Between 2008 and 2012
Barcelona
dream three
"The main players of the era have all left Barcelona. The former debut that the peak to help Barcelona get the six crowns of the "dream three", from now on has been the past 12 years of spring and autumn, when the group of dynamic young people, now also have entered the end of their careers and even retired.
Dream three" era of the first 11, there have been 7 people retired, they are goalkeeper Valdes; defenders Abidal, Mascherano, Pique; midfield Harvey; striker Villa. Three of them are still in the green field, but no longer in Barcelona, they are the midfielder Busquets,; striker Messi and Despereaux. One of the other players who is the worst off is Alves, sentenced in February 2024 to four and a half years in prison for sexual assault in a Barcelona nightclub in 2022.
After the 2008-2009 season, the "Dream 3" showed their horrible "fangs" to all their opponents. In the Copa del Rey match, they swept Athletic Bilbao 4-1, lifting the first trophy of the season - the Copa del Rey; just three days later, they took the league title three rounds ahead of schedule with an eight-point advantage because of Real Madrid's loss; on May 27, in Rome's Olympic Stadium, with Lionel Messi's first header of his career, Barcelona won 2-0 against Manchester United. On May 27, at the Olympic Stadium in Rome, with Lionel Messi's first header of his career in the main round of the tournament, Barcelona beat Manchester United 2-0 to take their third trophy of the season, and the third Champions League title in team history.
On August 23rd of the same year, Barcelona swept Bilbao 5-1 in a two-legged tie to win the Spanish Super Cup, and just six days later, they beat Miners 1-0 to win the European Super Cup. In the following Club World Cup match, they beat Argentina's University team to win the Club World Cup trophy, achieving an unprecedented six titles. At the same time, they also became a team that made their opponents scared.
In the following four years, Barcelona has won the league title, the Spanish Super Cup, the Champions League, the European Super Cup, the King's Cup ...... In the four years of the "Dream Three" dynasty, Barcelona under the leadership of Pep Guardiola, the winning rate reached an astonishing 72.47%, a total of 14 trophies. Amazing 72.47%, a total of 14 trophies.
April 27, 2012, this is a day that many Barcelona fans can hardly forget, on this day Guardiola officially announced his departure from Barcelona at the end of the season, at the conference he said he was sure that there is nothing more to bring to the team, and the new commander-in-chief can obviously, he confessed that he is no longer suitable to take charge of the head coach of Barcelona, although he left Barcelona, but in his own In his heart, Camp Nou will always be the best. Along with the departure of Pep Guardiola, Barcelona "dream three" era also announced the end.
