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Gladiator clips Pep up Barca before final

Updated on: 30 May,2009 08:10 AM IST  | 
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Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola showed clips from the Oscar-winning movie to his team just minutes before the Champions League match, which they won

Gladiator clips Pep up Barca before final

Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola showed clips from the Oscar-winning movie to his team just minutes before the Champions League match, which they won

To motivate his players for the Champions League final in Rome, the Barcelona coach showed them clips from the film Gladiator just minutes before the match, a news report said yesterday.

Barcelona beat Manchester United 2-0 in a dazzling and attacking display in Rome's Olympic stadium on Wednesday night.


Coach Pep Guardiola ended the pre-match warm-up session early to show the players a seven-minute video that included clips from the film Gladiator, the newspaper El Pais said.




The video, put together especially for Guardiola by a journalist friend, also shows some of best moves by each of the players during the season.

It concludes with a message from Barcelona' sponsor that appears on the screen, "We are the centre of the field, we have accuracy, we have effort, we are attackers who are defending, we are defenders who are attacking, we have speed, we have the respect of our adversaries, we are each goal that we score, we are the ones who are always looking for the opponent's goal. WE ARE ONE."

The report said that when the video ended and the lights came up, "some players were crying and their shouts indicated that the aim had been achieved".

It said Guardiola then let them enter the stadium without saying another word.

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