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Though it was a club created and run by foreigners, Barcelona gradually became a club associated with Catalan values. In Spain's transition to autocracy in 1925, Catalonia became increasingly hostile towards the central government in Madrid.
On 22 October 1899, Swiss Hans Gamper placed an advertisement in Los Deportes declaring his wish to form a football club; a positive response resulted in a meeting at the Gimnasio Solé on 29 November.
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4 days ago · FC Barcelona, Spanish professional football (soccer) club located in Barcelona and founded in 1899 that is one of the world’s most decorated and popular football teams. It is renowned for its historically skillful and attractive brand of attacking football that places an emphasis on flowing, open play.
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- FC Barcelona in full is Fútbol Club Barcelona. It is also called Barça.
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1930-39. Struggling against history. 1919-30. A golden age. 1909-19. Consolidation at Carrer Indústria. 1899 -1909. Foundation and survival. Find out Barça's history decade by decade. You can...
- The First Golden Era and The Sudden End of It
- The Worst Decade
- The Cruyff Influence
- A New Era of Domination
- Sponsor Controversy
The club's first golden era take place during the 1920s. The club dominated Campionat de Catalunya and the Copa del Rey with Paulino Alcántara as the first big goalscorer. In 1929 Barca clinched the inaugural La Liga before entering a period of decline due to the ongoing political conflicts in the country, which eventually grew so large that they r...
Even though Barcelona made the history books by becoming the first team to defeat Real Madrid in the European Cup, the 60s as a whole were largely a disappointing time for the club's supporters. With Di Stéfano in his prime, Real Madrid was simply too strong of an opponent and Barcelona, without the former star Kubala, had to settle with two Copa d...
In 1979, Cruyff came up with the idea of founding a football academy that would function on the same principles as the celebrated Ajax Youth Academy. His proposal was eventually accepted, and an old country building named La Masia was converted into the Academy headquarters. In the years that followed, La Masia became the most revered football acad...
Losing Luís Figo – one of the club's heroes up until that point – to Real Madrid's "Los Galacticos" in 2000 proved to be a tough blow for Barça and their ambitions. The early 00s saw many changes in the club's personnel, but things didn't turn for the better until the arrival of another Dutchman in 2005 – Frank Rijkaard. Much like his compatriots C...
Barcelona's blaugranashirt was under a long time free from any sponsor logotypes (the exception was UNICEF, which wasn't a typical sponsor deal). But in 2010 a deal with the Qatar Foundation that would generate €30 million (for a contract between 2011 and 2015) was apparently too much to say no to. By many reasons this was controversially decisions...
1905-1909 Carrer de Muntaner grounds. THE COPA MACAYA, THE FIRST TROPHY. The Copa Macaya was the precursor to the Catalan Football Championship. It was begun in 1900 by Alfons Macaya, president...
HISTORY OF FC BARCELONA. On November 29, 1899, Hans Gamper founded Futbol Club Barcelona, along with eleven other enthusiasts of 'foot-ball', a game that was still largely unknown in this part of the world.
