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Sport in Barcelona

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Barcelona has always been a city that lives and breathes sport and today there’s no shortage of sports in Barcelona! Thanks to the 1992 Olympics Games, facilities have improved drastically to offer all types of athletic activities. A quarter of the city’s population now regularly is doing some type of sport and have included physical exercise in their habitual activities. The people of Barcelona have seized the city’s public spaces, squares, parks and new beaches and turned them into focal points of sports activities. And Barcelona continues to advance in …

FC Barcelona Players: Victor Valdes

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Victor Valdés is one of those players that supporters always hold especially close to their hearts – the local lad playing for his ‘own’ team. A true Catalan and a Barça fanatic, Valdés signed for the club in 1992 – at 10 years of age – and has worked his way through to the first team, making the goalkeeper’s spot his own. Valdés, like his counterpart in the Real Madrid team, Iker Casillas, made his way through the youth ranks at the club and was given the opportunity of first …