Barcelona ponder grim future after Champions League exit

THE future rather than the past was on the minds of worried Barcelona fans yesterday after the Spanish football giant’s Champions League exit less than 24 hours before.

Barca crashed out of the quarter-finals 3-2 on aggregate to Juventus after their 2-1 loss in the Nou Camp on Tuesday.

"Now it is time to call the elections," said the Barcelona-based sports daily El Mundo Deportivo, demanding a new club president in place of the incumbent Enrique Reyna.