A Barça tide in San Mamés and Bilbao
In a sophisticated season for the Barça males’s phase that ended the day before today with the dismissal of Xavi as trainer, the ladies’s crew has been a aid and has introduced the best joys for the entity. No longer just for attaining a triplet of titles—League, Tremendous Cup and Cup—which can also be rounded off with an extraordinary poker in the event that they beat Olympique de Lyon in San Mamés in this sunny and sizzling afternoon, however for what it has intended for the social mass. Some 35,000 culés got here to Bilbao this weekend, the second one biggest mobilization in Barça historical past, handiest at the back of the 45,000 who traveled to Seville to witness the 1986 Champions League ultimate misplaced in opposition to Steaua Bucharest.
The Biscayan capital has been flooded with Barcelona fanatics—the tram and buses have operated with nice issue—to the purpose that this afternoon the attendance report for a Champions League ultimate is predicted to be damaged: the 50,212 spectators there have been. in 2012 on the Olympic Stadium in Munich in Lyon’s victory in opposition to Eintracht. The Barça mobilization contrasts with that of the fanatics in their rival nowadays, the omnipotent Lyon, essentially the most a success membership within the historical past of the Champions League with 8 trophies. In the back of the objective the place Endler is warming up at the moment there are masses of French fanatics dressed in white t-shirts, however the remainder of the stadium is totally dyed in Barça. Virtually as though Barcelona have been taking part in at house.
