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Yes, amigos, we spoke to Barça’s Gerard Piqué on Monday! Well, it wasn’t as bad as the Clarence Seedorf interview  earlier this year where we had to wait up for his assistant to call us at 3AM. Piqué lived up to his reputation as the fun-loving and rubbish-talker based on our 13 minute conversation that the lovely folks at Barca arranged for us before the trip to Rome.

Anyway, we decided that hombre had enough of all the technical talk. So, with Messa Garcia’s help, we went with the iPod theme. A little lazy to rewrite the story we did for our local paper so here are a few quotes…

On his music tastes

“Whenever we win, I like to play Queen’s ‘We are the Champions’. I have the Robbie Williams version too and sometimes we play it on repeat. But the songs always come from my iPod.”

“Yes, the stewardesses were not very happy on the flight back to Barcelona from London. They saw Thierry (Henry) and Eric (Abidal) dancing a little and they left us alone for a while!”

On what he’ll play if Barca Win

“It’s something I haven’t thought about yet. And we can’t think about that now. I’ll just try to play my best and win the match. ?It will be very complicated as we’ll be facing the current champion and one of the best teams in the world.”

On returning to play against his former side

“Yes, of course there will be some emotions. There will be many memories coming into the game because I grew (as a player) in England and learnt many things there from Sir Alex.”

“We want to make history in Spain (achieving a treble) and this is the best chance for us.”