1969-1970:
Barcelona starts league tying three at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium, in a match that highlights the serious injury Bustillo (who had scored two goals in five minutes), following a challenge from Madrid De Felipe.
The equipment does not work and coach Salvador Artigas resigns. The former player Josep Seguer takes over the bench until the arrival of the new manager, Vic Buckingham English. Barcelona finishes fifth in the league.
The Fairs Cup Barca are eliminated in the second round against Inter Milan, still Suarez their ranks.
Falls Cup quarter against Real Madrid. After losing the first leg 2-0, the night of June 6, 1970 passed by the controversial history of the Basque arbitration Carlos Emilio Guruceta. Rexach forward to Barcelona, but 6 minutes into the second half, Guruceta penalty pointed to a lack of Rife Velázquez about two meters of area. Five minutes from the end, the fans invaded the pitch amid violent police charges. After that game, no Guruceta never beeped again at the Camp Nou.
The
December 18, 1969 Agustí Montal i Costa Pere beats Baret in a tight
presidential election by 126 votes to 112.
Buckingham leads the team from the beginning of the season but the league a year escapes: Barcelona are second, level on points with champions Valencia.
If last season was Inter Milan who eliminated Barcelona from the Fairs Cup in this season's edition does Juventus in knockout phase.
In
contrast, in the Barcelona Cup is made with the title. Complete all the
qualifiers and presented the July 4, 1971 in the final, played at the Santiago
Bernabeu, against league champions. An exciting extension gives the Catalans
win over Valencia 4-3.
The Dutchman Marinus Michels is the new coach, in a first step to approach the signing of Johan Cruyff. In the League the Barcelona finishes in third place, but lost the chance of winning the title being unable to win in the field of Córdoba (1-0), who had been relegated to the Second Division.
The September 22, 1971 the Leeds United beats Barcelona at the Camp Nou (2-1) and champion proclaims Fairs Cup in a final between the last two winners of this title, which passes from this season renamed the UEFA Cup.
In the Barcelona Cup cannot beat Atletico Madrid in the quarter finals and the Cup Winners falls against Steaua Bucharest in the second round. The final of this competition was played at the Camp Nou, between Glasgow Rangers and Dynamo Moscow (3-2). Scottish followers, ten thousand, destroyed everything they found, especially the wooden seats of the main grandstand.
On May
5, 1972 in Barcelona Josep Samitier dies.
Barcelona lost again narrowly League. A defeat in the Camp Nou against Espanyol (0-1) away from the title. Cup with Sevilla and lost controversy erupts when Michels discovers seven players sipping champagne in the hotel after falling at the Sanchez Pizjuan 3-1.
In the UEFA Cup, the Barcelona falls treintaidosavos Portuguese-final against Porto.
The Federation denies as a native (alien son of Spanish parents) the player Heredia, signed for Barcelona, and Montal Policy commissioned a study on the subject the lawyer Miquel Roca. The report disclosed that 46 of the 60 natives admitted to the Spanish football had falsified documentation.
The
Barcelona press the authorities to the report of the natives and finally the
May 26, 1973 the signing of two foreigners per team is allowed.
Barcelona, after tough negotiations with Ajax, is made with the signing of Dutch Johan Cruyff. The other foreign space would occupy the Peruvian Hugo "Cholo" Sotil. After 14 years of ultimate victory, the team wins the league with eight points clear of second-placed Atletico Madrid, with outstanding performances as the 0-5 against Real Madrid, played on February 17, 1974 .
The December 18, 1973 Montal is reelected president with 902 votes of 340 of his opponent, Lluís Casacuberta.
In the UEFA Barcelona falls back into the first round, this time with the French Nice, when Cruyff had not yet cleared to play.
In the
Cup, where he still could not play with foreigners, Barcelona reached the final
but lost to Real Madrid 4-0.
Barcelona is reinforced by Dutchman Johan Neeskens, pending Sotil dual citizenship, but this never comes and the Peruvian season pass blank.
The team is not doing well in the league and received a blow in the area of Malaga, where Cruyff Orrantia referee expelled for asking insistently asked why the judge had raised the flag line in a goal from the Andalusians. Cruyff refuses to leave the pitch and just making accompanied by the police. The Barcelona just the third league, 13 points behind Real Madrid.
In the Cup falls eliminated in the quarterfinals against Real Zaragoza and in the European Cup qualifiers will overcome (with a great performance by Rexach scored three goals against Feyenoord) until eliminated in semi-final against Leeds United. Barcelona lost 2-1 at Leeds and the field is no more than one tie in the return.
In
November 1974 the club, which has nearly 70,000 members, celebrates its 75th
anniversary. Barca directive instructs the commemorative poster painter Joan
Miro and announces a contest to choose a new club anthem, today.
The board wants more discipline in the team and hires German Hennes Weisweiler. Sotil can finally play without taking up space alien, but the year passes blank invoice and no longer pays the same level.
Weisweiler faces Cruyff and problems explode in a game in which Sevilla coach replaces the Dutch. The board decides and the balance is skewed in favor of the player. Weisweiler is removed and relieve Laureano Ruiz.
In the
League the Barcelona finishes second five points behind Real Madrid in the Copa
removes Atletico Madrid in the quarter and in the UEFA Cup reaches the
semifinals. The opponent is Liverpool, winning at Camp Nou (0-1, with goals
from Toshack) and Barcelona could only draw in England (1-1).
Back Michels and the League escapes just one point. In Week 21, the match against Malaga finishes with serious incidents. The referee did not signal Melero two possible penalties and conceded a goal from Esteban marked by Malaga offside and hand. After Cruyff expelled for insulting and an amateur jumped to Camp Nou to attack him. Cruyff said just said "Manolo and brand", addressing his partner Manolo Clares. At the end of the meeting, huvo clashes with police and a van was burned TVE. The Dutch spent three sanctioned matches in which Barcelona scored a single point.
The
Celtic Cup in the second round, and Athletic Bilbao, quartered UEFA Barcelona
eliminated.
For the third consecutive year Barcelona is second in the league. In the UEFA Cup falls into the semifinals against PSV Eindhoven, but Cup is the first King's Cup today by beating UD Las Palmas 3-1 match played on April 19, 1978 in Santiago Bernabeu stadium. It would be the last title of Cruyff as Barcelona player since leaving the club this season.
The
December 18, 1977, exactly eight years after being elected president for the
first time, Montal leaves the club. Takes over interim basis Raimon Carrasco.
The May 6, 1978 elections held by universal suffrage. 26,587 members voted and
the winner was Josep Lluis Nunez with 10,352 votes. Ferran Arino got 9,537
votes and 6,202 Nicolau Casaus.
Nunez focused its initial efforts on cleaning up the economy of the club. The team is owned by the French former player Lucien Muller and reinforced by the Austrian Hansi Krankl. In the League the Barcelona finishes in fifth place, the worst since 1965 in the Cup, after beating Valencia at the Nou Camp 4-1, Barcelona is eliminated after losing 4-0 on lap two penalty goals. Muller is replaced by another former player, Catalan Joaquim Rife.
The
Barcelona exceeds all qualifiers in the Cup Winners Cup, which features a great
performance against Anderlecht at the Camp Nou, in extremis with a decisive
goal Argentine Zuviria. The May 16, 1979, playing the final against Fortuna
Dusseldorf. In Switzerland, 30,000 followers are moved to Basel where Barcelona
wins a vibrant match 4-3. It is the first European title since the 1966 Fairs
Cup.
