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The life of

Sergi Barjuan

(Les Franqueses del Vallès, Barcelona, ​​December 28, 1971) in the

Barça

first team

seems called to be marked by

Dutch coaches

. In

November 1993

,

Johan Cruyff

made him debut in nothing more and nothing less than in the

Champions League

, in a field as complicated as

Ali Sami Yen in Istanbul

. In the

summer of 2002

, when he did not enter into the plans of a

Louis van Gaal

who was going to face a disastrous second stage on the Barça bench, he left the club with the

letter of freedom

under his arm to join an

Atlético

in which, three years later, he would hang up his boots. And, now, he arrives, provisionally, on the

Camp Nou

bench

to replace a

Ronald Koeman

with whom he shared a dressing room for two seasons.

His experience as a footballer at Barça was not exactly a raft of oil. In strictly sports, he lived, in the first person, moments of triumph and convulsive episodes. The year of his debut with the first team, he was chosen as

a revelation player in the First Division

, managed to enter

Javier Clemente's

call

to play for the Spanish team in the

United States World Cup

and had a lot of prominence in what would be the fourth

consecutive league

won with Cruyff leading the team. On the other hand, in that same first season, he also experienced the humiliating defeat of the Catalans against Milan in the

final of the 1994 European Cup.

(4-0), the beginning of an end for Cruyff on the Camp Nou bench that would not come definitively until mid-1996.

With

Bobby Robson

, who replaced the Dutchman on the bench, who arrived at Barça with

José Mourinho

as second in command, he experienced

Ronaldo's

spectacular year

and added three more trophies to his record: the

Recopa

, the

Copa del Rey

and the

Super Cup. Spain

, and came to touch a league title that would later be remembered with much controversy due to the confession of

Juan Onieva

, former economic vice president of

Real Madrid

, that

Hercules

had been prevailed

so that he defeated the Catalans and thus helped the alirón blanco . With

Louis van Gaal

, the same coach who would not want to know anything about him in his second stage at Camp Nou, Sergi raised more trophies:

two Leagues, a King's Cup and a European Super Cup

.

But instead, he saw the team crash hopelessly over and over again in the

Champions League

.

The 'see you later'

Things would get especially complicated with the arrival of

Llorenç Serra Ferrer

to the bench,

Joan Gaspart's

commitment as coach

in his first year at the head of the club as president. A convulsive stage that, however, the management at the head of the entity of

Josep Maria Bartomeu

could leave in a kind of 'there was no such thing as so much'. The Mallorcan was fired at the end of his first and only campaign in command, but his relief, first circumstantial and then extended for a year,

Carles Rexach

, did not make things very different either. The club, in fact, did not manage to win more trophies and

Sergi would leave the Camp Nou

just in what was going to be the last season of

Josep Lluís Núñez

.

Sergi, after hanging up his boots,

returned to Barça in the summer of 2009

to take charge of the

Barça

youth

until 2011. A year later, he would take over the reins of

Recreativo de Huelva

, in the Second Division A, for a couple of seasons. In April 2015, meanwhile, he was hired by an

Almería

who was doing water in Primera to try to redirect the situation. Although he did not achieve the goal, the Andalusian club first renewed his contract only to end up firing him at the beginning of October of that same year. In April 2017, for his part, he was hired by

Mallorca

also as an attempt to reverse an excessively erratic course, but he could not prevent the relegation of the team to

Second B.

and his contract was not renewed. In November, meanwhile, he would embark on an adventure in the ranks of

Zhejiang Greentown

, also in the second division, which would last for about two years, until the club decided to dispense with his services, realizing that the team's performance was not up to par. the desired.

His career as a coach finally took him back to

Barça

this summer. In this case, as a

relief in the subsidiary

of a

Javier García Pimienta

who came to sound with great force, at the time, as a possible first Barça coach. With

Barça B

, in the second group of the RFEF First Division, equivalent in part to what was the Second Division B, he has won three

victories, four draws

and has conceded

two defeats

, with a total of eight goals in favor and seven against. Now, until the arrival of Xavi, he has the tremendous ballot to add a victory that the team needs like May water against

Alavés

this Saturday and, above all, beat

Dynamo Kiev in the Champions League

.

The margin for error, despite his interim status, is nonexistent.

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