Barcelona has invited nearly 2,000 people to the club’s 125th anniversary party, which takes place today, November 29, at the Gran Teatre del Liceu. The gala, which will start promptly at 7:30 p.m., will be hosted by presenters Sandra Sabatés (La Sexta) and Llorenç Tarrés (Barça One). “It will be a chronological gala that will review the history of the club. There will also be comedians who will help us give it a funny touch. Not everything will be romanticism,” explained Toni Cruz, a television producer who designed the gala.
“It will be a chronological gala that will review the history of the club.”
The big celebration of the anniversary will feature the presence of the four former presidents of the club and other important personalities in Barcelona’s history. Barça invited Joan Gaspart (2000-03), Enric Reyna (2003), Sandro Rosell (2010-14) and Josep Maria Bartomeu (2014-20), who have confirmed their attendance. They will sit but will not go on stage. And President Joan Laporta will welcome him and then take his place,” Cruz added.
The club extended the invitation by letter to all current professional teams and former Champions League winners. But not everyone will attend. The well-known absence of Leo Messi is joined by ex-Azulgranas Jordi Alba, Luis Suárez and Sergio Busquets, who also live in Miami. Neither will the captain of that team, Carles Puyol, who is fulfilling professional commitments in Peru, nor Andrés Iniesta, who this week is taking the mandatory attendance coaching course in Dubai.
Barça never said that Messi would come. If he had come he would have been a gala spectator and would have gone up to give a message. But he left us a video.”
Yes, there will be a video message from Messi, Iniesta and Puyol. Also from Pep Guardiola. “Barça never said that Messi would come. “If he had come, he would have been a gala spectator and he would have gone up to give a message,” Cruz said. And he added that the Argentine “has sent us a video. There will also be another one from Guardiola who has been on the verge of coming but Manchester City plays tomorrow and in the end he won’t be there,” Cruz said.
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The list of confirmed former coaches includes Rijkaard, Ronald Koeman, Xavi Hernández and Carles Rexach. Neither the aforementioned Pep Guardiola nor Ernesto Valverde will be there. Yes, Ferran Soriano and Txiki Begiristain will attend, as well as Jordi Cruyff as well as a large number of former players, including members of the Dream Team such as Bakero or Stoichkov and athletes from various eras such as Piqué, Márquez, Kluivert, Belletti, Migueli and Asensi.
All the club’s professional teams will also attend. In the case of men’s football, which plays tomorrow against Las Palmas, they will rest at home and will all go to the gala together. The women’s team will also be there. But the notable absence will be that of Aitana Bonmatí, who the RFEF has not given permission to be absent for a few hours from the concentration of the Spanish team that tomorrow plays a friendly against South Korea.
Politicians, former presidents and artists
Representatives of Catalan public institutions such as Josep Rull, president of the Parliament of Catalonia, and Jaume Collboni, mayor of Barcelona, also met at the Liceu. The former presidents of the Generalitat Jordi Pujol, Artur Mas, Joaquim Torra and Pere Aragonès have also confirmed their attendance.
As for the world of culture and art, Miquel Barceló, author of the 125th anniversary poster, will also attend the gala, along with the writer Albert Espinosa, the members of La Trinca Toni Cruz, Josep M. Mainat and Miquel Àngel Pasqual , the actor Daniel Brühl and the singer José María Sanz, Loquillo, among many others.
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On stage there will be up to two surprise musical performances, a lot of humor will be breathed by Pep Plaza, Toni Albà and Jordi Ríos, and the candles on a birthday cake created by maestro Christian Escribà will be blown out. The three finalist anthems to become the official song of the club’s 125th anniversary will also be heard: L’escut al pit, A sentiment, and From bressol to l’infinit.
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