About 10 kilometers away from RCDE Stadium ,. Red and blue flares, firecrackers and fireworks, flags of all kinds, the usual songs flooding the silence of the street. Some fans were already gathered on Wednesday when Real Madrid touched the draw. On their mobile, sitting in the banks, they looked at the match against Mallorca. “Tomorrow we return,” they shouted when the final beep sound. And they fulfilled. The Barça followers, both the veterans who suffered did not know titles, and those who enjoyed the successes of Guardiola and Messi went to the appointment with t -shirts full of nostalgia. But above all they were present and made noise the youngest, those who lived the crises, the exits of the stars and the defeats in Europe. It is they who are reflected with those who share generation: Lamine Yamal, Pedri, Cubarsí, Gavi, Fermín. On their backs, mainly, the ’19’ and the dorsals of the youngest. But in gutters, historical epicenter culé, all generations joined to the ritual of the victories, singing to the present, and also to the future of a team that feels recovered its pride.
Before the end of the game, fans already concentrated around the source, some shy and expectant, others not so much. “Champions, champions,” some widens shouted at gutters in the discount. The anthem did not miss, and the chants against Real Madrid. With the final beep, they did not stop getting culés, multiplying by hundreds, becoming a pressure cooker that lengthened Ramblas up to Plaza Catalunya. “Yes, yes, yes, Lliga Ja is here”They brought out on a banner. 45 minutes from the end of the party, the police present calculated about 5,000 fans, but warned that they would be more: they did not stop arriving.
The most veterans, who barely celebrated titles in the past, nostalgic of Cruyff’s Dream Team, and who also saw their end, stayed at the end of the mutter of the crowd, smiling. More present the generation of Triplet, of the Messi era, the most demanding who enjoyed the best stage of the club and who saw how it ended. They wore nostalgic t -shirts, some vintagein addition to Ronaldinho’s, from Iniesta, and no doubt, from Messi. This league returned them what they believed a lot.
“We come from bad, very bad years, and we have always lived with illusions. And see them, … this year’s illusion has been wonderful. This team does not give up,” said Albert, 43. Next to him, his son Ian, 14, for the first time in a celebration of Barça. “Dad, come on, come on,” the young man told his father as soon as the game and his football training ended.
It was precisely the young people who took over the streets, the ones who shouted the most. They were the kids of the Post-Messi era, those who of children or adolescents enjoyed ’10’, and that left them orphans between crises and defeats in Europe. “It seems so surreal to be here,” said a fan in reference to the suffering of recent years. “They told me that we were not going to win the league. My balls that were not,” a young woman shouted euphoric. “Tomorrow I have no voice, tomorrow I don’t speak!” Another joined, no longer. They climbed to the kiosks dozens of people, to the street lamps, many others arrived in a motorcycle making noise and with the scarf around the neck. Mobile flooded the crowd, some even broadcasting the party for Tiktok and Instagram.
Hansi Flick’s team has reconnected and woven an emotional connection with the fans. Last year, the average spectators in the Olimpic Lluís Companys was 39.84 spectators. This year, in the second of the exile of Les Corts to Montjuïc it has risen to 45,752. The Catalans have already celebrated the Copa del Rey on Gutters a few weeks ago, e. And now LaLiga, the sports resurrection of the team in a youth celebration from memory, from glory and the suffering of the past, and from the illusion of the present and future. “I am to live it,” said an amateur. All, to the same Barca beat.
