Barcelona president Joan Laporta has supplied an replace on a tragedy which has shocked La Liga within the final 24 hours.
La Blaugrana made the shock determination to postpone their La Liga conflict at residence to Osasuna lower than an hour earlier than kick off.
Followers had already gathered within the stands on the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys as Hansi Flick’s facet appeared to increase their lead on the high of La Liga.
Nonetheless, a stadium announcement was swiftly adopted by a membership assertion confirming the rationale, with the Barcelona camp left surprised and devastated by the sudden passing of membership physician Carles Minarro Garcia.
The choice was made in session with La Liga and Osasuna as all sides agreed to name off the sport as a mark of respect and permit the information to be relayed to his household.
Laporta has spoken on behalf of the membership, with Barcelona’s gamers visibly distressed as they left the stadium, with social media flooded by messages of condolence to a massively widespread determine.
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“Carles was a lot liked by everybody. He handed away this afternoon on the workforce’s coaching camp. The gamers, workers, coaches… are all very unhappy. We liked him very a lot, he got here to all of the away video games to take care of everybody. He didn’t say no to anybody,” as per quotes from Diario AS.
“We determined a postponement was for one of the best and La Liga understood our reasoning completely.
“We’ve got had the utmost understanding from Osasuna and their president. They understood the scenario from the primary second and behaved in terribly..
“That is very painful for everybody at Barcelona. We’re in a state of shock. We’ve got contacted his mom and his spouse. We wish to give them the utmost assist.
“Carles leaves behind two kids, Gerard and Ana. and we are going to assist them in every part they want.”
Barcelona will now open talks with La Liga over a possible reschedule date prone to be in Might.
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