver his speech.

“Good evening everyone. If you remember, on the day of the Gamper I asked for the union of all Barcelona fans. It’s time to say thank you. First of all, to the president. Presi, “we’re not so bad”. Also, to your board , for supporting this ‘staff’. Secondly, many thanks to all the ‘staff’ and all the players, who have left their skin on the field. And, finally, to tell you that without you this would not be the same The fans. You have been spectacular all season, those from here, those from home and those who came to accompany us in the estuary. It was a ‘chicken skin’. Thank you very much. ‘Visca el Bara and Visca Catalunya'”, he pointed out a Xavi whose name was also widely chanted by the stands.

The ‘we’re not so bad’ The door and the ‘skin chicken’ of Cruyff in the mouth of Xavi They were not, however, the only wink to the past. On the loudspeaker, for a moment, the chords of ‘Long live the life of Coldplay’ also sounded. That song that in times of Pep Guardiola, already winner of his fifth Premier League with City, accompanied a 2009 that saw Bara’s first treble in history and which would also include the Spanish Super Cup, the European Super Cup and the Club World Cup. Will your Bara also deserve to be remembered with its own soundtrack?