1899165438+1On October 29th, when Swedish Hans Huo An Gambo founded Barcelona Football Club in a gym called sole, he never imagined how much suffering and humiliation the club suffered, how much passion and struggle it witnessed, and how much dreams and glory it placed! In the stormy course of 100 years, Barcelona Club has experienced numerous tests and struggled with its fate in the dark ages. It is not only a club, but also represents a belief, a value and a culture. This unique culture has closely linked the supporters and the club, and also created Barcelona, a well-deserved world giant.
In the first days, Mr. Gambo, a watchmaker, invested a lot of personal money and energy for the club, providing everything the team needed, including jerseys, logistics, football and venues, and also determining the red and blue colors belonging to Barcelona. This Nordic, known as the father of Barcelona football, is still admired today: in museums, information and records about him can be seen everywhere; The warm-up match held in Camp Nou before each season is also named after him.
There are two theories about the origin of the red and blue colors used by the club: one is that Mr. Gamble works with a two-color pencil every day, so he uses these two colors as the colors of the team; In other words, the team's original jerseys and other equipment came from Sweden, where football started earlier, so the color of Mr. Gambo's hometown team later became the color of Barcelona. Blue symbolizes melancholy, and red symbolizes passion. Maybe it's providence. At first, this may be an unintentional move, which accurately covers the characteristics of Barcelona.
After 1903, Barcelona has developed greatly. 19 10, Barcelona was officially registered with the Spanish Football Association and qualified to participate in the Spanish Cup, which was the only tournament in Spain at that time. On May 20th, 1922, the cathedral stadium, the first main stadium in Barcelona, was officially completed and put into use. At that time, this very luxurious stadium could accommodate 30 thousand people, and later it was expanded to 60 thousand people. 1924 When the club celebrated its 25th anniversary, its membership had increased to 12207. 19 19-1929 This decade is considered as the first golden age of Barcelona. Barcelona had won the Spanish Cup eight times before the Spanish League started.
65438-0928, the Spanish National League officially started, and the first season was the match between Barcelona and Madrid. Barcelona got off to a bad start and was defeated in the first round. Real Madrid led 12 in the first round of 18, but then it was Barcelona's turn to perform. They caught up, and in the penultimate round of the league, the two teams scored 23 points together. In the final round, the boys from Barcelona went to Madrid under great pressure. Barcelona beat Real Madrid at home10 and won the first La Liga title. This first season's competition has also become the epitome of La Liga in the coming decades.
However, due to various political reasons, Barcelona began to suffer a huge blow from non-sports aspects. The family court was ordered to close for six months and Mr Gambo was forced to step down. Then the team encountered financial crisis and social crisis, and even the number of members began to decrease.
193 1 year, Spain overthrew the king and established the government. But shortly after Franco's rebellion, Spain began a civil war. In order to defend * * * and the country, Catalans fought to the death with the dictator, and people from all countries formed an international column and went to Barcelona, the last battlefield. However, with the support of Hitler and Mussolini and the connivance of the West, Barcelona fell and the Republic of China fell heroically.
In the following years, Barcelona Club, like Barcelona as a whole, was brutally attacked and oppressed. The president of the club was shot for "treason" and the number of members was ordered to be reduced to only 3486. Franco's minions were forcibly appointed president of Barcelona. Barcelona players survived because they toured in the United States, but many key players left the team and went into exile.
Although the blood of freedom has almost dried up and the smoke of war has dispersed, the anger of resistance has never subsided. As the only place where people can release their emotions, people pin their desire for revenge on every win or lose on the court. Barcelona and Madrid, the football contest between the two cities, finally evolved into a veritable "Spanish Derby" and "God Punishment".
Although in the shameless and sensational match of 1943, Barcelona players had to lose the game with a disparity score of 1 1-3 under the serious bias of the referee and the death threats of thousands of armed police around the stadium, and even some fascist minions could not stand it and resigned, it was gratifying that Barcelona quickly rallied and became a great team again. Won the league titles of 1944/ 1945, 1947/ 1948, 1948. When the club celebrated its 50th anniversary on 1949, its members had already.
When1June 1950, kubala, a descendant of Gypsies, refused to join Barcelona with a high salary from Madrid, and the team ushered in another golden age from 195 1 to 1954. In recent years, Barcelona won the league championship and the cup championship for three consecutive years,1951-kloc-0/953, and became the fifth champion at that time in the season of1951952.
Before 1950s, the real strong teams were Barcelona and Bilbao. Just then, the turning point of fate came, and D 'Stefano, the genius of that era, planned to travel to Europe. Barcelona first contacted him and quickly signed a transfer contract. Not long after, Real Madrid, with poor record, quietly extended its tentacles to D 'Stefano. Because Barcelona had already taken the lead, Madrid decided to play a conspiracy, taking advantage of the chaos of FIFA at that time, and signed a contract with Stifano's former owner, Riverbed, to blackmail Barcelona. The dispute between the two sides escalated and finally went to the Royal Sports Arbitration Commission. With Franco's intervention, the Royal Sports Arbitration Commission ruled that De Stefano would play alternately in Real Madrid and Barcelona. Proud Barcelona regards it as a great shame, and simply gives up all ownership in order to protest injustice. The fate of Madrid began to turn to D 'Stefano, and Barcelona paid a huge price for the impulse.
The failure to compete for Stifano directly led to the resignation of the club president at that time, and his successor devoted all his energy to building a new stadium and solving the problem of increasing capacity. Although the Second World War has ended and fascism has perished, the situation in Iberia has not changed. The relationship between the club and Catalan society is getting closer and closer, and the original stadium can no longer meet the growing demand. On September 24th, 1957, the Nou Camp Stadium, the new home of Barcelona, which can accommodate 90,000 people, was officially opened. It happened to be a traditional festival, and all the citizens of Barcelona dressed up and gathered in the new stadium to celebrate. At 1958- 1959, 1959- 1960, Barcelona won the league championship twice, and at 1957- 1958,1. Unfortunately, bad luck has plagued Barcelona since the 1960s, and it all started with the Champions League final of 196 1. This is the most unlucky final in the history of the Champions League. Although Barcelona is more talented, more offensive, more fighting, and more powerful than its opponents, and takes the lead first, the goalkeeper who has always been steady has made serious mistakes many times in the game, helping his opponents to lead 3-/kloc-0. But Barcelona then took control and pulled back a goal. No one doubts that Barcelona will catch up or even overtake. Unfortunately, despite hitting the goalpost three times in the last 15 minutes, including kubala hitting the goalpost with his last foot before the final game, the ball bounced on the opposing goalkeeper and then hit the opposing goalpost, the team finally failed to rewrite the score. When the final whistle sounded, the Barcelona commentator cried sadly: "Shout it out, players, your performance was impeccable;" Cry, fans, fate has never been so unfair to a team in history. Just like Bern seven years ago, the best team in the world was so close to the championship that there was nothing in the end! "
This defeat weakened the team, kubala chose to retire, and Suarez, Barcelona's first World Footballer of the Year, went to Italy, creating the brilliance of Inter Milan. Barcelona won only three championships in the following 10 years.
In the 1970s, the team recruited the Dutch coach michels, the "father of football", and he then recruited his proud disciple, johan cruyff, a legendary figure in the history of Dutch football. The Dutch made Barcelona brilliant again. The year cruyff arrived, the club won the league championship on the occasion of its 75th anniversary. Especially on February1974 17, Barcelona beat its opponent with a big score of 5-0 in Madrid and was regarded as the "eternal championship trophy" by Barcelona fans. Just eight days before the game, cruyff beat his son. He named it Jody, after the patron saint of Barcelona. Since then, cruyff has closely linked his life with Barcelona.
1978 On May 6th, nunes, the greatest president in the history of Barcelona, was elected. With the thawing of politics, the club began to expand its influence, increase its membership, increase its funds and update its facilities. Camp Nou has become the largest and most modern stadium in Europe, known as the "European Dream Theatre", and the construction of the club has also achieved unprecedented success. Barcelona won the Cup Winner's Cup on 1979, the King's Cup on 198 1 and 83, and then won the league title under the leadership of venables 1 1. However, the road ahead is not smooth. Diego Diego Maradona, who spent the highest price in the world at that time, was at odds with the club. It was a huge mistake to let Mexican hugo sanchez go. All contradictions finally broke out after the defeat of 1986 in the Champions League final: in the penalty shootout, the opposing goalkeeper actually saved all the shots of Barcelona players, as if the spell of 196 1 were repeated. Venables was soon fired. 1988, nunes made a crucial and far-reaching decision to invite back the hero cruyff. Cruyff began to rebuild drastically when he took office, and soon established a top team with gorgeous style, which perfectly combined local players with foreign aid and won almost all the honors that could be won. 1992, Barcelona beat Sampdoria at Wembley and won the coveted Champions League. This victory made Barcelona and even Catalonia boil. People regard that team as the "dream team" and regard it as the eternal pride of Barcelona.
Due to personality conflict and health reasons, cruyff left the club on 1996, and since then, he has faded out of football, and the club is still moving forward. Bobby Robson led the team to win the European Cup Winner's Cup, the King's Cup, the Spanish Super Cup, the European Super Cup and the second place in the league during his short one-year coaching career. He scored more than 100 goals in the league, and even cultivated Cristiano Ronaldo, who was still unknown at that time, into the world footballer of the year and the most successful head coach in Europe, but the club replaced him with another Dutchman, Fan Jiaer. Fan Jiaer led the team for three years and achieved good results. He not only won the double crown for the first time in 39 years, but also promoted and trained young players such as Javier and Puyol, and built a team that made Europe awe. However, because of his stubborn personality, making too many enemies and introducing many Dutch players, the balance of the team was broken. Although he is recognized as the most dedicated head coach for many years, he can't stay any longer after a season of nothing. Nunes, who strongly supported him, finally resigned in July 2000, because he was getting older and older and could not bear the criticism and pressure from outside. A great era is over.
His successor Gaspar has been a member of Barcelona since he was 9 years old. He is the most successful agent in the history of the club. Together with nunes, he created the glory of Barcelona, but at the same time he was one of the most criticized presidents in the history of the club. Less than 24 hours after taking office, he was shamelessly betrayed and lost his way. During his tenure, the management of the club was chaotic and unplanned. The team spent countless money to buy players, owed more than 200 million foreign debts, but achieved nothing in the results. There are many contradictions within the club, between the club and the fans, between the club and the media, and between the fans and the media. Six vice-presidents resigned angrily, and the club fell into the abyss of despair, and the anger of Barcelona members reached the extreme. On June 5438+February 65438+May 2002, after the home of Barcelona was badly hit by Seville 3-0, the white handkerchief protested by the audience turned into a tsunami-like "resignation" roar, and Gaspar later took the blame and resigned.
After narrowly winning the sixth place, the club held a new general election in 2003. Juan laporta, a young lawyer who was not optimistic in advance, won unexpectedly. He began to vigorously carry out reforms and establish new leading bodies. At the same time, members of the "Dream Team" came back from all directions one after another, which provoked the heavy responsibility of saving the club.
Despite a brand-new look from top to bottom, the team still didn't start well, and the score even fell to 12. When Madrid people cheered at Camp Nou for the first time in 20 years, the situation had deteriorated to a climax. From June 5438+ 10, 2004, after four years of repression, the proud Catalan giants finally broke out, and the team began to rise at a speed that no one expected: after defeating Madrid with a winning streak of 10, the team finally won the second place in the league and completed a dramatic and shocking reversal. With such great encouragement, the team made persistent efforts, and finally regained the long-lost league title in 2004/05, won the La Liga title with record points in 2005/06, and won the Champions League trophy again in Paris.
Barcelona's reputation is world-class, which has left a deep impression on people in all aspects: the 25-time Spanish Cup champion ranks first in Spain, the 4-time European Cup winner ranks first in Europe, and it is also one of the four teams that have completed the three major European Cup Grand Slams. What's more, Barcelona is the only team in Europe that has never missed the three major cups since the start of the 1955 European War. After entering the new century, Barcelona's social status is becoming more and more important. At present, Barcelona has more than 6.5438+0.3 million members, thousands of fan clubs, and more than 20 million people watch the game outside Europe. In the summer of 2004, Barcelona Club, which has a history of over 100 years, visited China for the first time, and unveiled the first Barcelona Fans Association in China (Barcelona Chinese Network Fans Association), thus starting the contact with ancient China. The top management of Barcelona Club firmly believes that Barcelona members firmly believe that despite all kinds of difficulties and setbacks, Barcelona Club, with its legendary history and extraordinary achievements, will definitely move forward.