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Old player: After Barcelona won the Champions League in 2006, we started celebrating all the way from Paris, which is simply amazing

August 19th, former Barcelona player Maxi Lopez was interviewed by PostUnited, recalling the grand occasion of Barcelona's 2006 Champions League championship.

Maxi Lopez has played for 14 teams in his career, including Barcelona. He transferred from Riverbed to Barcelona in early 2005 with a transfer fee of €6 million. In his two seasons at Barcelona, he has only participated in 19 official games (589 minutes in total) and scored 2 goals. Despite this, he was lucky enough to be a member of Barcelona when he won the second Champions League trophy in team history in 2006.

The highly anticipated Champions League final was Barcelona against Arsenal, and Beletti scored the winning goal to help Barcelona win the championship. Beletti is now the head coach of Barcelona B.

Nicknamed "Chicken", Maxi Lopez, is named for his celebration and his coming from the River Plate. He played very limited in that Champions League match: 26 minutes in the first leg of the quarterfinals against Chelsea, 4 minutes in the second leg of the Stamford Bridge, and 1 minute in the first leg of the semi-finals against AC Milan in San Siro. The then head coach Rijkaard didn't give him much chance.

马克西-洛佩斯透露了那次夺冠后的庆祝活动有多么疯狂:“我们赢得了欧冠后,用香槟庆祝了一番。从巴黎开始,然后去了其他城市,简直太棒了。”他还提到了与梅西之间的友谊,当时梅西已经崭露头角,但因伤错过了决赛:“我和三位童年好友住在巴塞罗那,经常和梅西一起烧烤、打游戏。”

此外,马克西-洛佩斯还谈到了另一位前巴萨球星内马尔,并表示在他17岁时效力于桑托斯时就已经展现出了非凡的天赋。 "He was already crazy at that time, doing whatever he wanted, playing with his opponent, and he couldn't stop."

Finally, Maxi Lopez recalled his coach Pellegrini in the riverbed: "He would spend an hour talking about tactics, you don't know if you'll fall asleep. But he's really smart."