AMERICAN FOOTBALL

Palau Blaugrana. Regal Barça players attend training one day after losing the first game of the series of quarter-finals of the Euroleague against Tau. The spirits are in tatters because the Victorian team has won the last seven consecutive duels. The technician azulgrana, Xavi Pascual, decides that something must be done to encourage them to recover some players who seem to have a mental block when faced all headed Duško Ivanović. Pascual, as the football team coach, Pep Guardiola, with video-Gladiator before the final of the Champions of Rome, then used a montage that his aides had already prepared since the preseason. This is the legendary speech that Tony D'Amato (Al Pacino plays that character), the coach of a football team, its players in the locker room shortly before the decisive match in the movie 'Any Given Sunday' ( 'A Sunday any'). Pacino a signature work of art in those little four and a half minutes, so that these images have used many companies and groups as a motivational method. D'Amato (Pacino) starts his calm and moderate tone gradually rising, which causes its players will be more and more excited to leave the dressing room all eyes injected with blood and ready to obliterate their opponents. In the video of azulgrana could see and hear all that (is in the original version with subtitles in Spanish), but was combined with a background song, 'One' of the Irish group U2. The truth is that the thing worked. A day after the Regal Barça went over the whole Vitoria (85-62) and the psychological factor that has changed so much since that time the Barça won two playoff against his rival, the quarterfinals of the Euroleague and the The final round of the CBA, which is worth a title