Barcelona and Athletic, the kings of glasses

Last update 5 March, 2015 by Alberto Llopis

Barcelona and Athletic are the kings of Cups. Catalans and Basques, They will play the Copa del Rey final between them for the eighth time and will once again compete for the title of champion of the Spanish Cup. But both clubs, They are also the two that have won the most Cups throughout history. The Barcelona 26 and Athletic 23. At Colgados we remember the precedents between both teams.

The first final between Barcelona and Athletic was in 1920

You have to go back almost a hundred years to remember the first time both teams met in a Cup final.. It was in 1920, when football was still a gentleman's sport. That edition played in Gijón, Barcelona took it by two to zero. By the way, Athletic's forward was Pichichi and Barcelona's goalkeeper, he “Divine” Zamora.

Between 1932 y 1953 They faced each other three more times

In it 32, It was Athletic that took the Cup title after winning by 1-0 in the old Chamartín stadium. The Civil War interrupted the competitions (although Levante won the Republic Cup in 1937 but the RFEF refuses to consider it official) and now as the Generalissimo Cup, Both teams faced each other again in 1942 with victory for Barcelona and 1953, also with victory for the culés who had a spectacular Kubala.

In 1984 they ended up beaten

They did not face each other again until 80, already called Copa del Rey when at the Bernabéu, Clemente's Athletic, beat Menotti's Barcelona by 1-0 in a final in which there were some pending accounts. Maradona, who had been injured by a criminal entry in Goikoetxea a few months before, He took justice into his own hands and after the final whistle and with the heat of defeat, A fight broke out that ended with a monumental brawl that went down in history..

The latest precedents are from very recently, 2009 y 2012

The Barcelona, let it come in 2009 y 2015 has reached 5 of the 7 finals played, faced Athletic who came to 2, those of 2009 y 2012. Both, were won by Guardiola's Barcelona, ​​which curiously, He won his first and last title as Barcelona coach with these two Copas del Rey. The first, after the Catalans prevailed 4-1 in Valencia and the second after winning 3-0 in Madrid, in the match played at the Vicente Calderón.

Of the 7 plays so far the balance is clearly favorable to Barcelona 5 a 2. What will happen to the eighth?, soon we will know.