Carles Puyol, the great club captain

If Pep Guardiola was the turning point he needed the FC Barcelona after two seasons, something bad where the Real Madrid snatched her purse, Carles Puyol remains the great master of the Catalans.

A lifetime linked to FC Barcelona, since he turned 17 and enrolled in their inferior equipment, Carles Puyol has managed to be the emblem of a package that achieves a dream game than we believe in football truth: that entertains and amuses at the same time is effective. Carles Puyol is the great captain of FC Barcelona, and as such, was the first to raise his extraordinary cup and lifted in 2006 to win at Arsenal in London.

This time the team was different, although it is also English. It was Manchester United, and Carles Puyol was still the captain of the king of Europe this season.

Although we know him to be a tight central defender, Carles Puyol played in the lower categories as winger, and it also tested the midfield position. But in Spain always happens that the posts seem destined to attack the foreign stars, at least in the big teams, as Louis van Gaal handed a debut as good old central defender Puyol. And that made his name, receiving numerous offers from other multimillion great teams of the old continent, including the archrival Real Madrid. All rejected. Carles Puyol is the FC Barcelona as they might be Raul at Real Madrid. An emblem. A symbol. Since that time I fall in love for their dedication and their struggle to save a goal with his chest at the goal line when all seemed lost.

Furthermore, the selection is a national fixed (why would not he be) from the 2002 World Cup in Korea and Japan, where an Egyptian referee robbed us of having achieved what might have been the greatest feat of selection on a computer dream (then came the crazy Shorties and now few people remember the era Camacho). Therefore, Carles Puyol on his retina will always triumph in Euro 2008, that he has returned to the selection to higher ground. And Carles Puyol started every game at least pending against Greece in the final game of the first phase.

And at age 31, still has a lot of football to give and great dedication, claw and struggle to provide against their rivals. Tiburon Puyol, Andrés Montes as dubs, remains at the forefront.

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