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Pep Money box cried, not like a child but like a man. As a man who has worked to do of this one Barcelona the best team of the world. And it was not necessary to win to demonstrate it, but, already put, the azulgranas gave everything to mend a rácano Students and to seal in a formal way a contentious one with the History. It was worth it, for everything. And the Pep tears slipped for the cheeks of more than one lover of the soccer, a sport that to point was of committing a big injustice. Fortunately, Messi put the heart where it could not place the head and pushed the ball to the fund of the Argentine goal. This way his sixth title of the period conquered the Barcelona, and this way it solved a history that stays for the magic annals.

It was not understandable; at least, it was not just that the Barca was not achieving to gain Students. How much complicated the things the set of La Plata, which did not offer anything that was not a sacrifice. Nothing of soccer, only I work, pressure and force. The Catalan team remained caught in a jumble, in an excessively hard war to offer a soccer of touch and precision. Xavi, Messi and company remained submitted to iron markings — preys of the Argentine ‘dogs’ — although Estudiantes did not dispute the possession, but he devoted himself to perfect the pressure, to cover any way, to balls and ankles kick out. The back of the defense azulgrana was the only purpose it ‘punctures’, and this way it was seen in danger to four minutes after a Verón pass to Summer pasture, which did not react to the exit of Víctor Valdés. Four later, Xavi’s shift, which he excuses in a big goal occasion, centring when it should have proved Albil.

The ball in length turned into the secret, enclosed only one for the Barca, which abused arts that him are foreign. The umpire also was reaching port with his oddness. Some treachery will have left the life to him when he distrusts repeatedly the soccer players; it did it with an Alves fall, knocked down clearly, and also with one of Messi, whom he chose for showing him the yellow one for throwing itself in half of the field. True it is that in anyone he did not lack reason, but the Argentinians grew in confidence in these and began to play with the permissiveness of the collegiate one. As big polemic, a demolition inside the Albil area to Xavi in the minute 33 who looked like a penalty but it stayed in nothing.

Till then, the set of Money box had not offered anything special. And since then it was not completely unjust that Estudiantes was extracting advantage of his bet, Boselli appeared to mark a head great goal and to set to dream his team. The Argentinian slipped in between Puyol and Abidal and finished off of impeccable form a center from the left. Valdés could not do anything and to the Barca the party was complicated to little for the rest. The reality is that Students, like the rest, he chose to stop that the Barcelona was occupying his half; the difference is that those of Sabella are guerrilla experts, connoisseurs of the struggle who initiated and in that they were already immersed. The Boselli goal was identical with the slate and with the mind of the followers. Since it came.

After the rest, Money box made to play Pedro, who substituted Keita. It changed the tactical drawing and the panorama. Little by little, the Argentinians were paying the terrible physical effort and did such a snub to him to the ball that this one rebelled and turned into one more enemy. It is improper and illogical to give to the rival the weapon with the one that more damage does and, logically, the soccer of the Barca was taking form with the step of the minutes. Messi happened to the mediapunta, but from there he could not generate danger; the Argentinian is better starting from the band to the center, and also it was chased to conscience. The occasions were dropped by naturalness, I joust the one that Ibrahimovic lacked at the time of defining. Also Pedro and Piqué insisted, and Alves much harmed by the bet with carrileros of the Students, showed himself more participativo.

Xavi was not having his night: it did not dump well the córners, neither distributed exactly nor played well between lines. It was clear that the team was not granting spaces rojiblanco either, centred only on giving voleones and on pressing shut up. Everything was walking it paying the Barca, although Students and the ball were becoming enemies every time of more obvious and violent form. These bets exist just as the time exists, but also they can become exhausted as the time comes to his end. And there, before the minutes were dismissing this party, Pedro appeared to join the meeting. His head was an extension of that of Piqué, which served, more than a ball, the hope to him in salver. We speak of the minute 89, and the Barcelona believed so much that even tried to settle the matter without extension or anything. It was not possible, clear.

Vital was the entry of Jeffren, which gave freshness, speed and insistence to the left band. Merciful he could not stop him and Cellay came in his help, but the vitality of the canterano had already infected to the rest, excited with the victory. Ibrahimovic continued fallón, but it served a good pass to Messi inside the area that the Argentinian could not turn into the second one. ‘Ten it was intoned and made to imagine and sing the goal with an absence shot. It was clear that Estudiantes was already dreaming not of the World cup, but of the penalties batch, and insurance that great, Argentine and Spanish, they went so far as to think about the ending, they even could be right the protagonist. They were not wrong. The Alves ball from the right came so precisely that Messi as so crazy was thought as to allow it to escape, and as the head was too high put the breast, the shield and the heart to do the goal of the victory, that of six qualifications, for a Barca champion of everything.

There was time later for some fright; none like that of the final extension, when Desábato rubbed the tie and almost it forces the penalties batch. But it had been too unjust, and the punishment did not happen, perhaps, because anything of reason stays in all this. Pep Money box cried. Not since they it could do many today, but like a man who has constructed a romantic history, as beautiful as the victory that ended up by sealing it. That’s why the time stopped in Abu Dhabi … and hastened in some other places.

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