Xavi Tauler / David R. Jover
Barça’s Catalan centre half Gerard Piqué was present at the celebrations to mark the first anniversary of the Penya which carries his name in Sant Gium de Freixenet.
The supporters club, based in Piqué’s parents’ home town of Sant Guim de Freixenet (La
Segarra) marked the anniversary with a gala lunch and a five a side football tournament and Piqué,
along with Social Area Director, Pilar Guinovart and supporters' clubs ombudsperson Ramon
Termens all attended the events, with Gerard presenting the prizes to the tournament winners.
Keen to make a good start
Piqué also spoke to the media and made it clear he’d set his sights on a good
start to the season: “you have to get prepared to put in a good pre-season and be on form for
the Spanish Super Cup and the European Super Cup in order to make a good start to the campaign. We
have the chance of competing for six titles again, as well as the European Championships next
summer, if we could win the World Club Cup next season, it’d be great for the Club”.
Messi, Milito and Mascherano
Piqué also sent a message of support to the Argentinean players at the Club, who
were knocked out of the Copa America on Saturday night: “it’ll be a tough blow for
them, but they’ll just have to pick themselves up quickly”.
Future signings
Inevitable, Piqué was also quizzed about the chances of seeing Cesc Fabregas at the
Club this year and he revealed: “I know well what the situation is now” whilst
preferring to ”let things run their course –the summer is long” and admitting
that talking about Cesc right now “really doesn’t help”.