Old player: After Barcelona won the Champions League in 2006, we started celebrating all the way from Paris, which is simply amazing

Recently, former Barcelona player Maxi Lopez was interviewed by Post United, recalling the grand occasion of Barcelona's 2006 Champions League championship.

Maxi Lopez has played for 14 teams in his career, including Barcelona. He transferred from Riverbed to Barcelona in early 2005 with a transfer fee of €6 million. In his two seasons at Barcelona, he has only participated in 19 official games (589 minutes in total) and scored 2 goals. Despite this, he was lucky enough to be a member of Barcelona when he won the second Champions League trophy in team history in 2006.

The highly anticipated Champions League final was Barcelona against Arsenal, and Beletti scored the winning goal to help Barcelona win the championship. Beletti is now the head coach of Barcelona B.

Nicknamed "Chicken", Maxi Lopez, is named for his celebration and his coming from the River Plate. He played very limited in that Champions League match: 26 minutes in the first leg of the quarterfinals against Chelsea, 4 minutes in the second leg of the Stamford Bridge, and 1 minute in the first leg of the semi-finals against AC Milan. The then head coach Rijkaard didn't give him much chance.

Maxi Lopez revealed how crazy the celebration was after the championship: "We celebrated with champagne after winning the Champions League. Starting in Paris and going to other cities, it was amazing." He also mentioned the friendship with Messi, who had already made his mark but missed the final due to injury: "I live in Barcelona with three childhood friends and often barbecue and play games with Messi."

In addition, Maxi Lopez also talked about another former Barcelona star, Neymar, and said that he had shown extraordinary talent when he played for Santos at the age of 17. "He was already crazy at that time, doing whatever he wanted, playing with his opponent, and he couldn't stop."

Finally, Maxi Lopez recalled his coach Pellegrini in the riverbed: "He would spend an hour talking about tactics, you don't know if you'll fall asleep. But he's really smart."