BINTANG Barcelona, Gerard Pique dan Alex Song tampaknya terlibat pertengkaran di atas bus double-decker tim untuk merayakan kemenangan mereka La Liga Spanyol.
Dalam foto-foto yang mengejutkan, mantan gelandang Arsenal, Alex Song dan Pique tampak akan berkelahi sementara bus klub Barcelona menelurusi jalan-jalan utama di kota Catalan.
Kapten klub Carles Puyol dan kiper Victor Valdes terlihat berupaya menjadi ´pendamai´, tetapi tampaknya mereka bertengkar mulut ketika teman-teman di timnya sedang merayakan gelar juara.
Tampak jelas, Song terlihat menyambar lengan Pique dan memiringkan tinjunya seakan menyiapkan dirinya untuk memukul bek Spanyol tersebut, seperti dilansir Mail Online.
Mantan pemain tengah Manchester United tampak setengah mengernyit sambil memegang tangannya sebagai pelindung.
Pada foto lain, Song menampar muka rekan satu timnya yang disaksikan Puyol dan Valdes.
Peristiwa di atas bus pariwisata terekam video yang menampilkan para pemain minum dan berpesta ketika bus berkeliling kota dan polisi mengawal perjalanan parade juara tersebut.
Namun berdasarkan gambar-gambar ini, keduanya terlihat bertengkar serius bertengkar dekat pelatih. Meskipun perkelahian itu tidak terlalu digubris yang berlangsung Senin sore, politisi di Catalonia mengeluhkan aksi minum-minum di bus itu itu memberi contoh buruk bagi pendukung berusia muda yang menyaksikan parade idola mereka.
Pawai itu untuk menghormati Barca atas prestasi meraih gelar juara La Liga dari Real Madrid, setelah memimpin memimpin 10-poin dengan tiga pertandingan tersisa.
Barcelona menggelar makan malam bersama yang terakhir untuk musim ini, dan Song, yang hengkang dari Arsenal ke Spanyol sejak awal musim lalu tidak muncul dalam foto-foto resmi yang dirilis klub.
Song, yang bermain sebagai gelandang bertahan, telah tampil dalam 19 laga sejak bergabung Agustus lalu.
Sebelum Song pindah ke La Liga, Pique mengungkap ke publik tentang karier pemain internasional asal Kamerun dan menyambut kedatangannya ke Nou Camp.
Berbicara kepada El Mundo Deportivo, bek menyatakan tentang Song yang digembleng oleh Arsene Wenger menjadi ´pemain yang sangat bagus´.
"Dia secara fisik sangat kuat dan baik dengan bola di kakinya. Kami terbuka untuk kedatangannya. Jika dia datang, dan dari apa yang saya baca yang bisa ia lakukan, kami akan senang untuk memiliki dia. "
Tapi Song berupaya memaksa masuk ke lini tengah yang ditempati pemain berbakat dunia Xavi, Sergio Busquets dan Cesc Fabregas dan pada Januari ditetapkansebagai salah satu pemain terburuk musim ini setelah pemain Real Madrid, Luka Modric.
BARCELONA stars Gerard Pique and Alex Song appear to have been scrapping while on top of the team´s double-decker bus to celebrate their La Liga triumph.
In these astonishing pictures, former Arsenal midfielder Song and Pique seem to be fighting while the bus makes its way around the Catalan city.
Club captain Carles Puyol and goalkeeper Victor Valdes look to be playing peacemakers in the end, but appear to be having a heated discussion of their own in the background as their team-mates grapple in front of celebrating supporters.
At one point, Song is seen grabbing Pique´s arm and cocking his clenched fist as if readying himself to throw a punch at the Spain defender.
The former Manchester United centre half winces while holding his arms up in defence.
In another shot, Song is captured landing an open-handed slap on his team-mate as Puyol and Valdes watch.
The bus tour was a raucous affair with video footage emerging of the players drinking and partying as the bus travels around the city and police picking up empty bottles from the streets.
But based on these images, the pair look to be seriously quarrelling atop the coach. Although the scuffle went unnoticed on Monday afternoon, politicians in Catalonia have complained that drinking on the bus was setting a bad example to young fans who watched their title-winners parade the trophy.
The parade was to honour Barca reclaiming their La Liga crown from Real Madrid, after mounting a 10-point lead with three games to play.
Barcelona held their end-of-season awards dinner last night, and Song, who left Arsenal for Spain last summer did not appear in any of the pictures released.
Song, who operates as a holding midfielder, has made 19 appearances since joining last August.
Before Song´s move to La Liga, Pique went public about how he had followed the Cameroon international´s career closely and would welcome him to the Nou Camp.
Speaking to El Mundo Deportivo, the defender noted how Song had developed under Arsene Wenger into a ‘very good player’.
‘He is physically very strong and is good with the ball at his feet. We are open to his arrival. If he comes, and from what I have read he could do, we would love to have him.’
But Song has struggled to force his way into a midfield that boasts world-class talents Xavi, Sergio Busquets and Cesc Fabregas and was in January voted one of the worst signings of the season behind Real Madrid´s Luka Modric.