Last saturday, FC Barcelona won its ninth Supercup of Spain defeating Sevilla FC, which means that Barça has won this cup more times than the rest of the teams in Spain. . The match between the League champion and the Cup champion is a tradition that wants to prove which team is the best at the begining of the League. There were two matches to decide the champion of champions. The first one was in Sevilla and the second one in Barcelona. In the first match, Sevilla FC played better and won the match 3-1 with goals scored by Luis Fabiano, once, and Frederick Kanoute, twice. The discount for Barça was scored by Zlatan Ibrahimoviç. The "Pep Team" was not feel comfortable with their gameplay because the most important players (Xavi, Iniesta, Villa, Piqué, Puyol, Pedro, Valdés and Busquets) were absent because of the friendly match that they played against Mexico, respresenting Spain. With that inconvenient, Josep Guardiola had to call members of Barcelona "B" to complete the roster, but the result was unexpected. A defeat which left Sevilla closer to win the Cup. Guardiola had one week to train for the rematch, but in that ocasion he could have all the players available, inluding the international ones, and the result was totally different. A huge victory 4-0 in the Nou Camp with an impressive performance of Lionel Messi who scored 3 goals. Although he is not a good player playing for Argentina, his performances with FC Barcelona are always amazing. Whit those goals scored, Messi is the third top scorer in the history of the club. Another player that played an awesome match was Xavi Hernández, a player who is going to become in an authentic leyend for the club becuse of his technique and vision of the matches. Those two players and the rest of the team won the ninth SuperCup for Barça and the tenth title in two years coached by Josep Guardiola.
At present, the begining of the League represents another challenge for FC Barcelona because is a long tournament and its main competitor Real Madrid, which is coached by José Mourinho, has hired new players in order to defeat Barcelona. On the other hand, the Champions League represents another ambision for the players coached by Guardiola beaceuse last year they were eliminated by Inter de Milan in semi-finals. This year, the "Pep Team" is going to play against: Panathinaikos, Copenhague and Rubin Kazan in a new edition of the most prestigious tournament around the world and Lionel Messi will lead the team again.
This weekend begins the League, and FC Barcelona is ready to win all the competitions in which they are going to participate.
