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Football in Barcelona

Friday, 11 December 2009 13:51

Fc Barcelona Football Club

There is nothing more that the Catalan people are so passionate about - football. As in FC Barcelona there are the best world players - world known Football stars all of the habitats no matter if young or old, female or male -everyone is a Barça fan and the definite enemy of Real Madrid. Gran Derby is considered to be the biggest "football war" of Europe. It is the most important event in Spanisch league and every year there are millions of people watching this particular match in front of the TV.
If you are planing to visit Barcelona you have to know some basic information about the team.

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Players:

goal keepers: Victor Valdes, Jose Mauel Pinto
defenders: Carles Puyol, Eric Abidal, Gabriel Milito, Rafael Marquez, Gerard Pique, Daniel Alves, Maxwell Andrade, Dmytro Czyhrynski, Marc Muniesa, Andreu Fontas
Midfilders:Yaya Toure, Seydou Keita, Xavi Hernandez, Andres Iniesta, Sergio Busquets, Jonathan Dos Santos
Forwards: Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Lionel Messi, Thierry Henry, Bojan Krkic, Pedro Rodriguez, Jeffren Suarez

Personnel:

Head Coach First Team: Josep Guardiola
Assistant Coach: Tito Vilanova

In Barcelona it is almost a tradition to go to the football match. On Camp Nou the atmosphere is much different as you could see it on different stadiums. Next to the regular football fans there are whole families and old people coming to the match. It is much more calm and organised in comparison with other stadiums, because everyone is 100% concentrated on the match.

As mentioned above FC Barcelona is a world class team and of course they have a lot of success in football. They have been winning in the most important football leagues several times:

Champions League: 3
European Cup Winners Cup: 4
Fair Cup: 3
European Super Cup: 3
Spanish League Championship: 19
Spanish Cup: 25
Spanish Supercup: 8
Catalan League Championship: 23
Catalan Cup: 6

FC Barcelona´s slogan is: "more than a club". The club contribute 0.7 per cent of its ordinary income to the FC Barcelona Foundation, which takes care of international cooperation programmes for development, the UN Millennium Development Goals. What is more the foundation helped to realiseUnicef’s programs through the donation of one and a half million euros for the next five years. That is why the only logo Barça players are wearing is the Unicef logo on shirts.
To get more information visit: FC Barcelona official website

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