La Liga: Barça wants to celebrate two championship titles with a bus parade

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Barça wants to celebrate two championship titles with a bus parade

FC Barcelona players celebrate after winning the championship. photo

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FC Barcelona wants to celebrate the championship titles of the men’s and women’s teams this Monday evening with a bus parade through Barcelona together with thousands of fans.

FC Barcelona wants to celebrate the championship titles of the men’s and women’s teams this Monday evening with a bus parade through Barcelona together with thousands of fans.

The team with German national goalkeeper Marc-André ter Stegen and ex-Bayern star Robert Lewandowski will travel from 6 p.m. in an open bus from the Camp Nou stadium to the Arc de Triomf, the club announced on its website.

Along with women team

The women’s team from FC Barcelona, ​​who had already secured the championship title in April, will also be there. Various music groups are to perform along the approximately eight-kilometer route through Barcelona. The last time there was such a street party for a championship title was in 2018.

Coach Xavi Hernández’s team secured the Spanish championship early on Sunday evening with a 4-2 win in the city derby against Espanyol. Lewandowski scored a brace. Full-back Alejandro Balde and Jules Koundé scored the other goals for Barça. Javi Puado (73′) and Joselu (90’+2) scored for Espanyol.

Four games before the end of the season, the team is 14 points ahead of pursuers Real Madrid and can no longer be ousted from first place. Ter Stegen, who stood like “a wall” throughout the season, was also decisive for the Catalans’ success, the newspaper “El País” wrote on Monday.

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