The historic CE Sabadell is not going through its best sporting moment. Sinking in the classification of group 1 of the Primera RFEF in the penultimate position (18th), relegation stalks the Vallès team, which may cause nerves to invade the harlequin locker room.
The team now coached by Gerard Bofill visited Barça B on Saturday and came out beaten by Johan Cruyff (4-1), accentuating their delicate situation. Although the worst were the images left by veteran Raúl Baena, 34, inciting his teammates to harm the Barça rivals.
Everything that surrounded Raúl Baena, formerly of Espanyol, was hardly embarrassing during the minutes in which he completely lost his nerve and tried to jump from the bench to the grass as if possessed by the players of the Barça reserve team.
"Burst them!" or "Hit it there!" were some of the niceties that Baena shouted from the Sabadell technical area while two members of the coaching staff tried to calm him down and restrain him so that things would not get any worse.
It is not the first time that the Barça colors have gotten Banea out of his mind, who during his time at Espanyol is remembered for always coming out over the top in the debris against Barça.
Born in the province of Málaga, we must not forget that after a few years in the youth ranks of Málaga, Baena went to Barça before signing for Espanyol. Despite his youth, that transfer raised a lot of controversy and was ultimately resolved in court. The judge ruled that the footballer did not have to pay the 3.5 million euros that the Barça club demanded from him. Perhaps from that was born an animosity that, as was seen on Saturday in Sant Joan Despí, is still more alive than ever more than three decades later.
