BARÇA PLAYED THE 'MARADONA CUP' IN THIS STADIUM
The only precedent for Barça in the stadium where the Spanish Super Cup will be played
Published:10/01/2024 - 15:41h
Updated:10/01/2024 - 15:41h
FC Barcelona will play the Spanish Super Cup at Al-Awwal Park, a stadium that is not completely unknown to them, since in 2021 they played a friendly against Boca Juniors in that same place
The FC Barcelona, current champion of the Supercopa of Spain, will begin his way to defend the title this Thursday 11 January to the 20:00 (Spanish hour). The ones of Xavi Hernández will confront a difficult challenge against Osasuna, a square that already complicated him in LaLiga this season. In a hypothetical final would have to measure to the winner of the commitment between the Real Madrid and the Athletic.
Nevertheless, this new adventure of the Catalan cast in Riad will have a differential element in comparison with the previous tournament, that goes further of the strictly sportive. The culés will have to 'throw to film' the spherical in the To the-Awwal Park, the home of the To the Nassr of Cristiano Ronaldo. It fits to remember that in the previous tournament, the picture blaugrana topped champion in the King Fahd Stadium, the home of the To the-Hilal FC of Neymar and company, which at present is being remodelled to expand his capacity and comforts of face to the Glass of Asia of 2026.
The precedent that has the FC Barcelona in the To the-Awwal Park
Although the FC Barcelona will not be able to try retain the 'scepter' of champion in the same stadium where won it the past year, the To the-Awwal Park is not an unknown place for them. The group of the Catalan capital already has had the occasion to contest a meeting in this feudo in this decade, specifically in the year 2021.
In that then, the Barcelona club, with an eleven alternative in his majority, developed a friendly against Mouth Juniors in this stadium like tribute to the demise of Diego Armando Maradona (25 November of the 2020), remembering that 'The Lint' knew to be a stellar name in both squares does already a few years. This commitment contested on 14 December of the 2021 finished 1-1 in the 90 minutes, with annotations of Ferran Jutglà by the culés and Exequiel Zeballos for the Argentinians, and the combined 'xeneize' imposed in the batch of penaltis.
Of the staff that contested this meeting, costs to stand out that the FC Barcelona has made practically a big renewal, since of the players that were headlines in this party, only Alejandro Balde remains in the club. Besides, between which remained in bench in this crossing, only remain Iñaki Crag, Ronald Araújo and Pablo Gavi.
