Koeman looks in the mirror of Rijkaard and Barça of 2003

Ronald Koeman arrived to the FC Barcelona​ this past summer in a moment of economic and institutional crisis in the club. The Dutch landed in a team without money, with the president in the door of exit and with a staff come unless it came to fall humiliated in chambers of Champions League in front of the Bayern of Munich. In summary, a chaotic situation that has not attained revertir in his first months at the head of the group barcelonista.

The Dutch has not known to give with the key still and the few 'green shoots' that there has been have remained buried under the defeats and the bad feelings that has left the Barça. The culés have lost already 5 parties in what it goes of season, 4 in LaLiga and 1 in Champions, and right now are to 12 points of the Athletic of Madrid in the national championship. The Catalans, in fact, are more near of the descent (3 points) that of the League of Champions (6 points).

The barcelonismo is very annoying with all what is occurring and says that the place of the technician of Zaandam could peligrar if it adds some defeat more in the next days. A case that remembers a lot to the of a his compatriot, Frank Rijkaard, that was in a very seemed situation in the season 2003/2004, his first at the head of the culés. In his case, the also Dutch was to these heights to 7 points of the leader, with 4 ties and 2 defeats in League, and a tie in Europe.

The numbers were similar and the feelings, although they were not the same realities, also. Rijkaard, like Koeman, did not give with the key and not even the presence of a recently arrived Ronaldinho attained that the Barça improved. The Dutch played the place against the Seville in January, but the azulgra won, Edgar Davids arrived like reinforcement crashes in January of 2004 and everything began to change.

The trainer of Ámsterdam achieved that his team found the necessary balance to deploy his best game and this campaign the Barcelona finished second, only by behind Valencia, that went champion. The ex player of the Milan gave him a style to this staff, and with the arrivals of Samuel Eto'or and Deco in 2004, achieved to form a team champion. This Barça won two Leagues followed and did with the mythical League of Champions in 2006.

Koeman Needs to emulate to Rijkaard

Koeman, although it knows that it has it even more complicated by the elections of January, by the economic crisis and by all the occurred the past season, looks in this mirror and knows that it has to try do the same. It can that the one of Zaandam have luck and receive some wintry reinforcement that help him to improve, but the most important is that it achieve that his footballers understand what want to and take out the best of them to carry out the season.