Unforgettable year for Barcelona (Yahoo)

Their coach, Pep Guardiola, said so, a few hours before the final that ended winning in a distressing manner and in extra time vs the Argentines of Estudiantes.”The future of Barcelona is black if we compare with what happened in 2009” and he is right. From now on they are not only considered the best in the world by opinion but by their own right winning the World Championship of Clubs in the United Arabian Emirates. Completing a sensational year.

Barcelona remained with the Spanish League, with the Kings Cup, with the Champions League in a great final vs the Manchester United, the Supercup of Spain and Europe and the World Championship of Clubs, being only a minute from losing when they even the match vs Estudiantes 1-1 with a providential goal by one of their new figures from their own quarry , Pedro.

Guardiola showed in the final of the World Championship of Clubs that he is not only a young coach that manages the group of big stars, but that he is a great director and a very good observer of the matches. The substitutions, specially those of Pedro and the unexpected young Jeffren, also coming out from the junior divisions they turned out a result that seemed uneasy because Estudiantes had well organized the match by their also a very good coach Alejandro Sabellla.

Barcelona did not play at their level the two matches of the World Championship of Clubs. Versus the weak Mexican Atlante they had to fight very much because they were losing the first minutes by the goal of Rojas, and delayed almost the whole first period to tie, in certain way because their great figure, Lionel Messi did not come in the best physical state and behind showed some mistakes.

Estudiantes availed themselves of the errors they saw in the Barcelona in semifinals to organize the final match far from their own goal line and not leaving spaces for the Catalonian attacks, introduced slightly by Ibrahimovic, accompanied behind by the brains of Iniesta and Xavi, added to Messi who surprised by his new role as midfielder somewhat nearer to his first juvenile years before he started to put himself as right extreme and perhaps an advance of his job looking forward to participate in the World Championship with the vest blue-white of Argentina.

That is why, the Barcelona suffered much when Mauro Boselli, Estudiantes forwarder availed himself of another error as that occurred vs Atlante, he marked with his head 1-0 for the Argentineans, because it did not conceded any more a vulnerable team such as that of the Mexicans and they almost lost the trophy if it have not been thanks to the appearance of Pedro and as loyal to the Southamerican tradition, the directed by Juan Sebastián Verón opted to go backwards and ceded the ball what was the worst they could make and were lucky that Ibrahimovic had an erratic night and much of what he himself produced he could not resolve on the net.

For the Barcelona is by no means one trophy more. On one side, because they needed it as to ratify their footballistic potency, now without doubt as from the formal, and on the other, because in both former opportunities that they won the Champions League (1992 y 2006) they lost in Japan the world title vs San Pablo and the Inter, both Brazilian.

Surely that is that the tears of Guardiola, who being so young obtained so much for Barcelona and for his own campaign, ratifying the right route when he took the best manner to express a beautiful game as the football is, betting always on the esthetic, well treatment of the ball and extracting the best from every one of his brilliant players.

But other emotional tears of Guardiola shows also the grade of suffering, of the complex to reach the world summit because what indicated their own previous bets to the final (7 to 1 for the Catalonians) even the considerations of a Spanish and Catalonian press too reliable, nobody imagined that Estudiantes could generate for them so many problems..

Also this World Championship of Clubs ratified that the Copa Libertadores de América continues being an important contest, at least for those who stand in the first places, because Estudiantes put Barcelona in difficulties more than the Real Madrid, what can`t be ignored.

Also this World Championship of Clubs reiterate a concept with regard to the last seasons and it is that the rest of the continents are still too far from the two that dominated the football as from the early XX century: Southamerica and Europe.

That does not mean that for a major justice to the World title. the six Continental champions should enter in the same phase , but a certain ground has been already won with respect to the former Intercontinental Cup, when the other Continents have been directly excluded by the FIFA.