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Rexach faces the inevitable

Champs league

AFP, Madrid
Carles Rexach may only be the Barcelona coach for another 10 days after the Catalans crashed out of the European Champions League on Wednesday.
Barcelona lost the all-Spanish Champions League semi-final to bitter rivals Real Madrid 3-2 on aggregate, after drawing 1-1 on Wednesday, the damage being done when they lost 2-0 in front of their own fans in the Nou Camp stadium a week ago.
"When a big club doesn't win a trophy during a season, then it's a fiasco. Yes, this season has been a fiasco for Barcelona," admitted a doleful and despondent Rexach after the match.
"However, in these days it is very difficult to win any title and not every big team can do it."
"Looking inside the disaster, I can say that we went out of the Champions League with dignity. We had two great games against Madrid. I don't want to make excuses but perhaps the one thing we were missing was Rivaldo," added Rexach.
The Brazilian former World Player of the Year missed both matches against Madrid with a knee injury.
Barcelona are currently fifth in the Spanish First Division, and by no means certain of appearing in the Champions League next season.
They are battling with Celta Vigo and Real Betis who are fourth and sixth respectively for the fourth
place in the Spanish league, the last remaining spot which will get them entry into Europe's premier club competition.
However, regardless of whether Barcelona will be playing in the Champions League or UEFA Cup, it is almost certain that Rexach will not be around and that the Catalans will have their fourth coach in as many seasons.
The likeable Rexach has already hinted that he intends to resign at the end of the season, weary of the pressure that being the coach of one of the world's most famous and well-supported teams brought with it.
He gave further notice on Thursday that he will not be returning to the Nou Camp in his current capacity after the last game of the season at Real Zaragoza on May 11.
"There is plenty of time to talk about my future when the season is over," commented Rexach solemnly on Wednesday.
Spanish media speculation has
centred on Deportivo La Coruna's Javier Irureta being Rexach's likely sucessor.
Perhaps the epitaph on Rexach's brief career as the Barcelona coach, after being appointed seven league games before the end of last season, was written by the Barcelona-based sports daily El Mundo Deportivo on Thursday, which had a headline, "Too little, too late, Charly."
The view is probably endorsed by Barcelona's president Joan Gaspart but the controversial hotel magnate was too busy moaning about Real to worry about his own team on Thursday.
"I don't want Madrid to win the final," commented Gaspart sourly, who added that he was considering a complaint to football's European governing body UEFA about Real saturating the Santiago Bernabeu pitch with water beforehand.
The Spanish media were unusually subdued in the wake of Real Madrid's victory, but understandably so after the two car bombs that had rocked the Spanish capital earlier on Wednesday.
Not surprisingly, Real's progress to the final in Glasgow on May 15 against Bayer Leverkusen took second billing behind the first explosion just 100 metres away from the Santiago Bernabeu, which could have had lead to a massive loss of life but for a warning given by the perpetrators, the Basque extremist separatists ETA.
In a rare show of exuberance, the Spanish sports daily Marca, the country's biggest selling newspaper, wrote "Glasgooooooooooow," on its front page, in the manner of Spain's extravagant radio and TV commentators.