What interrupted Barca match?
Barcelona is one of the most popular teams in the world, and the club has one of the highest social media followings of any sports team in the world. Barcelona’s players have won a record number of Ballon d’Or honors (11), including Johan Cruyff, and a record number of FIFA World Player of the Year…
Barcelona is one of the most popular teams in the world, and the club has one of the highest social media followings of any sports team in the world. Barcelona’s players have won a record number of Ballon d’Or honors (11), including Johan Cruyff, and a record number of FIFA World Player of the Year awards (7), including Ronaldo, Romário, and Ronaldinho. Three players from the club’s youth program (Lionel Messi, Andrés Iniesta, and Xavi) were named the world’s finest players in the FIFA Ballon d’Or awards in 2010, an unparalleled feat for players from the same football school.
Barcelona, together with Athletic Bilbao and Real Madrid, is one of three founding members of the Primera División to have never been relegated from the top flight. Barcelona became the first Spanish club to win the continental treble of La Liga, Copa del Rey, and the UEFA Champions League in 2009, as well as the first Spanish football club to win six out of six competitions in a single year, winning the Spanish Super Cup, UEFA Super Cup, and FIFA Club World Cup. In 2011, the team repeated as European champions, winning five trophies. Some belief this Barcelona club, which won 14 trophies in just four years under Pep Guardiola, to be the best of all time. Barcelona became the first European team in history to win the continental treble twice when they won their fifth Champions League trophy on June 6, 2015.
Hans Gamper posted an advertisement in Los Deportes on 22 October 1899 stating his desire to start a football club; a favourable response led to a meeting at the Gimnasio Solé on 29 November. Eleven players attended: Walter Wild (the club’s first director), Llus d’Ossó, Bartomeu Terradas, Otto Kunzle, Otto Maier, Enric Ducal, Pere Cabot, Carles Pujol, Josep Llobet, John Parsons, and William Parsons.
What interrupted Barca’s match?
The game was called off in the 82nd minute due to a suspected heart attack in the stands. Cadiz goalkeeper Jeremias Ledesma snatched a defibrillator from the team bench and dashed across the field to deliver it to emergency personnel in the stands.
