Go Joan Laporta in love with Barça's coach, as millions of culés are in love. A unanimous devotion has generated Hansi Flick, unique and unusual in a club usually convulsed and surrounded by an environment – also participated by journalistic Madrid – always prone to reproach. Not a splash spot to the German coach, who in his first campaign has achieved a historical Spanish triplet and has stayed Two minutes from accessing the Champions League final.
He sees LapTa to Hansi, the man “with crystalline and blue eyes like the teacher Johan”, all thanks. He has given him the glory in the worst season that opened, with an exiled and impoverished Barça, without a house to return and without money to invest, focused on avoiding total ruin against the luminous Madrid League champion and Champions, sugary with the arrival of Kylian Mbappé. It seemed unbeatable, but it wasn't. Barça beat him five times: the first friendliness; the other four to take all the titles.
Johan Cruyff, in an act when he was a Catalan coach. / The newspaper
The balloon gets up
Flick accepted all conditions and all limitations. Without grinding in the office or in the press room, unaware of the language and indifferent to the habitat in which it fell. He focused on work to lift a depressed template and train brave children.
Barça rose with the strength of compressed air balloons. In four months the Catalans opened their eyes as dishes when they saw the tents that fell both to Valladolid, and Bayern and Madrid. Flick threw more gas by detecting the leaks of December, and Barça has continued unstoppable. Nor has the German coach raised in the victory. Not an eyebrow for amazement, like his already former Carlo Ancelotti, whom he has helped say goodbye.
Flick says goodbye to Ancelotti in the last Camp Nou classic. / Javi Ferrándiz / Spo
Cruyff orphans
Flick has no claims or requests and assured in the Alirón that he will continue working to Improve the team game, evident as their imperfections are. The defensive, by notorious, mitigated by the wild reactions of a group that has revealed indomitable and indomitable by the rivals. Only by Flick, who has demanded and achieved from the group a behavior that can also be proud, unlike other characters from the entity.
Flick has been sheltered with his in the sports city, an orphan of the aulic figure that Cruyff was for the Barça coach and for the president of Barça. Only in the case of Laporta, who saw in “crystalline and blue eyes” by Johan to the old idol of his childhood and the carismatic counselor with whom he occasionally disagreed. “Johan's look,” said the president With the passion of the first and dazzling love. And eternal love. Of someone who has given him more titles than problems. Three to zero.
Flick congratulates Gavi after his reappearance on the playing fields at the end of Barça-Sevilla. / JORDI COTRINA / EPC
Easy falling in love
It is lapping an easy fake president. And durable. He stepped in Con Frank Rijcarad, who held for five seasons (2003-2008) despite the fact that in the last two the Dutch, or anyone in the club, knew how to stop the decline of the team until it leads to the motion of censure from which it was saved by tenths. “The self -complacency,” as defined the Laporta situation later, condemned everyone.
It was, it is and will be Laporta a devotee from Pep Guardiola, that raised Barça to eternity with the Sextete that linked in 2009, for the personal connection they cultivated and that lasted, professionally two years. Until the 2010 elections. He has continued in the distance between Barcelona and Manchester.
Flick relieves the protections of the television camera moved by the wind during the Cup match against Atlético de Madrid. / JORDI COTRINA / EPC
Of affinity to breakup
There was also one solid affinity with Xavi Hernández, That he weakened in the 2021 election campaign (the Egarense coach was a member of Víctor Font's candidacy before Laporta announced his candidacy), he was reinforced with his signing as coach months later – on November of the same year – and he frayed with the resignation of Xavi in January 2024, the progressive reverse until May, the deficient results, and the contradictory messages that the technician transferred to leads to total breakdown.
Laporta found a mature man in Flick, from his age -the coach said 60, he will celebrate 63 the president in June -, contemporary, to which the reports of colleagues endorsed, and who can also thank him for a submissive attitude, lacking reproaches. Only joy has given Flick to Laporta and all of them.