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For the supporters, FC Barcelona became synonymous with Catalonia, a feeling incorporated in the club's Més que un club motto (English: More than a club). The socio-political impulse Visca el Barça (Long live Barça), gradually evolved into Visca el Barça i visca Catalunya (Long live Barça and Catalonia) and was the same as a protest-song ...
This is a list of all matches contested between the Spanish football clubs Barcelona and Real Madrid, a fixture known as El Clásico. The club name in bold indicates a win for that team. The score is given at full-time and half-time (in brackets), and in the goals columns, the goalscorer and time when goal was scored is noted.
Futbol Club Barcelona (Catalan pronunciation: [fubˈbɔl ˈklub bəɾsəˈlonə] ⓘ), commonly known as FC Barcelona and colloquially as Barça (), is a professional football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, that competes in La Liga, the top flight of Spanish football.
The Boixos Nois (Catalan: [ˈboʃus ˈnɔjs]; "Crazy Boys", from the Catalan word "Bojos" meaning crazy) is an ultras supporter group organised around the La Liga football club FC Barcelona, based in Catalonia and founded in 1981. During the 1980s the group's political position shifted.
"Cant del Barça" (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈkan dəl ˈβaɾsə]; lit. ' Barça chant ') is the official anthem of FC Barcelona. [1] It was commissioned in 1974 to celebrate the club's 75th anniversary. [1] The lyrics were written by Jaume Picas and Josep Maria Espinàs and the music was composed by Manuel Valls. [1]
The standard game, also known as "Bisca dos Tres" (literal translation: "Bisca of Three", idiomatic translation: "Three's Bisca"), is played with each player being dealt 3 cards. "Bisca dos Sete" ("Seven's Bisca") is played with each player being dealt 7 cards. "Bisca dos Nove" ("Nine's Bisca") with each player being dealt 9 cards.
In the late 19th century Catalonia enjoyed the most developed industry in the country, mainly thanks to its cotton industry, and for this reason, Barcelona became one of the best places for foreigners to disembark in and do business, and being the British one of the most enterprising nation at the time, Barcelona soon became the home to a British colony, who like in the rest of the world ...
The Camp Nou opened the FC Barcelona club museum in 1984. [41] The stadium was renovated in 1993–94, in which the pitch was lowered by 2.5 metres (8 feet), the security gap that separated the lawn from the galleries was removed, and standing room was eliminated in favour of individual seating.