'Unleash Hell': Barca's Gladiator Movie Boost
Barcelona footballers watched clips from the film Gladiator to motivate them before their Champions League final victory, reports have said.
The Spanish club beat Manchester United 2-0 in a dazzling and attacking display in Rome's Olympic stadium on Wednesday night.
Coach Pep Guardiola ended the pre-match warm-up session early to show the players a seven-minute video that included clips from the Ridley Scott movie, the newspaper El Pais said.
The 2000 Oscar-winning film stars Russell Crowe as Roman general Maximus, known as "the Spaniard".
:: 'Brothers, what we do in life... echoes in eternity.'
:: 'Is Rome worth one good man's life? We believed it once. Make us believe it again.'
:: 'There was a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish, it was so fragile.'
:: 'Win the crowd and you will win your freedom.'
:: 'At my signal, unleash hell.'
(Quotes from the Gladiator movie)
The character is betrayed and enslaved but rises through the ranks of the gladiatorial arena to avenge the murder of his family.
The video, put together especially for Guardiola by a journalist friend, also featured some of best moves by each of the players during the season.
It concluded with a message from Barcelona's sponsor that appears on the screen.
We are the centre of the field, we have accuracy, we have effort, we are attackers who are defending, we are defenders who are attacking, we have speed, we have the respect of our adversaries, we are each goal that we score, we are the ones who are always looking for the opponent's goal. WE ARE ONE, it said.
El Pais said, when video ended and the lights came up, "some players were crying and their shouts indicated that the aim had been achieved".
It went on that Guardiola then let them enter the stadium without saying another word.
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