Like Marcel Desailly and Frank Leboeuf in 1998, winners with Chelsea at the expense of Real Madrid (1-0), Julien Escudé can also boast of having won the European Super Cup as a winner of the UEFA Cup. It was in 2006 during a 3-0 success of Seville FC in front of FC Barcelona. The Blaugranas had however won the Champions League three months earlier against Arsenal (2-1). They were led by Ronaldinho, Samuel Eto'o and Lionel Messi!
During this Supercup organized at the Louis-II stadium in Monaco, the Catalan training led by Frank Rijkaard missed out on its subject. The players of Juande Ramos, they played everything for the Tour during their offensives. Renato opened the scoring after an occasion by Luis Fabiano (7th) and Frédéric Kanouté, on a discount of Jesus Navas, doubled the reversed head to lober Victor Valdés before half-time (45th).
Barça offered a completely sterile domination to the spectators of this 100% Spanish poster. Ronaldinho and the young Messi quickly turned off and Eto'o, he shone with his inability to get out of the opposing central hinge composed of the French International Escudé therefore, then at the top of his career, and the Taulier des Chés, Captain Javi Navarro.
Barça muzzled
It was Eidur Gudjohnsen and Andrés Iniesta who gave a second breath to their team when entering the hour, just like Ludovic Giulry a few minutes later, but the ultra-offensive team of the second period (Messi, Ronaldinho and Eto'o all finished the meeting) did not even endanger Andrés Palop. On the Barcelona side, Lilian Thuram stayed on the bench.
The late Antonio Puerta (died the year after, on August 28, 2007) obtained the penalty of 3-0, putting a Carles Puyol to the fault, Enzo Maresca taking care of transforming the sentence (89th). It was Dani Alves who was elected player of the game, two years before joining the residents of Camp Nou.
