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(The armband is a handcrafted product 100% embroidered and made in Italy in the province of Milan by “La Nazionale Manifatture,” a historic Milanese company founded in 1928).
April 28, 2010 — one of the most grueling sporting battles of all time. Ninety-two thousand Catalan fans spurred Barcelona on in a veritable siege.
In the 28th minute of the first half, the referee issued a straight red card to Thiago Motta following an incident involving Sergio Busquets. Inter were forced to play with a numerical disadvantage for over an hour in a highly hostile stadium. Mourinho reshaped the team into a defensive, impenetrable 4-2-1-1 formation. Defensive stalwarts Walter Samuel and Lúcio built an impassable wall, supported by a superb Javier Zanetti—deployed as a full-back and delivering a performance of immense self-sacrifice—and the tireless tracking back of Eto’o.
Barcelona kept crashing against the *Nerazzurri* wall until the 84th minute, when Gerard Piqué scored to make it 1–0 and throw the tie wide open. In stoppage time (the 92nd minute), the Camp Nou erupted following a goal by Bojan, but the referee correctly disallowed it due to an earlier handball by Touré. At the final whistle, the *Nerazzurri* began their celebrations on the pitch—even as the Camp Nou’s sprinklers were turned on to dampen the festivities—securing their place in the Madrid final and paving the way for a legendary Triplete.
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