Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Coinciding with the euphoria of the Barcelona Olympic Games, Núñez finally achieves what he had promised: Barça is the greatest team in Europe. The “Dream Team,” which owes its name precisely to the United States basketball team during the Games, is admired by everyone. But, coinciding with another European Cup final, the dream shatters and turns into a nightmare that will lead to one of the most famous and grotesque press conferences in history: the dismissal of Johan Cruyff. Núñez’s attempt to rebuild his project and unite Barcelonism will have its ups and downs, but when the first reports emerge about bribes paid by the company Núñez y Navarro to tax inspectors, he will step down as club president. It has been twenty-two years in office, full of light and construction works, successes and failures, mirrored in the twenty-three-year presidency of another symbol: Jordi Pujol. The ending is ironically similar for both. It is the end of an era for Barça and for Catalonia.
Coinciding with the euphoria of the Barcelona Olympic Games, Núñez finally achieves what he had promised: Barça is the greatest team in Europe. The “Dream Team,” which owes its name precisely to the United States basketball team during the Games, is admired by everyone. But, coinciding with another European Cup final, the dream shatters and turns into a nightmare that will lead to one of the most famous and grotesque press conferences in history: the dismissal of Johan Cruyff. Núñez’s attempt to rebuild his project and unite Barcelonism will have its ups and downs, but when the first reports emerge about bribes paid by the company Núñez y Navarro to tax inspectors, he will step down as club president. It has been twenty-two years in office, full of light and construction works, successes and failures, mirrored in the twenty-three-year presidency of another symbol: Jordi Pujol. The ending is ironically similar for both. It is the end of an era for Barça and for Catalonia.
