In a game played in the Nou Municipal stadium in Palamos, FC Barcelona last night lost the Copa Catalunya final 2-1 to Gimnastic. Victor Vazquez gave Barça the lead, but Nastic’s Pinilla and Maldonado scored to take the trophy back to Tarragona.
Barça again started with several youngsters from Barça B. Only Jorquera, Oleguer, Sylvinho and Ezqurro played from the first team squad. Thierry Henry and Toure Yaya could have been available but neither have returned after international duty. I wonder if they had permission.
After a dull first half, Barça took the lead in the 50th minute. A fine long pass from inside his own half by Dimas Delgado put Victor Vazquez through for a one-on-one with the keeper and Vazquez coolly slotted the ball under the keeper’s body.
Nastic equalized five minutes later when Pinilla got in front of Jorquera to head in a free kick. Then in the 79th minute, a cross from the left was volleyed in at the far post by Tati Maldonado to make it 2-1. Santi Ezquerro had a great chance to equalize in the 90th minute after combining well with Sylvinho, but he blasted his shot over from eight yards out.
The Barça youngsters didn’t do badly. The best performances were from Marc Crosas, Dimas Delgado, Tiago Alcantara (who is ex-Celta player Mazinho’s son) and Victor Vazquez.
Barça’s team tonight: Jorquera; Córcoles (Fali 45), Botia, Oleguer, Sylvinho; Dimas, Thiago (Abraham Gonzalez 64), Crosas; Ezquerro, Víctor Vázquez (Pedrito78), Jeffren.
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joan amenos // Sep 12, 2007 at 23:10
What do you think about this championship? Perhaps the catalan “Federation” should change the form of these matchs. For example, if the team is playing in the current season in first division (now, Barça and Espanyol), we shouold only admitt players who have not played in that championship. I don’t know if that’s possible, but we need new ideas for increase the attraction of these catalan matches. Actually, Nic admitted last week that it was a bit difficult to get excited about Barça-Nàstic.
And I didn’t know the date of this final.
joan amenos // Sep 16, 2007 at 18:32
1.Is important “Copa Catalunya” for Barça? Catalunya is a strange country. Catalans celebrate their national day on September 11, the date in 1714 when Barcelona was the last bastion in the struggle against the Borbones for 13 months after the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht (1713), which put an end to the Spanish War of Succession.
2. The professors of history say that catalan resistance fought desperately, counting on the fragile support of Engalnad, Austrian, Portuguese and Dutch allies.
Once Barcelona was occupied, Felipe V abolished the Catalna parliament and the Generalitat (one system of local representation born in the Middle Age). Actually, 1714 is a symbol of resistance to protégé the old laws against the new absolutism of borbones (who were building the new Spanish nation state).
3. There is a parallelism between the amazing history of “defeat of the pepople, defeat of Catalonia” and the importance of “Copa Catalunya”. It shold be apparently a patriotic championship. But Catalans like money and business. So, they prefer “liga” or “Champions league”. They are the descendants of Phoenicians, who were commercial people, with expertise in businees, change, money…So, their flag is important for them, but their big subject is money. Now, you can understand that the prohibition of match “Catalonia-USA” has not social repercussions.
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