The player and the coach were the main architects of the first Barça title in the maximum competition.
THE INTRAHISTORY
No follower of Barcelona can forget the powerful free kick Ronald Koeman at Wembley against Sampdoria. It was a May 20, 1992. A date remembered by Barcelona and which these days does not stop receiving tributes, for signifying the first European Cup and goodbye to fears in the highest competition.
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The Dutchman’s shot was as important as the presence of another countryman on the bench. And is that Cruyff’s arrival on the Barcelona bench was essential, just as or more than his debut as a culé player had meant. Cruyff managed to transmit to the club that competitive gene that always wore, of winner – although the World Cup resisted him -, of winner. A word that was not used so often in Barcelona’s vocabulary, accustomed to national titles, to a lesser extent than today, and almost devoid of continental titles, especially in the highest competition, a habitat where it had moved perfectly well Real Madrid, at least at the beginning of the tournament.
G⚽️L OF THE DAY!
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Barcelona’s relationship with the European Cup was riddled with disagreements that had reached their maximum expression with the Bern final against Benfica (1961), where the square posts made Barça desperate, and with the appointment in Seville against Steaua ( 1986), where a fateful penalty shoot-out ended up increasing this divorce between Barcelona and ‘orejona’.
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“I think Koeman’s goal is the most watched in the history of Barcelona, luckily it was not scored by Salinas,” said Rexach at the celebrations for the 25th anniversary of the conquest of the championship.
“An unforgettable place, an unforgettable match, an unforgettable goal. That it was Barça’s first European Cup made it all the more unforgettable. The first is always special and at Barça there was an enormous illusion to get it, ”Koeman recently said about the match.
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Just in such a special year for the Catalan capital, such as 1992, with the Olympics placing Barcelona in the center of all eyes, it was when Barça set the ghosts apart, not without tension, like Bakero’s header in Salvador extremis against the Kaiserlautern in eighths or the suffered classification in the group stage to reach a final with the Sampdoria where Koeman took off his fears at once, with one of his usual violent kicks to change the entity’s destiny and put the seed of the future Barcelona winner of the 21st century, the one to come.
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