FC Barcelona are in mourning. The president’s most long-lived of the entity, Josep Lluís Núñez, died on Monday at 87 years of age. And the club, which has declared four days of official mourning, will enable a zone in the grandstand of the Camp Nou for the blaugrana be able to say goodbye to him and pay homage to him. The club will be a Space Memorial that will be open from 10 a.m. Tuesday until nine in the evening and again on Wednesday from 10 to two in the afternoon. The funeral of the businessman will be held this Wednesday at 10.15 in the church of Sant Gervasi i Protasi of Barcelona.
condolences and messages of encouragement to the family, happened during the whole day. Among the more heartfelt highlight the words of Joan Gaspart, who was his vice president and then succeeded him in the charge. “I lost a great friend and, as a culé, who has been for me one of the best presidents of Barcelona,” he said in an interview on the news of Four. “If I have to remember, a night of happiness that we live together I’m left with the of London, when we won the first European Cup. Although now I think more in the family, in the person, in the sporting moments,” he added, while also stating very saddened by the news.
That feeling invaded also to Lorenzo Sanz, former Perabet president of Real Madrid, also in statements to Four, he remembered his counterpart in the Camp Nou. “It has been a great loss. He was a great president. We were enemies fierce, we had enfrenamientos sports, quite a few, but then that is forgotten. He was affection”.
extended his condolences to the current president of FC Barcelona, Josep Maria Bartomeu, who issued a public letter to Núñez, “a great barcelona that changed the face of the club”. A club, who remembered the leader barca, “he lived hard times, from many points of view” when that came, in 1978. Therefore, we acknowledge that to implement a “new concept of management”, basis of the current Barça, or that he was born with him to La Masia. “I knew that the future of the team passed to generate local talent from the excellence and innovation”. Núñez, pointing to Bartholomew, “has renewed the mentality of the club” and was convinced “of the nature deeply sports FC Barcelona”.
Personalities of the club as the former president Joan Laporta, one of the founders of the Elefant Blau, a group of opposition to the nuñismo, the former player and coach Pep Guardiola, and also a former player Ronald Koeman, who has led the showcases of the club with his goal at Wembley that first European Cup, also showed his respects. “It is a great loss. He was president for many years,” said Guardiola, who sent a hug to the family. Koeman, for his part, confessed that he was “deeply saddened” and said Nunez was “a great president, a wonderful human being”.
The Royal Spanish Football Federation, the main rival, Real Madrid, as well as many other clubs LaLiga, also sent their condolences to the Nunez family.
