HE INTERVIEWS PERE GRATACÓS, EX-PLAYER OF THE BARÇA, EX-TRAINER OF THE BARÇA B AND TRAINER OF CATALUNYA's SELECCIÓ OF FOOTBALL

Pere Gratacós it is surely one of the professionals that better knows the condition of the football base in Spain and to many of the players of the Barça that they come from the quarry as Xavi or Puyol. For this motive it has attended and spoken to us about the Barcelona Cup 2009.

P: What importance and significance do you believe that it takes a tilt as the Barcelona Cup?

G: For the football base I believe that it is essential that tilts exist as the Barcelona Cup. In addition there is very interesting the fact that could be disputed in a city as Barcelona, what you can enjoy the football and such a wonderful city to do tourism as Barcelona. It is a luck for that it comes to be able to do at the same time the practice of the football and a visit for the city.

P: Do you remember to have disputed some of type of tilt similar to that of the Barcelona Cup?

G: The truth is that yes. When he was a player of the juvenile one of the Barça, we realize in summer travel to France and to play tilts of football base Italy. After many years I continue preserving very good recollections of these championships. I remember that big parties were seen and also to very good players of different nationalities.

P: The equipments that avenge will be able to play in the facilities of the Barça and the Espanyol, how do you value this fact?

G: I think that there are two ways of confronting it. There will be equipments that his stay in the city is a holiday, come to take part independently of the result that they achieve. On the other hand I believe that other clubs will come with a major competitive character, and that will bet for taking the tilt to him. In this respect there is very important the paper that could develop the trainer and the character that he itself wants to stamp on his equipment. I believe that in this case it is so important so much to take part like to win.

P: Players like Iniesta have been in the Barcelona Cup, is it a good tilt to see young promises?

G:It might be. I feel that one of the successes of this type of tilts is that there come equipments of many sites and if in addition they come with equipments of different categories, it gives them a different touch. Sometimes you find future star players in these tilts, I believe that for the lads who want to devote to this it might be a question of a good shop window. But they do not have to forget that they come to amuse itself and I insist, to enjoy a city as Barcelona.

P: To finish, what would you say to all the equipments that will be present in this new edition of the Barcelona Cup?

G: Especially that enjoy the football and the city. The tilt is disputed in July, an ideal epoch to enjoy Barcelona, a city in the one that exists much for seeing, Gaudí, the different parks, the Ravines, the Estadi Olímpic or the Camp Nou, imagine what it is possible to do. And clear, without forgetting the own competition, sharing a common passion since it is the football. It will be also interesting the mixture of cultures with the one that will count the Barcelona Cup, bearing in mind that will come equipments of the whole world, will have to share infinity of things.