Sign Up. Travel Guides. Videos Beyond Hollywood Hungerlust Pioneers of love. Tara Jessop. Barcelona has more than one club. They invented their own style of play. The club is owned by its club members. History of affiliation with the Catalan nationalist movement. The club was founded by a Swiss man. Home games are rarely attended by local supporters. Franco made the club change their name and official language. While life under Franco was proving arduous from a political point of view the club was in fact forced to change its name to the less Catalanian and Anglian sounding Barcelona Club de Futbol and the Catalan colors were removed from the crest , the next two decades were reasonably successful for the club.
In the period from to , Barcelona claimed five La Liga titles and five Copa del Rey trophies. Following their move to the newly built Camp Nou, the club's officials decided to turn a new leaf and appoint Helenio Herrera as the new manager.
Even though Barcelona made the history books by becoming the first team to defeat Real Madrid in the European Cup , the 60s as a whole were largely a disappointing time for the club's supporters. With Di Stefano in his prime, Real Madrid was simply too strong of an opponent and Barcelona had to settle with two Copa del Rey trophies for the decade. Ironically, this would prove to be a common theme in the coming years. In the Dutch star Johan Cruyff joined the club and was one of the reasons that the team managed to claim a La Liga title in , the first in ten years.
The waiting for the next league victory would again hang over ten years until the team with Terry Venables as manager could win another one. In , Cruyff came up with the idea of founding a football academy that would function on the same principles as the celebrated Ajax Youth Academy. His proposal was eventually accepted, and an old country building named La Masia was converted into the Academy headquarters. In the years that followed, La Masia became the most revered football academy in the entire world, known as much for its immaculate top-down organization as for the many players who passed through it and became stars.
He said when Ian Ayre, Liverpool's managing director, said recently the big clubs should keep more of the overseas TV money, "Nineteen clubs to one were against it and it did not have to be put to the vote. Rosell defended the sponsorship of the Barcelona shirts by the Qatar Foundation after more than a century of remaining clear, followed by five years in which Barcelona wore the name of the charity Unicef.
He said it had been done because of financial pressures. If we did not have to fight against competition which has capital, I would never sell anything on the shirt. It would be virgin. Rosell accepted, however, that smaller clubs in Spain have suffered severe financial difficulties partly due to their own impossible chase to compete with the giant finances of his own club and Real Madrid.
He accepted that the two big clubs must move within the next few years to selling their television rights collectively with the other clubs. Josep Maria Bartomeu is the current president of Barcelona. The Catalan executive is not particularly a fan favourite of the club and has been accused of mismanaging the club. Barcelona has struggled to live up to the expectations of the fans in the recent past and it is becoming increasingly evident that the team's shortcomings on the pitch are a direct result of the board's incompetence behind the scenes.
Barcelona has made some terrible decisions in the transfer market in the recent past and is now starting to become a shadow of its past self. The club's members will elect new directors in and the onus will be on the new board to revive Barcelona's fortunes. Barcelona's structural organisation ensures that the club cannot be run by the same board for a long period of time.
The club's board can be changed when the fans feel that a new group can take the club to new heights. Barcelona's presidents have dismissed the idea of selling the club to a private owner in the past. Sandro Rosell, in particular, has been vocal against the sale of the club and has claimed that Barcelona will continue to be a club owned by the fans.
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