With signing Luis SuarezInter Miami, which has been a secret for a long time but was not officially announced until this Friday, Inter Miami has completed the “re-creation” of Barcelona as it also has an ex-Blaugrana in its squad. Leo Messi, Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba and with a former culé coach like Gerardo “Tata” Martino.
Messi, Suarez, Busquets and Alba They were Barcelona’s mainstay for six seasons, sharing the same dressing room from 2014 to 2020.
The greatest success they achieved together was the 2014-15 Champions League in a team with a lethal attacking trident formed by Messi, Suarez and Neymar.
Of the four old acquaintances who will now meet again at Inter Miami, Suarez was the last to arrive at Barcelona (2014) and the first to leave (2020), but in that period he distinguished himself as one of the best with 197 goals and 100 assists. favorite partners of his friend Messi.
According to BeSoccer for the Agency EFE, Messi, Suarez, Busquets and Alba They appeared together in the same Barcelona match 187 times, with a total score of 134 wins, 33 draws and 20 losses (only 10.7% of matches lost).
In the 187 matches the four played at Barça, Messi scored 167 goals and Suarez 131 goals, but what stood out above all was the partnership between them: 25 assists from the Argentine to the Uruguayan and 34 from the Uruguayan to the brilliant Rosario. .
Their excellent relationship on and off the pitch is perfectly understandable when you consider that every third of Messi’s passes (25 out of 75 in total) was made by Suarez as the recipient and that almost half of the Pistoleros (34 out of 67 in total) for the 10th albiceleste numbers.
Alba has also specialized in assisting his teammates in matches with Inter Miami’s current Poker Blaugrana side, providing 17 assists for Messi and 15 for Suarez.
Except Champions Leaguein those six seasons, Barcelona also won four titles. Leaguefour Royal CupsA Club World Championship, A European Super Cup and two Spanish Super Cups.
Given such a triumphant record, it is not surprising that Inter Miami, in their announcement of 10 (Messi), 18 (Jordi Alba) and 5 (Sergio), had the following message: “There is nothing more beautiful than playing with friends.”
Inter Miami’s Tata Martino bench also has a Barca stamp on it, as the Argentine was in charge of Barcelona in the 2013-2014 season.
However, Martino did not have much success in Spanish football and won only one Spanish Super Cup at the Camp Nou stadium.
(according to information from EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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