There are many ways to celebrate that Barça lives and continues to beat strong and they are all valid. Server did it with three culé friends at Bar Gol in the Sant Antoni neighborhood of Barcelona. We meet for lunch and we share snails, chickpeas with pig’s ear, sausage, tripe, cap i pota and other non-vegetarian delicacies washed down with beer and wine afterwards. We talked about the Broncano-Motos fight (we are from Broncano), the rise of the extreme right, both in parties at home and abroad, about our respective jobs and, once we had exhausted the usual black humor jokes between colleagues not suitable for In this column, we got down to business and started talking about serious matters, that is, about Barça. In reality, what we said to each other is not so important (we always say the same thing, with small variations and not exactly the Goldbergs) but the fact that it was the team that we have been part of since we were little that brought us together again, yesterday with the excuse for his birthday.
At the end, and after having a couple of traditional desserts (Crème Catalan and gypsy arm), we toasted Barça and gave up shots because we are hard-working people. I, for example, had to follow the gala at the Teatre del Liceu. Raül, one of my friends, dropped an inspiring phrase before saying goodbye: “Barça tends to self-destruct but it is indestructible.”
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The phrase of the day was given to me at a meal: “Barça tends to self-destruct but it is indestructible”
My contribution to this reflection, so as not to be destructive, has been to start this article talking about a culés meal like any other, prolonging the drink of addressing the comment about the gala as much as possible. Yes, I admit that I liked my meal at the Bar Gol more than the gala at the Liceu, but I will hold back in my criticism because the winner of the years is Barça and the club is the least guilty of the parties they organize for it. The one at the Liceu was too small in too many ways, perhaps because we imagined it (that’s what we were promised a few times) coinciding with the return to the new Camp Nou, filling it with members and fans, the vast majority of whom were excluded from last night’s party. . It is no coincidence that the most emotional moment of the gala, monopolized by Joan Laporta with excessive prominence, personal rather than institutional, was the interpretation of the songs From bressol to l’infinit , L’escut to the pit Yo a feeling from the stage to represent, beyond the musical tastes of each one, a genuine example of Barcelona fandom. The short film was also up to par. Volem the pilot, impeccably crafted piece with a vocation for modernity, inspired by David Carabén’s manifesto.
The former president of the Generalitat Artur Mas, between Joan Laporta and Sandro Rosell
Of course, the presence of Messi, Guardiola and Puyol was missed, who, due to their different ways of being, embody the transversality of Barça on a football field. Messi the genius, Guardiola the reason and Puyol the passion. The three sent their videos, an administrative gesture that denotes distance, although Guardiola worked on his, showing that he was singing the song Anniversary from the Manel group.
The short film ‘Volem la pilota’, signed by Leigh Powis, was the best of the gala
I, like all the Barcelona fans I know, would have liked to see them at the Liceu. But it was even worse to find out about the absence of Evarist Murtra, an example of an enlightened Barcelona fan responsible for giving advice as valuable as the hiring of Guardiola as coach or the brilliant initiative of printing the name of Unicef on the chest of the shirt, contributions that changed the history of the club whose anniversary was being celebrated. “When in doubt, always think what is best for Barça,” Murtra, 75, always says, and if he did not come to the gala it is because he was not even invited.
Luckily, Barça is indestructible.
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