Everything is ready for the final of the Copa del Rey Barça-Athletic!

This next 17 April will celebrate the big final of the Glass of the King that will contest the FC Barcelona and the Athletic Bilbao. This Friday, the presidents of the mentioned teams, Joan Laporta and Aitor Elizegi, gathered in the City of the Football of Brush Them with Luis Rubiales, president of the RFEF, with the aim to define the organisational appearances of the party, which will carry out in The Cartuja of Seville.

"It has been a very productive meeting between the delegations of the two teams and the team of work of organisation of the RFEF after a very difficult way in a very complicated year with a pandemia", exposed Alfredo Olivares, director of Competitions of the RFEF, after the meeting with the presidents of the Barça and of the Athletic. The agreement arrived finally after the definition of the champion of the past edition copera.

"The final between the Athletic Club and the FC Barcelona represents a fantastic brooch of gold between the two teams with greater number of entorchados and with the greater visibility to international level with more than 150 countries following the meeting, what his puts a milestone that reinforces the intention of the RFEF for improving the formats of his competitions, that these are more attractive and expand the teams participants in them", added Olivares.

After the development of the decisive duel in the final of the Glass, Joan Laporta will return to the city of Barcelona to accompany to the Barcelona in his expedition to Alfredo Gave Stéfano to confront the Classical in front of the Real Madrid. The president will be accompanied of the vice-presidents Rafa Yuste, Maria Elena Fort, Juli Guiu and the manager of the area of basketball, Josep Cubells.

A decisive week

The Barcelona will confront this Saturday to the Real Madrid to domicile with the only premise to win to reach like this the first place of LaLiga, in benefit of the continuous stumbles that has accumulated the Athletic leader of Madrid. The Barça and the white group are the perseguidores nearer to the picture colchonero, by what the three units will be vital to define the leader of the championship suspender belt. Likewise, in exactly a week, the Barcelona team will have to measure in front of the Athletic to contest the title copero. In only a week, the ones of Koeman will consolidate his solid pretences to do with the doublet.