Barcelona appointed Pep Guardiola, a former captain and player at Barcelona , at Barcelonas golden boys under manager Johan Cruyffs team. That had famous footballers such as Romario, Stoichkov, Michael Ladrup, Ronald Koeman and Nadal.As he was only 38 yeaars old and did not have any senior experience as a manager many eyebrows were raised as Barcelona sacked Frank Raijkaard, a manager who brought two Spanish titles and the 2006 champion league tile with a win over Arsenal. Barcelona has played in every champion league for the 59 years and the only club to do it.
The first t5hing Guardiola did was to unload Ronaldhino to A.C. Milan and Deco to Chelsea. And he then brought in Danny Alaves,Seydou Keita, both from Seville for a sum of 44 million euros. He also brought Gerrard Pique from Manchester United for a undisclosed ammount.
He was given one task to break Real madrids strangulation hold in the Spanish Liga.
And they did it in style , and have already won two cups in a week and are now on a treshold of making history by winning the treble, with beating Manchester United on May 27th in Rome. In the 59 history of the champion league no club ever has retained the Champion League, so Barcelona have a very good chance if history repeats itself again.The bigest win was a 6-2 win over RealMadrid and 2-0 in the first leg.
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