Samuel Umtiti, finishing a balloon with the Olympique of Lyon

RETURN Home OF 'ABI' And UMTITI

Éric Abidal, Samuel Umtiti and a Lyon-Barcelona very special

Published:17/12/2018 - 16:32h

Updated:18/12/2018 - 00:52h

Two important pieces of the FC Barcelona, the technical secretary Éric Abidal and the central Samuel Umtiti, will return home with the eliminatory of Champions in front of the Olympique of Lyon. Both save very good memories of his go through Gerland

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Although Olympique of Lyon and FC Barcelona have not confronted too many times in Champions League -so only there are four precedents-, there will be two important people in the FC Barcelona for those who will be an eliminatory, this of eighth of the League of Champions 2018-19, very special.

It treats of the technical secretary Éric Abidal and of the central Samuel Umtiti, that in his day arrived both pertinent of the Olympique of Lyon and with the step of the time have turned into important members of the club, the first by his exert like player and the titles that achieved, and the second still with a short path when having landed in 2016, but having turned into one of the best head offices of the world.

Éric Abidal landed in the FC Barcelona in summer of 2007, with Frank Rijkaard in the bench, and lived the most glorious stage of the first club to the orders of the Dutch and afterwards of Guardiola, before leaving in 2013 by the rear door, to the not having he the technical office of Sandro Rosell.

Now, it has returned in the last months to exert of technical secretary, and of his hand have arrived some of the last signings of the FC Barcelona, that are giving a big performance to Ernesto Valverde. Éric Abidal is to taste with his charge in the technical office, although it still will need more time to know all the secrets of the profession and follow reinforcing the staff culé.

Regarding Samuel Umtiti, was fichado of the Olympique of Lyon in 2016, after the FC Barcelona credited 25 million euros and that the president of the club Frenchman, Jean Michel Classrooms, regretted later have not taken out more economic cut of the traspaso.

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Samuel Umtiti has turned into one of the best head offices of the world in the rows of the FC Barcelona, but is living a campaign 2018-19 of nightmare, fruit of an injury of which does not finish to recover , and that even could pass off as him the operating theatre. In his case, will be the first crash in front of his ex team, whenever the knee allow it to him of face to the next month of February, when it will play the party of gone.

An eliminatory special, in definite, for two active of the club that now have to to the FC Barcelona, and that in spite of measuring in front of his ex team know very well to the club to the that represent. Ernesto Valverde expects to have prompt available to Samuel Umtiti, and even more after it have gone back to lesionar Thomas Vermaelen.

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