The possibility of finishing the season as champions of Europe, champions of Spain and holders of the Copa del Rey is very real but it is truly remarkable
given what has gone on off the pitch.
Barcelona is run as an association. This means that they are not a public company where shares can be bought but an organization where fans can buy
memberships to have a say in how the club is run. Every member, or
soci Mario
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member for at least one year can vote in the presidential elections that happen
every six years.
The last election, in 2010, was to replace the outgoing Joan Laporta, perhaps the most successful president in the club's history. Sandro Rosell was elected
as replacement with a record number of votes.
However Karl
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six-year term -because of his role in the transfer of Neymar to the club.
Neymar was said to have cost 57.1 million euros ($65 million) but one soci, a pharmacist by the name of Jordi Cases, wanted to know exactly where the money
had gone. That's where Rosell's presidency unraveled, in a cloud of payments to
Neymar's
father David
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additional fees. Rosell resigned.
He was replaced by Vice-President Josep Bartomeu, who will serve the rest of Rosell's term until the next elections in 2016, but the specter of the Neymar
transfer remains. Rosell, Bartomeu and the club itself have to stand trial on
charges of tax fraud. A Spanish judge announced Wednesday that the trio have 10
days to present their defense in writing.
Changing coaches
The tumult in the boardroom has been matched in the dugout. When Barcelona won their previous treble in 2008-09 it was Guardiola pacing the technical area.
His reign lasted four trophy-lade years before he announced his intention to
leave four years to the day since taking the reins.
Guardiola was succeeded by his assistant Eddie
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in 2012-13 under Tito but the manager was forced to step down due to a
recurrence of his throat cancer.
Gerardo "Tato" Martino came in to lead the squad for the 2013-14 season but Barcelona missed out on the league, fell at the quarter-finals of the Champions
League and lost in the final of the Copa del Rey. Tato left under a cloud with
only the Spanish Super Cup to show for his time in charge. The Argentine was
sacked and Barcelona needed another manager.
The man they chose was Luis Enrique. A -former player and Barcelona B coach, the Spaniard was poached from Celta Vigo. In his first year in charge he is on
course to replicate his former teammate's debut season in the dugout.
Considering the controversy in the boardroom and the changes in the coaching personnel, the players have got on with it out on the pitch. Since Guardiola's
arrival as manager in 2008 the club has won four La Liga
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that time they have also finished runners-up in La Liga twice, runners-up in the
Copa del Rey twice and reached the semifinals of the Champions League on three
occasions.
Going direct
That's staggeringly consistent and in part down to a combination of the team that Guardiola left in place still largely being together. The foundations of
the current team were still laid in La Masia but they have added bite in the
transfer market and Luis Enrique has brought in a directness of play to replace
the tiki-taka of old.
Sir Alex Ferguson, a man who lost two Champions League finals to Barcelona, said of the 2009 Barcelona team that "they get you on that carousel and they
make you dizzy with their passing." That will not be how the 2015 vintage win
the European Cup.
Before the final against Juventus Gareon
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trophies. They need one win from two games to secure their 23rd Spanish league
triumph. They'd surely like to do that this Sunday against Atletico Madrid, the
team that pipped them to the title on the final day of last season and knocked
them out of the Champions League. If not this weekend then next week at home to
Deportivo la Coruna will do just as well. Then on May 30 Barcelona face off
against Atletico Bilbao at the Camp Nou for the Copa del Rey where they will
look to extend their record wins to 27.
On June 6 Barcelona could be European Champions for a fifth time. They could also have won their second treble. Given everything that's gone on since the
first, Enrique's feat would be the more impressive.
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