In the world of football, the "national derby" between Barça and Real Madrid is one of the most interesting matches, which can be called Mars hitting the earth. Every season, both clubs are the main contenders for the La Liga title (and of course Atletico Madrid), which has been going on for decades.
Because of this, transfers between the two Spanish giants are extremely rare. After all, no one wants to strengthen the main competitors. So in the nearly 100-year history, there are not many players who have played for both teams. But there are still some exceptions. For example, we can think of Brazilian striker Ronaldo and Argentine star Saviola.
However, only five players have historically won La Liga titles at both Barcelona and Real Madrid.
Albert Celades Lopez (Barcelona – 1997/98, 1998/99 | Real Madrid - 2000/01, 2002/03)
Albert Serades comes through the Barça Academy and is one of the few players to have won La Liga in both Barca and Real Madrid. Serades plays as a defensive midfielder, playing for Celta and Zaragoza in Spain, in addition to playing for Barca and Real Madrid. In the 1997-1998 season, the footballer made 36 appearances for the team, helping coach Louis van Gaal lead the team to La Liga and end Barca's three-year title drought.
In the following season, Serrades once again won La Liga with "Barca, but the playing time he received has been greatly reduced. Because of this, he eventually left Barca in 1999 after 101 games for Celta. Then, a year later, he joined Real Madrid. Although Serades did not become a regular regular during his time at Real Madrid, he won two La Liga titles and one UEFA Champions League during his five years at Real Madrid.
Bernd Schuster (Barcelona – 1984/85 | Real Madrid – 1988/89, 1989/90)
The German midfielder put together a real "defection Grand Slam", first after eight years at Barca before moving to their main rivals, Real Madrid, and then from Real Madrid to another club in Madrid, fellow rivals Atletico Madrid. But few would doubt Schuster's decision, as he won trophies in all teams. Specifically, during his time with Barça and Real Madrid, he became La Liga champion three times.
In eight seasons with Catalan teams, the German player only won the title in 1985, but his two years at Real Madrid were victorious. By the way, when he became coach, he once again led Madrid's team to win the gold medal in La Liga.
He also coached Dalian Yifang Club in the Chinese Super League.
3: Michael Laudrup (Barcelona - 1990/91, 1991/92, 1992/93, 1993/94 | Real Madrid - 1994/95)
Michael Laudrup is one of the most talented players of his generation, having won seven league titles and one European Cup. With a "4+1" La Liga five-time consecutive victory, he was also selected as the best foreign aid in Spain in 25 years (1974~1999). He was also the "Golden Player" presented by the Danish Football Association to the UEFA representative of Denmark for its 50th anniversary in 2003. The Dane played for Lazio and Juventus in the early 90s before becoming a key member of Barcelona led by Johan Cruyfff. The all-around midfielder joins José Barcro and Christo Stokov in one of the most feared attacking trios in global football, while the Catalans won four consecutive titles between 1991 and 1994.
However, then Barça began to rebuild and Laudrup decided to leave the team and accepted the offer of Real Madrid. The Dane integrated into the new team almost immediately and won his fifth consecutive title thanks to his great skill. Interestingly, the player played in two "national derbys" and won both for the home team, both with a score of 5:0. The first was at Barcelona in 1994 and almost a year later at Real Madrid. Michael Laudrup has earned the respect of fans of both clubs, which is very rare among players who "throw in the enemy".
Luis Enrique (Barcelona – 1997/98, 1998/99 | Real Madrid – 1994/95)
To current fans, Enrique may be the most familiar of the five. But not because of being a player, but because he has coached Barcelona and the Spanish national team.
The players mentioned earlier all played for Barca before moving to Real Madrid, and the opposite was true for Luis Enrique. The former Barca manager, who was the coach of the Spanish national team, spent five fairly successful seasons in Madrid, winning La Liga in 1995. He stayed there until his contract expired and moved to Barca for free when his contract expired.
At first, fans of the Catalan club were skeptical of the new arrival, but Enrique won their hearts with strength, spending 8 years at Camp Nou and scoring several important goals in the 'National Derby' to beat Real Madrid. After this, the Spaniard admitted that he did not feel particularly deep love from Real Madrid fans during his five years in Madrid and that he has no fond memories of that experience.
In 2008, Enrique began his coaching career with the Barcelona B team. From 2011 to 2014, Luis Enrique coached at Roma in Serie A and then at Celta in La Liga. In 2014, Enrique became head coach of FC Barcelona. In December 2015, Luis Enrique led Barcelona to the crown of the five-time Champion of the Year, and he was personally named FIFA Men's Head Coach of the Year.
PS. How strong was Barça back then? MSN in hand, I have it in the world!
Throughout 2015, the MSN team scored a total of 137 goals, including 48 goals for Messi, 48 for Suarez and 41 for Neymar. In contrast, Real Madrid's annual total goals in all competitions are just 140, just three more than the Barça Trident. If the South American trio adds eight national goals (Messi and Neymar combined), the total annual goals of the trio will reach 145, even more than the entire Real Madrid team, and the B-B-C combination in the same period has 79 goals for the club.
At that time, Barça fans joked that the coach's only instruction to the team was to tell the players: pass the ball to MSN!
One of them: Luís Figo (Barcelona - 1997/98, 1998/99 | Real Madrid - 2000/01, 2002/03)
This controversial legend I don't even know how to introduce it.
Figo began his football career with Sporting de Portugal and joined Barcelona FC in La Liga in June 1995. At that time, Figo's transfer fee was as high as $20 million, and his transfer fee set a world record at the time.
In the 1995-96 season, the arrival of Figo successfully filled the loss of Michel Laudrup's departure, Figo's first season at Barca has firmly occupied the main position, for La Liga, which has a similar style of football, Figo does not need to adapt to anything, more importantly, Figo has grown into a weapon in the team's attack, playing on the wing but with all the qualities of a central playmaker, in that era, as long as you watch Barcelona games, even if you watch football for the first time, you will quickly find a problem" The number seven player of this red and blue team is so strong! ”
The Portuguese player spent 5 years in Catalonia and played almost 250 matches. During this period, Figo twice became champion of the Spanish league.
In July 2000, Figo made the biggest decision of his life: he signed a five-year contract with Barcelona's then-world number one to Barcelona's rivals, Real Madrid FC, Spain's other giant. Shortly after his move to Real Madrid, Figo helped the team win the Toyota Cup and Super Cup.
Figo's first season with Real Madrid in 2000–01 was a consistent performance, helping Real Madrid win La Liga again four years later with 80 points.
In the 2001–02 season, with the arrival of Zidane, Figo's position at Real Madrid was fixed on the right wing. On December 17 , 2001 , at the FIFA World Footballer of the Year award ceremony , Figo defeated Raul Gonzalez and David Beckham to be named World Footballer of the Year that year. Figo also beat Bayer Leverkusen in Glasgow with his teammates this season, winning Real Madrid's ninth Champions League trophy.
There are different versions of Figo's transfer incident. One of the more interesting is that in the 2000 Real Madrid election, Florentino announced that he would bring Luis Figo, the vice-captain of his arch-rival Barca, in order to create electoral momentum, which was undoubtedly a blow to his sworn enemy. Then he privately reached an agreement with Figo and his agent to pay a deposit of $300,000 to Figo, and if the election fails, Figo must join Real Madrid, otherwise he will pay 30 million euros.
However, at that time, Florentino's campaign had little hope of success, and Figo accepted the agreement because he felt that it was a good thing for nothing. Who knew that under this momentum, he really succeeded in the campaign and directly activated Figo's $54.5 million liquidated damages, and Figo, who had no way back, could only switch to Real Madrid on the charge of being the number one traitor in history.
In the face of such a vicious betrayal, the curse and hostility of Barça fans will never dissipate with time. In Real Madrid's visit to Camp Nou two years later to challenge Barca, the Figo Barça fans who came to the corner in front of them had the best chance to retaliate. Countless coins, wine bottles, lighters and other debris poured down from the stands and threw them at Figo, who was already the greatest lucky that he was not injured. Among the thrown debris, a pig's head containing the curse of Barça fans fell next to Figo, becoming a classic scene in football history.
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