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Barcelona FC
Baby boom
Nine months after two very important Barcelona football club ­matches, local hos­pitals are noticing an unexpected bonus.


BarÇa babies galore
BarÇa babies galore

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13.02.2010 - It would seem that not all the fans spent all night dancing and singing around the Caneletas fountain after Barcelona’s 2:6 league win over Madrid in the Santiago Bernabéu or Andrés Iniesta’s last minute equaliser four days later at Stamford Bridge which sent his team to the final of the European Cup in Rome.  The la­bour wards of the local hospitals are seeing an enormous rise in the number of births and proud new mums and dads are quite happy to admit that the generating factor so to speak was their eupho­ria after their team’s successes on the pitch.

Four local hospitals and a clinic in the city have confirmed that they have registered an increase in the number of births of 45 per cent over the nor­mal average, five more a day and the phenome­non has been baptised locally as the Iniesta gener­ation.  So far there have been no details released on names chosen by the parents, but we rather suspect that there will be several Andrés and Leos and possibly even the odd Pedro.



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