Ever wanted to know what a locker room looks like after your favorite stars are done with it? Well, it’s a bit like learning how the sausage is made — probably something you’d rather not see. The Barcelona locker room was left a nauseating mess after the team’s 3-0 win over host Murcia in the Copa del Rey fourth-round match on Tuesday.
Barcelona left more than a dozen cups on a centrally located table like a bunch of frat boys playing beer pong. Personalized gelatins remained, uneaten, in their containers on the same table, perhaps in the hope that someone else named Cucurella would come through looking for something to eat. Fruit was discarded as well and we all know how well fruit tastes after it’s been left out for hours.
The most disgusting part was the piles of trash full of plastic bottles, banana peels and more. Would it have been too much to ask these tattooed millionaire hotshots to all pitch in a little and find the trash an appropriate home instead of leaving it on the floor?
If we’re being fair, this is probably how many locker rooms look after a professional soccer team is done with it. But that doesn’t make it any less gross.
Real Murcia, known gloriously as Los Pimentoneros (the Paprika Men), play in Segunda División B, the third division in Spain, and never really had a chance against the Blaugrana. Even without Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez, Barcelona cruised to a win over Murcia (not to be confused with Murica for you dyslexics out there) behind goals from Paco Alcácer, Gerard Deulofeu and José Arnaíz.
Then Barca cruised right out of the stadium without a second thought at the state of the locker room.
The second leg of the Round of 32 fixture will be back at Nou Camp on Nov. 29. Murcia probably won’t win on the pitch, but I’d put good money on them leaving a cleaner locker room when they depart.
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