"[Josep Lluis] Nunez was the culprit of everything that happened in Barcelona - the only culprit. Also known as ‘el Dios’ (‘the god’), his stint at Barça wasn’t as glittering as his time in Naples; his two years at the club are more remembered for incident and controversy than trophies - but nevertheless, his time at the Camp Nou is rich with story and intrigue. With the likes of Quini, Tente, Francisco Carrasco and Victor Munoz, the Blaugrana boasted a Spanish and Catalan core furnished with both resilience and flair, and once Bernd Schuster regained his fitness he put the final touches to a sophisticated midfield. Barcelona again defeated Real Madrid on 26 th June 1983 in one of the world’s biggest club games, El Clasico. Serious injury due to Goikoetxea's tackle during a Barcelona vs Athletic Club match. “We have lost Diego, a world idol,” Barcelona’s Brazil forward Philippe Coutinho said. Thrilled by reaching a great club. Lionel Messi suffers an injury on his first start of the season in Barcelona's narrow win over Villarreal at the Nou Camp. Within a year, he had moved to Napoli, where he really started to show the world his talent. The man who would go on to win the World Cup and become one of the world's greatest footballers with Napoli was now faced with a long spell on the sidelines, with months of rehabilitation needed before he would be able to play again. Though Barcelona would beat Bilbao twice over the course of the 1982-83 campaign and win the cup, knocking Bilbao out in the quarters, it was the Basque side which triumphed in La Liga, nabbing the title and ending six points ahead of the Catalans who somehow ended up finishing fourth. Once again, Maradona was left incapable of impacting on his team’s fortunes for a large part of the season, but when he returned to the pitch, he had revenge in his sights. Menotti was enraged by the incident, stating afterwards that Goiko was part of a race of "anti-footballers" and that he should be banned for life. It is no exaggeration to say that this tackle could have ended things for Maradona. Though another Basque club, Real Sociedad, won two titles at the dawn of the eighties, Barca and Bilbao found themselves 2nd and 4th respectively come the end of the 1981-82 season. However, a return of 38 goals in 58 matches is undeniably an impressive record. Career Ending Injury. Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola said that Sergio Aguero has conquered the Premier League in the way Barcelona's Lionel Messi did it in La Liga and Diego Maradona … In the late seventies and early eighties, Catalonia and the Basque Country had much in common. All in all, ‘El Pelusa’ had a much better relationship with his compatriot Menotti installed manager, who even changed the training schedules of the club to the afternoons and evenings, to accommodate Maradona sleeping late in the mornings. “Everyone admired him and we will all miss him. After passing away on Wednesday, November 25, at the age of 60, we take a look back at the time the Argentine god spent in Catalonia. Initiating what is possibly still the most extreme fight in a major domestic tournament, Maradona kneed Sola in the head – knocking him out cold – before launching himself with a flurry of kicks into a group of Bilbao players. Maradona contracted Hepititus during his first season in Spain and was restricted to just 20 league games – although he showed glimpses of brilliance to score 11 goals. He then spent the majority of his second season out through an injury suffered in probably the most infamous incident of his time in La Liga. For more detalis, see Read more. He came tantalizingly close to taking Dorados up to the Mexican top flight before resigning. The score remained unchanged at the final whistle, before the season finale descended into mayhem. His full name was in fact Andoni Goikoetxea Olaskoaga, and he was a lumbering, muscular defender from Alonsotegi, a red-tiled hill town in the green and verdant mountains of Biscay. Maradona was transferred to Barcelona after the 1982 World Cup for a then world record fee of $ 7.6 million. Without their star player, Barça fell too far behind in the league to fight for the title, but went on to claim the Copa del Rey, beating Real Madrid in the final. Maradona, 58, has had his problems in the past with substance abuse, including cocaine. During his two injury-hit seasons at Barcelona, Maradona scored 38 goals in 58 games, winning two cups. Schuster, who had already won the European Championships at this point and was one of Barca's most influential players, found this out to his cost during a league fixture against Bilbao early on in the campaign. During his two injury-hit seasons at Barcelona, Maradona scored 38 goals in 58 games. But Maradona - who passed away after heart failure in November aged 60 - saw it differently, to say the least. While the player was sidelined with the hepatitis illness, the team struggled and were knocked out of the Cup Winners’ Cup, with Lattek eventually replaced in the dugout by César Luis Menotti. Maradona's daughter was married to Aguero for four years Credit: Golders/@giamaradona "When a couple finish it's both their faults." With Goiko at the centre of their defence, they earned a reputation for ruthlessness and cynicism as well as excellent football, and so there came to be a fundamental contrast between their style of play and the expressive and philosophical outlook at Camp Nou, or that's how Barcelona supporters saw it, anyway. El Diego's love for nightlife and troubles with substance abuse are well documented and it was during his time in Barcelona, where he famously had a ‘clan’ of friends with whom he would party until the early hours of the morning, that he first started using cocaine. Athletic Bilbao were once again the opponents and victors, claiming a 1-0 win to take home the double. Diego Maradona: Gary Lineker, Marcus Rashford, Pele mourn Argentina, Napoli and Barcelona legend Players past and present have been paying tribute to Diego Maradona … he was brought down by a thunderous tackle by Goiko, launched himself into a vicious tackle from behind. Meanwhile, while Athletic Bilbao were anything but unimaginative, their approach was considerably less romantic and far more rooted in a workmanlike ethic, not to mention the individual exploits of their talismanic forwards, Dani and Manu Sarabia. With the home side three goals to the good midway through the second half, Goiko lost his head after Maradona, who had already provided two assists, picked up the ball in Bilbao's final third and looked to initiate yet another attack. Enter Napoli, the struggling relative in the Italian family. The 1984 Copa del Rey Final pitted Maradona and … After an injury and illness-beset two seasons "there wasn't another team in the world that would buy me," Maradona says. Diego Maradona, one of the greatest players of all time, shone briefly but brightly at the Camp Nou, playing just two injury-hit seasons in the Blaugrana in the early 1980s. The injury was the beginning of the end for Maradona at Barcelona. ‘El D10s’ will forever be remembered in Catalonia for his iconic and beautiful style of play, even if the honours list won at FC Barcelona is somewhat barren for a player of his stratospheric level - Diego left Barça with just a Copa del Rey, a Super Cup, and a League Cup to his name. He was a big kid. By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. When Lionel Messi broke through to the first team, the inevitable comparisons were made, given the similarity of style of play and Argentine nationality. Maradona transferred to Napoli in Italy's Serie A for another world record fee, £6.9 million ($10.48 million). Maradona inspired everyone who came after him, none more so than the current captain of the Catalan club. It would lead to poisonous bad blood between him and Maradona. This victory wouldn’t be enough to claim the league title, however, as the Basques retained their crown, and Maradona’s battle with Bilbao was only heating up. Maradona was initially admitted to the Ipensa Clinic in La Plata, Argentina on Monday, suffering from anaemia and dehydration. He was later transferred to the Olivos Clinic in Buenos Aries to undergo surgery on a subdural hematoma - an accumulation of blood between a membrane and his brain, and is now showing signs of improvement. Maradona. On 24 September 1983, the man fans called ‘Goiko’ committed one of the most infamous fouls in the history of the game. Peut être que les plus jeunes n’ont jamais vu ses images et pour les autres ce sera toujours un plaisir, de voir le coup de genou dans le menton de Diego Maradona sur un des membres du staff de l’Atlético de Bilbao, s’en suit une des bagarres les plus célèbres du football et qui dura de longues minutes. After passing away on Wednesday, November 25, at the age of 60, we take a look back at the time the Argentine god spent in Catalonia. It is no exaggeration to say that this tackle could have ended things for Maradona. Whether or not there was any merit to these conspiratorial whispers, Goiko soon came to represent a style of football inimical to Barca. His relationship with the Board deteriorated to the point of no return, and after Barça lost the Copa de Rey final to Athletic Bilbao in 1983/84, he moved on to Napoli in Italy. Maradona’s Barcelona career would end the following season, in the most vicious and violent circumstances. King Juan Carlos of Spain had been in attendance at the final while it was estimated that half the population had watched on television, and with dozens of people injured in the subsequent melee neither Barcelona nor Maradona were willing to ride the wave of sensationalist press. For his part in the melee, Maradona was handed a three-month ban from the Spanish football federation that he never served as in the summer of 1984, he moved to Napoli to write the most glorious chapters of the Italian club’s history. Menotti and Bilbao coach Javier Clemente had exchanged numerous barbs in the build-up, each man expressing his disdain for the football of the other, which contributed to a fiery atmosphere even as Barca stormed to an early lead. It was at the beginning of the next season, in which Bilbao would once again win the title despite another two defeats to Barca and a single point between them in the final standings, that the most memorable incident of the season took place. Details of the origins of his illness are cloudy, but the Argentine legend was forced to miss a significant chunk of his first season at the Camp Nou due to hepatitis. This might have been believable, was 'The Butcher' not reported to have kept the boots he wore that day preserved at home in a glass display case. The football god’s first coach at the club, Udo Lattek, didn’t have a great relationship with the player, and once left for a match without his number 10 after Maradona didn’t arrive at the team bus on time. This, combined with Schuster's injury, only fanned the flames of their burgeoning rivalry. It was to this backdrop that Barca and Bilbao went head to head, competing for the league title and, separatist sentiment aside, the right to call themselves the best team in Spain. Nevertheless, he will be remembered as the eternal god of the game, and FC Barcelona fans will be proud to have had such a seismic personality form part of their club. It involved the two contrasting club icons, Maradona and Goiko, as well as one of the most notorious tackles in the history of the game. Menotti had a reputation for non-conformity and creative football, and he tried to mould Barcelona in this image with Maradona at the heart of their efforts. Known as El Flaco ('The Thin One') in Argentina, Menotti was a huge influence on Maradona during his time as coach of the national team, with his protégé later stating: "Every time El Flaco spoke I went deathly quiet inside. (Messi’s) tribute was beautiful.” Coutinho also scored for Barcelona, along with Martin Braithwaite and Antoine Griezmann. It was this tackle which earned Goiko the nickname 'The Butcher of Bilbao', a moniker coined by British journalist Edward Owen after he witnessed the foul which left Maradona in such excruciating pain. When playing for the albiceleste at the 1982 World Cup, where he lined out in the Camp Nou and in Espanyol’s old Sarrià stadium, Maradona met with former Barça vice president Nicolau Casaus who eventually persuaded him to join the blaugrana for a then world-record fee. At the end of the encounter, the 1986 World Cup winner's frustrations exploded. How Cesar Luis Menotti persuaded Barcelona to sell Argentine legend and World Cup winner Diego Maradona in 1984 and was quite amazingly proved right Coutumier du fait ces dernières années, Diego Maradona s’est rendu coupable d’un nouveau dérapage obscène. Soon after coming back from that horrific injury, he scored twice as Barcelona beat Athletic Bilbao 2-1. Barcelona are facing a fine of up to €3,000 after Lionel Messi took off his shirt to reveal a tribute to his hero, Diego Maradona, in Sunday's 4-0 win over Osasuna. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. Speaking of his former son-in-law, he called him a 'wimp who I don't even want to name'. Maradona made it back in time for the second league match against Goiko and friends, scoring two goals in a 2-1 win at San Mames, before he took part in the 1984 Copa del Rey final, in which Barca and Bilbao would face each other in a fraught and feverish game. Maradona swapped South America for Europe when he left Boca Juniors for Barcelona in a then-world-record £5m fee. We take a look back at the Argentinian's goals whilst at Barça, 38 years after his transfer to the club It takes us forty years back, when he arrived in Barcelona in 1982 at the age of 21. In the whirlwind of kung-fu moves and punches which followed Goiko managed one last swipe at Maradona, connecting with a flying kick of his own as his nemesis found himself at the centre of the maelstrom. Los Blancos claimed five league titles in the seventies and also won the Copa del Rey on three occasions, while Atletico – formerly favoured by the regime but rapidly positioning themselves as the antithesis of their cross-town rivals – also boasted an imperious side which won two titles and two cup finals. That did not extend to the football pitch, however, where two of their biggest clubs were escalating a bitter and acrimonious rivalry which would come to define an iconic era of La Liga. As the two teams began vying directly for silverware, Barca fans maintained that their side endeavoured to play the better football, while their Basque counterparts saw this as a sign of infuriating pretension from the Catalans. In 75 appearances, Maradona scored 45 goals and won three trophies in Catalunya. The sides would meet in the Copa del Rey final at the end of the season in what would be the player’s final outing for the club. Maradona wouldn't stick around for Barcelona's title win the following season, with the bust-up against Bilbao the main factor in his move to Naples. Singled out for their separatist movements, socialist elements and resistance to Francoism, they had suffered some of the worst excesses of his dictatorship, and had formed a bond of mutual respect and solidarity as a result. Upon the final whistle and more taunting from opposing players, Maradona launched a flying kick into the torso of Miguel Sola, kicking off one of the most chaotic mass brawls ever seen in football. ‘El Pelusa’ never got the chance to serve his ban as in the summer of 1984 he left Barcelona to continue his career at Serie A side Napoli. Disillusioned with life in Spain and at odds with the FC Barcelona board, Maradona saw a lucrative move to Italy as a way out of the impasse in which he found himself. Excited to succeed in Europe. Also known as ‘el Dios’ (‘the god’), his stint at Barça wasn’t as glittering as his time in Naples; his two years at the club are more remembered for, at the 1982 World Cup, where he lined out in the Camp Nou and in Espanyol’s old Sarrià stadium, Maradona met with former Barça vice president Nicolau Casaus who eventually persuaded him to join the, Details of the origins of his illness are cloudy, but the Argentine legend was forced to miss a significant chunk of his first season at the Camp Nou due to, The football god’s first coach at the club, Udo Lattek, didn’t have a great relationship with the player, and once, Without their star player, Barça fell too far behind in the league to fight for the title, but went on to claim the Copa del Rey, beating Real Madrid in the final. During the seventies, football in Spain was dominated by the two Madrid sides, Real and Atletico. The news of Diego Maradona's death has hurt my soul, has hurt my memories and forces me to look back. Diego Maradona's surgeon has said the football legend needs to have artificial knees if he is to carry on walking. Diego Maradona obituary: Argentina, Barcelona and Napoli legend saw heaven and hell Rising to stardom from a grimy Buenos Aires slum to lead Argentina to World Cup victory, Diego Maradona … Andoni Goikoetxea earned himself the nickname “the Butcher of Bilbao” for a crunching tackle from behind that ended up breaking the ankle of Barça’s number 10 and going down as one of the worst challenges in the history of football. Soon after coming back from that horrific injury, he scored twice as Barcelona beat Athletic Bilbao 2-1. Meanwhile, the man who had caused so much of the enmity between Barca and Bilbao had a modest end to his career, leaving Bilbao in 1987 and spending three years at Atletico Madrid before retiring. Given the tension between the two clubs, it was a miracle that a riot didn't erupt on the terraces, though there were scuffles between supporters as swathes of the pitchside fencing was torn down. Lionel Messi paid tribute to Diego Maradona by stripping off his Barcelona top to reveal a shirt for the fallen Argentine great after he scored the final goal in a 4-0 rout of Osasuna on Sunday. Maradona's Debut Goal For Barcelona November 25, 2020 18:32 Diego Maradona scored his first goal for Barcelona in a 2-1 win over Valencia after joining from Boca Juniors in 1982. That was because El Flaco was God." The man who would go on to win the World Cup and become one of the world’s greatest footballers was now faced with a long spell on the sidelines. The skill and flare he became known for later in his career was on show at Barça. Maradona played for Barcelona from 1982-84, but his first season was cut short by hepatitis and in his second Athletic Bilbao defender Andoni Goikoetxea broke Maradona's left ankle. The Catalan side was fast becoming one of the most watchable in La Liga, down in no small part to the management of first Udo Lattek and then, come March 1983, Cesar Luis Menotti, the man who had led Argentina to World Cup triumph in 1978. Maradona may have been the world most expensive footballer at this point but that did not stop him initially staying at the home of Casaus on his move to Barcelona, with the Argentine later describing the Barça director as his ‘second sporting father.’ In September of 1982 Diego made his debut in a blaugrana shirt in official competition, scoring in a 2-1 defeat against Valencia. Barcelona fans were furious, especially when they went on to miss out on the title by a mere two points to Sociedad, with many accusing the Basque defender of deliberately sabotaging their team. All in all, ‘, Athletic Bilbao won the La Liga title in El Diego's first year in Catalonia, and the Basques would turn out to be perhaps the Argentine’s, The two sides met early in the league campaign of Diego’s second season at the Camp Nou in a game that would go down in, Once again, Maradona was left incapable of impacting on his team’s fortunes for a large part of the season, but when he returned to the pitch, he had, At the end of the encounter, the 1986 World Cup winner's, Upon the final whistle and more taunting from opposing players, Maradona, ‘El D10s’ will forever be remembered in Catalonia for his iconic and, Barça fans have an appreciation for great art on the football field, and Maradona fed fans more, Nevertheless, he will be remembered as the, Barça Femení ‘open doors’ for future generations with historic first European title, Fans to return to stadiums across Spain in regions with low Covid incidence rate, Spanish government cools on idea of allowing fans into stadiums, Spanish government considering allowing fans into stadiums for final games of season, Diego Armando Maradona photographed on the pitch during his time at Barcelona (image from FC Barcelona website). On 24 September 1983, Barcelona hosted Bilbao at the Camp Nou and comprehensively dismantled their rivals. Athletic Bilbao won the La Liga title in El Diego's first year in Catalonia, and the Basques would turn out to be perhaps the Argentine’s biggest rivals during his stay in Barcelona. Diego Maradona is in good spirits and could be released from hospital on Friday as he makes an "amazing" recovery following surgery for a brain clot, the Argentina legend's doctor has said. Maradona wouldn't stick around for Barcelona's title win the following season, with the bust-up against Bilbao the main factor in his move to Naples. However, not all is perfect and there were a couple of things that may put a stain on an otherwise perfect night. Only a few years after the death of Francisco Franco and the reintroduction of democracy to Spain, both still smarted from the sting of despotism and the repression of their language, culture and political freedoms over the course of several decades. In 1983, Barcelona won the Copa del Rey beating Real Madrid and the Spanish Super Cup beating Athletic Bilbao. Maradona played for Barcelona from 1982-84. The ill-feeling between Athletic Bilbao and Diego Maradona had been constantly growing throughout his time in La Liga, between the nasty tackle from Goikoetxea, incessant abuse from other players, and constant gauding from the Basque fans. Players and staff on both teams got involved as kicks, punches, and shoves were dished out indiscriminately. The tackle severed Schuster's cruciate ligament, and saw him miss the rest of the season with a miserable nine-month lay off. It would take months of rehabilitation before he would be able to play again. German Ochoa confirmed the retired player has severe arthritis. The former were favourites of Franco during his reign and were, to him, a symbol of a centralised, homogenous, Castilian country, or at least that is how competitors in other regions sought to explain their incredible success. The match itself was a Bilbao masterclass, with a goal after 14 minutes from Endika Guarrotxena allowing the Basque side to close ranks, marshalled by the looming form of Goiko at centre-back. It was not what the club had hoped, but it was a sign to the world for what was to come . Maradona contracted Hepititus during his first season in Spain and was restricted to just 20 league games – although he showed glimpses of brilliance to score 11 goals. For his part he had already apologised profusely, claiming he had never intended to injure Maradona. With a face like smashed rubble and an expression of almost permanent menace, he was a formidable figure in the middle of the Bilbao defence, and from his senior debut in 1975 onwards he became known for his brutal tackling and seeming relish for demolishing opponents by any means.
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