Campeones de les tres copes!

Barcelona has been celebrating for days since FC Barca capped their season on Wednesday by beating Manchester United in Rome to win the UEFA Champions League. This after already winning the Spanish La Liga and Copa del Rey – never before had a Spanish team won all three in the same year.

This was the front page of the Barcelona newspaper Thursday morning.


We watched and cheered for the home team at our flat, but it felt as if we were watching along with the entire city. We could hear fireworks going off throughout the game, especially after the Barca goals, and at the end the whole city seemed to erupt in fireworks and honking horns.

Watching Barca play all year, and attending a couple of games at Camp Nou, we felt as though “our” team had won. And what a great team to watch – Messi, Henry, Xavi, Iniesta, Eto’o and a first year coach, Pep Guardiola who himself had been a star player for Barcelona. (That’s Pep being tossed in the air by the team.) They not only won, but won in style by playing a beautiful, attacking football of passes and movement.

More evidence that we picked the right place to spend our year: Barca football will be a big part of our memories of this year.