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Monday, May 21, 2018

Iniesta's exit, Messi magic and 'only' a double: the story of Barca's season

After 22 years with Barcelona, an emotional Andres Iniesta exits the Camp Nou pitch for the final time. Spanish champions Barcelona ended their campaign with a 1-0 home win over Real Sociedad and paid an emotional farewell to departing captain Andres Iniesta. After Andres Iniesta's last game for Barca, the FC crew assess his place among Spain's greats and whether he can go out on top at the World Cup. Philippe Coutinho ensured Andres Iniesta had a storybook ending to his Barcelona career as the Blaugrana overcame Real Sociedad at the Camp Nou. Andres Iniesta pressed the big red button and the fireworks filled the Catalan sky, fireworks no-one anticipated nine months ago. No one expected Iniesta, for starters, to be walking away from Barcelona at the end of the same season in which he signed a lifetime contract. Few expected the Arctic Monkeys would be blared into a lit-up Camp Nou either, as pyrotechnics illustrated Barca's third domestic double in four years. This was a season, after all, that began with a down-beat Gerard Pique saying...

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