Catalan sports paper El Mundo Deportivo claims that former Barcelona president Josep Lluís Núñez will take part in the elections for president of FC Barcelona next spring.Núñez would have been discretely preparing a candidacy and will make a public announcement during the first week of the new year. Several candidates would be considering to drop out of the race if Núñez will run again for president because of the popularity of the latter.
Former Barcelona player and manager Johan Cruyff would become sports vice-president if Núñez is elected president. Louis Van Gaal would have agreed to join as sports director and would bring Franck Ribéry with him from Bayern Munich. Guardiola could stay on as coach and former Barcelona player Jesús Angoy, the son in law of Cruyff, would act as goalkeeping coach.
Josep Lluís Núñez was the president of FC Barcelona from 1978 until 2000. The 78-year old Catalan businessman has been the longest serving president in the history of the club and the most successful president in terms of winning trophies.
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ReplyDelete28 december is "día de los santos inocentes" (holy innocents' day), which is in spain the equivalent to april fool's day in many other countries.
Luis van gall !!
ReplyDeletei hate that stubid guy
and i have a question , can any president run again for elections after been elected 2 times?
e.g., can laporta run again after 4 years?
The club statutus don't forbid it, Romyan, so in theory Laporta can run again for president (or director) in the next elections, that in principle will be in 2016.
ReplyDeleteIt wouldn't be realistic - it must be a part of " el día de los santos inocentes". Why should Van Gaal wants to be a sports director and give up his coaching career, and Cruyff has just signed as coach for the national team in Catalunya. Núñez would be 85 in 2016, that's quite old for a president.
ReplyDeleteman Pep, you should have posted the Innocente notice first before people fell for it and apparently still do.
ReplyDeleteI put the notice up as first comment. Can one be more clear? Well, guess you could totally spoil it from the first line saying "what you will read is a fake"...
ReplyDeleteAnyway the main reason of this post (and the Millet one) was to give along a bit of spanish/catalan culture.
lol spanish ppl do take their ninos inocentes seriously, its like that even in their so called colonies, ppl do major pranks. its kind of funny cool actually.
ReplyDeletebut seriously now, how many candidates do we need? i kind of get why everybody and their moms would want to run but wouldnt that kind of benefit rosell seeing as hes mainly perceived as THE anti-continuity bet? put another way, does media savvy sandro have anything to do with all these others offering themselves up and confusing ppl?? jk, hope he doesnt read this :D
You also have those pranks in your country then, Xaviniesta? In Europe, I think they're only in Spain (and Portugal?).
ReplyDeleteWell, there are all kind of rumours about secret alliances or hidden support but it's difficult to know what's true and what's not. Stay tuned!
And by the way: he might read you, so behave a little... ;-)
I know it's also celebrated in Colombia and Mexico.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite is when people fell for Puyol shaving his head after losing a bet to Ronaldinho after El Clasico loss
Here's that pic of Puyol:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.sport.es/vivo/recursos/fotos/foto_261/foto_261399_CAS.jpg