Post-Match Buzz: Festival of the Treble

The team's celebration in Rome stretched on till morning, three o'clock in fact for most of the players, with Messi, Puyol, Pique, Bojan, Botia and Muniesa partying on until five.

The team was on their flight back to Barcelona the next day, where they landed at the El Pratt airport in Barcelona at five in the afternoon following the Champions League victory. The boys boarded the open-top celebration bus, dressed in shirts reading "League, Cup, Champions", and went off on a tour of the streets of Barcelona, followed by 75,000 fans. Finally they arrived at Camp Nou where the grand celebration took place before another 100,000 fans.

Valdes, Xavi, Bojan, Sanchez and Jorquera came onto the pitch from one side carrying the Champions League cup, Henry appeared with the League trophy, and Pique with the Copa del Rey one. Pep saw them and his hands flew to his head, and he went off yelling at the boys and drove them into the locker room... for they were going against the planned celebration program.

Lights at the stadium were dimmed out and videos of the seaosn's best moments were shown, the screens showing the message "You can spend days, months and years. Even centuries, but the team will never forget the triplet. Tricampeones, thank you." Then the players emerged, with the three trophies coming last of all: Andres Iniesta and Victor Valdes came carrying the Copa Del Rey trophy between, followed by Captain Carles Puyol and Xavi Hernandez with the La Liga trophy, and finally Coach Pep Guardiola and assistant coach Tito Vilanova with the Champions League trophy.

Sylvinho made his entrance onto the pitch with trumpet and Gudjohnsen somersaulted his arrival; the players did their customary lap of honor with the trophies, Pep and several of the players again took the mic to say a few words; Pique joked and sang as usual, and sprayed everyone in his path, Pep included, with champagne; and the boys honored Iniesta by tossing him into the air as they usually do with Pep. The whole celebration took place, of course, to the songs "We are the Champions" and "Viva La Vida", and the night was capped off with a brilliant display of fireworks.
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