Yes, they are ‘too’ good

Being a Barcelona fan has these things: while the rest of the football world only suffers when the scores or the game are not good, the culé is so different that it can ‘suffer’ avoidably because the Its team is very good. It happens to the women’s team that has been making history for years, from victory to victory. Being the champion of all also requires rivals up to the task and that does not happen in the F League, as the Barça board informed this week to Beatriz Álvarez, president of this domestic competition that continues to be played so many times in the grandstands field. hard to come by and that, to grow sportingly and economically, urgently needs more quality on the field and more of it. This is a warning for sailors, because to be a person when you go out into the world you must first have a local response. The Champions League demands more than the F League and this Holy Thursday it showed, both in the stands and on the pitch. Of the 5,510 spectators, 650 were from a Norwegian Brann who did not care that they brought an adverse 1-2 from their cold land to encourage them to be with their footballers. The figure already shows an interest in women’s football that is worth emulating: this Barça needs similar competition at home and ‘partners’ in its enthusiasm for women’s football in the League.

They are now in their sixth consecutive European semi-final, dreaming of their third crown if they beat Chelsea again. Meanwhile, it was still a luxury for the culé to see Giráldez’s team play with the brilliant Alexia Putellas and AItana Bonamtí and the ever-energizing electricity of Caroline Graham Hansen, who is from Oslo but dribbles like in Copacabana.

It is not surprising that even the migratory temptation brought about by Easter cannot overcome the power of attraction of this team, which plays football that combines in equal parts a competitive spirit with a sense of spectacle that also attracts in Premier. But, to play like this, you have to be here.