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El Clasico is all the time particular, particularly when Barcelona beat their everlasting rivals within the finale of an occasion.
The one factor higher than a Barcelona Clasico win is La Manita or a demolition of the opposition by scoring 5 targets – one thing that unfolded final evening in Saudi Arabia within the remaining of the Spanish Tremendous Cup.
Through the years, Gerard Pique grew to become the face of the well-known La Manita celebration – holding his hand excessive within the sky throughout his taking part in days and signalling to the world that Barcelona had put 5 targets previous Los Blancos.
Nonetheless received it
Gerard Pique made essentially the most of his alternative yesterday to have a good time Barcelona’s historic win over Actual Madrid and didn’t overlook his ‘hand’ celebration.
The Barcelona legend was with former Actual Madrid celebrity Iker Casillas, following the sport from Turin.
After the ultimate whistle, Pigue pointed the hand and signalled Actual Madrid’s destruction on to Casillas which the legendary goalkeeper accepted with sportsmanship and joined in on the enjoyable.
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The video of the incident was posted on the Kings League’s official social media deal with with the caption ‘Good evening everybody’, rubbing salt into Actual Madrid’s wounds.
Curiously, nonetheless, Pique was not the pioneer behind the well-known hand celebration. It was Johan Cruyff’s assistant Tony Bruins Slot in 1993-94 who first invented the gesture that has now turn into a convention.
Pique received the chance to showcase the gesture on the sector first in 2010 when Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona famously beat Actual Madrid 5-0 and repeated it in 2018 when the Catalans rampaged previous their rivals with a 5-1 scoreline.
He might not have been on the sector final evening, however the Cule in him remains to be alive and he thus made essentially the most of his alternative.
