sentences:  The club's earlier successes continued to elude it, although it was not short of top coaching staff like Luis Aragonés and Jorge Valdano, as well as foreign star forwards like Brazilian Romário, Claudio López, Ariel Ortega from Argentina and Adrian Ilie from Romania.Valencia started the 1999–00 season by winning another title, the Spanish Super Cup, beating FC Barcelona.Valencia finished third in the league, four points behind the champions Deportivo de La Coruña and level on points with second placed Barça.