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Carles Puyol Saforcada (Catalan: [ˈkaɾləs puˈjɔl səfuɾˈkaðə], Spanish: [ˈkaɾles puˈʝol safoɾˈkaða]; born 13 April 1978) is a Catalan former professional footballer who played his entire career for Barcelona.
Vanesa was born in Barcelona, Spain. She has been dating former FC Barcelona captain, Carles Puyol since 2012. They announced in September 2013 that they would be having a child. Puyol announced on 25 January 2014 that their daughter Manuela was born on 24 January 2014. On 2 January 2016 their second daughter Maria was born.
Together with Nike and other top European players like Rio Ferdinand and Carles Puyol, the protests against this continuing problem inviting football fans to voice their opposition to racism. The symbol of the campaign is two interlocked wristbands, one black, and one white. About five million of these wristbands have been sold all over Europe.
Puyol is a Catalan surname and a variant of Pujol, meaning "hill". Notable people with the surname include: Notable people with the surname include: Carles Puyol (born 1978), retired Spanish footballer
In the following decades the academy forged several players that would later appear for both the main squad and the Spain national team, Guillermo Amor, Albert Ferrer, Iván de la Peña, Josep Guardiola, Carles Puyol, Gerard López, Xavi, Víctor Valdés, and Andrés Iniesta being amongst the most prominent.
In his second match as an international on 28 March 2009, he was called up as a replacement for injured teammate Carles Puyol and he scored the only goal in Spain's victory in the 2010 World Cup qualifier against Turkey at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid. [52] Four days later, he started in Istanbul in a 2–1 win, also in the group ...
During this period, the inherited massive financial debt started to be cut down, and only two players remained from the original team that did not win a major title in six years, with players like Deco, Samuel Eto'o and Edmílson as the new starlets, around Ronaldinho and a core of home-grown players like Carles Puyol, Xavi, Andrés Iniesta ...
As such, Casillas, Carles Puyol, and Xavi called a summit with the manager and the team's players, in order to ease tensions; Casillas was praised in the media for his role in successfully uniting the dressing room.