Barça comeback against PSG inspires new entry to French dictionary
On 8 March 2017 FC Barcelona achieved something never done before: Luis Enrique's team come back from 4-0 down against Paris Saint-Germain in the second leg of their last 16 Champions League tie. An astounding 6-1 win at Camp Nou turned the tie around for the blaugranes and made huge waves across the globe; in particular in France.
In fact, so much so that the term 'remontada' in Spanish, which means comeback in English, has entered the French language to denote what happened to Gallic champions PSG on that fateful night in Barcelona over three years ago now. The usage has become so widespread that in the 2021 edition of the prestigious Larousse French dictionary, the word has its own entry:
«1. Sports. Unexpected comeback that allows a losing team in a game of football to win a match or tie when there was an important difference between the two rivals; by extension an unexpected victory by a team or player in competition in all types of sport."
2: Fam. Return to the front line, spectacular win by a party or politician after an electoral defeat, etc."
A comeback that will never be forgotten by Barça fans, one of the most memorable nights in Camp Nou's long history and now it has taken its place in that most hallowed of places, the French language.
