Barca president Sandro Rosell said last weekend he hoped Vilanova would be fit to return to work in two-to-three weeks.

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Current president Sandro Rosell, a fierce critic of Laporta, succeeded him in June 2010, winning 60% of a vote among Barcelona club members.

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Six months before the match Sandro Rosell, who is now the president of Barcelona Football Club, the European champions, became a director of Ailanto, a sports-marketing firm in Rio de Janeiro set up shortly beforehand.

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This week the President of Barcelona, Sandro Rosell, called for the European domestic leagues to be reduced to 16 teams to free up more time for the top European clubs to play each other, possibly in some kind of Superleague format.

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