1. Oleguer Presas signed for Ajax in 2008, where he remained until his retirement.
15 Facts About Oleguer Presas
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At 21, Oleguer Presas signed with FC Barcelona, spending his debut season with their reserves.
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Oleguer Presas started the match, but on the day he appeared tense and slow, struggling to neutralise Freddie Ljungberg's runs down the wing and more importantly not being able to stop Sol Campbell scoring the opening goal.
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Oleguer Presas signed a contract extension in July 2006, keeping him with the club until 2010.
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Oleguer Presas spoke out against the banning of the Catalan national team by the Royal Spanish Football Federation, when the former was scheduled to play a friendly against the United States in conjunction with FIFA-recognised international fixtures in that same week.
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On 9 February 2008, in a La Liga match against Sevilla FC, Oleguer Presas broke a bone in his left hand.
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Oleguer Presas scored a rare goal on 18 October 2008, the game's only in a home win over FC Groningen.
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Oleguer Presas majored in economics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
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Oleguer Presas had sympathies with left wing and Catalan nationalist causes and Escola Valenciana, and was asked by Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation to play a charity match in Chiapas, Mexico, during the summer of 2005.
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On 7 February 2007, in an article written for Basque language newspaper Berria, Oleguer Presas questioned the validity and independence of legal and judicial processes in the Spanish state, using the example of convicted ETA member Inaki de Juana and his hunger strike to question those processes.
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Oleguer Presas became the subject of a strong public backlash among some elements in Spain, and was regularly heckled and booed in some of the country's football stadiums due to the article and his pro-Catalan independence stance.
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Oleguer Presas appealed managing to overturn the original ruling in January 2009.
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In 2010, Oleguer Presas appeared at a protest in Amsterdam against the Dutch ban on squatting.
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Oleguer Presas was chosen as the eighty-third candidate on the CUP-Alternativa d'Esquerres list for the Barcelona electoral district in the 2012 Catalan Parliament elections, with the aim of closing the list alongside writer Julia de Jodar and lawyer August Gil Matamala, who were placed eighty-fourth and eighty-fifth respectively.
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In 2015, Oleguer Presas joined the list for Crida per Sabadell in the twenty-third position, the same number he wore during his time at Barcelona.