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History & Progress of FC Barcelona Football Club

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You can visit the fantastic city of Barcelona, if you want to have wonderful football vacation in Europe. The fabulous capital of Catalonia certainly is one of the top venues to enjoy football in Europe. Located on the mouths of Llobregat & Besòs Rivers on the Mediterranean coast, Barcelona surely is a perfect destination for football. Football is the first passion for the Catalan People. Probably that was the reason that FIFA chose Barcelona as venue for several matches of the 1982 Football World Cup. The magnificent city is widely …

FC Barcelona – More Than A Club

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FC Barcelona is a sports club in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. While it has divisions within in many different sports, it is most famous for its football club, founded in 1899 by a group of twelve people, led by Swiss businessman Joan Gamper. FC Barcelona and long-standing rival Real Madrid remain the most representative teams within Spain. Barcelona, along with Athletic Bilbao and Real Madrid, are the only three teams in Spain to have never been relegated from Spain’s top football league – ‘La Liga’ – which FC Barcelona have won …

Barca – Football Fanatic

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In the late 1800′s Hans Gamper and ten other enthusiasts were playing an unidentified game called ‘foot-ball’. When Gamper went on to found Barcelona Football Club on 29 November 1899, he could hardly have imagined the momentous events that would follow. Throughout some of Catalonia’s most difficult years, the flag represented the people’s hopes for freedom, and today that very flag is the symbolic link which continues to represent the ties between a very special club and its’ supporters. Barcelona is in the extremely enviable position of being the only …

Football Culture In Valencia Is Bigger Than Anything

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Valencia CF Valencia Club de Futbol is often referred to as just Vaencia or as Los Che. Founded in 1919, today Valencia plays in La Liga and is one of the biggest clubs in Spain and one of the most well known in the world. In total Valencia Club de Futbol has won 6 La Liga titles, 7 Copa del Rey trophies, 2 Spanish Super Cups, 2 Fairs Cups, 1 each of the UEFA Cup and the UEFA Cup Winners Cup, and 2 UEFA Super Cups. They have also come …

FC Barcelona Players – Eider Gudjohnsen

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Eidur Gudjohnsen, of course, is the answer to a well-known quiz question. Who was the first player to come on as a substitute for his own father in an international football match? What might be even more amazing is that it could happen again in a few years – Eidur’s son was one of the star players in the annual televised schoolboys tournament in the summer of 2008, captaining the Barcelona team. Born in Reykjavik in 1978, Eidur Gudjohnsen was clearly always going to be a footballer and made his …

Top 3 FC Barcelona Managers

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Here is the list of three of the most successful managers of FC Barcelona in the modern era. 1) Johan Cruijff – Very less amount of people succeeded to achieve Managerial success at Club where they become legendary players. Cruijff had a great playing career with FC Barcelona and also had a equally successful coaching career too. Johan Cruijff took charge of FC Barcelona in 1988 and continued at the helm of FC Barcelona till 1996. He had a great managerial record with Fc Barcelona. He won 4 La Liga …

FC Barcelona Players: Lionel Messi

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If any player can be said to be the natural successor to Diego Maradona, then surely it must be Lionel Messi. Born in 1987, he signed for Barcelona from Newell’s Old Boys of Argentina at 13 years of age, and since that time Messi has been marked for super stardom. But for a niggling succession of injuries, he surely would have been a Ballon D’Or winner by now. What has always singled out ‘Leo’ as being special is his ability to dribble at speed with the ball under perfect control. …