When we were children see the name on television and the initials of Claudio Biern Boyd it was synonymous with having a good time, with joy, and with silence in the dining room that the drawings begin.
Possibly, that joy generated by seeing his name on the screen was transferred, years later, to the verify that those initials had a parakeet soul and generate the simple rule of thumb that if what he created on the so-called small screen was good, the ideas he would bring to the club for general recognition would be good.
And there was Claudio, in his first stage in the perica directive; possibly the best, the most exciting. That maybe in the morning he would create a series of cartoons with guaranteed success, that at night he would present you with a partner campaign. And that for the act to have an impact (now they call it ‘likes’) he registered her daughter Claudia before she was born.
I remember that one of the campaigns he set up titled it ‘The future is white-and-blue’. Seeing that video today, 35 years later, would give us goosebumps due to its degree of emotion. In those images we saw a very young Ernesto Valverde shouting at the camera and with a smile from ear to ear that yes, the future was ‘blanc-i-blau’. And he was almost right, because 20 years later he almost made us win a UEFA in Glasgow. Despite the defeat, Ernesto will always be ‘uno di noi’. Always.
That 86-87 campaign, Clemente’s first in Sarrià, was spectacular, because it wasn’t just finishing third in that ‘play off’ league. Being third in the table when the team (and the press) made a pilgrimage to train at Can Salvi, or did it in Sarrià itself, and of course with sessions open to the public. With all that, he was third, which dismantles the current nonsense of training behind closed doors, etc, etc…
I remember, in these very pages of El Periódico,that Spanish of Clemente who glimpsed (you have read correctly, I have written ‘glimpsed’) with his game, the great Joan Terrats titled the Time.news of a party: “Buy pericobonos”.
Can Ràbia only needed to finish off the corners because he did everything: he acted as spokesman in the least grateful period, he had the brown of traveling to England to carry out the impossible task of looking for a replacement for John Lauridsen. Of course: he also made the trips to the draws in Zurich with the manager Pedro Tomás to find out the pairings of that unforgettable UEFA 87-88.
Claudio was part of an era of directors whose names survive in popular memory perica: travel companions, train trips, long rallies and tips on the press and names like Carlos Carenzi, Carles Puig, Pablo Ornaque, Ramón Spa, José María Piera, Ramón Condal, Alejandro Vidal, Juan Segura Palomares, Pepe Navarro, Armando Rojas, Ramón Noguer, Santi Oller, Pedro Tomás, Ferran Martorell…
Those endless sessions of the board of directors in Sarrià that ended when José María García finished his ‘Supergarcía on Antena 3’ to avoid heated statements; long nights that for the press were pure fun, when Juan Segura Palomares, from his small office, delighted us for hours explaining endless bullfighting anecdotes.
If one day the club intends to rename some of the doors that bear the names of soccer players, or for example -why not?- the numbers of the entrances that give access to the stands, possibly some great parakeets that they left hours and hours for the club of their loves from the field of management would also deserve to put their name.
Claudio Biern Boyd was the best in his guild. The best and there is no debate possible. and leaves us rejoicing childhood to several generations. We learned the tunes of all his series (impossible not to remember the music and lyrics of ‘David el Gnomo’, or ‘D’Artacan y los mosqueperros’) and he participated in the management of that Espanyol that in its stage as leader raised the most absolute admiration throughout Catalonia. in all
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I am convinced that Claudio has come to heaven to cheer up the staff and give Pardo, Meler and Baró a good time. And also to the Lara family… And of course, to Guillermo Alfonso Lázaro, and also to Dani Jarque, of course, who with his eternal Maresme smile will invite us all to do so, despite the fact that some of us are already old enough .
You were a good person, a good man and a great parakeet, Don Claudio. Thank you very much.