Barcelona football club celebrated today, Saturday, the exciting historic victory that the team achieved against its traditional stubborn rival Real Madrid at its stadium 11 years ago. This victory plays a prominent role in the Catalan club achieving its historic three-game in the 2008/2009 season.
Barcelona said on its website that today, Saturday, is the eleventh anniversary of the great and exciting 6/2 victory over the Real in his home stadium in the "Santiago Bernabeu" stadium, which was achieved on May 2, 2009 to put the Catalan team on the path to achieving the historic tripartite (League, Spain Cup and Champions League) Europe).
"Barcelona and Real Madrid met on this day 11 years ago at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium," the site said, noting that the match will still be in the memory of FC Barcelona.
"The away team, led by coach Josep Guardiola, played the match at the top of the La Liga table, four points ahead of its biggest opponent, Real Madrid. Barcelona booked their place in the King's Cup final and were just 90 minutes away from qualifying for the Champions League final. The El Clásico match (against Real) was an opportunity to prepare the team for a possible historic triple. "
This match is always a model of the wonderful ball presented by Barcelona at that time, although the match did not start well for the team, as Argentine striker Gonzalo Higuain advanced to Real early with a goal.
Despite this, Barcelona turned the result in his favor within five minutes after the Real progressed thanks to two goals scored by French Thierry Henry and Carl Puyol before the team achieved the great victory. Since that day, Barcelona have won seven of their 11 matches at Real Madrid.
The same game saw Barcelona defender Gerard Pique score his first goal for the Catalan team and was the team's last sixth goal in the 82nd minute of the match.
Barcelona pointed out that the victory led thousands of Barcelona fans to take to the streets to celebrate, just four days later the team booked their seat in the Champions League final.
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in the same season, Barcelona defeated Athletic Bilbao 4/1 in the King's Cup final, then won its nineteenth title in the Spanish League before completing the historical triple victory over Manchester United English 2 / zero in the Champions League final at the Olympic Stadium in the Italian capital Rome. It was the first time that Barcelona had scored this triple in one season.