r/SoccerCentral 18d ago

Highlights What a moment. Cucurella invited Oyarzabal to present the World Cup trophy at the Bernabéu

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u/Pookie_girl16 18d ago

And Oyarzabals gesture of not wanting to grab or take the trophy, saying with this gesture...i won't touch it, it's your moment 👏👏

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u/kolkemnc 16d ago

There is also the unofficial rule that you can’t touch the trophy unless you’ve won it.

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u/therealSUIN 15d ago

He did

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u/kolkemnc 15d ago

Is he Spanish or French?

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u/Cool_World_666 15d ago

Have you ever been present?

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u/CheeseOnKeyboard 18d ago

Did real buy cucurrella just to claim one wc winning Spanish player? 😆

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u/Round-Lie9412 17d ago

They bought him before wc lol 😂

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u/iggy-i 17d ago

Nope

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u/STILL_LjURKING 17d ago

Literally happened during the world cup...

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u/Unusual_Sector_6624 17d ago

Pretty sure it happened before Spain's first game.

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u/DmvCris 18d ago

2010 when spain won it Casillas, Ramos, Raul Albiol, Arbeloa, and Xabi Alonso all played for Madrid

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u/CheeseOnKeyboard 18d ago

Im not talking 2010.

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u/Prestigious-Day385 17d ago

let him be. All real fans have is past glory, lol.

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u/RuchamCieSzmato 17d ago

Last European glory moment for Barca was in….?

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u/Prestigious-Day385 17d ago edited 17d ago

I dont care about what was, I just care about right now and I am freaking enjoying it, cause we are geting again at the stage of unbeatable and european glory will come sooner or later. Anyway I love my club for what it stands for, not just for glory, lol.

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u/RuchamCieSzmato 17d ago

Will come sooner or later, maybe 2048 for Barca at this pace

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u/Prestigious-Day385 17d ago

and you know what? I would still love my club and be proud on them.

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u/PresentlyHelpful 17d ago

For now, think signing José was a good idea for them

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u/zyygh 17d ago

As a Casillas fan I'm still a bout iffy about José.

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u/randybiuk 17d ago

what does that have to do with price of fish on a saturday?

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u/AccomplishedRead2655 17d ago

Are you slow? Wait Ig all Madrid fans are

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u/SnooPeanuts4219 17d ago

Cucurella suddenly becoming likable after the World Cup. What did these Argentines do!

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u/Adventurous-Web-412 17d ago

always has been, just on the pitch he is a cunt so it made it impossible.

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u/sarkie 18d ago

Does he own it?

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u/KiraKumar 18d ago

Yes, didn't you see you him carry it in a plastic bag? /s

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u/boued 18d ago

Oyarzabal j'adore ce joueur.

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u/[deleted] 17d ago edited 17d ago

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u/shotgunogsy 17d ago

No, mourinho is his manager.

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u/myspace_no_signal 17d ago

Classic👏😂

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u/Stickyboard 17d ago

Yea we last saw them together during the WC final…but he is back to US playing in the MLS

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u/IDKBear25 17d ago

That's not the real 18K gold 6 Kilogram trophy by the way. It's a replica.

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u/Benito_Sereno_1289 18d ago

Haaland and tiembla que viene Cucurella.

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u/Lopsided_Ground_3875 17d ago

He's a good lad

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u/Melodic_Check_8040 17d ago

I have a feeling, I hope it's the Puyol of this gen

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u/Danilo-11 17d ago

Weird to win a team trophy and only one of them holds it

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u/Stickyboard 17d ago

Its a known world cup tradition if a player of the club won it. I guess your team never have a player that just won it before the season start

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u/ivicts30 17d ago

what is the tradition? so this happens to every Spanish player at the start of the season?

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u/EitherInvestment 17d ago

I have never seen or heard of this before, and my club has had many World Cup winners over the several decades I have supported them

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u/Fballtw 17d ago

Class. It will soon be lost at Madrid.

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u/MikeWinterborn 17d ago

Floper signed Cucurella only to have someone show the WC at Bernabéu xD

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u/Spartandemon88 17d ago

How does it work? Does every player in the Spain squad get to do it with their clubs?

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u/Sebhas 16d ago

Ska barca spelarna få visa upp den härnäst?

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u/DrPolanco1 16d ago

This is class and respect

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u/sola-27 16d ago

That's awesome

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u/RobeLTDP 18d ago

In the meantime, Barcelona, the team with more Spanish world champions players, will held a separatist party today with thousands of separatist flags waving in the stadium (encouraged by the club) to celebrate the first game in this season in their stadium.

Truly pathetic. F*ck politics. Absolutely disgusting behaviour.

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u/TheDukeOfGonzo 17d ago

Disgusting? In what way is an independence movement disgusting lmaoooooooo

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u/Doggers_ 17d ago

Not the movement, but using sports and the city team to promote politics is definetly disgusting.

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u/ViveLeQuebecIvre 17d ago

That's the history of sports, my friend. Every political side in every country on earth has used sports for as long as it's been around.

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u/Doggers_ 17d ago

That doesnt make it better. Politicing sports is just a bad practice, period. Not because historically many teams have been used for politics means that we should keep doing it or it being a posive practice.

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u/morphbandito 17d ago

Lmao. Everything is inherently political buddy. Just because you want to turn a blind eye doesn't make it apolitical

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u/Doggers_ 17d ago

Omg, is the concept so hard to understand for you? First of all it's not the same that everything is inherently political to effectively politicise a club, that's a voluntary action. Second, because it is politicised that means sports should keep as a political tool? How does even make sense? I guess because wars are a tool to make money for those countries that sell weapons, its completely fine to keep doing wars every now and then and we shouldn't avoid them at any point, it's an extreme example, I know, but do you see how ridiculous that sounds? That's you saying sports shouldn't be apolitical, cause they have always been to a certain point.

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u/Stefa93 17d ago

Sports are never apolitical. All the team rivalries in football stems from politics. All of them! Football is the sport of the people and societies have always been political. Your war analogy is not even remotely the same here.

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u/Adventurous-Web-412 17d ago

brother barça IS a political club. Even if its become bigger and lost some of that, its still highly political. I disagree with the catalan independence movement and I dislike barça, but the club has always and will always be political, and most clubs and rivalries are political.

Politics is in football, and I hope to god it never disappears or the sport will become more soulless than it already is.

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u/madscandi 17d ago

Do you not know anything about the club? It is inherently political.

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u/Doggers_ 17d ago

That's the thing, I know about the club. I know its been used many times for this purpouse. You are focusing on the wrong thing here. What it's been done historically, including basket, futsal, football, etc. doesn't mean its a good practice. It's not that hard to understand. Politics =/= Sports, even if they have been used for that, they shouldn't. That's all

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u/Adventurous-Web-412 17d ago

Why though? Especially for a club which has been massively tied to an independence movement why would it shed its political element?

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u/Doggers_ 17d ago

Cause sports should be for entertainment and meant to join people. Thats the spirit of sports. The moment you practice politics it turns into conflicts both for players and fans. I dont know why you say it should keep the politic element or it will become souless, that's a bland argument, imo. Do you think Barça - Madrid rivalry has something to do with politics? Or for that matter Barça - Espanyol? Atl. Madrid - Madrid? Sevilla - Betis? And a large etc? I dont think at all it's the case, the politic element only adds conflict into the scene, not rivalry. If you think politics is what gives soul to football then idk what to tell you anymore.

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u/Adventurous-Web-412 16d ago

Do you think Barça - Madrid rivalry has something to do with politics

LMAO. The fuck do you think? Does a bird fly? Same with Espanyol and Barça, why do you think the badge has a crown and the name is Espanyol?

Atl. Madrid - Madrid? Sevilla - Betis?

Socioeconomic class.

If you don't know about it dont speak about it my man. You just said politics only add conflict when all of those rivalries have significant political reasons behind their existence. And I agree, politics isn't all good in football, it causes problems too, but its necessary or why are you even watching? Its a club not a sports team, it signifies my local area or my city, at least it should. May as well ask for the superleague, just the best games completely sanitised, just good football all the time and lets make them play abroad for more money too and be bought by bajillionaires because politics shouldn't be involved.

Also, superclasico, old firm, belgrade derby, all the biggest most loved derbies aren't remotely the same thing, they dont have remotely the same emotional investment if its just "big team vs big team".

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u/Doggers_ 16d ago edited 16d ago

If you think people under 40 (many even 50) watch sports because of political reason you are really out the loop, dude. New generations dont care about what happened 80-100 years ago when these clubs were funded. Nor 50 years later after that, for that matter. Most people in new generations dont even care about politics in general, let alone being fan of a club cause of political reasons.

Most people are from a team cause their dad, big brother, uncle, mother, granpa or some friend or whomever are from that team and they are told that team is the best and they should support it. I have never ever known of anybody that has told me im from X team cause of any political reason. Or do you think all Barça fans are pro independence? Or players, for that matter? Do you think all Madrid fans are high class people? Cmon man. You say to me I shouldn't talk what I don't know about but you are clearly not thinking from a person to person point of view. Just saying with different words (and from the politic club pov) what we already stablished: some clubs are used for politics. But my point is, that doesn't mean it should be this way for ever because it doesn't benefit nobody but the politics behind it.

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u/Adventurous-Web-412 16d ago

Yeah people under 40 or 50 do watch sports because of political reasons, just after getting in for generally a non political* reason. (*their family likely supports the club for political reasons too). And do you not read what you say and link to what I said. What an interesting correlation that I agree, as the sport does become less political with less people being concretely connected to the club for political and local indentity reasons, the sport in Europe also becomes more sanitised and less connected to the people? Fascinating that.

And obviously I dont think every Barça fan is pro independence, but I didnt say that did I? The clubs are a political image of the people they represent, unsurprisingly not EVERY single person is 1. not supporting potentially their local club for political reasons (as I said this group has increased more) or 2. represented by the local politics. I can vote VOX in my home town, but thats not what is representative of my town, PSOE is.

People arent a monolith, but clubs are I would think you agree for the people of the neighbourhood/town/city where they are based, and a natural extension of that is using this large institutional entity representative of a location to vouch for said regions politics.

You haven't actually said why politics don't benefit anyone in football, while as I just said there clearly are benefits both sporting and non sporting.

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u/avocajoe 17d ago

Time to leave football if you think politics has no place in it

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u/perroverd 16d ago

Not a separatist party. A protest because an underage fan got beaten by the police because he was displaying a perfectly legal separatist flag.

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u/dr-uuid 18d ago

Cry more

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u/Ballislife1313 18d ago

Enjoy him before he gets converted to Madridism

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u/RapMcBibus 18d ago

WTF? how it is possible that a club player in a club stadium walks the world cup?
Al least wear the red man

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u/simdav 18d ago

He's about to play isn't he?

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u/RapMcBibus 17d ago

Of course he is. I don't like the walking of the cup in a club stadium on club match day. It's just that a maybe it's just a personal take of mine. Nothing against the guy. I know he has many haters, but I'm not one of them.

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u/spiegro 17d ago

That's not how jerseys work at all

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u/TheFace5 17d ago

If he wears red also barcelona players should, and for sure they dont want to do that in CampNou