Friday, September 20

Messi, Iniesta and Xavi, the historic podium of the Ballon d'Or “Made in Barça” turns 10

It is not frequent, but sometimes, the soccer planet aligns itself with the other stars to generate incredible coincidences , stories that are the ones that in the end give meaning to our greatest passion: football.

The 3 trained at La Masía, the 3 Barça players and all 3 were finalists for the Ballon d’Or 2010. Today 10 years ago, Messi (1st), Andrés Iniesta (2nd) and Xavi (3rd) painted the award as blaugrana most important individual on the planet. Football in its purest form. QUARRY CULÉ. pic.twitter.com/psxYD351 uy

– Undefeated (@InvictosSomos) January 10, 2021

That planetary alignment allowed us to see three of the brightest footballers ever seen on the same team in this century: Leo Messi , Andrés Iniesta and Xavi Hernández , a trident like never seen before and that not only made Barça live its best years, but to be honest it revolutionized football forever.

Today marks 10 years of that historic night in which The three players from the same quarry, La Masía , defined the best soccer player on this planet who ended up being, not without controversy, the Argentine star.

Make 10 years and it continues to hurt as if it were yesterday 😭😭😭

Exactly a decade ago Messi, Iniesta and Xavi were finalists in the Ballon d’Or, which the Argentine would end up winning. Iniesta had had a dream year. Did it seem fair to you? pic.twitter.com/yD8oFlHJnr

– juanfutbol (@ juanfutbol) January 10, 2021