{"id":5768,"date":"2009-06-03T05:46:51","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T04:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=5768"},"modified":"2009-06-03T06:05:45","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T05:05:45","slug":"barcelona-meets-gladiator-the-film-pep-guardiola-showed-to-the-barcelona-players-before-they-beat-manchester-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2009\/06\/03\/barcelona-meets-gladiator-the-film-pep-guardiola-showed-to-the-barcelona-players-before-they-beat-manchester-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona meets Gladiator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the aftermath of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/football\/europe\/8060878.stm\">last week&#8217;s Champions League final<\/a> last Wednesday, it was revealed that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FC_Barcelona\">Barcelona<\/a> coach <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Josep_Guardiola\">Pep Guardiola<\/a> had showed his players an inspirational video ten minutes before kick-off to get them in the mood for their now famous 2-0 victory.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bLIYwffM7UU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bLIYwffM7UU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The film is essentially a Barca &#8216;greatest hits&#8217; package that mixes images from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gladiator_(2000_film)\">Gladiator<\/a><\/strong> to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gladiator_(soundtrack)\">film&#8217;s soundtrack<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hans_Zimmer\">Hans Zimmer<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lisa_Gerrard\">Lisa Gerrard<\/a>,\u00a0before being rounded off with a blast of the opera <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Turandot\">Turandot<\/a> performed by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Luciano_Pavarotti\">Pavarotti<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[ad]<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the film moved several of the players to tears and has been hailed as a masterstroke by the rookie manager who doesn\u2019t actually appear in the movie.<\/p>\n<p>Although given how dominant Manchester United were in the opening 10 minutes, maybe it took a while to sink in.<\/p>\n<p>Last night it was shown on Catalonia\u2019s public television channel <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/TV3_(Catalonia)\">TV3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/football\/europe\/8060878.stm\">BBC report on last week&#8217;s final<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B00004STPT?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=filmdetail-21&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creativeASIN=B00004STPT\">Buy the Gladiator soundtrack at Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The film Pep Guardiola showed to the Barcelona players before they beat Manchester United in the Champions League final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,9],"tags":[994,995],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}