The conditions of the loan involved Piqué having to feature in at least 20 games for the Aragonese outfit, which he did, as he made 22 first team appearances in a successful spell, alongside Argentine Gabriel Milito ( who would sign with Barça for 2007 – 08 ), either as a stopper or a holding midfielder.

Piqué has also represented the Spanish national team, making his debut on 11 February 2009.

Another emerging FC Barcelona B player, Gerard Piqué, subsequently signed for Manchester United, though has since moved back to FC Barcelona.

After the People's Party election in 1996, Piqué was appointed as Spanish Minister for Industry as an independent member.

Gerard Piqué i Bernabeu (, ; born 2 February 1987 ) is a Spanish footballer who plays as a centre-back for FC Barcelona.

The Premier League side did not pay a fee for Piqué as he was too young to have a professional contract.

On 5 May 2007, it was announced that Piqué would be staying at Old Trafford for the following season.

On 2 April 2011, Piqué scored the winning goal in an away La Liga match against Villarreal CF, which saw Barcelona win 1 – 0, and hence continue on top of the table for the 17th consecutive week, with an 8-point difference than second-place, longtime rivals, Real Madrid.

In a 2 – 1 final win against Scotland, Piqué put in a strong performance in defence, hitting the crossbar with a header, and also providing his team's second goal for striker Alberto Bueno.

On 6 February 2009, Piqué was called up to the senior squad for the friendly against England on 11 February.

When asked about his role change, he replied: “ I have adapted and feel comfortable in the middle, but I am a World and European champion at right-back .” He played all the games in Poland and Ukraine alongside Barcelona's Gerard Piqué and, in the semifinals against Portugal, he converted his penalty shootout attempt in an eventual 4 – 2 win ( 0 – 0 after 120 minutes ), scoring for the eventual champions in Panenka-style.

Born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Piqué started his career in FC Barcelona's youth teams as a defensive midfielder, but before he signed his first professional contract with the club, he decided to join Manchester United.

He scored on his first start in the Champions League, a 4 – 0 home win against Dynamo Kyiv on 7 November 2007, as Piqué scored the first of Manchester United's four goals in that match.

* 1987 – Gerard Piqué, Spanish football player

Piqué was Spain's first-choice centre back playing along side Barcelona teammate Carles Puyol at the World Cup finals in South Africa, starting all seven matches as Spain won the tournament, defeating the Netherlands 1 – 0 in the final.

In Spain's 1 – 0 group stage defeat to Switzerland, just before Gelson Fernandes scored the only goal of the game, Swiss striker Eren Derdiyok tumbled over Spain goalkeeper Iker Casillas and accidentally kicked Piqué in the face, knocking him over and leaving him with a nasty cut beside his right eye.

Piqué is one of four players to have won the UEFA Champions League two years in a row with different teams, the others being Marcel Desailly, Paulo Sousa and Samuel Eto ' o.

Gerard Piqué after winning the 2009 Champions League Final

Josep Piqué at Horasis Global China Business Meeting 2008

On 26 February 2010, Piqué signed a contract extension that will keep him at FC Barcelona until at least the summer of 2015.

However, Piqué missed the deciding penalty against the Czech Republic and Spain were eliminated at the quarter-final stage.

These have included Francisco Carrasco, Ramón Calderé, Guillermo Amor, Albert Ferrer, Josep Guardiola, Sergi Barjuán, Iván de la Peña, Francesc Arnau, Roger García, Gabri García, Gerard López, Luis García Sanz, Oleguer Presas, Pepe Reina, Thiago Motta, Fernando Navarro, Xavi Hernández, Cesc Fàbregas, Carles Puyol, Víctor Valdés, Mikel Arteta, Andrés Iniesta, Bojan Krkić, Jeffrén Suárez, Lionel Messi, Giovani dos Santos, Gerard Piqué, Sergio Busquets and Pedro Rodríguez, though it should be noted some of these were recruited from overseas before signing professional terms, so are not ' home-grown ' in the traditional sense, if in the technical sense.

His initial training was as a defensive midfielder playing alongside notable names such as Gerard Piqué and Lionel Messi.

Josep Piqué ( born 21 February 1955 in Vilanova i la Geltrú ) is a Spanish politician of the right-wing Spanish People's Party ( PP ) who represented Barcelona.

In November 2008 Josep Piqué was co-chair of the Global China Business Meeting 2008 in Madrid.

* " Missing the Barcelona bourgeoisie ", Josep Piqué, Barcelona Metropolis, 2008.

Presidential candidate: Josep Piqué.

On 4 August 2006, however, La Liga side Real Zaragoza secured Piqué on a season-long loan.

On 27 May 2008, Piqué signed a four-year contract with Barcelona, with a € 50 million buy-out clause.

On 28 April 2010, Piqué scored in Barcelona's semi-final second leg against Internazionale, scoring the only Barcelona goal of the game.

Gerard Piqué in the Palacio de la Moncloa.

Piqué was a member of the Spain under-19 side that won the 2006 U-19 European Championship in Poland.

Since 1944 he has also conducted regularly at the San Francisco Opera, where he made his debut with a memorable performance of Verdi's Falstaff.

The modern Negro has not made a decisive debut into Southern fiction.

Very soon after his arrival in Little Rock, Pike had joined one of the most influential organizations in town, the Little Rock Debating Society, and it was with this group that he made his debut as an orator, being invited to deliver the annual Fourth of July address the club sponsored every year.

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Francois D'Albert, Hungarian-born violinist who made his New York debut three years ago, played a return engagement last night in Judson Hall.

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Allan Border made his Test debut for Australia in 1978 – 79.

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" When Li ' l Abner made its debut in 1934, the vast majority of comic strips were designed chiefly to amuse or thrill their readers.

The Athlon made its debut on June 23, 1999.

Born in Ashington, Northumberland, Charlton made his debut for the Manchester United first-team in 1956, and over the next two seasons gained a regular place in the team, during which time he survived the Munich air disaster of 1958 after being rescued by Harry Gregg.

He was introduced on August 2 and made his debut on August 3, after the Orioles fired Samuel.

In January 1988, Lara made his first-class debut for Trinidad and Tobago in the Red Stripe Cup against Leeward Islands.

It was also in 1990 that he made his belated Test debut for West Indies against Pakistan, scoring 44 and 5.

He had made his ODI debut a month earlier against Pakistan, scoring 11 in the 1992 World Cup

Eleven days before On the Fastrack made its syndicated debut ( March 19, 1984 ), Holbrook met Teri Peitso on a blind date.

The fact that Wills made his professional debut in blackface was commented on by Wills ' daughter, Rosetta: " He had a lot of respect for the musicians and music of his black friends ," Rosetta is quoted as saying on the Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys Web site.

Bixby made his directorial debut on the show in 1970, directing eight episodes.

The Brabham Racing Organisation ( BRO ) started the year fielding customer Lotus chassis, in which Brabham took two points finishes, before the turquoise-liveried Brabham BT3 car made its debut at the 1962 German Grand Prix.

Elwes made his acting debut in 1984 with Marek Kanievska's film Another Country.

She attended the Professional Children's School, in New York City, and made her professional theatre debut in a 1966 production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, starring Tammy Grimes.

Kane made her West End debut in January 2011 in a major revival of Lillian Hellman's drama The Children's Hour, at London's Comedy Theatre.

Kane made her Wicked debut on the 1st National Tour, playing the role from March 9 through December 19, 2005.

She made her professional debut on the New York stage, appearing in Beside Herself alongside Melissa Joan Hart, at the Circle Repertory Theatre.

Barrymore made her film debut in Altered States in 1980.