Diego Maradona, Michael Laudrup, Rivaldo, and Romario Stoichkov are some of the several star names that President Josep Lluís Núñez had brought to FC Barcelona. However, at the age of eighty-seven, the longest-serving president of Barcelona have passed away, this was really a sad news for all the Barcelona fans and former players.
Josep Maria Bartomeu, the current president of the club has released an official statement stating that they have lost a significant part of the Barca family. He believes that he is the one who had changed the character of the club. The man had been president of the club for twenty-two years. The former president, Josep Maria Bartomeu has left the club to live with his feelings and memories from an incredible period from the history of the club.
“The Spanish club met prior to the training session on Tuesday for the memorial that has been set up in honor of the president“. FC Barcelona is also known to have declared a 4 day period of mourning where half is going to be flagged since “they will be wearing“ black armbands on the league match to take place against Cultural Leonesa.
Josep Lluís Núñez had been the president of Barca from 1978 to 2000. He has been the president who has served the longest term in office. As a matter of fact, he has been the first president of the club who had been elected democratically after the death of Franco. He had been selected irrespective of the fact that he didn’t have any relation with the club before this. Since the end of his term, Joan Gaspart, Joan Laporta, Enric Reyna, and Sandro Rosell are known to have set a record before Josep Lluís Núñez at the Spanish Grand Club.