SPAIN: SOCCER/FOOTBALL - Champions League winners Barcelona celebrate their victory in an open top bus as they are cheered on by ecstatic fans

Record ID: 449653

  • Title: SPAIN: SOCCER/FOOTBALL - Champions League winners Barcelona celebrate their victory in an open top bus as they are cheered on by ecstatic fans
  • Date: 30th May 2011
  • Summary: BARCELONA, SPAIN (MAY 29, 2011) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF OPEN TOP BUS MAKING ITS WAY VIA LAIETANA BOULEVARD FANS CHEERING / BARCELONA CHAMPIONS BUS TOP OF BUS WITH THROPHY AND BARCA FORWARD LIONEL MESSI IN FRONT BARCA FANS CHEERING BARCELONA PLAYERS ON BUS BUS DRIVING THROUGH BOULEVARD CLOSE UP OF MIDFIELDER ANDRES INIESTA WEARING A BARCA SCARF AROUND HIS HEAD DEFENDER DANI ALVES DANCING ON TOP OF BUS BARCA MIDFIELDER GERARD PIQUE SPRAYING CHAMPAGNE ON HIS TEAM MATES BARCA PLAYERS ON BUS FANS CHEERING CLOSE UP OF TROPHY / PLAYERS ON BUS HELICOPTER VARIOUS OF BUS LEAVING
  • Embargoed: 14th June 2011 13:00
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  • Location: Spain, Spain
  • Country: Spain
  • Topics: Sports
  • Reuters ID: LVA8CS0K7WAR1V43QEX44Q54CK3C
  • Story Text: Champions League winners Barcelona celebrate their victory in an open top bus as they are cheered on by ecstatic fans.
    Barcelona's triumphant players went on a victory parade in the Catalan capital on Sunday (May 29), celebrating the club's fourth European Cup in an open top bus that wound its way through the city's streets towards their Nou Camp stadium.
    Thousands lined the streets cheering and celebrating their club's win.
    Saturday's (May 28) 3-1 victory over Manchester United, a second Champions League triumph in three years and a fourth continental crown following successes in 1992 and 2006, capped a season in which they also claimed a third successive Spanish league title and reached the final of the King's Cup.
    They flew back from London in a plane decorated in the club colours with huge pictures of the players adorning the side and touched down at the city's El Prat airport at around 4 p.m.local time (1400 GMT).
    The party at the Nou Camp is due to start after the bus winds its way up from the port to the giant arena along streets lined with ecstatic fans.
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