FC Barcelona - Soccer in Barcelona
Barca the popular nickname of Futbol Club Barcelona is a sports club of Barcelona , Catalania in Spain . FC Barcelona is a football club well known worldwide for its futbol team. This was led by Joan Gamper and group of English, Swiss and Catalan men in the year 29 th November 1899. When it was found it was named Foot Ball Club Barcelona. Now this has turned into an institution in Catalan and the motto of it is Mes que un club meaning More than a club. They also remained as the founding members in 1928 of La Liga and Real Madrid and Athletic Bilbao. The club FC Barcelona stands out to be the most successful club of Spain in the History of Football.
Camp Nou is the main stadium of the club and the FC Barcelona fans are called as culers or cules. The club FC Barcelona owns other teams like FC Barcelona B, FC Barcelona C which is a team of youth and four professional teams of other sports like basketball, futsal, handball and rink hockey. FC Barcelona has bagged many championships, 18 La Liga, 24 Copa del Ray, 32 Joan Gamper Trophy and so many. Club also has other sports teams that are prominent and compete in Rugby Union, wheel chair basket ball and women's foot ball. Altogether the club represents many number of games and sports.
FC Barcelona topped as the second richest club in the season 2006-07 with the revenue of €290.1 million.
When the years glorious to the Barca were on in its 20s due to sporting conflicts had to suffer non sporting days that took place on 14 th June 1925. it was dictatorship of Prima de Rivera and crowd in a game jeered the homage royal march to Orfeo Catalan and the ground was closed for three months and Gamper the man behind the club and the president was forced to give up presidency which led to the depression of the great man who committed suicide on 30 th of July 1930. This was the critical period for the club and was in the decline due to political, financial and social together with dropping of many members and still the club managed to win Campionat de Catalunya in rows till 1938 under the presidentship of Josep Sunol i Garriga.
The severe damage was due to the civil war (1923- 39), in which the president Josep was murdered, Club was destroyed by fascist regime that occupied Barcelona and the half the team went in exile to France and Mexico . After the civil war of Spain , football clubs, Catalan language, flag were banned, and football clubs existing were forced to use only Spanish language and name was changed to Club de Futbol Barcelona . After all the downs team and the club consistently developed and has raised to the peak in the present era. Team has very world renowned players like Ronaldhino, Deco, Giovanni Van, Samuel Eto'o, Ludovic Giuly and Rafael Marquez. Now the team is one of the great teams in the world winning many titles and sponsored by, Nike, coca cola, Tv3, Audi, Telefonica, Estrella Damm, La Caixa, bwin and the official provider MediaPro. Team has won 14 international championships and 51 domestic championships up to 2006.