1959-1960:
Barcelona win the league, in an exciting battle with Real Madrid, and the Fairs Cup in a tough season in which gets to play 60 games.
On September 3, 1959 Barcelona debut in the European Cup. After overcoming three rounds, with historical results as a Milan 0-2 and 5-1 and 2-5 and 4-0 at Wolverhampton, falls in semifinals against Real Madrid. Three days later, on April 30, 1960, Miró-Sans dismisses Herrera.
With
Enric Rabassa on the bench, Barcelona is eliminated in the Cup for Athletic
Bilbao, but wins the II Fairs Cup by beating Birmingham 4-1 at the Camp Nou.
The Croatian Ljubisa Brocic is the new coach. Only lasts six months and is replaced by his assistant, Henry Orizaola. In the League the Barcelona finishes 20 points behind Real Madrid. Cup is eliminated by Espanyol and the Fairs Cup falls before the Hibernians.
The only competition that the team seems to smile is the European Cup. In the playoff semifinals defeat to Real Madrid. In the first leg on November 9, 1960 at the Bernabeu, the match ends 2-2, while in the back, on 23 November Real Madrid at the Camp Nou falls 2-1. Real Madrid understood partially in favor of the Catalans arbitration. The May 31, 1961, Barcelona plays its first final of the European Cup against Benfica. The result is 3-2 for the Portuguese, in a game where luck was allied with the Catalans, by slamming the ball four times in the wood.
Suarez, who in March was elected best player in Europe, signed for Inter. Czibor and Tejada also leave the club and Kubala and Ramallets removed.
Miro-Sans
resigns and March 1 gets interim president, of Antoni Julia Campmany. On June
7, 1961 elections held by the system of delegates. The winner and new president
is Llaudet Enric Ponsa with 122 votes for 98 of its rival, Jaume Fuset.
Former goalkeeper Miro Lluis ranks Barca bench, but poor performance forced his substitution by Kubala. The team traces the way in the league and finishes second. In the Cup falls eliminated by Real Madrid and the Fairs Cup reaches the final against Valencia, which was postponed until the following season.
Cup
highlights the clash with Basque, where he plays a janitor who promises Iríbar.
Barcelona wins 0-2 in the round 10-1 at Camp Nou and incorporating Iribar
brakes.
The season begins with Kubala on the bench, but the input end of the Fairs Cup the previous season is lost. Valencia won 6-2 in round one draw at the Camp Nou. The Liga team performance is very low and in the end, the January 8, 1963, is dismissed Kubala. His replacement is another former player of the club, Josep Gonzalvo, better known as footballing Gonzalvo II. Kubala, who had left school to pursue players to the first team, feels cheated and soon after signed for Espanyol as a player.
Barcelona
does not improve in the league and finished in sixth place, the worst ranking
since 1944. Cup team suffer excessively to eliminate their rivals, but makes it
to the final, played on 23 June 1963 at Camp Nou. The opponent was Real
Zaragoza, coached by former player César. Barca eventually won 3-1.
The Leon Cesar Rodriguez, the scorer of Barcelona from the 40, takes over the team. For the first time in many years the team seems ready to fight for the league title, but all illusions disappear in a decisive Barcelona-Real Madrid at the Camp Nou, where Real Madrid 1-2 expire. In the Cup the Barcelona falls in semifinals eliminated by Zaragoza.
The Barcelona debut in the Cup Winners' Cup. It is eliminated by the Hamburg Uwe Seeler in a tiebreaker played in Lausanne.
The
sale of Les Corts concerned and various proposals are studied. Stresses the
vice president of Espanyol, Juan Vila Reyes, who wanted to sell Sarria Stadium
and stay with Les Corts. There was no agreement.
Removal of "Juanito" Segarra marks the start of the season in a defeat at modest Levante field 5-1 makes the directive players punished "by the poor showing of the game." César resigns and is replaced by his deputy, Vicenç Sassot. The team finishes sixth in the league and in the Cup, which debuted young LLuís Pujol and Carles Rexach, falls eliminated against Zaragoza.
In Barcelona Fairs Cup quarterfinal fails. His latest rival is Strasbourg. After tying three straight, the toss of a coin decides the elimination of Barcelona.
The May
15, 1965 is presented Llaudet reelection. Despite the poor sports scores
surpasses its rival, Josep Maria Vendrell, very clearly: 164 votes in favor to
35 against.
Follow dancing coaches. Roque Olsen arrives and the League the Barcelona finishes third. Removes Cup for the third consecutive time, the Zaragoza. Instead, the team qualifies for the final of the Fairs Cup to be played with precisely the Aragonese.
The
August 13, 1965 the Cabinet finally approved the reclassification of Les Corts.
The May 18, 1966 sale Llaudet formalizes the inmobiliaria "Habitat",
represented by attorney Maria Josep Figueras, for 226 million pesetas.
Barcelona can thus restore its economy.
The August 30, 1966 the Joan Gamper Trophy establishes, in a match against Anderlecht (2-1).
Deferred end of the Fairs Cup and Barcelona plays the trophy by beating Real Zaragoza in Romareda by 2-4.
In the League the Barcelona finishes second after a decisive and controversial defeat at the Bernabeu against Real Madrid (1-0).
In the
Cup the Barcelona falls in eighth against Atletico Madrid and the Fairs Cup
does not pass the first round.
Salvador Artigas, who had been a Republican aviator in the war, is the new coach of Barcelona. The team returns to second in the league while in the Fairs Cup falls eliminated by Zurich in the first round. In the Cup, Barca team gets the title brilliantly. Barcelona beats Sporting Gijon, Real Sociedad, Athletic Bilbao and Atletico Madrid and is presented in the final against Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium. Expire at the end Barca 0-1 with goals from Zunzunegui own goal 6 minutes into the public, after the game, threw glass bottles on the pitch, discontent over the controversial arbitration.
Llaudet calls early elections in early 1968 and a single nomination, Narcís de Carreras, new president by acclamation since January 17 is presented.
On
April 6, 1968, the day before a Barcelona-Real Madrid player dies Uruguayan
Julio Cesar Benitez, a victim of food poisoning.
Barcelona still stand out in the league and finishes third. In loses input Cup with Real Sociedad, but the team has toned in the Cup Winners Cup and makes it to the final after beating Lugano, at Lynn Oslo and Cologne (with excellent game Fuste, author of three goals ).
The May 21, 1969 Barcelona and Slovan Bratislava play the Cup Winners Cup final in Basel. Imposed by the Czechs 3-2. They scored Zaldúa and Rexach, the latter with Olympic goal.
The
possibility of re-signing a new manager Helenio Herrera, serious discussions
and resignations from the board.
