Barcelona Football Club History

FC Barcelona - also known as Barça, is a sports club in Barcelona, ​​Catalonia, Spain which has clubs in several branches of sport, but most notably football.

Founded in 1899 by 12 football players from Switzerland, Britain, and Spain under the leadership of Joan Gasper. FC Barcelona has the motto "Barca is not just a club" (El Barça, es mes que un club) and has a hymn, entitled "El Cannot del Barca" created by Jaume Picas and Josep Maria Espinàs. Unlike club soccer in general, FC Barcelona is really owned and operated by its supporters. The main stadium at Camp Nou, Barcelona.

The club entered into participants Primera División (Primary Division) since 1928, and together with Real Madrid and Athletic Bilbao to be a team that was never relegated to the Segunda División (Second Division). The club was also a club that won the Spanish league first. By offering 20 Spanish League titles, 25 Copa del Rey titles, 7 Spanish Super Cup, 3 European Champions League titles, 4 UEFA Cup, 2 European Super Cup, FC Barcelona became one of the most successful team in Spain, Europe, and the world . The most obvious evidence in 2009 when FC Barcelona managed to become the first Spanish club won the title TREBLE (champions of La Liga, Copa del Rey and Champions League). Followed by Raihan Spanish Super Cup, European Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup to complete his title became SEXTUPLE achievement. FC Barcelona is the first football club in the world has ever done this achievement. Barca fans are also often called Cules.

Sponsor

Barça known always refused to install the sponsor logos on uniforms soccer ball because Barca is considered as a symbol of Catalonia, and all kinds of sponsorship bid that "unreasonably interferes" will be rejected. However, Barca's basketball teams are allowed to install the sponsor logo on his uniform.

On 7 September 2006, the club announced a five-year agreement with UNICEF which allow UNICEF logo to be placed on t-shirts. Barcelona then will donate 0.7% of total revenue per year to UNICEF for five years.

Achievement

* UEFA Champions League: 3

o 1991-92 FC Barcelona 1-0 Sampdoria
o 2005-06 FC Barcelona 2-1 Arsenal
o 2008-09 FC Barcelona 2-0 Manchester United

* UEFA Cup: 4

o 1958 FC Barcelona 6-0 London XI; London XI 2-2 FC Barcelona
o 1960 FC Barcelona 4-1 Birmingham City, Birmingham City FC 0-0 FC Barcelona
o 1966 Real Zaragoza 2-4 FC Barcelona, ​​FC Barcelona 0-1 Real Zaragoza
o 1971 FC Barcelona 2-1 Leeds United

* European Super Cup: 3

o 1992 Werder Bremen 1-1 FC Barcelona, ​​FC Barcelona 2-1 Werder Bremen
o 1997 FC Barcelona 2-0 Borussia Dortmund, Borussia Dortmund 1-1 FC Barcelona
o 2009 FC Barcelona 1-0 FC Shakhtar Donetsk

* Cup Winners Cup: 4

o 1979 FC Barcelona 4-3 Fortuna Düsseldorf
o 1982 FC Barcelona 2-1 Standard de Liège
o 1989 FC Barcelona 2-0 Sampdoria
o 1997 FC Barcelona 1-0 Paris Saint-Germain

* Spanish League: 20

o 1928-29, 1944-45, 1947-48, 1948-49, 1951-52, 1952-53, 1958-59, 1959-60, 1973-74, 1984-85, 1990-91, 1991-92, 1992 -93, 1993-94, 1997-98, 1998-99, 2004-05, 2005-06, 2008-09, 2009-10

* Supercopa de España: 5

o 1984, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1997

* Copa de la Liga: 2

o 1983, 1986

* Copa del Rey: 25

o 1909-10, 1911-12, 1912-13, 1919-20, 1921-22, 1924-25, 1925-26, 1927-28, 1941-42, 1950-51, 1951-52, 1952-53, 1956 -57, 1962-63, 1967-68, 1970-71, 1977-78, 1980-81, 1982-83, 1987-88, 1989-90, 1996-97, 1997-98, 2008-09

* Latin Cup: 2

o 1949, 1952

* Joan Gamper Cup: 31

o 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 , 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007

Club World Cup: 1 2009

La Liga Primera Division (Liga de futbol profesional)

Football Competition is studded Mega Stars like Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, David Villa, Ricardo Kaka, Iker Casillas, Gonzalo Higuain and many other soccer star player and coach, a brilliant young coach like Jose Mourinho, Pep Guardiola, unay Emery.

Spanish League or Liga de Futbol Professional ("Professional Football League"), commonly known as the La Liga or the Primera División is the highest football league in Spain. Founded in 1929, this league regularly entered the annual competition. At present, there are 20 teams that joined the team in it. The team that won the most up to is Real Madrid with 31 times followed by FC Barcelona with 20 times. There are only three teams in the history of La Liga that has not been degraded, namely Real Madrid, FC Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao.

Spanish League has strict rules in Spain, and transfers between the teams is much more limited than in Britain. Spain and EU players can not switch between teams in the same division during a season, and teams still register first team squad of 25 players the entire soccer year. A window but not open for one month from mid-December allowing players who did not play more than say four games for their clubs in the season to be transferred. The first team players wearing numbers one to 25, and juniors are numbered from 26 onwards. Non-EU players is limited to four per squad since the season 2000/2001, with only three allowed in the playground at the same time. This will be reduced in future years.

Arsenal set to sign bundesliga top striker

Arsenal will need to part with at least £13million if they want to solve their goalscoring crisis with Papiss Demba Cisse.
Arsene Wenger’s side have scored just seven goals in their last seven games – a poor return for their usually prolific free-flowing football – and have all but surrendered the title to Manchester United.
Meanwhile, Freiburg’s 25-year-old striker has scored 20 goals in 28 Bundesliga appearances this season putting the Senegalese forward at the top of a number of Europe’s top sides’ shopping list.
But German newspaper TZ claims the club has told anyone interested in the striker not to waste their time with any bids below £13m.

SOURCE: talkSPORT

Whilst there is no denying that Papiss Demba Cisse is in a rich vein of formit is also true that the Senegal international striker is a player that most football supporters had not have heard of prior to his Bundesliga exploits this term.

Arsene Wenger is known for opting to cut costs by spending relatively small amounts on rough diamonds that he can then hone into the finished polished article and it’s a process that may help Arsenal to keep the club on a sound financial footing, however it does require these players longer to bed in than established stars, which has in some ways left the North London club to be in a continual state of transition.

25 year Cisse has done fantastically well this season but it is worth noting that prior to this term the Dakar born striker had scored a grand total of six top tier goals having previously played predominantly in France’s Ligue 2.

Wenger is also tracking £9m rated Lorient forward Kevin Gameiro who has been very consistent over the past three seasons and is currently the second top scorer in France’s top tier, again though, he is not a big name. Clearly Arsenal have bought Laurent Koscielny from the same club last summer, could that signing be considered a success? Perhaps a month ago it could’ve been but the Frenchman has been shaky of late.

There has been much speculation that the Gunners boss is keen to chop and change his front line and such action seems much needed. Nicklas Bendtner and Carlos Vela may be offloaded and there is even talk of a return to France for Marouane Chamakh, the Moroccan started the season with a bang but has looked out of his depth since November.

Arsenal supporters would probably like to see the club chase relative big names, maybe an offer for the likes of Karim Benzema, but Wenger seems happy to continue his tried and tested pattern of expenditure and in the main that plan of action has been a huge success but after six seasons without silverware, as it may well turn out to be, perhaps it’s time for the Emirates Stadium side to look for immediate returns on their investments?