It goes back the hour of the champions, goes back the hour of the Champions League. And the FC Barcelona, as always, will be one of the favourite maxima to conquer the tournament, after having reinforced with criterion this past summer and, in spite of the unexpected defeat in front of the Alavés the past weekend, keep the chemistry of changing room and intact motivation of face to the next commitments.
It will be also a very special competition, the UEFA Champions League 2016-17, for Leo Messi and Andrés Iniesta. The two first captains of the Barça add four titles of Champions each one since they form part of the staff of the first team, and if they attain the fifth "orejona" would make history like the players in having harvested more titles of League of Champions along the history.
To the equal that for Messi and Andrés Iniesta, the competition will be also special for Gerard Hammered that it also adds four Champions League, although one of them conquered it with the Manchester United when it still was a young promise.
But, going back to Iniesta and Messi, manchego and Argentinian will do all the possible for increasing his list of winners, conscious that the collective aims are above the individual. Iniesta curiously debuted with the first Barcelona team fourteen years ago in a party of Champions League, and now accumulates 116 parties of the maximum continental competition in the 13 editions in which it has participated.
Leo Messi, by his part, has annotated 83 goals in the 106 meetings of Champions that accumulates. With 32 years (Iniesta) and 29 years (Messi), both have sufficient time still to go on doing grow his impressive list of winners. After having won four editions (2005-2006, 2008-2009, 2010-2011 and 2014-2015), the two are convinced to be able to to follow adding.