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Barcelona-HD.Org
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(CROWD SINGING)
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Take the ball. Pass the ball.
Take the ball. Pass the ball.
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Take the ball. Pass the ball.
Take the ball. Pass the ball.
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And I don't care where you're from.
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I don't care.
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If you tell me that you love football,
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and you don't love Barcelona,
you have a problem.
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If there's a game on TV,
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any team in the world,
if Barcelona are playing,
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I'd pick watching Barcelona all day long.
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I'd say 2011 was the best brand
of football I've seen.
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(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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Barça re-established themselves
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as the most admired team in Europe.
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Not because we won
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but because of the style in which we won.
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(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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There have been three special eras
in football history.
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First, Cruyff's Ajax,
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Sacchi's AC Milan,
a project that I continued.
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And then came Guardiola,
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and he created something beautiful.
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To play against Barcelona at that time,
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you just knew you had
a bigger chance to lose than to win.
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That Barcelona was just, you know,
eating everything on the table.
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(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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It's one of the best ever performances
in a Champions League final
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and to do it against
Manchester United was incredible.
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We really enjoyed ourselves that day.
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I mean, they were special.
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They were as good as I've came up against
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by quite some margin.
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And they were just too good.
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I remember Sir Alex saying
that he'd never lost like that before,
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where he felt
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that he couldn't do anything.
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No one's given us a hiding like that,
so it's a great moment for them.
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They deserve it because
they play the right way.
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They stuck at it, they kept passing,
they kept passing.
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They might have lost one or two,
but they kept passing it.
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And all of a sudden,
they make that extra pass,
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and the spaces are bigger,
it's harder to close down
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and you lose your little bit of shape,
and that's when they take control.
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As a performance, it was...
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It was as good as I've seen.
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What struck me about them really
was the patience of the wide men,
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to stay so high and so wide
and keep making them runs,
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and probably hardly ever getting the ball.
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They both got the goal,
but just the patience
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to stay in that position and hold us,
pin our fullbacks back, pin them back.
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And then obviously
you've got Messi to drop back,
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making it four v three.
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(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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Outnumbering the opponent
was the basis of our whole strategy.
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Messi dropped into midfield to give us
that numerical advantage.
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And he also scored goals,
which gave us an advantage
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over every team we played.
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I'll show you how we did it.
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Here's the Manchester United defense.
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They never closed down
the player in the hole.
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They had two defensive midfielders,
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a number ten, Rooney,
who didn't defend very much
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and a striker.
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For this goal, we were three against two.
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Iniesta plays the ball
across the line to Messi
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and Messi attacks the defense.
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(CROWD CHEERING)
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(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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We started really well
but then they equalized
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and that gave us a scare,
which is normal in a final.
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But we managed to take control
and when we went 3-1 up,
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we felt much more relaxed.
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(CROWD CHEERING)
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(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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VALDÉS: Pep gave us a team talk
in the Wembley dressing room.
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I remember the room
was very dark, and he said,
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"I told you that if you got me this far,
I'd win you the final,
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"and I'm going to make sure you win it."
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(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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If Pep said to jump off the third tier
of Camp Nou, I'd jump.
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There must be a good reason for it.
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And that's what I loved about him.
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He'd say things, and we'd realize
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that his words were never just words,
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and that convinces you
that what you're doing
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is going to get results.
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It's unreal
the way he used to tell us something,
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"That's what we're going to do.
Do it. It will work."
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And it will happen.
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It really will happen, just like that.
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(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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That day was the crowning moment
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of everything we'd achieved since 2008.
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It was the crowning moment of our reign,
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the reign of a team
adored by its supporters
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and also by everyone who loves football.
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For Barça to win the Champions League
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in that style at Wembley,
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was the perfect end
to a brutally draining season.
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The rivalry between them and Madrid
had never been nastier.
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And the relationship between Mourinho
and Guardiola was beyond tense.
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Getting out of hand, some would say.
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I think it escalated into something
more than just football.
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I mean, I don't know whether there's
any rivalry between them personally,
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but it looked that way.
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Let's not forget where this comes from.
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In 2010, Barcelona are on their way
to the Champions League final.
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The Champions League final
is at Real Madrid's stadium.
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I think we've all forgotten
how much of a trauma this was in Madrid.
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They're terrified of this prospect.
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What happens?
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Mourinho happens.
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Mourinho beats Barcelona
and celebrates it like mad.
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And he's just passed his audition
for Real Madrid.
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(FLASHBULBS POPPING)
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It was difficult for Mourinho at Madrid
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because he probably arrives
when Barcelona are at their best.
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And I doubt that any other manager
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would have found a solution
for Madrid at the time.
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I think that he arrived to Madrid,
to a really big club,
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but he got frustrated after the 5-0,
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because we beat them 5-0
at Camp Nou in his first year.
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(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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In the 5-0, they didn't have a hope.
(CHUCKLES)
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That was the best game
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I played in at Barça.
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(CROWD CHEERING)
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(CROWD CHEERING)
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I think that he just had
a reflection and said,
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"Listen, if we want to beat this team,
we cannot beat them playing football.
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We have to beat them in
trying to find another way."
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And they bring football
outside of the pitch,
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like in every press conference,
in every interview,
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trying to fight in every game.
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I have absolutely no doubt
that Mourinho's role at Real Madrid
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was to "knock Barcelona
off their fucking perch",
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to use Ferguson's words.
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(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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ALVES: Mourinho's not stupid.
Mourinho's a great competitor.
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And you have to respect winners.
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But when winners start losing
and feel powerless,
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you better watch out
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because it's bound to kick off.
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(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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Playing four Clásicos
in such a short period
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brought the tension to boiling point.
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It was tough because most of us
were Spain teammates
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and the tensions
spilled out onto the pitch.
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I found it all very tough indeed.
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(WHISTLE BLOWS)
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(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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We all lost our heads a bit.
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The games should have been
much more attractive,
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much better to watch,
and without so much aggression,
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but when you're competing
you get swept up in it,
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and the tension
caused constant fighting on the pitch.
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The day I remember
that they won the Cup in extra time
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and Cristiano scored.
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We were a much better team than them,
but they won,
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and for us, it was like, "Whoa!"
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They had that moment
where they made us doubt ourselves
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because it was a really difficult moment.
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(CROWD CHEERS)
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(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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We thought we were the better team
and created more,
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but because of a marginal offside call,
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we ended up losing the cup final.
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And when you lose,
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not only do you feel angry,
but also doubts start to creep in.
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What we got on the pitch
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was a game where it really
could have gone either way.
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There's a goal from Pedro
ruled offside correctly,
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but, as Guardiola pointed out,
very fine the margin,
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which gave Mourinho the chance to say
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Guardiola was complaining
about right decisions.
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He wasn't. He was pointing out
the margins were so fine
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that it could have gone the other way.
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(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
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(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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After what Pep said the other day,
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we've entered into a new era.
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There's now a new group of managers
with just one member, him,
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a group that criticizes a referee
for getting decisions right.
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It's something nobody's ever
seen or heard of before.
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(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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Mourinho was so provocative
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that even people at Barça
wanted a reaction from Guardiola
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because Mourinho was constantly
trying to pick a fight with Guardiola
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and Barça in general.
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(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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That day at lunch we listened
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to the Real Madrid manager
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and I noticed something change in Pep.
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I had a feeling that Pep
would do something uncharacteristic,
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and I think others felt it too,
because after training
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the director of football
came to the dressing room,
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which never happens.
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And I remember Zubizarreta said,
"Keep calm, Pep."
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And Pep told him he'd stay calm
and wouldn't react.
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But Pep was lying.
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I was in the press conference that day,
and we're sitting in the press room,
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and there's this moment
where everyone just goes,
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"Did he really say that?
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Bloody hell!"
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(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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Yes? Yes.
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Pep Guardiola, good evening everyone.
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Mr. Mourinho addressed me by first name,
so I'll do the same.
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He called me Pep, so I'll call him José.
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I don't know which camera
belongs to Mr. José,
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probably all of them.
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Tomorrow at 20.45,
our teams go head-to-head on the pitch,
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but off the pitch, he's already won.
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He's won all year long
and he probably always will.
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I award him a Champions League trophy
for victories in the press room.
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In this room, he's the fucking boss,
the fucking chief.
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He knows it all and I don't even want
to try and compete with him.
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I only want to remind him
we worked together for four years.
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(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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We were in the team hotel
watching that press conference.
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He gave us one more incentive
to go out and give 100%.
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(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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When Guardiola returned,
we all started applauding him,
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and he just said, "That's enough.
Time to focus on the match."
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It really surprised us
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because nothing like that
had ever happened, but...
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a line had been crossed.
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It was precisely the boost
we needed at that moment.
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(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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Clásicos are already extremely tense,
but this one was worse.
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Doubts and fears
were creeping into my mind.
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I'd known for over a month
that I needed surgery
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but we hadn't told anyone.
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It's impossible to keep secrets
in a dressing room.
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Everything always gets leaked.
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So I only told a couple
of my teammates the truth.
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(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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When you go to a match feeling confident,
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everything is much easier,
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but I had a voice in my head
telling me to be careful
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and that my knee could collapse
at any moment.
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I had a big bit of cartilage
floating about inside.
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I could have easily collapsed
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when one of their players
was running at me.
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I was very nervous.
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(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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This was the moment
we'd either go down in history
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or be remembered as a good side
but not one of the greats.
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That's what was at stake
in the semi-finals against Madrid.
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Even though you know
that you are a better team,
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you always have that doubt,
and I remember Pep said to us,
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"We are a much better team.
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I will bring you to the final of
the Champions League."
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And it was like this.
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(CROWD CHEERING)
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(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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They were very well-organized,
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so it wasn't easy
to create goal-scoring chances.
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And then Leo picked up
the ball in midfield
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and started that slalom run.
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(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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It's just natural ability.
That's why he's the best in the world.
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Only Messi can do that.
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That goal is just incredible.
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Busi gives him the ball
and he skips past three or four,
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and then he scores with his right foot.
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(HALLELUJAH CHORUS BY HANDEL PLAYING)
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(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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It's one of the best goals
in football history.
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(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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My assist practically
put the goal on a plate for him.
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No. The truth is...
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we all know that the more
Leo is on the ball
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the better it is for all of us.
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You have a Madrid team
that's extremely defensive,
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with Pepe in the middle of midfield.
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A Madrid team that is very aggressive,
that is playing for nil-nil.
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Mourinho's argument has always been
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that until Pepe is sent off,
Madrid were succeeding in that.
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We will never know if Messi
would have scored his two goals
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without that sending off.
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(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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At that moment, the red card
made absolutely no difference.
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Messi's unstoppable.
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It's natural talent that's only given
to the chosen ones.
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Maybe in 20 or 30 years,
there'll be another one,
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but right now it's Messi.
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I was in the room exactly a year later
when Pierluigi Collina,
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in his refereeing tutorial
to the Spain squad,
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uses that Pepe incident
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to show them how the laws of the game
would be interpreted during Euro 2012.
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And the instant it comes up on the screen,
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the Spain squad is split right
down the middle again
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with Madrid players and Barça players
drowning him out, shouting at each other
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about whether it is or isn't
a red card offence.
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(LAUGHING)
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(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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I told Collina, "Show something else!
That's not a good example to show us!"
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(LAUGHING)
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Yeah. Some of them still said
it wasn't a red card.
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And that Pepe didn't touch him.
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Incredible!
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I'm telling you it was a red card.
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They can say what they want.
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Fans want to see their team play well.
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They don't want a team
that constantly fouls
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or defending with everyone
behind the ball.
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But in the end, football always wins.
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(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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After the second leg at the Camp Nou,
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we stayed on the pitch
celebrating for ten or 15 minutes,
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and we still had to play
the Champions League final.
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But with all due respect
to Manchester United,
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our biggest test that year
was beating Madrid in the semi-final.
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(CROWD CHANTING)
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HUNTER: So they've beaten Real Madrid
in the semi-finals.
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They then dismantle Manchester United
in the Champions League final.
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And the instant outpouring of superlatives
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from all-time greats of the game
all around the world,
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I think, objectively marks this
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as the high point
of European club football. Ever.
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But the fact that Éric Abidal
plays and wins,
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having already just beaten cancer
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turns this from a great sporting story
into a great human drama.
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00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:18,120
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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That day wasn't about lifting
the Champions League trophy,
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we should have been lifting Abi.
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That was the real triumph.
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He was one of the great characters
in the dressing room
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and everybody loved him.
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Abidal!
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(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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I remember two or three days
after we heard about the cancer,
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Abi came to see us.
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And he was the one who cheered us up.
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One of my teammates died
when I was at Sevilla,
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and I thought,
"I can't let this happen again.
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Not another one, please."
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00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:06,480
The first time I wasn't able to help,
but this time, I could.
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00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:11,160
And if there was a chance
to save his life,
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my career was the last thing on my mind.
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00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:15,520
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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Dani came to see me and said,
"Look Abi, we have the same blood type.
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I'm going to give you part of my liver."
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00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:29,960
Everyone saw Dani
in a different light after that.
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00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:31,320
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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ALVES: It was a private matter,
which only came out
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because Abi told people.
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But I'd never have forgiven myself
if he'd died
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and I'd done nothing to help.
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I couldn't let that happen.
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In the end, they found another solution,
but I don't regret making the offer.
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00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:49,360
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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VALDÉS: Days after his operation,
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he was back in the dressing room
and working out in the gym.
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He wanted to be back
with the group as soon as possible.
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00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:04,800
We had no doubt he'd make a full recovery.
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00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:05,920
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:08,240
INTERVIEWER: Did you think you had
a good chance of playing at Wembley?
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00:24:08,360 --> 00:24:09,520
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:13,680
No. I didn't even think
I had a ten percent chance.
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00:24:15,120 --> 00:24:19,440
We needed to play
the strongest side possible,
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00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:22,960
and the strongest team
had to include Puyol.
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00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:25,240
PUYOL: I wanted to play.
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I always wanted to play,
but I was in a worse state than Abidal.
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00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:31,800
And the most important thing was winning.
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00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:35,160
The boss did something
he'd never done before,
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He announced the starting line-up
in the dressing room at Wembley
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just an hour before the game
in the Champions League Final.
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I was shitting myself,
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thinking, "Bloody hell! What's going on?"
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I wasn't fully match fit,
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but there was a fire inside me,
which gave me that extra drive.
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00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:02,440
And when you're on the pitch,
you're just thinking, "Let's do this."
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00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:07,960
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:12,320
The Abidal situation was
a huge emotional boost for all of us.
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00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:17,960
And he found strength
he didn't know he had
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to play the way he did,
with the same composure as always.
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Abidal was an example to everyone.
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00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:26,440
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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PUYOL: He showed
such strength and determination
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and a will to overcome the cancer.
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And I decided that if we won that night,
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Abidal should be
the first to lift the cup.
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00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:39,320
It really is an incredible moment.
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00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:42,000
I've been lucky enough to lift it twice,
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00:25:42,120 --> 00:25:44,720
and it's a difficult feeling to describe.
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00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:45,920
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:47,280
It was Puyi's decision.
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00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:51,560
He'd had the disappointment
of not starting the game,
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00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:56,000
and he maybe didn't feel
like a key member of the team,
393
00:25:56,120 --> 00:26:01,040
but despite that,
he decided Abidal should lift the cup.
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00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:05,320
He said to me, "It's got to be Abidal."
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00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:10,440
And I said, "Bloody hell, you're right.
Abi should lift it."
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00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:12,720
Without any doubt, that moment was...
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00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:15,840
the absolute highlight for us all.
398
00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:18,760
To watch Abidal lift the trophy
was very special.
399
00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:24,280
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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XAVI: I was with Víctor Valdés,
close to Abidal.
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00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:30,040
Watching Abidal lift the trophy
after the illness he'd been through,
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00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:31,840
it still gives me goosebumps.
403
00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:36,600
(CROWD CHEERING)
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00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:51,040
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
405
00:26:51,120 --> 00:26:52,680
I think it was the moment...
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00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,200
that showed the strength of our group.
407
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:04,760
We were much more than just teammates.
408
00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:08,520
They say that Barça is more than a club.
409
00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:11,280
At that moment, it was more than a club.
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00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:24,000
I think that the story of this club,
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00:27:24,120 --> 00:27:28,920
obviously, you cannot understand
if you don't know the figure of Cruyff.
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Firstly as a player, he was one
of the best players in history.
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00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:34,240
I didn't watch him play,
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00:27:34,360 --> 00:27:37,720
but my dad always
said incredible things about him.
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00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:40,000
He always says, "Messi and then Cruyff."
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00:27:40,120 --> 00:27:41,160
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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LAPORTA: When we were kids of ten or 11,
Cruyff signed for Barça
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00:27:43,120 --> 00:27:48,040
and we copied his hairstyle,
the way he ran and played football.
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00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:50,480
He inspired a revolution in 1973/74.
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00:27:58,160 --> 00:27:59,720
(CROWD CHEERING)
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00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:19,640
JORDI: He comes here with the advantage
of having a good reputation as a player.
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00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:23,720
He has a philosophy
which is contrary to many.
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00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:25,600
He would prefer to fail with his ideas
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00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:28,200
than to succeed
with the ideas of someone else.
425
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:31,640
Players go for these kind of things,
for this kind of charisma.
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00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:34,040
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
427
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:39,080
I played with him here for five years
and when we took over the team,
428
00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:43,560
we wanted to play
a different brand of football.
429
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:48,800
And it caused shock waves
around the world.
430
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:51,720
Everyone played with a 4-4-2 formation,
431
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:57,720
and we played with three defenders,
four midfielders and three in attack.
432
00:28:57,800 --> 00:28:59,200
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:01,200
LAPORTA: People would say,
"They've only got three defenders!"
434
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It was a 3-4-3.
435
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:06,280
They'd say, "It's madness.
We'll concede loads of goals!"
436
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:09,240
But Johan preferred
winning 6-5 to winning 1-0.
437
00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:13,280
I was really lucky because
I was six, seven, eight years old.
438
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:16,560
I watched the first Copa de Europa,
European Championships.
439
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:17,960
We were a really good team,
440
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:21,680
always playing really well,
but we'd never won nothing important.
441
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,560
But when he arrived,
he changed this mentality,
442
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:27,600
and we started to win important things
and important titles.
443
00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:29,920
(CROWD CHEERING)
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00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:54,080
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
445
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:58,240
Cruyff is the most influential person
in the entire history of FC Barcelona.
446
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:02,400
Our style of play
is the most important thing.
447
00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:04,120
Then come the players.
448
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:07,480
But what really draws you in
and what sets the club apart
449
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:10,520
is that Barça play
a unique brand of football.
450
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:12,080
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
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00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:14,720
MESSI: It all started a very long time
ago during Cruyff's spell at the club.
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00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:19,640
Since then we've always played
the same way,
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00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:24,400
holding onto possession
454
00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:29,200
and passing in triangles,
455
00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:31,560
pressing the moment we lose the ball,
456
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:36,960
staying close together so we can
recover possession and then keep it.
457
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:38,360
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
458
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:39,480
Over time you realize,
459
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:42,880
that it's because of Cruyff's influence
that by the age of 21,
460
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:46,640
it felt normal to come off my line
and play further up the pitch,
461
00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:48,760
outside the penalty area.
462
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:54,360
You come to realize that
all of us, me, Xavi, Iniesta...
463
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:59,240
We've all grown up adopting
Johan's philosophy.
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00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:03,080
You know, it's an immense honor, or pride,
465
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:04,840
to see that this is still going this way
466
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:07,400
and my father is mentioned
like the architect.
467
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:13,080
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
468
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:18,920
I think it's a process that began
in the 1970s with Laureano Ruiz.
469
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:21,480
I experienced that here as a player.
470
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:24,680
I was then a coach here
when the second big change took place
471
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:26,680
when Johan Cruyff arrived as manager.
472
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:28,200
He changed our mentality.
473
00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:33,920
He turned us into winners
and taught us to be confident,
474
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:37,720
to want the ball and be creative,
and to enjoy ourselves.
475
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:40,520
And our third big change was with Pep,
476
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:42,560
who took it to another level.
477
00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:44,840
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
478
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:47,960
Cruyff's arrival was key
because he imposed his ideas.
479
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:53,840
His advantage was that the players
480
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:56,960
already understood this style
because they'd worked under me.
481
00:31:57,080 --> 00:32:01,360
I invented the Rondo.
482
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:04,080
The ideal Rondo is four against two.
483
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:08,600
You need to move constantly to find space.
484
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:10,680
The player with the ball
485
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,440
must have the option
of a pass to his right,
486
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:17,040
another to this left,
and another through the middle,
487
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:19,200
which I call the pass down the street.
488
00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:20,960
So in a match that becomes
489
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:26,080
a sideways pass to feet or a through ball.
490
00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:29,600
So it's a very important
tactical exercise.
491
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:33,240
Barcelona always train in tight spaces.
492
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:37,960
If the ball doesn't stay by your foot,
it's gone, in training.
493
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:41,360
That's why, after, when you drop
those guys on the big field,
494
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:44,120
they play as if they were in tight places.
495
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:45,440
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
496
00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:49,240
If you pass, the player marking
you doesn't have time to catch you.
497
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:52,840
When he gets to you, it's always too late.
498
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:57,920
That's how you take control.
499
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:04,760
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
500
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:06,920
XAVI: The ball is fired at you
from every direction.
501
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:11,560
And the light shows you
where to pass the ball.
502
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:16,000
So if the light comes on over there,
I have to be in the right position.
503
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:19,800
Left foot control, right foot pass.
As few touches as possible.
504
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:21,240
It's the role of a midfielder.
505
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:35,800
You're being marked and pressed.
506
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:38,120
You have to get your head up
and find the solution.
507
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:41,000
I learned all of that
from the age of 11 or 12
508
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:47,680
because I had fantastic coaches at Barça
like Joan Vilà and Albert Benaiges.
509
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:50,760
My son plays for the youth team,
510
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:53,880
and you get to realize as a parent,
as well,
511
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:55,560
what the club teaches.
512
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:59,760
It's not only about how they play
and how successful that you can be.
513
00:33:59,880 --> 00:34:03,240
It's how you conduct yourself,
how to be a Barça player,
514
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:07,880
how to live like a Barça player,
how to respect what it means.
515
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:09,840
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
516
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:13,360
Having well brought up, polite kids,
with good values...
517
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:15,440
makes everything much easier.
518
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:18,960
Just look at the squad
we've got at the moment.
519
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:20,880
They're all exceptional people.
520
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:22,640
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
521
00:34:22,720 --> 00:34:27,640
We were lucky to have a generation
of players who came from La Masia,
522
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:33,760
like Xavi, Iniesta, Piqué, Puyol,
Valdés, Pedro, Leo, Busquets.
523
00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:36,480
They all achieved huge success
in the first team.
524
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:43,120
Tell me a team, apart maybe from Ajax,
that dominated world football
525
00:34:43,240 --> 00:34:48,200
having that amount of youngsters
from the academy in their team.
526
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:51,360
There's a reason
why youth players at Barcelona
527
00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:54,560
are the ones who best adjust
to the first team at Barcelona.
528
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:56,000
It's not a coincidence.
529
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:58,960
It's not because they work
with special machines
530
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:00,480
that no other club has.
531
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:03,000
It has to do with the way
they're brought up,
532
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:04,960
the values, their football values.
533
00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:08,640
What is the real essence of our football?
534
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:10,680
Is it the result or is it how we play?
535
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:11,960
It's how we play.
536
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:15,040
And then, if you do that good,
the results will come.
537
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:16,760
INIESTA: We came here to play football.
538
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:22,000
People realized that we were different
and that we had talent.
539
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:25,520
We were given the chance
to develop from junior level
540
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:27,280
through to the first team.
541
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:30,360
It's a different way
of understanding football,
542
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:35,160
which gives you a better
chance of success.
543
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:38,240
When I joined Barcelona,
544
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:39,440
the media asked me
545
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:42,200
which player had surprised me most
546
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:44,840
and I said, Andrés Iniesta,
547
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:47,080
which surprised them
548
00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:52,400
because they all wanted me
to say Messi or Ronaldinho.
549
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:58,600
But the player who makes difficult
things look easy is Andrés.
550
00:35:58,720 --> 00:36:01,200
I'd want Andrés and Xavi...
551
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:07,640
in my team until the day they retire.
552
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:10,400
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
553
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:13,600
Barça's style of football is different
to any team in the world.
554
00:36:13,720 --> 00:36:19,520
At Barça, there is a very specific way
you have to play.
555
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:23,880
You can't just boot the ball clear.
556
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:30,360
Defenders have to control the ball,
dribble and make the right pass.
557
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:31,640
It's not easy.
558
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:35,000
In the Premier League or at Real Madrid,
you clear the ball.
559
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:37,640
And that isn't a problem
at most other clubs.
560
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:41,400
But at Barça that's not enough.
You have to do a lot more.
561
00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:43,680
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
562
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:45,360
MESSI: It's a unique philosophy.
563
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:52,440
And that's why it's so difficult
for new players
564
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:54,880
to adapt to our style of play.
565
00:36:55,000 --> 00:37:00,280
It might look easy but it's something
we've been practicing for years.
566
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:05,960
Most of us have been playing
this way since we were kids.
567
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:09,480
Playing for Barça isn't easy.
568
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:12,120
GUDJOHNSEN: You see all these players
that are here for a long time.
569
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:15,800
They come through the youth system
and walk into the first team,
570
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:18,560
and it's as if they've been there
for many, many years.
571
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:19,920
Coming here wasn't so easy
572
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:22,760
because there are certain elements
of the game
573
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:25,160
that you haven't been taught.
574
00:37:25,720 --> 00:37:27,640
You see players...
575
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:32,120
I could tell you a few names
but I'm not allowed. (LAUGHS)
576
00:37:32,240 --> 00:37:36,360
But world-class, spectacular footballers,
577
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:38,320
who were completely lost.
578
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:39,920
They ended up in hysterics.
579
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:42,960
It was more the style of play
that I had to adapt to.
580
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:48,920
Staying on the line to make sure
that you can free Andrés,
581
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:50,400
make the run in behind,
582
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:53,720
knowing that nine times
or eight times out of ten,
583
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:55,240
you will not get that ball.
584
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:58,400
But if you don't make the run,
Andrés doesn't get the ball.
585
00:38:04,240 --> 00:38:08,600
My first move when Abidal had the ball
and he's about to control it,
586
00:38:08,720 --> 00:38:10,560
I always have to ask for the ball
in behind.
587
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:13,920
Every single time. It's a dummy run.
588
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:21,160
Now Andrés gets the ball,
Sam now makes a run for Andrés,
589
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:23,040
so Andrés can play him there,
590
00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:26,640
Andrés can play me as I come back
from an offside position,
591
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:30,840
Or, if not, third choice,
Andrés skills you by his dribble.
592
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:33,240
You have a guy dropping, a guy running
593
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:35,520
and a guy with the ball
running at you, so,
594
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:37,840
by the time you stop
to realize what's happening,
595
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:39,440
you're already in trouble.
596
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:43,920
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
597
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:47,520
Some guys managed to get it in the end
like Thierry Henry and Abidal,
598
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:49,160
who both struggled at the start.
599
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:53,600
But some other really talented players
just didn't make it.
600
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:56,360
CHYGRYNSKIY: I missed my chance.
601
00:38:56,480 --> 00:39:01,720
I was full of this fire,
of this desire to, you know, to play
602
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:03,560
and sometimes it was like...
603
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:08,160
I mean, I just wanted to
immediately show what I can.
604
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:11,280
And sometimes it was against me.
605
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:13,520
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
606
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:15,480
PUYOL: Barça is a hard team to play for,
particularly at center-back.
607
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:19,400
If you make a couple of early mistakes,
the fans get on your back,
608
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:22,640
and the pressure really builds.
609
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:28,800
But Chygrynskiy's qualities
were perfect for Barça.
610
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:35,920
To turn the crowd around is not easy,
especially at Barcelona.
611
00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:41,280
I think it was Xavi who said,
"This is a very special place.
612
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:43,720
I've played here for many years,
613
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:46,680
but believe me,
if I play one or two games not good,
614
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:50,200
these people can destroy me."
615
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:55,920
I got it as a joke
but then I felt that it...
616
00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:59,360
That it was not.
617
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:02,400
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
618
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:04,320
Despite being a home-grown player,
I've suffered things
619
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:05,560
that crossed the line.
620
00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:08,520
-In 2003, I was the "Cancer of Barça."
-(WHISTLE BLOWS)
621
00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:12,040
In 2014, I was "old and good for nothing."
622
00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:13,960
It's a roller coaster.
623
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:18,440
Barça is the most difficult club
in the world.
624
00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:19,600
No doubt about it.
625
00:40:19,720 --> 00:40:24,040
Imagine for a new signing.
It must be twice as difficult.
626
00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:26,760
I felt this difference,
that I needed to learn
627
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:28,960
this language of football,
628
00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:32,280
how to create space, how to defend,
629
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:36,520
and all the things that the players
were already playing.
630
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:41,800
We played a game against Osasuna
631
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:46,800
and Osasuna were not defending well
that area.
632
00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:49,160
The guy there was not tucking in well.
633
00:40:50,240 --> 00:40:54,280
So that day Chygrynskiy played
because he had a great left foot.
634
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:56,760
He could ping the ball well
with his left and right foot.
635
00:40:56,880 --> 00:40:58,120
But an amazing left foot.
636
00:40:58,240 --> 00:41:01,520
We were going to always play
in the center back
637
00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:04,720
that was going to play across for Xavi.
638
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:07,640
Whenever we were moving,
Xavi stayed in that zone.
639
00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:10,120
So that was the exit.
640
00:41:10,240 --> 00:41:11,800
But what was funny that day
641
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:16,560
is that Chygrynskiy twice
played the ball long for Zlatan.
642
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:17,680
And it was on.
643
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:20,120
Zlatan nearly went one v one
with the keeper.
644
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:24,640
Pep took him off at half-time...
645
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:29,440
...because he didn't respect the pattern.
646
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:34,640
That's the way he studied that team
and that's the way he asked us to play.
647
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:39,240
The vocabulary of Guardiola or my father
is building up from behind,
648
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:40,360
possession,
649
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:44,840
the speed of the ball is more important
than the speed of the legs,
650
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:49,080
always play attractive football
to keep your fans happy.
651
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:51,640
I mean, there are so many similarities.
652
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:53,520
GUDJOHNSEN: When you play for Barcelona
653
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:55,280
and especially after Guardiola came,
654
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:59,600
that's where you really learn
how to play the Barcelona way.
655
00:41:59,720 --> 00:42:04,520
It's 11, not just the strikers
or not just the midfielders.
656
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:08,440
The 11 players have to participate
to create the chance.
657
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:13,600
Basically, what we want to do
is try to put the ball to the strikers
658
00:42:13,720 --> 00:42:16,880
with a really good pass,
so that they can have one on one.
659
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:20,200
But obviously if you pass them a long ball
660
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:23,680
that's not really easy to control,
661
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:26,520
the striker will not do his job.
662
00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:30,560
It's all about starting from the back,
to the strikers.
663
00:42:32,240 --> 00:42:33,320
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
664
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:35,400
Pep took risks all over the pitch.
665
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:40,960
I think he made two great
innovations as our coach,
666
00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:43,800
One was pressing after losing the ball
667
00:42:44,240 --> 00:42:47,440
and the other was playing out
from the back.
668
00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:52,600
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
669
00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:54,760
I remember my first conversation
with Guardiola as coach.
670
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:57,440
It was in his office at the Camp Nou.
671
00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:01,960
He had a tactics board
with two small magnets
672
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:06,720
either side of the goal,
just outside of the box.
673
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:09,680
He said, "Do you know
which players these two are?"
674
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:12,520
I said, "Nope."
675
00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:15,120
And he said,
"These are your center-backs."
676
00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:20,120
I had no idea what he was talking about.
It sounded Chinese.
677
00:43:20,240 --> 00:43:26,480
And he said, "When you've got the ball,
this is where I want them to be."
678
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:30,640
I thought he was crazy.
679
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:37,280
And then he said, "You'll pass to them,
and from there we'll build the play."
680
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:40,920
I still thought he was completely mad,
681
00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:44,800
but given that I'm a bit crazy myself,
I felt in tune with him.
682
00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:47,560
So I told him the defenders
would have to be brave
683
00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:50,680
and want the ball.
684
00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:54,040
And Pep said, "Don't worry, that's my job.
685
00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:55,680
I'll make sure they want it."
686
00:43:56,160 --> 00:43:57,440
That's how it started.
687
00:43:58,080 --> 00:43:59,920
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
688
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:05,960
PINTO: Both Pep and Tito
took this idea one step further.
689
00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:12,480
They told us not to worry
690
00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:14,120
because if we made a mistake,
691
00:44:14,240 --> 00:44:16,080
they would take responsibility.
692
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:18,640
All they asked was that we play
the ball out from the back
693
00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:25,280
because that was the way
Barça had to play football.
694
00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:28,080
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
695
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:31,600
He would show us how he wanted us
to play the ball out from the back.
696
00:44:31,720 --> 00:44:33,680
He said that by doing this, we'd score.
697
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:36,760
So why would I stop playing that way
if I made a mistake?
698
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:40,440
We both knew that it was risky.
699
00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:44,360
But he would say,
"Don't worry if you make a mistake.
700
00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:47,360
Just keep playing exactly the same way."
701
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:49,640
(CHEERING)
702
00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:07,200
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
703
00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:10,360
We believe it's about
much more than just winning.
704
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:13,320
The message isn't "win, win, win".
705
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:15,200
Winning is a result of how you play.
706
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:17,280
The philosophy
is the most important thing.
707
00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:20,920
You know you've done something
when people just want to watch you play.
708
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:22,000
Not win.
709
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:26,800
When you talk about Barcelona,
you're talking about the way they play,
710
00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:28,480
the beauty of the game.
711
00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:39,320
You go home and you go like,
"You should watch the second goal...
712
00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:41,960
and, by the way, they won."
713
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:53,360
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
714
00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:57,320
There was a sign on the door
of the coaches' room, which said,
715
00:45:57,440 --> 00:46:03,800
"If you're offering us a youth player
who's less than 1.8 meters tall,
716
00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:05,200
turn around and go home."
717
00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:09,680
It was Cruyff who changed that,
when he returned as manager.
718
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:15,960
He believed that talent was the key
and height was irrelevant.
719
00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:19,720
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
720
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:21,080
From then on, players were judged
only on their quality.
721
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:25,000
Is he good or not?
Regardless of their height.
722
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:28,640
Look at Jordi, Xavi, Messi and Andrés.
723
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:32,960
On top of each other they barely reach
normal height. They're all tiny!
724
00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:34,440
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
725
00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:37,920
Small players have enormous advantages
over big players.
726
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:41,040
They can start, stop and turn quicker.
727
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:43,040
The best players are all small.
728
00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:46,400
Messi has given a lot of people,
729
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:50,000
a lot of young football dreamers,
a whole new hope.
730
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:52,480
It's not about the 1 meter 80.
731
00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:55,160
It's much more than that.
732
00:46:55,680 --> 00:46:57,000
It's intelligence.
733
00:46:57,120 --> 00:46:59,680
In the end,
if the brain is faster than the ball,
734
00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:02,520
you dominate.
735
00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:11,360
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
736
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:14,200
One of my friends worked
in the youth academy,
737
00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:17,800
when Messi was 14 or 15.
738
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:22,160
I always asked about the kids,
which of them looked special,
739
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:25,160
who was likely to make it
and reach the first team.
740
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:28,600
He said to me,
"There's this kid from Argentina
741
00:47:28,720 --> 00:47:32,200
and I've never seen anyone
with the talent he's got."
742
00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:36,000
When Messi started training with us
at the age of 16,
743
00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:38,680
we all realized he was special.
744
00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:50,960
(CROWD CHEERING)
745
00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:06,160
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
746
00:48:06,240 --> 00:48:11,600
I had a big network of scouts
in South America.
747
00:48:11,720 --> 00:48:16,880
One of them told me
there was a kid in Rosario.
748
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:21,440
He was only 12 years old
but he was unique.
749
00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:26,240
Nowadays, clubs invest in youngsters,
but it didn't happen back then.
750
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:31,280
It wasn't easy, but Charly Rexach helped
and we decided to bring him over.
751
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:34,240
MESSI: Nobody wanted to take a risk on me.
752
00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:39,400
It was a big gamble to sign
such a small kid from abroad
753
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:42,920
and bring him to Barcelona.
754
00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:48,240
It was Charly Rexach who made it happen.
755
00:48:48,360 --> 00:48:52,560
He came to watch me play and told me
that Barça definitely wanted me.
756
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:56,800
It was thanks to him and the coaches
who wanted to sign me,
757
00:48:56,920 --> 00:48:59,560
although there were some who didn't.
758
00:48:59,680 --> 00:49:06,040
But mainly it's thanks to Charly
that I signed for Barça.
759
00:49:06,640 --> 00:49:07,720
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
760
00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:09,480
I've always said it was an honor
to have brought Messi to this club.
761
00:49:09,600 --> 00:49:12,200
My small part in Messi's arrival
762
00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:16,120
was that I kept nagging
until we signed him.
763
00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:19,280
If you went to the board back then
764
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:23,080
and told them that we needed
to sign a 12-year-old kid,
765
00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:25,440
their first reaction was,
766
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:28,440
"Let's talk again in eight years."
767
00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:30,520
But I said, "No. We have to sign him.
768
00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:36,040
He's very good,
and one day, he'll be incredible."
769
00:49:36,160 --> 00:49:39,000
That was my success. I insisted on it.
770
00:49:39,120 --> 00:49:44,240
Even back then, it was already obvious
that Messi was out of this world.
771
00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:47,680
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
772
00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:50,480
So I told Rexach
that I needed something in writing.
773
00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:52,560
His parents had been here a month,
774
00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:57,520
and I kept reassuring them,
but there was no official agreement.
775
00:49:57,640 --> 00:50:00,120
We were at the Pompeia Tennis Club
on Montjuic,
776
00:50:00,240 --> 00:50:06,040
and there were napkins on the table,
so Rexach took one and wrote,
777
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:09,120
"I, Carles Rexach,
advisor to the president,
778
00:50:09,240 --> 00:50:13,280
confirm that Leo Messi has the qualities
to sign for FC Barcelona."
779
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:15,120
He signed it and then I signed it.
780
00:50:15,240 --> 00:50:17,120
We still have the napkin
stored in the bank
781
00:50:17,240 --> 00:50:22,040
because it's delicate
and it needs looking after.
782
00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:23,280
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
783
00:50:23,360 --> 00:50:26,560
By signing the napkin,
I wanted to show Messi's family
784
00:50:26,680 --> 00:50:29,440
that I was committed to
signing him for FC Barcelona.
785
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:34,160
JODI: I think Barcelona and Messi just...
It was destined.
786
00:50:34,280 --> 00:50:36,160
It just had to be this way.
787
00:50:36,280 --> 00:50:39,160
He came to the best club
that he could have.
788
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:02,640
MESSI: It was difficult at first.
789
00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:08,000
I was very young and everything was new.
790
00:51:08,120 --> 00:51:12,160
I'd left behind family members,
friends, my country.
791
00:51:12,280 --> 00:51:18,560
It was tough to start with,
but I managed to settle in.
792
00:51:18,680 --> 00:51:21,120
Most of us knew
that a phenomenon was coming.
793
00:51:21,240 --> 00:51:23,560
But the Gamper tournament was the proof.
794
00:51:23,680 --> 00:51:24,840
It was the first night,
795
00:51:24,960 --> 00:51:26,760
of which there have been so many since,
796
00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:31,680
when 99,000 lucky people at the Camp Nou
simply paid homage
797
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:34,840
to something more exciting, more uplifting
798
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:36,840
than they'd ever witnessed before.
799
00:51:37,520 --> 00:51:41,120
I was there that night
and the effect was spine-tingling.
800
00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:44,000
(CROWD CHANTING)
801
00:51:49,640 --> 00:51:50,640
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
802
00:51:50,720 --> 00:51:52,320
It was a very special day
803
00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:57,120
and I loved every minute.
804
00:51:57,840 --> 00:52:00,400
It was the Gamper tournament
805
00:52:00,520 --> 00:52:06,040
and I was in the starting XI.
806
00:52:07,160 --> 00:52:11,920
It was a huge moment for me
because after that game,
807
00:52:12,040 --> 00:52:14,960
everything changed.
808
00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:18,480
That's where it all started.
809
00:52:19,600 --> 00:52:20,800
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
810
00:52:20,880 --> 00:52:24,480
ETO'O: I remember telling Patrick Vieira
before that match
811
00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:29,880
to be very careful
because he was up against a young kid
812
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:32,560
who would change history.
813
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:37,120
One day, it would seem like every player
who came before Messi, even me,
814
00:52:37,240 --> 00:52:39,480
were playing a different sport.
815
00:52:40,880 --> 00:52:43,040
It was incredible what this kid was doing
816
00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:46,840
against the likes of Vieira,
a first team player at Juve.
817
00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:52,000
He was drifting past big,
physical players.
818
00:52:52,120 --> 00:52:54,360
Messi just did whatever he wanted.
819
00:52:54,480 --> 00:52:58,800
And Capello asked
if he could take him on loan.
820
00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:04,120
(CROWD CHEERING)
821
00:53:07,280 --> 00:53:08,640
Capello's no fool!
822
00:53:08,760 --> 00:53:09,800
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
823
00:53:09,880 --> 00:53:11,720
Initially, I didn't know
anything about Messi.
824
00:53:11,840 --> 00:53:16,040
Only that he was going to play.
825
00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:18,400
I saw that he was just a young kid,
826
00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:23,760
but when the game started,
he began doing incredible things.
827
00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:27,000
Rijkaard was
the Barcelona coach back then.
828
00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:32,520
It was the Gamper trophy,
a friendly match.
829
00:53:32,640 --> 00:53:36,200
The referee wasn't that strict
and we could move about,
830
00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:38,560
so I walked over to Rijkaard
831
00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:45,000
and asked if I could take Messi on loan.
832
00:53:45,120 --> 00:53:48,960
You weren't allowed as many
foreigners in your team back then.
833
00:53:49,080 --> 00:53:51,920
I said, "You've already got
three foreign players.
834
00:53:52,040 --> 00:53:54,160
There's no place for him".
835
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:59,800
But Rijkaard said that
they were already looking for a solution
836
00:53:59,920 --> 00:54:06,160
and Messi would be a regular
in the team very soon.
837
00:54:06,760 --> 00:54:07,760
It's just...
838
00:54:09,720 --> 00:54:10,760
How do you describe it?
839
00:54:10,840 --> 00:54:14,920
Basically everyone knew this guy is
going to be the best in the world.
840
00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:16,760
And there was no doubt about it.
841
00:54:40,680 --> 00:54:41,760
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
842
00:54:41,840 --> 00:54:42,960
VALDÉS:
I knew about his goal scoring ability,
843
00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:47,000
and fortunately, Guardiola
put him in that false nine position.
844
00:54:47,120 --> 00:54:49,720
It meant that
alongside Eto'o and the other strikers,
845
00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:53,960
he had more freedom in attack.
846
00:54:54,560 --> 00:55:00,560
That tactical change
was a huge benefit to him.
847
00:55:01,080 --> 00:55:02,600
(CROWD CHEERING)
848
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:24,840
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
849
00:55:24,920 --> 00:55:27,440
It's very difficult to pick
Leo's best goal.
850
00:55:27,560 --> 00:55:31,080
The one he scored against Getafe
comes to mind.
851
00:55:32,040 --> 00:55:34,080
When you see what he produces
day in day out,
852
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:36,000
it's impossible to choose one goal.
853
00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:46,480
(CROWD CHEERING)
854
00:55:46,600 --> 00:55:49,520
They were just flashes of Maradona
against England.
855
00:55:50,120 --> 00:55:52,840
And I knew at that time,
856
00:55:52,960 --> 00:55:56,800
right in the moment that I've witnessed
something incredible here.
857
00:55:56,920 --> 00:55:59,720
It's one of his great goals,
probably one of the greatest,
858
00:55:59,840 --> 00:56:02,720
but if you get a video of his goals,
859
00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:09,680
he's probably scored another 50 like it,
which makes him exceptional.
860
00:56:17,040 --> 00:56:18,520
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
861
00:56:18,680 --> 00:56:24,400
One of my favorites is the goal
he scored against Arsenal.
862
00:56:24,840 --> 00:56:27,960
It was like watching someone
on the PlayStation.
863
00:56:28,080 --> 00:56:34,640
He flicks it over Almunia
at the last second and then scores.
864
00:56:43,120 --> 00:56:44,720
I love it because of that skill.
865
00:56:44,840 --> 00:56:48,040
Any other player
would smash it into the net first time,
866
00:56:48,160 --> 00:56:53,440
but he had the composure
to flick the ball up and then finish.
867
00:56:53,560 --> 00:56:57,080
The best goal I've seen him score
was against Málaga at home
868
00:56:57,440 --> 00:56:59,720
because that defied logic what he did.
869
00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:03,920
Diagonal ball,
controlled the ball on his chest,
870
00:57:04,680 --> 00:57:06,280
he runs full speed.
871
00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:11,280
The first player goes,
the second player's just behind him.
872
00:57:13,200 --> 00:57:16,480
If he takes another step
that player will clear the ball.
873
00:57:16,600 --> 00:57:19,440
OK, if you stop the ball
on your left foot here,
874
00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:25,560
how do you go back with that same leg
to touch the ball in the air,
875
00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:28,480
to make sure that guy doesn't touch it?
876
00:57:28,600 --> 00:57:30,040
Then he almost fell.
877
00:57:30,160 --> 00:57:33,080
He almost fell and smashed it
to first post, top corner.
878
00:57:34,160 --> 00:57:35,320
That's not normal.
879
00:57:39,720 --> 00:57:40,880
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
880
00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:42,720
Regardless of the fact that he's Messi,
in training, he wants to win.
881
00:57:42,840 --> 00:57:46,840
He'll get annoyed
if he doesn't get the ball
882
00:57:46,960 --> 00:57:49,040
and angry if he's fouled.
883
00:57:49,160 --> 00:57:52,080
And that tells you a lot
about a champion like him.
884
00:57:52,200 --> 00:57:56,640
In training, if the boss doesn't call
a foul or whatever,
885
00:57:56,760 --> 00:58:00,960
he used to go and ask,
"It's not a foul? OK."
886
00:58:01,080 --> 00:58:05,280
He used to go and get the ball,
run past everyone, score.
887
00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:07,480
Now you get the ball, you try to go,
888
00:58:07,600 --> 00:58:10,440
he runs after you,
gets the ball back, scores,
889
00:58:10,800 --> 00:58:15,240
until he gets in a normal state again
and he relaxes.
890
00:58:15,360 --> 00:58:16,960
Next thing you know you're 3-1 down.
891
00:58:17,360 --> 00:58:20,760
He's a player
who's different from the rest.
892
00:58:21,360 --> 00:58:23,560
He's very talented
and earns lots of money,
893
00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:29,200
but when you meet him
it's like he isn't a star at all.
894
00:58:31,200 --> 00:58:32,560
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
895
00:58:32,640 --> 00:58:38,560
I've known him for ten or 12 years
and he's not the most outgoing person
896
00:58:38,680 --> 00:58:42,560
but he's just a normal, humble guy.
897
00:58:42,680 --> 00:58:44,440
He's very quiet,
898
00:58:44,560 --> 00:58:48,200
but when his feet do the talking,
he's unique.
899
00:58:48,320 --> 00:58:50,080
He's an absolute winner.
900
00:58:50,200 --> 00:58:54,560
He has the desire to always be
the best on the pitch,
901
00:58:54,680 --> 00:58:58,520
and that's why he became the best player
in the history of this game.
902
00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:00,600
-(WHISTLE BLOWS)
-(CROWD CHEERS)
903
00:59:02,960 --> 00:59:04,120
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
904
00:59:04,200 --> 00:59:08,840
I was lucky enough to play
against Pelé and Cruyff.
905
00:59:08,960 --> 00:59:10,200
I watched Maradona play.
906
00:59:10,320 --> 00:59:14,920
They have all made a big difference
in this sport.
907
00:59:15,040 --> 00:59:17,160
But nowadays there is no one
like Leo Messi.
908
00:59:17,280 --> 00:59:20,840
He does things that other players
can't even think about doing.
909
00:59:23,760 --> 00:59:26,000
He does the impossible, the incredible.
910
00:59:26,120 --> 00:59:29,040
He moves at a different speed
to everyone else. (CHUCKLES)
911
00:59:30,320 --> 00:59:34,440
It's like the ball is glued to his foot
and he keeps showing it to you
912
00:59:34,560 --> 00:59:39,240
and just when you think you can get it,
it's already too late.
913
00:59:40,680 --> 00:59:47,600
It's difficult to talk about Leo
and put it into our words
914
00:59:47,720 --> 00:59:49,520
because he's not on our planet.
915
00:59:50,040 --> 00:59:51,200
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
916
00:59:51,280 --> 00:59:53,760
In every game I'd be watching,
waiting to see what he would do
917
00:59:53,880 --> 00:59:56,800
because he's the player
who wins you every game.
918
00:59:57,480 --> 01:00:01,240
When he takes the ball,
something's going to happen.
919
01:00:03,280 --> 01:00:04,640
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
920
01:00:04,800 --> 01:00:06,880
MASCHERANO: He's capable of starting
the move and finishing it off, as well.
921
01:00:09,000 --> 01:00:11,680
Normally, players can do one or the other,
922
01:00:14,120 --> 01:00:15,560
But he's different.
923
01:00:16,600 --> 01:00:17,840
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
924
01:00:17,960 --> 01:00:19,520
XAVI: He's better than you
with his right foot, left foot and head,
925
01:00:19,640 --> 01:00:21,520
at defending and attacking.
926
01:00:21,640 --> 01:00:22,720
He's faster,
927
01:00:24,560 --> 01:00:26,800
better at dribbling and passing.
928
01:00:34,400 --> 01:00:35,760
INTERVIEWER: Goalkeeper?
929
01:00:35,880 --> 01:00:38,600
Well, we haven't put him in goal yet.
930
01:00:38,720 --> 01:00:42,720
But watch out if he tries that too!
(LAUGHS)
931
01:00:51,360 --> 01:00:54,280
The impact and importance of Cruyff
as a player
932
01:00:54,400 --> 01:00:57,280
and then the Dream Team coach
at Barça, huge.
933
01:00:57,400 --> 01:00:59,840
But Joan Laporta's devotion
to the Dutchman
934
01:00:59,960 --> 01:01:01,680
meant that he stood for election
935
01:01:01,800 --> 01:01:03,440
and once he won the presidency,
936
01:01:03,560 --> 01:01:06,520
he ushered in that golden era of all-time
937
01:01:07,160 --> 01:01:11,560
by handing the GPS to Cruyff,
about the football philosophy,
938
01:01:11,680 --> 01:01:14,440
and the appointment of the right men
to implement it.
939
01:01:14,880 --> 01:01:18,040
It's for those three things:
great player, brilliant coach,
940
01:01:18,160 --> 01:01:20,640
and the greatest ever professor,
941
01:01:20,760 --> 01:01:23,360
that Cruyff has become
the most important man
942
01:01:23,480 --> 01:01:25,960
in the history of professional football.
943
01:01:26,640 --> 01:01:31,200
I think it was... it was crucial,
the contribution of Cruyff.
944
01:01:31,320 --> 01:01:33,880
It wasn't like a day-to-day office job,
945
01:01:34,000 --> 01:01:38,560
but we knew that he was providing ideas
and support.
946
01:01:38,680 --> 01:01:39,800
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
947
01:01:39,960 --> 01:01:42,520
LAPORTA: He advised us on all
of our football decisions.
948
01:01:42,640 --> 01:01:45,840
Johan created and developed
a certain style of football,
949
01:01:45,960 --> 01:01:52,040
and Rijkaard contributed his own
personality, ideas and experience.
950
01:01:56,920 --> 01:01:58,040
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
951
01:01:58,120 --> 01:01:59,280
VALDÉS:
People remember Pep's time in charge
952
01:01:59,400 --> 01:02:01,320
because it was a very successful era,
953
01:02:01,440 --> 01:02:05,160
but I'll never forget Frank's time
at the club,
954
01:02:05,280 --> 01:02:07,640
which was also
a very successful few years.
955
01:02:08,080 --> 01:02:13,040
During Madrid's Galáctico era,
they were winning everything,
956
01:02:13,160 --> 01:02:15,160
and it felt like we couldn't beat them.
957
01:02:15,280 --> 01:02:17,640
But with Rijkaard, we put an end to that,
958
01:02:17,760 --> 01:02:22,480
which for me personally
was a very proud moment.
959
01:02:24,920 --> 01:02:26,800
-(WHISTLE BLOWS)
-(CROWD CHEERS)
960
01:02:32,960 --> 01:02:36,040
Barça was already a huge brand,
961
01:02:36,160 --> 01:02:40,200
but we were looking at the museum
and there was only one Champions League.
962
01:02:50,960 --> 01:02:53,920
If you watch the final,
I don't think we deserved to lose.
963
01:03:17,840 --> 01:03:19,080
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
964
01:03:19,160 --> 01:03:21,280
After the births of my children,
that was the best night of my life.
965
01:03:21,400 --> 01:03:28,360
I honestly thought it would
be my last game for Barça
966
01:03:28,560 --> 01:03:31,240
because I'd had a really tough year.
967
01:03:31,360 --> 01:03:35,800
It was thanks to Frank
that I played that day.
968
01:03:35,920 --> 01:03:38,400
He was like a father to me.
969
01:03:38,520 --> 01:03:43,440
And in the end,
we lifted the European Cup together.
970
01:03:49,000 --> 01:03:51,120
After winning in Paris,
that magical point,
971
01:03:51,240 --> 01:03:56,160
that turning point for the club,
the following season wasn't that good.
972
01:03:56,280 --> 01:04:01,280
The leading players were not really
leading the group properly.
973
01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:05,920
Maybe we had so much success so early
that maybe it was too early. (CHUCKLES)
974
01:04:06,680 --> 01:04:09,840
GUDJOHNSEN: Slowly, but steadily,
we were going in the wrong direction.
975
01:04:09,960 --> 01:04:13,800
The second season that I was here,
Rijkaard was still in charge.
976
01:04:13,920 --> 01:04:20,160
I think it's one of the worst seasons
in the recent history of Barcelona,
977
01:04:20,280 --> 01:04:21,560
where we came third.
978
01:04:21,680 --> 01:04:22,840
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
979
01:04:22,920 --> 01:04:25,680
We went backwards after winning in Paris
980
01:04:25,800 --> 01:04:27,560
and winning the league.
981
01:04:27,680 --> 01:04:32,960
We'd stopped competing.
we'd lost our fire, our hunger.
982
01:04:33,080 --> 01:04:36,040
HENRY: You could sense through the
season that it was the end of an era.
983
01:04:36,160 --> 01:04:37,440
People wanted a change,
984
01:04:37,560 --> 01:04:40,920
and I was part of the people
that they wanted out.
985
01:04:41,040 --> 01:04:42,880
It was very difficult.
986
01:04:45,800 --> 01:04:46,920
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
987
01:04:47,000 --> 01:04:49,560
XAVI: I've only been sent off twice:
Once because the referee made a mistake
988
01:04:49,680 --> 01:04:51,120
and once at the Bernabéu.
989
01:04:58,440 --> 01:05:00,200
I felt angry and powerless.
990
01:05:00,320 --> 01:05:02,120
They were running rings around us.
991
01:05:02,240 --> 01:05:07,520
Never mind 4-1, we could have lost 7-1.
992
01:05:07,640 --> 01:05:10,800
It was one of the worst nights
of my career,
993
01:05:10,920 --> 01:05:13,200
and the same goes for Puyol
and everyone else.
994
01:05:18,400 --> 01:05:22,040
It just wasn't good enough.
Not for the standards people set here.
995
01:05:22,160 --> 01:05:23,840
Not good enough for the club.
996
01:05:23,960 --> 01:05:27,440
And not good enough
if you look at the players that we had.
997
01:05:27,560 --> 01:05:29,120
Something had to change.
998
01:05:39,920 --> 01:05:43,560
HUNTER: Mourinho does come out
of this story as the bad guy,
999
01:05:43,640 --> 01:05:47,080
but in 2008,
he was a perfectly legitimate candidate
1000
01:05:47,200 --> 01:05:49,720
to succeed the failing Frank Rijkaard.
1001
01:05:50,360 --> 01:05:51,360
He's a winner,
1002
01:05:51,480 --> 01:05:55,320
and it felt like a safer choice
because he was a big brand
1003
01:05:55,440 --> 01:06:00,040
and he'd recently coached Chelsea, etc.,
and he was on the market.
1004
01:06:00,160 --> 01:06:01,160
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1005
01:06:01,320 --> 01:06:02,840
LAPORTA: It was a long process,
there were many board members
1006
01:06:02,960 --> 01:06:03,960
who wanted Mourinho.
1007
01:06:04,080 --> 01:06:10,400
They argued that we needed a manager
who would get results quickly.
1008
01:06:11,080 --> 01:06:15,200
Given there were four or five directors
keen on Mourinho,
1009
01:06:15,320 --> 01:06:22,000
the vice president organized
a meeting with him and off he went.
1010
01:06:22,280 --> 01:06:25,240
INGLA:
By that time he was employing the 4-3-3,
1011
01:06:25,360 --> 01:06:26,920
he even prepared a PowerPoint
1012
01:06:27,040 --> 01:06:31,840
with some pitch positions of the players
and typical movements.
1013
01:06:31,960 --> 01:06:34,520
I'm sure he would have been successful.
1014
01:06:39,160 --> 01:06:40,240
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1015
01:06:40,440 --> 01:06:41,600
Mourinho helped us a lot
when we were young players.
1016
01:06:41,720 --> 01:06:48,000
Van Gaal often sent him
to take Barça B training.
1017
01:06:49,480 --> 01:06:50,840
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1018
01:06:51,000 --> 01:06:53,040
I was with the under-19s
and he'd coach us once a week.
1019
01:06:53,160 --> 01:06:59,280
It was the same style of football,
the Barça philosophy.
1020
01:06:59,400 --> 01:07:00,680
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1021
01:07:00,880 --> 01:07:03,120
XAVI: The rondo, possession,
holding onto the ball, positional play.
1022
01:07:03,240 --> 01:07:05,480
We worked on all of that with Mourinho.
1023
01:07:05,600 --> 01:07:08,360
You could understand that Mourinho felt
1024
01:07:08,480 --> 01:07:11,800
he should be in charge of making Barça
the greatest team in the world.
1025
01:07:12,160 --> 01:07:15,200
But by 2008,
Mourinho had changed radically.
1026
01:07:15,320 --> 01:07:19,960
It was about power, height,
athleticism, over technique.
1027
01:07:20,040 --> 01:07:21,640
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1028
01:07:21,720 --> 01:07:23,320
When he went to Chelsea,
1029
01:07:23,440 --> 01:07:27,360
Mourinho's philosophy of the game changed.
1030
01:07:27,720 --> 01:07:31,040
It's a very different style
to the football we play at Barça.
1031
01:07:33,520 --> 01:07:34,960
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1032
01:07:35,080 --> 01:07:37,960
We wanted to stay faithful
to Cruyff's philosophy.
1033
01:07:38,080 --> 01:07:39,360
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1034
01:07:39,480 --> 01:07:44,480
The president and Johan were good friends,
1035
01:07:44,600 --> 01:07:48,560
and Laporta had complete
confidence in Johan's opinion.
1036
01:07:48,680 --> 01:07:52,480
Johan told him the man for the job
was training the youth team.
1037
01:07:53,240 --> 01:07:55,240
All he needed to do was promote him.
1038
01:07:55,680 --> 01:07:59,640
There's a lot of football players...
There were a lot of football players
1039
01:07:59,760 --> 01:08:02,040
that came to visit my father periodically.
1040
01:08:02,160 --> 01:08:03,160
My father loved that.
1041
01:08:03,280 --> 01:08:07,960
And I know Pep also loved that,
and I know that they were meeting a lot.
1042
01:08:08,080 --> 01:08:12,280
So when my father had,
what we could call a crazy idea
1043
01:08:12,400 --> 01:08:15,160
that the coach who was in Barça B
in the third division,
1044
01:08:15,280 --> 01:08:18,600
or the third level at the time, to say,
"Put him in the first team."
1045
01:08:18,720 --> 01:08:21,240
That's a big gamble.
1046
01:08:21,320 --> 01:08:22,480
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1047
01:08:22,560 --> 01:08:23,640
LAPORTA: I asked them if they
thought Pep was ready,
1048
01:08:24,320 --> 01:08:28,120
and Txiki Begiristain and Johan,
who saw him regularly, said he was.
1049
01:08:28,640 --> 01:08:30,880
Mourinho's agent called me and said,
1050
01:08:31,000 --> 01:08:33,360
"Are you going to appoint Mourinho or not?
1051
01:08:33,480 --> 01:08:38,280
Because if you're interested,
we need to talk."
1052
01:08:38,400 --> 01:08:41,520
And I said to him,
"No, Jorge. We've chosen Pep Guardiola."
1053
01:08:42,120 --> 01:08:44,800
So I told Pep that I wanted him
to be the next manager
1054
01:08:44,920 --> 01:08:46,680
if the season didn't end well.
1055
01:08:47,160 --> 01:08:54,160
We were having lunch and Pep,
half in jest, said to me,
1056
01:08:54,520 --> 01:08:58,600
"If you appoint me as coach
I'll win everything for you." (LAUGHS)
1057
01:08:58,720 --> 01:08:59,880
He honestly said that.
1058
01:09:08,120 --> 01:09:09,440
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1059
01:09:09,680 --> 01:09:11,520
When I heard that Guardiola
would be our new manager,
1060
01:09:11,640 --> 01:09:14,680
I knew that everything would go well.
1061
01:09:15,360 --> 01:09:17,840
I hadn't worked with him as a coach
but we were teammates
1062
01:09:17,960 --> 01:09:21,360
and I knew what a perfectionist he was.
1063
01:09:21,480 --> 01:09:23,280
And I thought, this is going to be great.
1064
01:09:23,400 --> 01:09:25,280
-(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICK)
-(CHATTER)
1065
01:09:25,400 --> 01:09:28,720
HUNTER: In retrospect, it's remarkable,
but because of Euro 2008,
1066
01:09:28,840 --> 01:09:32,520
Guardiola's appointment had garnered
very little media coverage in Spain
1067
01:09:32,640 --> 01:09:34,360
until the day of his presentation
1068
01:09:34,480 --> 01:09:38,600
when he sits there,
lean, young, full head of hair,
1069
01:09:38,720 --> 01:09:41,040
the returning local hero and says,
1070
01:09:41,160 --> 01:09:45,120
"Everything changes."
Ronaldinho, out! Deco, out!
1071
01:09:45,240 --> 01:09:49,040
Eto'o, out!
Or, at best, third choice striker.
1072
01:09:49,160 --> 01:09:52,720
It was his statement of: "I'm in charge."
1073
01:09:52,840 --> 01:09:54,160
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1074
01:09:54,360 --> 01:09:57,640
Just imagine what Samuel was like
when he heard that.
1075
01:09:57,760 --> 01:10:03,280
It was like an explosion.
1076
01:10:03,400 --> 01:10:09,320
(CROWD CHANTING)
1077
01:10:09,400 --> 01:10:10,880
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1078
01:10:11,000 --> 01:10:12,360
Given the kind of player I was,
1079
01:10:12,480 --> 01:10:15,120
and considering
what I'd done for the club,
1080
01:10:15,240 --> 01:10:18,920
it would have been nice for Pep
to have called me with the news.
1081
01:10:19,040 --> 01:10:21,080
It's always better
to be straight with people.
1082
01:10:21,200 --> 01:10:23,400
It was a big shock to find out that way.
1083
01:10:24,720 --> 01:10:26,200
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1084
01:10:26,440 --> 01:10:29,840
Tactically, he's the best in the world.
I've always said that.
1085
01:10:29,960 --> 01:10:31,920
He understands the game better
than anyone,
1086
01:10:32,040 --> 01:10:33,480
but I'll be even better
1087
01:10:34,200 --> 01:10:36,000
because I'll be up front with people.
1088
01:10:36,680 --> 01:10:38,040
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1089
01:10:38,200 --> 01:10:40,240
LAPORTA: Samuel took training seriously.
He trained as hard as he played.
1090
01:10:41,280 --> 01:10:43,120
Every manager loved Eto'o
1091
01:10:43,240 --> 01:10:47,960
but at training,
it was all or nothing with him
1092
01:10:48,080 --> 01:10:50,040
and he often caused problems.
1093
01:10:50,160 --> 01:10:54,680
I remember Rijkaard told me
we had to get rid of Samuel
1094
01:10:54,800 --> 01:10:59,760
because he grabbed one of the assistants
by the scruff of the neck
1095
01:10:59,880 --> 01:11:02,160
for giving him offside in training.
1096
01:11:02,280 --> 01:11:04,680
But that passion is also good.
1097
01:11:05,160 --> 01:11:08,520
I remember the pre-season training camp
in St Andrews.
1098
01:11:08,640 --> 01:11:09,960
We were all curious.
1099
01:11:10,080 --> 01:11:12,280
We'd sold Deco and Ronaldinho,
1100
01:11:12,920 --> 01:11:14,560
but I was keen to keep Eto'o,
1101
01:11:14,680 --> 01:11:18,400
and I told him that I'd try to keep him.
1102
01:11:18,520 --> 01:11:19,640
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1103
01:11:19,720 --> 01:11:20,760
He was brilliant during that pre-season.
1104
01:11:20,880 --> 01:11:23,680
He worked harder
and ran more than anyone else.
1105
01:11:25,160 --> 01:11:28,840
In the pre-season games
he scored more than anyone.
1106
01:11:30,080 --> 01:11:33,120
So the captains went to see Pep...
1107
01:11:33,240 --> 01:11:35,360
I hope Pep doesn't get annoyed
I'm sharing this!
1108
01:11:35,480 --> 01:11:39,560
They told Pep that... (EXHALES)
Eto'o would be a big help that season.
1109
01:11:40,520 --> 01:11:43,040
The guy they wanted to kick out
saved them.
1110
01:11:43,160 --> 01:11:45,320
Everyone talks about Messi these days,
1111
01:11:45,440 --> 01:11:48,320
but the one who made the difference
at Barça back then
1112
01:11:48,440 --> 01:11:50,400
wasn't Ronaldinho. It was Eto'o.
1113
01:11:51,040 --> 01:11:54,160
When things got difficult,
it was me they all looked to.
1114
01:11:57,720 --> 01:12:00,120
The team could have played
without a manager.
1115
01:12:00,600 --> 01:12:04,080
Guardiola's job was to reinstall
a desire to win,
1116
01:12:04,200 --> 01:12:07,080
and he achieved that with his team talks.
1117
01:12:15,960 --> 01:12:17,360
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1118
01:12:17,480 --> 01:12:19,640
After his first team talk in St Andrews...
1119
01:12:20,960 --> 01:12:23,880
I knew that something big
was about to happen.
1120
01:12:24,000 --> 01:12:28,320
I'd never heard anyone convey
a message like that before.
1121
01:12:28,440 --> 01:12:33,840
At that moment,
everyone knew that things would go well.
1122
01:12:34,240 --> 01:12:35,360
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1123
01:12:35,440 --> 01:12:36,480
Pep spoke to the players a lot.
1124
01:12:36,600 --> 01:12:39,600
Maybe his most famous team talk
was when he said,
1125
01:12:39,720 --> 01:12:43,560
"You can miss a penalty or mess up a pass.
1126
01:12:43,680 --> 01:12:44,840
"You're only human.
1127
01:12:44,960 --> 01:12:51,520
"But I'll never forgive you
if you don't give me 100%."
1128
01:12:53,080 --> 01:12:54,480
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1129
01:12:54,560 --> 01:12:56,320
There are very few people
who communicate as well as he does.
1130
01:12:56,440 --> 01:13:02,000
He makes his players believe
in what they have to do.
1131
01:13:02,120 --> 01:13:04,920
And he convinces you that it will work.
1132
01:13:05,040 --> 01:13:06,880
From the first minute,
1133
01:13:07,000 --> 01:13:13,640
we all believed that a change was coming
1134
01:13:13,760 --> 01:13:15,680
and that we could achieve big things.
1135
01:13:15,800 --> 01:13:17,160
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1136
01:13:17,240 --> 01:13:20,400
Pep's team talks were exactly
what I needed.
1137
01:13:22,240 --> 01:13:24,880
He was so passionate when he spoke.
1138
01:13:25,440 --> 01:13:26,760
I love a challenge.
1139
01:13:26,880 --> 01:13:31,200
I really like having
to work at something important.
1140
01:13:31,320 --> 01:13:34,600
So when they told me everything
was going to change at Barça,
1141
01:13:34,720 --> 01:13:37,360
that a new coach
and new players were arriving,
1142
01:13:37,480 --> 01:13:39,680
I decided that was where I wanted to be.
1143
01:13:40,160 --> 01:13:41,280
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1144
01:13:41,480 --> 01:13:42,680
XAVI: I joined up with the team
for pre-season
1145
01:13:42,800 --> 01:13:44,360
and I needed to talk to Guardiola.
1146
01:13:44,480 --> 01:13:48,080
I told him I'd had offers
to join other teams.
1147
01:13:48,960 --> 01:13:51,440
Ten seconds is what it took. (LAUGHS)
1148
01:13:51,560 --> 01:13:55,240
He told me he had three or four line-ups
in mind
1149
01:13:55,760 --> 01:13:58,040
and he couldn't imagine a single one
without me in it.
1150
01:13:58,160 --> 01:14:01,880
I told my brother, my agent
and everyone else
1151
01:14:02,000 --> 01:14:03,760
not to listen to any other offers.
1152
01:14:04,800 --> 01:14:06,760
GUDJOHNSEN:
It was a good start in pre-season
1153
01:14:06,880 --> 01:14:08,280
and the freshness about the team
1154
01:14:08,400 --> 01:14:10,880
and a lot of hard work and well-prepared,
1155
01:14:11,000 --> 01:14:13,480
but the season itself
didn't start that well.
1156
01:14:21,720 --> 01:14:26,360
I actually saw that game with my father,
here at home.
1157
01:14:26,480 --> 01:14:28,200
And they lost to Numancia.
1158
01:14:28,320 --> 01:14:31,480
And immediately the attacks,
"He's not prepared for this."
1159
01:14:31,600 --> 01:14:34,280
My father said,
"It's one of the best games in years!"
1160
01:14:34,400 --> 01:14:38,680
You know, come on! Give us a break!
It was not the best game.
1161
01:14:39,080 --> 01:14:42,320
Most of us, including me,
probably saw the game and said,
1162
01:14:42,440 --> 01:14:44,240
"Wow! This doesn't smell good."
1163
01:14:44,680 --> 01:14:47,720
My father never looked
at the end product of 90 minutes.
1164
01:14:47,840 --> 01:14:50,920
My father looked at the end product
of many years to come.
1165
01:14:55,160 --> 01:14:57,840
(CROWD CHEERING)
1166
01:15:01,840 --> 01:15:03,960
GUDJOHNSEN:
It was really a big moment for myself,
1167
01:15:04,080 --> 01:15:08,160
and it was probably an even bigger
moment for the team and for the club
1168
01:15:08,280 --> 01:15:10,320
because we needed that victory.
1169
01:15:10,680 --> 01:15:12,960
If we'd drawn that game,
1170
01:15:13,080 --> 01:15:16,040
the question marks would have started
flying around.
1171
01:15:17,360 --> 01:15:20,680
And once we found that click,
once we got that first victory,
1172
01:15:22,320 --> 01:15:23,640
there was no stopping us.
1173
01:15:40,680 --> 01:15:42,120
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1174
01:15:42,320 --> 01:15:47,320
Guardiola taught us so much,
but he also explained why we did things.
1175
01:15:47,440 --> 01:15:49,800
Most of us already understood the reasons
1176
01:15:49,920 --> 01:15:53,360
because we'd spent years at Barça,
1177
01:15:53,480 --> 01:15:56,560
but the guys from other clubs
noticed a huge change
1178
01:15:56,680 --> 01:15:58,480
when Guardiola took over.
1179
01:16:02,480 --> 01:16:03,880
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1180
01:16:04,040 --> 01:16:08,920
He was the coach who completely
changed my outlook.
1181
01:16:10,200 --> 01:16:15,680
When I arrived here he showed me
an entirely new way
1182
01:16:15,800 --> 01:16:19,440
of seeing, playing,
and thinking about football.
1183
01:16:20,400 --> 01:16:21,680
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1184
01:16:21,760 --> 01:16:25,720
It always reminded me of the tactics
of a basketball team,
1185
01:16:25,840 --> 01:16:29,040
when they have the ball
and start signaling to each other
1186
01:16:29,160 --> 01:16:31,400
that they're going to try a certain play.
1187
01:16:31,520 --> 01:16:32,920
It was a bit like that.
1188
01:16:35,680 --> 01:16:36,800
It was fantastic.
1189
01:16:36,920 --> 01:16:39,000
I was never allowed to kick the ball long,
1190
01:16:39,120 --> 01:16:43,080
and from the very first minute
I was involved in the tactics.
1191
01:16:43,200 --> 01:16:45,840
So I had to really concentrate
all the time,
1192
01:16:45,960 --> 01:16:52,800
which meant every match
flew by really fast.
1193
01:16:52,920 --> 01:16:57,120
It was great because I'd been used to
a more direct style of football
1194
01:16:57,240 --> 01:17:02,680
and sometimes all I'd be thinking about
was how boring the games were.
1195
01:17:02,760 --> 01:17:04,120
(LAUGHS)
1196
01:17:04,200 --> 01:17:05,400
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1197
01:17:05,520 --> 01:17:08,320
I was in my element because Guardiola
and I shared the same philosophy.
1198
01:17:08,440 --> 01:17:13,440
I'd think, don't clear it, pass it,
and Guardiola would say exactly that.
1199
01:17:13,560 --> 01:17:19,560
But my football philosophy
isn't the same as Abidal's or Henry's
1200
01:17:19,680 --> 01:17:22,440
or Hleb's or Yaya Toure's.
1201
01:17:22,560 --> 01:17:28,280
They thought they were playing well,
and at other clubs they would have been.
1202
01:17:28,400 --> 01:17:31,080
Not at Barça.
It's a different kind of football.
1203
01:17:31,440 --> 01:17:34,560
Whoa, hang on! That's new.
Let me assess it. Let me see it.
1204
01:17:34,680 --> 01:17:37,080
Let me put my pride on the side, also.
1205
01:17:37,200 --> 01:17:41,600
Because that team had a lot of guys
that are all kings in their country.
1206
01:17:41,720 --> 01:17:44,960
To tell a guy that used to do
maybe stuff or whatever,
1207
01:17:45,080 --> 01:17:48,000
"No, stay there. Don't do that.
Make that run for him."
1208
01:17:48,440 --> 01:17:52,160
"What? What do you mean?
I can play football too!"
1209
01:17:52,680 --> 01:17:54,360
LAPORTA: Pep's methods were different.
1210
01:17:54,480 --> 01:17:57,320
He was very hands-on, always intervening.
1211
01:17:57,440 --> 01:18:00,520
I remember Abidal and a few others
coming to me and saying,
1212
01:18:00,640 --> 01:18:02,840
"This guy's changing everything!"
1213
01:18:04,080 --> 01:18:05,120
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1214
01:18:05,200 --> 01:18:06,480
I wasn't some 15-year-old kid.
1215
01:18:07,200 --> 01:18:10,880
If you treat me with respect,
I'll do the same in return,
1216
01:18:11,000 --> 01:18:12,920
but if not, why should I respect you?
1217
01:18:13,040 --> 01:18:15,760
So I said to Pep,
"You can't speak to me like that."
1218
01:18:15,880 --> 01:18:18,800
I went to the president and told him,
"If this continues, I'm off."
1219
01:18:18,920 --> 01:18:23,080
Abi came from Lyon,
where he had another way of playing.
1220
01:18:24,480 --> 01:18:26,320
Look at the Abidal that arrived,
1221
01:18:27,240 --> 01:18:29,840
and look at the Abidal three years after.
1222
01:18:30,560 --> 01:18:33,680
Crosses, putting the ball down
and passing it out.
1223
01:18:33,800 --> 01:18:35,880
Before he would have cleared it
straight away.
1224
01:18:36,000 --> 01:18:39,680
He wouldn't have been that composed
in the last third.
1225
01:18:40,560 --> 01:18:41,680
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1226
01:18:41,840 --> 01:18:45,360
ALVES: I think Pep's a football genius.
1227
01:18:45,480 --> 01:18:51,960
Sometimes he can be a bit controlling,
checking every last detail.
1228
01:18:52,080 --> 01:18:53,960
Some guys accept and respect that,
1229
01:18:54,080 --> 01:18:58,520
but there are others who say,
"You know where you can stick that."
1230
01:18:58,640 --> 01:19:00,800
I arrived here. I was 21.
1231
01:19:00,920 --> 01:19:04,960
And for me it was like love and hate
at the same time
1232
01:19:05,080 --> 01:19:09,560
because every minute of your life,
you have to be focused on football.
1233
01:19:09,680 --> 01:19:12,720
Twelve o'clock you have to go to bed
to sleep.
1234
01:19:12,840 --> 01:19:17,000
You have to eat well.
He wants to control you in every way.
1235
01:19:17,120 --> 01:19:20,720
"Don't go and watch the tennis,
don't stay under the sun,
1236
01:19:20,840 --> 01:19:23,280
don't go to the Formula 1,
don't go to this.
1237
01:19:23,400 --> 01:19:24,600
We're here on a mission."
1238
01:19:24,720 --> 01:19:28,720
He wanted to know everything.
What we ate, what we... Whatever!
1239
01:19:29,280 --> 01:19:30,880
PIQUÉ: He was so obsessed
1240
01:19:31,000 --> 01:19:37,120
that sometimes we had some arguments
between him and me.
1241
01:19:37,240 --> 01:19:38,400
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1242
01:19:38,520 --> 01:19:40,200
PUYOL: Gerard is one of my best friends,
1243
01:19:40,280 --> 01:19:44,240
but I believe a manager
has to be like that.
1244
01:19:44,360 --> 01:19:46,920
During training,
we always had to give 100%,
1245
01:19:47,040 --> 01:19:49,320
but I'd done that my entire career.
1246
01:19:49,440 --> 01:19:51,840
In my opinion,
that's how football should be.
1247
01:19:52,080 --> 01:19:54,000
On the one hand, he was very demanding.
1248
01:19:54,120 --> 01:19:58,400
We all had to have lunch
at the training ground every day.
1249
01:19:58,520 --> 01:20:00,560
He controlled our weight, what we ate.
1250
01:20:00,680 --> 01:20:03,960
He completely revolutionized
the team's diet.
1251
01:20:04,080 --> 01:20:07,320
But on the other hand,
he gave us the night off before matches.
1252
01:20:08,240 --> 01:20:11,880
As a player, he always complained
that we spent too much time in hotels.
1253
01:20:12,000 --> 01:20:13,120
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1254
01:20:13,240 --> 01:20:16,360
Initially, it seemed like
a strange decision
1255
01:20:16,480 --> 01:20:18,520
because we weren't used to it,
1256
01:20:18,640 --> 01:20:22,480
but I think it was one of the
best decisions he made.
1257
01:20:22,600 --> 01:20:25,840
For me where Pep was,
at times, ahead of the game...
1258
01:20:26,840 --> 01:20:29,880
The fact that, Champions League final,
1259
01:20:30,000 --> 01:20:34,960
in the hotel: family, kids, wives.
1260
01:20:35,040 --> 01:20:36,920
My brother was in my room, midnight.
1261
01:20:37,560 --> 01:20:43,080
Girlfriend, friends, we're just talking,
I made a cup of coffee, chilling.
1262
01:20:43,200 --> 01:20:44,920
You play for any other team,
1263
01:20:45,040 --> 01:20:50,280
"Don't do this, don't do that. No.
You have to concentrate."
1264
01:20:50,400 --> 01:20:51,720
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1265
01:20:51,840 --> 01:20:56,520
We were lucky because Pep
had only recently retired
1266
01:20:56,640 --> 01:21:01,120
and he understood what the life
of a top footballer was like.
1267
01:21:02,480 --> 01:21:03,840
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1268
01:21:03,920 --> 01:21:06,680
We'd go to every training session
and match with a spring in our step
1269
01:21:06,800 --> 01:21:09,440
because he was treating us well.
He understood us.
1270
01:21:10,440 --> 01:21:14,520
HENRY: Listen, I say it
every single time to my friends.
1271
01:21:15,120 --> 01:21:17,080
When the ref was blowing the whistle,
1272
01:21:18,800 --> 01:21:21,360
I used to look at the time and say,
"Already?"
1273
01:21:21,480 --> 01:21:23,640
I didn't want the game to end.
1274
01:21:24,240 --> 01:21:28,160
I didn't want the game to end.
I was like, "I'm enjoying this."
1275
01:21:29,160 --> 01:21:30,240
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1276
01:21:30,360 --> 01:21:32,760
We had a great teacher
and we were like sponges,
1277
01:21:32,880 --> 01:21:35,240
absorbing everything he taught us.
1278
01:21:35,360 --> 01:21:38,040
It makes no difference
how great the teacher is
1279
01:21:38,160 --> 01:21:42,840
if the students aren't capable
of understanding the message.
1280
01:21:42,960 --> 01:21:46,480
It all came together perfectly.
1281
01:21:50,840 --> 01:21:51,920
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1282
01:21:52,000 --> 01:21:53,160
We won everything
because we were the best team,
1283
01:21:53,280 --> 01:21:56,360
but we also had the luck of champions.
1284
01:21:56,480 --> 01:21:58,800
There were some epic moments that season.
1285
01:21:58,920 --> 01:22:03,960
Like when winning the Cup
hinged on one crucial moment
1286
01:22:04,080 --> 01:22:06,640
when Pinto saved a penalty
against Mallorca.
1287
01:22:08,040 --> 01:22:11,080
(CROWD CHEERING)
1288
01:22:14,160 --> 01:22:15,440
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1289
01:22:15,520 --> 01:22:16,640
We were losing 1-0,
1290
01:22:16,760 --> 01:22:22,320
and at the start of the second half
we conceded a penalty
1291
01:22:22,440 --> 01:22:25,080
and Martín Cáceres was sent off.
1292
01:22:25,200 --> 01:22:32,200
So I thought I'd try
and unsettle the penalty taker.
1293
01:22:32,760 --> 01:22:35,200
I said, "Where are you going to put
the penalty?"
1294
01:22:35,320 --> 01:22:39,640
He didn't answer, so I said,
"I'm going to dive that way."
1295
01:22:39,760 --> 01:22:43,840
And I got lucky,
I went the right way and made the save.
1296
01:22:44,400 --> 01:22:48,480
It gave us a massive boost.
1297
01:22:48,600 --> 01:22:50,640
And then Leo came on.
1298
01:22:50,760 --> 01:22:53,760
He got fouled,
their defender was sent off,
1299
01:22:53,880 --> 01:22:55,480
and he scored a wonder-goal.
1300
01:22:56,480 --> 01:22:57,720
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1301
01:22:57,800 --> 01:23:01,160
In La Liga, if we lost at the Bernabéu,
they'd have cut the gap at the top.
1302
01:23:01,280 --> 01:23:04,080
But we won 6-2, which won us the league.
1303
01:23:04,200 --> 01:23:05,640
That was the key game.
1304
01:23:05,760 --> 01:23:08,240
They were four points behind us,
1305
01:23:08,360 --> 01:23:12,000
and if they beat us,
it was really tough to win the league.
1306
01:23:12,120 --> 01:23:15,160
But we played
one of the best games I've ever seen.
1307
01:23:22,840 --> 01:23:24,200
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1308
01:23:24,320 --> 01:23:25,600
I really enjoyed it.
It was one of the best games ever.
1309
01:23:25,720 --> 01:23:28,320
When I die, I'll probably
be thinking about that night.
1310
01:23:28,440 --> 01:23:29,640
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1311
01:23:29,760 --> 01:23:31,800
Puyol kissing the captain's armband
Messi scoring goals,
1312
01:23:31,920 --> 01:23:35,280
and Henry and Piqué. Oh, fantastic!
1313
01:23:36,280 --> 01:23:40,440
I obviously had to behave appropriately
but what a feeling! (CHUCKLES)
1314
01:23:54,960 --> 01:24:00,840
(LAUGHS)
It's weird because it's eight years ago.
1315
01:24:00,960 --> 01:24:05,160
I always watch it on television.
I've watched that goal a hundred times.
1316
01:24:05,280 --> 01:24:10,880
So I always remember this image.
I cannot remember what I felt.
1317
01:24:11,000 --> 01:24:14,720
Obviously,
it was like an unbelievable feeling
1318
01:24:14,840 --> 01:24:17,080
because it was a tremendous game.
1319
01:24:17,960 --> 01:24:19,240
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1320
01:24:19,320 --> 01:24:22,480
But the 6-2 was extra special
because of our tactics.
1321
01:24:24,200 --> 01:24:26,920
That's when that fake nine
whole thing started.
1322
01:24:29,600 --> 01:24:30,720
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1323
01:24:30,800 --> 01:24:32,200
Pep called me the day before the game
1324
01:24:32,320 --> 01:24:34,920
and told me to come down
to the training ground.
1325
01:24:36,240 --> 01:24:38,200
He was keen to discuss a new position.
1326
01:24:38,320 --> 01:24:41,240
He'd been watching videos
of games with Tito.
1327
01:24:41,360 --> 01:24:43,920
He said he wanted
to try something different.
1328
01:24:44,040 --> 01:24:46,960
The red glasses are Barça,
the others are Real Madrid.
1329
01:24:47,080 --> 01:24:48,600
Pep changed our system
1330
01:24:48,720 --> 01:24:52,160
and told Henry to play
between the right-back and center-back,
1331
01:24:52,280 --> 01:24:54,760
with Eto'o between
the center-back and left-back.
1332
01:24:54,880 --> 01:24:58,640
Guardiola had analyzed
the Madrid center-backs
1333
01:24:58,760 --> 01:25:03,440
and noticed they never came out
to press the number nine.
1334
01:25:05,560 --> 01:25:08,600
Thanks to the false nine,
we outnumbered them in midfield
1335
01:25:08,720 --> 01:25:10,520
when Messi dropped back.
1336
01:25:10,640 --> 01:25:13,880
We always had an extra man.
1337
01:25:14,760 --> 01:25:18,640
Pep said we'd outnumber them
throughout the entire game.
1338
01:25:18,720 --> 01:25:19,800
He was right.
1339
01:25:19,920 --> 01:25:21,560
We'd never played that way,
1340
01:25:21,680 --> 01:25:23,000
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1341
01:25:23,160 --> 01:25:27,400
so Madrid hadn't studied
the possibility of us playing like that.
1342
01:25:27,680 --> 01:25:30,160
The center-backs
didn't know whether to mark me or not,
1343
01:25:30,280 --> 01:25:34,720
which meant I had lots of space
when I dropped back.
1344
01:25:34,840 --> 01:25:37,640
And as soon as the defenders came out
to close me down,
1345
01:25:37,760 --> 01:25:40,360
Eto'o and Henry made runs in behind.
1346
01:25:40,480 --> 01:25:42,880
That's what happened
for Henry's first goal.
1347
01:25:43,000 --> 01:25:45,960
It was a great performance.
1348
01:25:46,080 --> 01:25:48,920
And it worked out because on that goal
that Leo gave me
1349
01:25:49,040 --> 01:25:50,480
that's exactly what happened.
1350
01:25:50,600 --> 01:25:54,280
He was in a position where they didn't
know if they have to come and get him,
1351
01:25:54,400 --> 01:25:57,840
but I'm running in behind,
Sam was running on the other side,
1352
01:25:57,960 --> 01:25:59,360
and it worked out.
1353
01:26:01,800 --> 01:26:03,160
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1354
01:26:03,240 --> 01:26:07,600
It wasn't so robotic
because we also improvised.
1355
01:26:07,720 --> 01:26:09,800
Robots would be like,
1356
01:26:09,920 --> 01:26:13,520
(ROBOT VOICE)
"I. Go. Here. Now. I. Go. There."
1357
01:26:13,640 --> 01:26:16,440
No. There was always room to be creative.
1358
01:26:16,560 --> 01:26:23,440
But 60% of our match strategy
was set in stone before kick-off.
1359
01:26:24,560 --> 01:26:27,440
The other 40% was down
to our improvisations.
1360
01:26:32,160 --> 01:26:33,320
(CROWD CHEERING)
1361
01:26:33,440 --> 01:26:34,880
LAPORTA: In the Champions League,
1362
01:26:35,000 --> 01:26:39,480
if it hadn't been for Iniesta's goal,
we were out.
1363
01:26:39,600 --> 01:26:41,280
A 92nd-minute goal.
1364
01:26:51,320 --> 01:26:52,840
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1365
01:26:52,920 --> 01:26:57,520
I was sat with the captain Carles Puyol,
who was suspended.
1366
01:26:57,640 --> 01:26:59,040
Bam, Chelsea go 1-0 up.
1367
01:27:00,080 --> 01:27:01,320
And Puyol said to me,
1368
01:27:01,440 --> 01:27:06,080
"Don't worry, it's fine.
We'll score at the end."
1369
01:27:06,200 --> 01:27:12,400
There I was watching it and I'm like,
"Oh, my gosh! We are gonna lose here."
1370
01:27:12,480 --> 01:27:13,960
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1371
01:27:14,160 --> 01:27:15,960
The minutes kept ticking away,
and I didn't have the nerve to say,
1372
01:27:16,080 --> 01:27:19,760
"Look skipper, you were wrong!
This ain't gonna happen!"
1373
01:27:20,360 --> 01:27:21,840
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1374
01:27:21,960 --> 01:27:24,600
I knew that if we could just hold on,
1375
01:27:24,720 --> 01:27:30,360
because we were under the cosh,
we'd definitely create one last chance.
1376
01:27:30,480 --> 01:27:33,840
And then little Andrés arrived
to save the day.
1377
01:27:57,200 --> 01:27:58,640
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1378
01:27:58,720 --> 01:28:03,320
Every time I watch that goal,
it sparks so many emotions
1379
01:28:03,440 --> 01:28:07,520
because it was such
a significant moment for my club.
1380
01:28:08,320 --> 01:28:10,720
I'll never get tired of watching it.
1381
01:28:10,800 --> 01:28:12,080
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1382
01:28:12,200 --> 01:28:13,920
It's because of moments like this
that we love football.
1383
01:28:16,840 --> 01:28:20,160
The only thing that beats it is sex.
(LAUGHS)
1384
01:28:20,240 --> 01:28:21,440
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1385
01:28:21,520 --> 01:28:22,840
That was the most important goal
in this whole story.
1386
01:28:22,960 --> 01:28:25,280
If we hadn't reached that final in Rome,
1387
01:28:26,000 --> 01:28:28,840
we probably wouldn't
still be talking about Pep's Barça.
1388
01:28:37,840 --> 01:28:39,200
I don't know how I played.
1389
01:28:43,560 --> 01:28:45,800
Iniesta... I don't know how he played.
1390
01:28:46,280 --> 01:28:49,200
We were on a mission.
We didn't want to let that one go.
1391
01:28:49,520 --> 01:28:51,240
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1392
01:28:51,400 --> 01:28:53,480
We had a chance to win the treble.
1393
01:28:53,600 --> 01:28:57,640
We'd just gone
through the drama of Stamford Bridge.
1394
01:28:59,040 --> 01:29:02,600
When we won the Champions League
against Arsenal in Paris,
1395
01:29:02,720 --> 01:29:04,440
I wasn't picked to start.
1396
01:29:04,560 --> 01:29:07,400
So I had to play this time.
1397
01:29:07,520 --> 01:29:12,320
No matter the risk
or possible consequences.
1398
01:29:12,440 --> 01:29:13,480
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1399
01:29:13,600 --> 01:29:15,120
I advised him not to shoot
powerfully from distance
1400
01:29:15,240 --> 01:29:21,480
because there was a big risk
he'd tear his muscle again.
1401
01:29:21,600 --> 01:29:23,080
HENRY: Yaya played center back.
1402
01:29:23,200 --> 01:29:26,080
Sylvinho wasn't even playing
that season, he played.
1403
01:29:26,200 --> 01:29:27,600
Puyol played right back.
1404
01:29:27,720 --> 01:29:30,160
Some people were like,
"Hmm, people are missing.
1405
01:29:30,280 --> 01:29:32,600
Two guys are starting injured."
1406
01:29:32,680 --> 01:29:33,960
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1407
01:29:34,120 --> 01:29:35,880
We knew we'd win the game,
because Pep told us we'd win.
1408
01:29:36,000 --> 01:29:37,640
Pep's a genius.
1409
01:29:37,760 --> 01:29:42,520
He'd tell us exactly
what we needed to do in order to win.
1410
01:29:42,640 --> 01:29:44,040
I hope he will never change
1411
01:29:44,160 --> 01:29:48,920
because he is, for me,
the future of the game.
1412
01:29:49,040 --> 01:29:50,120
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1413
01:29:50,320 --> 01:29:51,720
Some matches looked impossible to win,
1414
01:29:51,840 --> 01:29:55,760
but after 20 minutes,
we'd have them wrapped up,
1415
01:29:56,360 --> 01:29:59,960
like the game
against Manchester United in Rome.
1416
01:30:00,400 --> 01:30:03,600
What manager would show you a video
1417
01:30:05,080 --> 01:30:06,640
five minutes before
a Champions League final?
1418
01:30:06,720 --> 01:30:07,800
Only him.
1419
01:30:07,920 --> 01:30:11,880
We don't know what was happening.
We go inside. There's a screen.
1420
01:30:12,720 --> 01:30:15,840
The boss asks us to stand
in front of the screen
1421
01:30:15,960 --> 01:30:18,080
and we are basically waiting.
1422
01:30:18,160 --> 01:30:19,560
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1423
01:30:19,680 --> 01:30:21,880
Pep and Tito had made a spectacular video
1424
01:30:22,000 --> 01:30:23,800
featuring every single one of us.
1425
01:30:23,920 --> 01:30:27,000
With the music of Gladiator,
I think it was.
1426
01:30:27,120 --> 01:30:30,840
-(HEROIC MUSIC PLAYING)
-We see the whole journey to the final.
1427
01:30:32,080 --> 01:30:35,800
Sad moments, good moments, struggles.
1428
01:30:37,160 --> 01:30:38,760
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1429
01:30:38,840 --> 01:30:42,760
After Iniesta's goal at Stamford Bridge
I got a text message from Pep...
1430
01:30:42,880 --> 01:30:46,120
"I need your help to win
the Champions League."
1431
01:30:46,240 --> 01:30:51,320
The first feedback I received
was on the night before the game.
1432
01:30:51,440 --> 01:30:55,840
Pep gathered his technical staff
and showed them the video.
1433
01:30:55,960 --> 01:30:57,200
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1434
01:30:57,280 --> 01:30:58,400
As soon as I saw it,
1435
01:30:58,520 --> 01:31:01,720
I honestly knew we'd win
the Champions League final.
1436
01:31:02,120 --> 01:31:07,440
HENRY: It was so powerful.
It was... It was so powerful
1437
01:31:07,560 --> 01:31:11,600
that I would say, also,
it was too powerful.
1438
01:31:11,720 --> 01:31:13,000
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1439
01:31:13,160 --> 01:31:16,680
As a motivational tool,
the video was a total disaster.
1440
01:31:16,800 --> 01:31:19,400
In the opening ten minutes,
if it wasn't for Víctor...
1441
01:31:24,480 --> 01:31:25,640
they'd have scored twice!
1442
01:31:25,760 --> 01:31:27,280
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1443
01:31:27,400 --> 01:31:29,160
Er... the boss was very sentimental.
1444
01:31:29,520 --> 01:31:32,720
I went to the dressing room
and was told I couldn't go in.
1445
01:31:32,800 --> 01:31:33,880
"What?"
1446
01:31:34,000 --> 01:31:36,240
They said the boss
was preparing something.
1447
01:31:36,360 --> 01:31:39,040
When we finally got in,
we had no time to prepare
1448
01:31:39,160 --> 01:31:40,360
and it was sweltering hot.
1449
01:31:40,480 --> 01:31:45,320
Then he showed us a video
that had all of us in tears.
1450
01:31:46,400 --> 01:31:49,200
We went onto the pitch
and Andrea Bocelli was singing,
1451
01:31:49,320 --> 01:31:51,120
which almost set us off again.
1452
01:31:51,240 --> 01:31:55,080
Manchester United must have wondered
what was wrong with us.
1453
01:31:55,200 --> 01:31:58,280
We were in pieces.
1454
01:31:58,400 --> 01:32:01,680
HENRY: After the video, he said,
"Guys, at the end of the game,
1455
01:32:01,800 --> 01:32:04,560
"I want people to say
that we can play football.
1456
01:32:05,680 --> 01:32:06,920
"Have a good game."
1457
01:32:26,880 --> 01:32:30,120
We went into the game believing
we had a great chance of winning.
1458
01:32:30,240 --> 01:32:34,200
The first, might've been ten,
15 minutes, we started really well.
1459
01:32:34,320 --> 01:32:37,680
Probably out of nowhere,
I've headed one down in midfield,
1460
01:32:37,800 --> 01:32:40,880
Iniesta's picked it up,
made a run, and all of a sudden,
1461
01:32:41,000 --> 01:32:42,920
boom, Eto'o and you're one down.
1462
01:32:44,280 --> 01:32:46,520
Maybe from that moment on they just...
1463
01:32:47,400 --> 01:32:50,120
That was what they needed.
Take a deep breath,
1464
01:32:50,240 --> 01:32:52,160
just get the ball and start passing it,
1465
01:32:52,280 --> 01:32:54,560
and gradually, sucking the life out of us.
1466
01:32:54,680 --> 01:32:59,120
You know when you play against someone
and you look in their eyes,
1467
01:32:59,240 --> 01:33:00,960
and it's over.
1468
01:33:01,080 --> 01:33:03,040
I think it was Wayne Rooney.
1469
01:33:03,160 --> 01:33:05,920
He was trying to get the ball
and we were keeping the ball,
1470
01:33:06,040 --> 01:33:10,240
and you could see the look.
He was defeated.
1471
01:33:10,360 --> 01:33:15,480
The quality they had, on the night,
was too good for us.
1472
01:33:16,160 --> 01:33:18,680
That was the one, for us,
that hurt the most.
1473
01:33:18,800 --> 01:33:21,440
It took me quite some time
to get over that.
1474
01:33:21,560 --> 01:33:23,080
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1475
01:33:23,160 --> 01:33:25,720
We knew it would be historic
to win the treble in our first year
1476
01:33:25,840 --> 01:33:29,000
playing our brand of football,
with the players we had.
1477
01:33:29,120 --> 01:33:33,120
And after Leo made it 2-0,
we knew the trophy was ours.
1478
01:33:33,240 --> 01:33:34,520
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1479
01:33:34,640 --> 01:33:36,680
It was exactly how I'd visualized it.
1480
01:33:37,320 --> 01:33:41,000
The ball looped over the goalkeeper
and in.
1481
01:33:41,120 --> 01:33:43,560
It was an unforgettable moment.
1482
01:34:03,240 --> 01:34:06,800
It was a statement of greatness
to begin your reign with a treble.
1483
01:34:06,920 --> 01:34:10,640
But the football reached its high point
at Wembley in 2011,
1484
01:34:10,760 --> 01:34:14,440
before which, Johan Cruyff said
that Guardiola should probably
1485
01:34:14,560 --> 01:34:16,280
walk away from the job
1486
01:34:16,400 --> 01:34:20,400
after three hugely intense years
and ten trophies lifted.
1487
01:34:20,520 --> 01:34:22,520
Everything had come at a cost.
1488
01:34:22,640 --> 01:34:25,160
A significant part of that cost
1489
01:34:25,280 --> 01:34:28,680
was that Pep was now getting on
far less well with his employers,
1490
01:34:28,800 --> 01:34:32,000
given that Joan Laporta had ended
his presidential reign,
1491
01:34:32,120 --> 01:34:36,200
and the new guy, Sandro Rosell,
had taken over.
1492
01:34:36,320 --> 01:34:41,000
In his final year,
Guardiola was frustrated and tired.
1493
01:34:41,120 --> 01:34:44,320
Given the burnout that we saw in him
in year four,
1494
01:34:44,440 --> 01:34:47,680
I'll bet you that Guardiola thinks
that Cruyff had it exactly right.
1495
01:34:47,760 --> 01:34:48,880
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1496
01:34:48,960 --> 01:34:50,240
Pep had become very uptight.
1497
01:34:50,360 --> 01:34:53,480
He stressed about things
that hadn't bothered him before.
1498
01:34:53,600 --> 01:34:58,520
We played a pre-season game
at the Dallas Cowboys stadium,
1499
01:35:00,040 --> 01:35:03,680
and I overheard Guardiola
talking to Puyol and Piqué.
1500
01:35:04,120 --> 01:35:07,080
It was an unimportant pre-season friendly
1501
01:35:07,200 --> 01:35:12,000
but Guardiola raised his voice to them.
1502
01:35:13,160 --> 01:35:17,720
When I saw that, I said to Andrés Iniesta,
1503
01:35:17,840 --> 01:35:19,880
"He's leaving. This is his last year."
1504
01:35:20,360 --> 01:35:22,000
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1505
01:35:22,080 --> 01:35:24,400
Even geniuses make mistakes
and Pep definitely got that wrong
1506
01:35:24,520 --> 01:35:28,360
because it felt like
we didn't matter to him anymore.
1507
01:35:28,440 --> 01:35:29,720
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1508
01:35:29,840 --> 01:35:34,640
We didn't know what was going on with Pep,
1509
01:35:34,760 --> 01:35:39,000
which caused some uncertainty
within the group.
1510
01:35:40,000 --> 01:35:44,160
Pep usually renewed his contract
in February or March,
1511
01:35:44,280 --> 01:35:47,120
but February passed with no news.
1512
01:35:47,240 --> 01:35:51,040
Then March passed
and we still didn't know anything.
1513
01:35:51,160 --> 01:35:52,560
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1514
01:35:52,640 --> 01:35:54,920
I really struggled to understand
what was happening.
1515
01:35:57,320 --> 01:36:01,960
And we had a few bust-ups about it.
1516
01:36:02,080 --> 01:36:06,000
That year, if Pep had told me
to jump from the Camp Nou stands,
1517
01:36:06,120 --> 01:36:10,360
I'd have sprinted down the steps.
I wouldn't have jumped!
1518
01:36:10,480 --> 01:36:11,760
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1519
01:36:11,840 --> 01:36:14,120
When you work with the same
coaching staff for so long,
1520
01:36:14,240 --> 01:36:17,000
relationships change.
1521
01:36:17,120 --> 01:36:21,680
It's very difficult to maintain
the dynamic and to keep on winning.
1522
01:36:21,800 --> 01:36:25,440
We won the Copa del Rey Final
in his last game,
1523
01:36:25,560 --> 01:36:29,600
and it was the perfect end
to his time with us.
1524
01:36:36,120 --> 01:36:37,360
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1525
01:36:37,440 --> 01:36:41,400
That day everyone got to see
the team he had built again.
1526
01:36:42,360 --> 01:36:45,200
After 30 minutes, we were leading 3-0
1527
01:36:45,320 --> 01:36:51,760
against the best Athletic Bilbao
side in years.
1528
01:36:52,320 --> 01:36:55,800
HUNTER: Signing off by winning
the Copa del Rey in that style
1529
01:36:55,920 --> 01:36:59,640
on his last night in charge
should have been the perfect send-off,
1530
01:36:59,760 --> 01:37:03,960
but he walked away
with a distinctly bittersweet feeling.
1531
01:37:05,160 --> 01:37:09,480
Mostly because he felt ill-treated
and under-appreciated.
1532
01:37:16,440 --> 01:37:17,800
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1533
01:37:17,880 --> 01:37:23,040
My lasting memory of that cup final
is a sense of sadness.
1534
01:37:23,160 --> 01:37:28,920
It was the end of something wonderful,
so it's normal to feel sad.
1535
01:37:29,480 --> 01:37:32,200
But there was something else
that troubled me.
1536
01:37:32,320 --> 01:37:38,280
The attempts to demolish and destroy
everything we'd achieved.
1537
01:37:38,400 --> 01:37:42,080
I don't understand the motivation.
Things had gone well and we'd won!
1538
01:37:42,200 --> 01:37:45,520
Surely that's what you hold onto,
that's what you remember.
1539
01:37:45,640 --> 01:37:49,800
But no, they didn't care
about what we'd achieved.
1540
01:37:49,920 --> 01:37:54,360
All they did was focus on the negatives.
1541
01:37:55,080 --> 01:37:57,200
I think the club's got a problem.
1542
01:37:58,560 --> 01:37:59,760
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1543
01:37:59,840 --> 01:38:01,280
ALVES:
Barça is a bit strange in that respect.
1544
01:38:01,400 --> 01:38:04,280
I've learned the most important thing
in life is to be grateful
1545
01:38:04,400 --> 01:38:08,320
to the people who make
a difference in your life.
1546
01:38:08,440 --> 01:38:12,440
After everything he'd done for the club,
1547
01:38:12,560 --> 01:38:15,840
Guardiola didn't get
the recognition he deserved.
1548
01:38:21,280 --> 01:38:22,600
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1549
01:38:22,680 --> 01:38:24,320
Announcing his departure
at a press conference
1550
01:38:24,440 --> 01:38:27,840
and then immediately revealing
who would replace him
1551
01:38:27,960 --> 01:38:33,200
in front of the whole squad
and the board members...
1552
01:38:33,960 --> 01:38:37,480
I don't think it was the right way
to say goodbye to the boss.
1553
01:38:38,600 --> 01:38:39,720
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1554
01:38:39,800 --> 01:38:41,920
On the advice of the director
of football, Andoni Zubizarreta
1555
01:38:42,760 --> 01:38:45,120
and after consulting the board,
1556
01:38:45,240 --> 01:38:48,640
I can announce that the next Barça coach
will be Tito Vilanova.
1557
01:38:50,480 --> 01:38:51,760
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1558
01:38:51,840 --> 01:38:53,920
I think they should build a statue
of Pep at the Camp Nou.
1559
01:38:55,040 --> 01:38:57,720
In the president's box. (CHUCKLES)
1560
01:38:57,840 --> 01:38:59,440
That's what I think anyway.
1561
01:38:59,560 --> 01:39:01,040
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1562
01:39:01,120 --> 01:39:03,160
The best way to remember Guardiola's Barça
1563
01:39:03,280 --> 01:39:06,080
is to put on a DVD
and watch the matches we played
1564
01:39:06,200 --> 01:39:10,120
during his four seasons here as manager.
1565
01:39:18,800 --> 01:39:19,840
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1566
01:39:19,920 --> 01:39:21,080
VALDÉS: He invented a new way of playing.
1567
01:39:21,160 --> 01:39:23,360
He had a special group of players,
1568
01:39:23,480 --> 01:39:25,720
but he knew exactly what to do with them.
1569
01:39:26,360 --> 01:39:28,640
He followed the philosophy of his maestro,
1570
01:39:28,760 --> 01:39:30,760
the man who taught us all, Johan Cruyff.
1571
01:39:53,760 --> 01:39:55,160
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1572
01:39:55,320 --> 01:39:57,000
ALVES: It's a bit like the best cars.
1573
01:39:57,120 --> 01:40:00,040
Cruyff was the first great model,
the Mark 1
1574
01:40:00,160 --> 01:40:01,720
and Pep is the Mark 2.
1575
01:40:04,320 --> 01:40:10,160
But I think Xavi
will be in the same league
1576
01:40:10,280 --> 01:40:12,240
when he returns as coach.
1577
01:40:12,360 --> 01:40:17,960
When he comes back, he'll be the Mark 3.
1578
01:40:19,400 --> 01:40:23,680
JORDI: In my father's mind,
he was always el listo de la clase,
1579
01:40:23,800 --> 01:40:27,080
the intelligent one of the class,
the clever guy.
1580
01:40:27,200 --> 01:40:29,480
The only problem will be that
when already now
1581
01:40:29,600 --> 01:40:33,040
everybody is pumping this up,
then the pressure's too high.
1582
01:40:33,400 --> 01:40:35,760
But if he follows his way,
little by little,
1583
01:40:35,880 --> 01:40:38,240
calm, like Pep did,
then you're ready for it.
1584
01:40:38,360 --> 01:40:41,280
And I hope Xavi one day will do that.
1585
01:40:41,360 --> 01:40:42,560
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1586
01:40:42,640 --> 01:40:43,960
Barça's future needs to be in the hands
1587
01:40:44,080 --> 01:40:50,160
of someone with Xavi's talent and vision.
1588
01:40:51,640 --> 01:40:53,080
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1589
01:40:53,200 --> 01:40:57,920
I've got no doubt that he'll be back
as a coach one day.
1590
01:40:58,040 --> 01:41:02,320
He deserves the chance
1591
01:41:02,440 --> 01:41:04,560
because of the type of player he was here.
1592
01:41:04,680 --> 01:41:06,840
He'll make an amazing manager.
1593
01:41:06,960 --> 01:41:10,360
As a player he saw the whole picture
from the pitch.
1594
01:41:10,480 --> 01:41:13,120
I'm sure from the side-lines,
he'll see it even clearer.
1595
01:41:13,240 --> 01:41:14,760
He'll be back one day.
1596
01:41:14,880 --> 01:41:20,320
I don't know when
but he wants to come back.
1597
01:41:20,440 --> 01:41:25,440
And he has the same
football philosophy as Pep.
1598
01:41:26,200 --> 01:41:27,520
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1599
01:41:27,640 --> 01:41:29,200
The world is watching us
because they see we're different.
1600
01:41:29,320 --> 01:41:31,920
And they're right, we are.
1601
01:41:32,040 --> 01:41:34,720
But now we have a huge responsibility
1602
01:41:34,840 --> 01:41:37,920
to ensure that all of this
continues to grow.
1603
01:41:39,640 --> 01:41:41,000
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1604
01:41:41,080 --> 01:41:44,440
The one thing that has never changed
1605
01:41:44,560 --> 01:41:49,320
in all my years here
is the way we play football.
1606
01:41:49,960 --> 01:41:55,320
Players come and go,
but the philosophy never changes.
1607
01:41:55,840 --> 01:41:57,080
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1608
01:41:57,160 --> 01:41:58,640
We believe in this philosophy,
1609
01:41:58,760 --> 01:42:03,680
which is improved every year
and by each Barça manager.
1610
01:42:03,800 --> 01:42:05,720
But the day things start to go wrong,
1611
01:42:05,840 --> 01:42:09,080
and let's hope
that isn't for another 200 years,
1612
01:42:09,200 --> 01:42:12,040
but if it happens, we must never consider
1613
01:42:12,160 --> 01:42:14,880
changing our playing style.
1614
01:42:15,000 --> 01:42:18,360
Our unique philosophy
should never change. Never.
1615
01:42:52,960 --> 01:42:54,040
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1616
01:42:54,120 --> 01:42:55,320
INTERVIEWER: This documentary can't end
1617
01:42:55,400 --> 01:42:59,120
without asking you
about your memories of those four years.
1618
01:42:59,800 --> 01:43:01,200
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1619
01:43:01,280 --> 01:43:05,600
When I think about that time it fills me
with nostalgia and happiness.
1620
01:43:06,600 --> 01:43:11,080
In my opinion, during those four years,
1621
01:43:11,200 --> 01:43:16,480
all the stars aligned
at the perfect moment.
1622
01:43:17,080 --> 01:43:22,840
The fundamental reason for the success
was the immense talent of those players.
1623
01:43:24,280 --> 01:43:25,920
It's them who have to perform.
1624
01:43:26,040 --> 01:43:30,240
I like to use golf as an example,
because as managers we're caddies.
1625
01:43:30,360 --> 01:43:34,280
We hand the club to the player,
but they get the ball on the green
1626
01:43:34,400 --> 01:43:35,720
and put it in the hole.
1627
01:43:48,440 --> 01:43:49,720
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1628
01:43:49,800 --> 01:43:52,440
Everyone played their part
and everyone knew their role.
1629
01:43:52,560 --> 01:43:56,040
They all knew Messi was the best
and no one wanted to take his crown.
1630
01:43:56,160 --> 01:43:59,520
The home-grown players
had very important roles.
1631
01:43:59,640 --> 01:44:01,880
The foreign players played their part too.
1632
01:44:02,000 --> 01:44:05,680
It all unfolded naturally
without having to tell players,
1633
01:44:06,440 --> 01:44:12,160
"You have to do this
or you have to do that."
1634
01:44:12,720 --> 01:44:15,920
The roles within the group were shared out
1635
01:44:16,040 --> 01:44:18,480
and if anyone didn't like it, they left.
1636
01:44:19,720 --> 01:44:25,600
That was how we built something special
and kept it going for so long.
1637
01:44:36,080 --> 01:44:37,240
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1638
01:44:37,360 --> 01:44:38,400
I think we provoked an emotional reaction.
1639
01:44:38,520 --> 01:44:43,080
When you remember titles,
really they're just numbers
1640
01:44:43,200 --> 01:44:44,520
and nothing more.
1641
01:44:44,640 --> 01:44:49,520
But there were a lot of people
who really loved watching us play.
1642
01:45:04,800 --> 01:45:06,160
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1643
01:45:06,280 --> 01:45:07,760
We all remember the two
Champions League finals,
1644
01:45:07,880 --> 01:45:09,200
especially the second one.
1645
01:45:09,720 --> 01:45:12,760
For around 20-25 minutes,
1646
01:45:12,880 --> 01:45:17,400
from the 46th minute until our third,
we were tremendous.
1647
01:45:17,520 --> 01:45:21,480
That was a perfect illustration
of how we wanted them to play.
1648
01:45:21,600 --> 01:45:25,400
We were a young group of coaches
1649
01:45:26,160 --> 01:45:28,840
trying to convince
a team of unique players
1650
01:45:30,040 --> 01:45:34,280
to do something different
and it worked well for four years.
1651
01:45:40,320 --> 01:45:41,560
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1652
01:45:41,720 --> 01:45:44,160
People become managers
for all kinds of different reasons.
1653
01:45:44,280 --> 01:45:46,520
My motivation is tactics.
1654
01:45:46,640 --> 01:45:48,560
That's why I became a coach,
1655
01:45:48,920 --> 01:45:51,920
to dissect the game and find solutions.
1656
01:45:52,800 --> 01:45:53,960
The basic concept,
1657
01:45:54,080 --> 01:46:01,080
which Johan Cruyff injected into our veins
1658
01:46:01,640 --> 01:46:04,200
many years ago,
1659
01:46:04,320 --> 01:46:08,280
was that doing the simple things well
gave you a 75% chance of winning.
1660
01:46:08,400 --> 01:46:11,160
And one of the simplest things
is passing the ball.
1661
01:46:11,280 --> 01:46:13,480
After that, things get more complicated.
1662
01:46:13,600 --> 01:46:15,960
But the pass is what unites the group.
1663
01:46:16,760 --> 01:46:21,280
The ball is moved around the pitch
from one player to another.
1664
01:46:21,400 --> 01:46:26,000
Everyone participates in the game plan
by making that pass.
1665
01:46:26,480 --> 01:46:30,240
That's what we worked on from day one.
1666
01:46:42,320 --> 01:46:43,640
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
1667
01:46:43,760 --> 01:46:46,880
I'm often asked if it was
the greatest team ever
1668
01:46:47,000 --> 01:46:48,720
or one of the greatest.
1669
01:46:48,840 --> 01:46:53,440
And it's a question that
doesn't have an answer.
1670
01:46:53,560 --> 01:46:57,920
It's like a new book that's published,
is it good or not?
1671
01:46:58,040 --> 01:47:01,400
Or a new film that premieres,
is it any good?
1672
01:47:01,520 --> 01:47:03,360
We'll know the answer in 25 years.
1673
01:47:03,480 --> 01:47:06,120
It depends if people
are still talking about us.
1674
01:47:06,240 --> 01:47:09,800
If after 25 years we're still
taking about a book, it's good.
1675
01:47:09,920 --> 01:47:12,680
If we're still watching a film
in 25 years time, it must be good.
1676
01:47:12,800 --> 01:47:14,480
The same will happen with our team.
1677
01:47:14,600 --> 01:47:20,120
But were we better than Sacchi's Milan
or Pelé's Brazil, or Johan's Ajax?
1678
01:47:20,640 --> 01:47:25,040
Everyone will have their opinion,
1679
01:47:25,160 --> 01:47:29,160
which they'll defend passionately.
1680
01:47:29,280 --> 01:47:31,720
I would tell you
that my team was brilliant,
1681
01:47:31,840 --> 01:47:34,800
but Johan would argue
that his team was better.
1682
01:47:34,920 --> 01:47:38,360
And Arrigo Sacchi would say the same
about his Milan side.
1683
01:47:38,480 --> 01:47:39,800
And we'd all be in the right.
1684
01:47:39,920 --> 01:47:42,360
But if they remember us in 25 years time,
1685
01:47:42,480 --> 01:47:44,600
they won't talk about the titles we won,
1686
01:47:44,720 --> 01:47:46,200
they'll talk about how we played.
1687
01:47:46,520 --> 01:47:49,880
If they remember us,
it's because they enjoyed watching us.
1688
01:47:50,000 --> 01:47:54,480
But that's the big mystery.
Will we be remembered or not?
1689
01:48:09,640 --> 01:48:11,480
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