🗣️ Pedri: “I haven't imagine what the match will be like, I just want to enjoy the moment.”
🗣️ Pedri: “From the beginning, I wanted to play the final against Brazil. I always look forward to playing against the best teams. Brazil is among the best teams, they play beautiful football and their players are very skilled.”
🗣️ Pedri: “I always try to give the team as much as I can by working hard, listening and doing what the coach asks for, as well as helping my teammates.”
🗣️ Pedri: “It is normal for people to think that I am tired because I have played many matches. I always try to rest after every match, sleep and eat well, as advised by doctors and nutritionists.”
🗣️ Pedri: “If someone had told me a year ago that I would start in a great club like Barcelona and would be in the Euro semi-finals with #ESP and reach the #Olympics final, I would have called him crazy. I never imagined this would happen to me in my first year with Barcelona.”
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THREAD → President Joan Laporta's Q&A session with journalists.
‘How do you justify the €7 million that was paid to an arbitration company?’
🗣️ Joan Laporta: “This amount was not paid at once, but rather over a period of 18 years. They are for reports on people (referees) doing very important work.”
🗣️ Joan Laporta: “The former vice-president of the Refereeing Committee did NOT have any power over the referees and he could NOT make football decisions or adjust sporting results.”
– “This has been confirmed by a number of referees who have spoken on this issue.”
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FC Barcelona General Assembly.
🔹576 members were present during the meeting.
🗣️ Joan Laporta: “Welcome Socios, we will observe a minute of silence for the deceased members.”
🗣️ Joan Laporta: “Thank you for coming to one of the most important meetings in our history, I want to start the meeting clearly: we know that we want more, we want championships, we are Barça and we want to go back to being a reference.”
🗣️ Gerard Piqué: “I was born here, I grew up here, I've lived almost all my life here in Barcelona.”
🗣️ Gerard Piqué: "kissing the badge? It was what I had to do. I want to point out that all the captains will do the same, I did it faster but they'll do it as well."
🗣️ Gerard Piqué: “Reducing my salary was my duty and I wanted to give something to the club that I love. the other captains will do it now.”
Ronald Koeman's first press conference of the season:
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🗣️Ronald Koeman: "Excited to start and do it with 20,000 fans in the field. We know the quality of Real, that last year we already played several games against them. We look forward."
🗣️Koeman on Pique's salary reduction: "We know the economic situation and the club needs help in every way. It is very important and we must highlight the attitude of Gerard, Roberto, Alba, Busi....