Barcelona”The extraordinary is that it seems normal”, could be read on the shirt of the first men’s football team after the achievement of the League of the 2019-20 season, the last before the arrival of Xavi Hernández on the bench blaugrana With the coach from Egara on the bench, Barça has won the Football League again this year, a title that has returned much of the excitement to the bulk of the fans and that, added to the rest of the meritorious triumphs of the professional teams in their respective leagues, closes a historic meeting for the Blaugrana entity.
With the third and definitive victory (2-5) of the futsal team this Friday in Jaén in the dispute of play-off for the LNFS title, the Blaugrana institution begins the season with its six professional teams as winners of the main state championships. Despite the fact that the club is in a context of cuts, apart from Xavi’s and Jesús Velasco’s teams, the first women’s team, the basketball team, the handball team and the roller hockey team also emerged champions. In addition, they have all done so creditably and through the fast track.
During the 124 years of history since Joan Gamper founded the club and, subsequently, the rest of the sections were born, this milestone had never been reached since the organization has six professional teams at the same time. This has never been achieved before by any other multi-sport and multi-disciplinary institution. Barça is a multi-sport entity, and under the motto “more than a club” much of its transversal nature is explained. Some of the best athletes in the world have passed through Barça, the organization defends its own style and is also involved with Catalonia.
Barça goes beyond Gamper, Johan Cruyff, Pep Guardiola or Leo Messi, but they, among so many others, give meaning to the history and achievements of the entity. In the same way that it is now written by names such as Alexia Putellas, Aitana Bonmatí, Sarunas Jasikevicius, Sergio Lozano, Aleix Gómez or Sergi Panadero. They are just some of the champions and references to their respective teams this successful season.
The multisport spirit of Barça
More than two decades ago, in 1999, Barça celebrated its centenary with its four professional teams proclaiming themselves League champions: men’s football, basketball, handball and roller hockey. Since then, futsal and women’s soccer have been added. In the 2011-12 season, the women’s football team achieved its first League and that year, if the first men’s team had emerged as champions (it was Real Madrid), this milestone would have already been reached. Now, however, all the teams have done their job and Barça already has 125 leagues.
As for men’s football, in the first full season with Xavi on the bench, the team won the championship with four games to go and with a 10-point margin over second-placed Real Madrid. The same has happened with the team led by Jonatan Giráldez. As for handball, Barça continues to demonstrate its hegemony year after year. With a difference of 18 points, Antonio Ortega’s have now won thirteen consecutive Asobal leagues.
In one week, the roller hockey team was proclaimed champion by convincingly overcoming (3-0) the series against Liceo, while Nikola Mirotic said goodbye to Barça with an exhibition in the final against Real Madrid, also in one play-off for the title in which the whites were unable to win any game against them (3-0). Finally, futsal has completed this historic milestone. Barça is unique and to find other similar entities on the European continent, you have to go to Portugal. Benfica, a team from the capital, Lisbon, adds up to 110 leagues bringing together all the institution’s teams. It is followed by its great rival, FC Porto, with 91. Still far from Barça’s 125.
2023-06-23 21:12:49
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