Archive for February, 2009

Barca Legend: ‘Tarzan’ Migueli

MIGUEL BERNARDO BIANQUETTI “MIGUELI”
‘Tarzan’ Migueli (Ceuta 1951) is the player who has worn the blaugrana colours for the most amount of times in the history of the club (664). He has also been one of the best ever central defenders of the club.
Recommended by Domènec Balmanya, Miguel Bernardo Bianquetti, known as Migueli, arrived at the [...]

Barca Legend: Joaquim Rifé

“Quimet” Rifé (Barcelona 1942) has been one of the players in the history of Barcelona who has most worn the Barcelona shirt; A total of 535 played matches make up his impressive cv.
Rifé started out playing as a winger. However in 1969 as a result of being knocked out of the “Recopa” against Cologne, he [...]

Barca Legend: Salvador Sadurni

Sadurni (L´Arboç del Penedès, 1941), considered the successor to the great goalkeeper Ramallets, always had a lot of competent players with him, firstly Pesudo and also Reina.
But most importantly he was always held in high esteem by the fans for his human quality and skill of his game. He stood out for his calm, confident [...]

Barca Legend: Sandor Kocsis

Known as ‘Golden Head’ due to his amazing abilities in the air, Kocsis (Budapest, Hungary, 1929 – Barcelona, 1979) escaped from Hungary in 1956 following the Soviet intervention in his country, when he was already an established star of his time.
Barça signed him two years later, along with his compatriot Zoltan Czibor, when they were [...]

Barca Legend: Evaristo de Macedo

Evaristo de Macedo (Río de Janeiro, Brazil, 1933) was one of the best foreign signings Barça ever made, and was an outstanding goalscorer.
He was brought to Barcelona by then technical secretary Josep Samitier, who felt he has discovered somebody exceptional. And he was not wrong, for the Brazilian managed to score no fewer than 0.8 [...]