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Opinion Koeman, the plagued hero, by Orfeo Suárez
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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