FC Barcelona celebrates its 125th year anniversary this year. This iconic club with being the place that the best football players in the world have showed their talents and invention of the tiki-taka is definitely more than a club.
Since its foundation, FC Barcelona has been a major symbol of Catalonia and its culture, as evidenced by its motto, which says “More than a club” (Més que un club). This motto is also well presented in the Camp Nou which is the spettacular stadium of the team. For many years Barcelona has been a meeting place for a world stars like Johan Cryuff, Diego Armando Maradona, Messi, Ronaldinho, Neymar and so on.
Thi History of FC Barcelona
The club is founded in 29 November 1899 by a Swiss football pioneer Joan Gamper. His aim was to influence Catalans in football and teach them how to play it well. Barcelona rapidly won achievements in the local leagues and in La Copa Del Rey. Unlike many football clubs in Europe FC Barcelona is not a limited company. The supporters own and operate the club. Actually it has many similarities with Turkish football clubs. Today the biggest rival of the club is Real Madrid and the matches between these teams called as “El Classico”. It is the most watched football derby in the world and it more than just a football match. It is a conflict between royalty vs autonomity, tradition vs fashion, Spain vs Catalonia and also once it was an arrivality between Messi and Ronaldo.
Johan Cryuff Impact
In mid 1973 Barcelona transfered Johan Cruyff for approximately 2 million American dollars. It was considered a world record transfer fee in that years. He played in 139 La Liga matches with the Barça shirt. In 1979 Cruyff came up with an idea that would change the history of football. He founded the football academy in Barcelona which has same functions with Ajax Youth Academy in Amsterdam. Now we call it La Masia and it has raised the best football player of the history, Lionel Messi and also Cesc Fàbregas, Gerard Piqué, Pep Guardiola and Lamine Yamal (wonderkid of Barça and Spain). Messi was just 13 years old when he first joined to LA Masia.
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source:footballhistory.org, wikipedia.org
