#European Football
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useless-catalanfacts · 22 days ago
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FC Barcelona got the cat mascot back!
Yes!
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It's called CAT and it's a wildcat (the only autochthonous feline to Catalonia) and its head is the shape of the Barça shield. It represents Barça's origin in football and as a symbol of Catalan identity and resistance. It's neither male nor female, or both male and female, to represent inclusivity and modern times.
The club has also presented a touchable image of CAT made with different textures so blind people can touch it and visualize it as much as seeing people.
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death-by-mercury · 5 months ago
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Photos of a 20 year old Lionel Messi with 6 month old Lamine Yamal and Yamal’s mother, Sheila Ebana taken in September 2007 in Barcelona, Spain during a photo session in the dressing room of the Camp Nou stadium. In 2007, Messi had began his Barcelona career in 2004 at age 17 and now Yamal, starting at 15 (now 17) has become a football sensation for Spain and Barcelona.
📸 Joan Monfort
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alexiasleftoversalmon · 4 months ago
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Katie’s hands.
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Ok that’s it 🥵🫠😮‍💨
Not my normal player content but had to post her cuz I love my Irish girl (and I’m Irish too, it makes up the majority of my ethnicity) 🇮🇪
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seven7arts · 5 months ago
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WE ARE CHAMPIONS OF EUROPE x4!!! 🏆🇪🇦
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copperbadge · 2 years ago
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Things I have learned as an American fan of European football:
1. Italians actually do say Mamma Mia. Like, not ironically. I'm not making fun though, because Romanisti are also masters of the sick burn.
2. You guys we do not talk enough about how the French love suffering. Their visible enjoyment whenever they moan that their teams suck out loud is bordering on kink.
3. Bayer 04 Leverkusen is a German team founded in 1904 by workers at the Bayer plant. Like, the aspirin company Bayer. Which means they have
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A goddamn Bayer aspirin right in their team logo. From an era when Bayer also made HEROIN.
I don't know what to do with any of this so now it's your problem.
[ID: A crest for the team, reading "1904 Bayer Leverkusen", with two rearing lions flanking a big round Bayer aspirin tablet.]
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pernillecfcw · 2 months ago
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A lovely win last night for the blues🖤🩷
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theidlespoon · 5 months ago
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how the fuck did southgate manage to bottle a team of top notch players THAT badly
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swayziiwriter · 1 year ago
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Him and Xavi look so much alike next to each other
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postapocalypticromance · 4 days ago
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It is really quite funny to me that Barcelona and Real Madrid are so badly off financially that they essentially can't be taken seriously in the transfer market outside of the few players they can sign for high amounts.
Barcelona are, admittedly, in a better space because La Masia has produced a series of quality players over the last few years, but no academy can produce players of the same calibre year after year.
Real Madrid trying to get players in on free transfers because they'd just not be able to afford all the players they want is something that is genuinely hilarious to me. Their policy of buying players young has been resoundingly mixed, mainly because they've not really brought in players who can fill in the gaps in their lineup, and Florentino Perez has yet again shown that he doesn't get that big names don't mean winning or a strong, well-rounded team.
In fact, it's so obvious that their finances are more in the mud than a Sunday league match in December, purely because of how much stock they've put into the European Super League and the two iterations that have been put forward.
I don't think football is infallible. It can and may go south. But Perez eulogising about how football is dying is perhaps the most thinly veiled justification for the existence of the entire thing because no other club president or owner in the entire fiasco made any move to justify it in any similar way.
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hungaryenthusiast · 6 months ago
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All Hungarian football enjoyers rn:
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magicalbuttertarts · 11 days ago
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useless-catalanfacts · 2 years ago
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I assume you heard of what the Real Madrid twitter account posted, how Franco was a supported of Barça? Amazing historical revisionism, as if Catalans weren't tortured or murdered for daring to speak their language, or how even one of the directors of Barça was murdered after being accused of defending the independence of Catalonia.
I'm sure they are aware they're lying, I don't believe someone would be so ignorant to make up something like that and somehow convince themselves of it.
Basically, if someone's not aware of what happened, Real Madrid published a video saying that FC Barcelona (Barça) was favoured by the Spanish fascist dictator Franco, which is false. The team that has always been associated with Francoist beliefs is Real Madrid, so I assume they want to distance themselves from that by accusing their main rival (Barça), who also happens to be a symbol of a minority (Catalans) that was one of the main groups targeted by Spanish fascism.
Some actual historical information about Franco and Barça:
1. In 1939, all football clubs that were federated in the Catalan Federation were banned from playing. All the players' contracts were cancelled. That includes Barça. Some months later, they were reformed and could continue existing with a completely different directors/administration board accepted by the regime. (Women are banned from this position, when Barça had la Sagi.) Copying the model of Mussolini's Italy, the Francoist dictatorship gave control of sports to the Falange (the fascist party, the only party allowed) who controlled everything from the Delegación Nacional de Deportes (National Sports Delegation).
2. For the previous resolution, all of Barça's administratives are ceases and their names and files are given to the military police to control them. The board and administration of all the club was purged.
3. The regime sentenced to death and killed the president of Barça at the time (Josep Sunyol i Garriga) for being pro-Catalan.
The president of Real Madrid (Antonio Ortega) was also killed for being a communist. The difference is that nowadays, since the end of the dictatorship, Barça honours Josep Sunyol, while Madrid acts as if Antonio Ortega had never existed and doesn't have any space dedicated to him. Not only that, but if you look at Real Madrid's website, they leave an empty spot during the years that Antonio Ortega was president (1936-1939), pretending he never was and there simply was no president during those years.
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All the opposite, Real Madrid honours Santiago Bernabéu (the team's stadium is named after him), who worked to bring Real Madrid closer to the dictatorship. Even before Franco gained power, in the 1920s, he said that Real Madrid defends "the Spanish pride and cause". He later enlisted in the Spanish army and joined the fascists in their coup d'etat that led to the Spanish Civil War.
4. Barça had to change their entrance tickets and their name to Spanish following Franco's illegalization of the Catalan language. It stoped being called "Futbol Club Barcelona" (Catalan) and had to be called "Club de Fútbol Barcelona" (Spanish). Consequently, the letters in the club's shield were consequently changed from F.C.B. to C.F.B. The club wouldn't get their original Catalan name back until 1973.
5. Removed the Catalan flag from Barça's shield. They had to have 2 red bars instead of the 4 bars of the Catalan flag. Later they could get it back because Barça's shield is based on the shield of the city of Barcelona, so they alleged it's just a symbol of the city.
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6. Instrumentalized Barça and Athletic de Bilbao against Catalan and Basque people, since the regime identified Barça and Athletic de Bilbao as the teams that symbolise these two minority nations and their independentism. Their first match after the war was scheduled by the regime, a Barça vs Athletic de Bilbao where the whole stadium was wrapped in huge Spanish flags and were various fascist gave speeches in favour of Franco and Spanish unity, including the general Álvarez-Arenas who talked about the purges by saying he praised Barça for "having thrown away forever the anti-Spanish seed, exposing their idea of what sport entities must be patriotically, the true healthy sport to educate the masses" ("que ha sabido arrojar para siempre la semilla de los antiespañoles, exponiendo su idea de lo que patrióticamente han de ser las entidades deportivas, el verdadero n del deporte sano y educativo de multitudes").
7. The regime abolished the Catalonia League, where Barça played.
8. More purges in Barça followed after that first one. The dictatorship carried out in-depth investigations into Barça's directives and members to find people who fought for Catalan rights. Some people were accused for being in the Barça directive. Here's some extracts from the letter where the leader of the fascist police in Barcelona, Luis Martí Olivares, sent to order the arrest of some Barça directives and to order them to be taken to Madrid for trial:
In front of the statue of Casanovas, they used to celebrate acts of separatist affirmation [...]. All the directives, players and members [of Futbol Club Barcelona] have always attended it with flower crowns, offerings with the shield of the "F.C. BARCELONA"
Another one by him:
It's publicly known that the "F.C. BARCELONA" has always been political, at the beginning pro-Catalan and since a long time ago frankly separatist and for this reason they have exploited their rivalry with R.C.D. ESPAÑOL, which has been precisely the only Football Club in Catalonia that has signified themselves as a true pro-Spanish. In the matches between these two Clubs, the Barcelona fans considered the Spanishists to be foreigners, because they spoke in Spanish.
After the purges, the new dictatorship-approved directive board of Barça was made (for the 1st time in the club's history) of people who were not even members of the club. Many of them were fervent Espanyol fans, not Barça fans.
Most of their first decisions were political, including the fact that they removed the club's founder Joan Gamper as honorary president and declared the new honorary president to be the Spanish fascist general Múgica.
They also made the players taka a flower crown to the founder of Spanish fascism José Antonio Primo de Rivera, which had the Spanish flag and the Barça flag and inscription "F.C. Barcelona to José Antonio".
One of Barça's directors during the dictatorship was actually a paying Espanyol member during his time as Barça president, another director was an army general that was appointed directed by the higher spheres of the dictatorship and who openly said he was directing Barça simply because "as soldier with discipline I'm following orders".
9. Finally, in June 1946, the members of the Barça board who were actually Barça fans and cared for the club mass resigned and pressured the director to stop being a club under direct control of the dictatorship's government. Their protest resulted in the end of the regime's direct intervention, and after 10 years Barça could go back to having a new directive board, this time mostly made up of people who had always been Barça fans, though the regime still only allowed people who were officially approved.
So while Barça was directed by people who didn't care about the club and who were very badly coordinated and later was starting to re-order itself (still only with approved people), Real Madrid had its golden age, under the director Santiago Bernabéu (who was defined as "he's what Philip II was to Spain: its best king" and as we've explained before was a fascist) and a director board that had close ties to the fascist government.
The club that was most favoured by the regime during its first years was Atlético de Madrid (at the time called Atlético Aviación) which was related to the Army. But the president of Real Madrid Santiago Bernabéu got the club closer to the dictatorship and made it become the regime's favourite from the late 1950s on. Real Madrid played a very important role in fascist Spain's public relations, because that's the historical period that ended the autarchy and when fascist Spain was accepted in the UN and kept the dictatorship with the agreement of the other countries. Real Madrid acted as a political and cultural ambassador of fascist Spain in other countries. In return it received favours from the dictatorship. For example, the regime changed the sports clubs' status so that Madrid could hire Alfredo Di Stefano instead of Barça in 1953. Barça had already closed the case and the club and the player were ready to sign, but the dictatorship's direct intervention stopped it.
10. Since speaking Catalan was banned, some Catalan traditions were banned, even some Catalan songs were banned, and everyone was forced to be Spanish and a Spanish nationalist, with the National-Catholic morale imposed in every aspect of life, Barça became the place to express Catalanity. People used to go cheer for Barça as the "allowed"/hidden way of cheering against Francoism and in favour of Catalonia. This sentiment was well represented by the song "Botifarra de pagès" by the Catalan humour band La Trinca, which they released in 1974:
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If you don't speak Catalan, the whole song is about how Catalans cheer for Barça as a representation of cheering for Catalan rights and link how well Barça is doing at the time with Catalanism ("l'any que ve no farem riure, visca Catalunya ------" = "next year we [Barça] won't be laughable, long live free Catalonia!" with a peeeeeep over where the word "free" woul have been) with cultural references. For example, they sing the tempo of sardanes with the name Cruyff, and change the famous quote "som i serem gent catalana, tant si es vol com si no es vol" (we are and we will be Catalan people, wether they want it or not) from the song La santa espina (song forbidden during Franco's dictatorship) with "som i serem socis del Barça, tan si es vol com si no es vol" (we are and we will be Barça fans, wether they want it or not).
11. Regardless of the club's significance to the population (because, let's be honest, everyone knew what Barça meant), it was still a club that existed under a fascist dictatorship. During the dictatorship, only approved or appointed people held office and had the power to take decisions. And if you were in that position were you had been approved, even if you had your secret political beliefs and actions, there was only so much you could do in public before getting fired, arrested, banned for life from your job, get you and your family on a watchlist and likely get tortured.
One of the "unwritten rules" during the dictatorship was that anyone who created a prize or medal had to give the 1st to Franco. Barça did that too, but they have later addressed it and taken it back.
12. In the semifinals of 1942-1943 season, Barça won against Real Madrid by 3-0. On the return match, the dictatorship's police went down to the dressing rooms to intimidate the Barça players so they would let Madrid win. The result was 11-1 (Madrid victory), which effectively gave victory of the league to Real Madrid.
13. Dictator Franco, personally, was a follower of Real Madrid. It's known that he used to comment the lineups with his officers.
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Since Real Madrid published that video some days ago, so many Spanish newspapers, magazines and TV channels have talked at length about how Barça actually helped Franco. They use as excuse the fact that the Barça under the dictatorship's control (because remember that the dictatorship chose who would lead the team, even when these people weren't Barça fans it only mattered that they were fascists) gave condecorations to the regime officials. This is worth remembering and worth criticizing, but this says more about the dictatorship than it says about Barça, especially if they want it to represent nowadays Barça. Because the thing is that this is no secret, and Barça has already addressed it in the past: in 2019, Barça officially withdrew all the medals given to Franco officials. Real Madrid still honours fascists and erases their antifascist director, and knows that they're a symbol of Spanish nationalism.
However, it seems like the people who so quickly want to run to talk shit about anything that has to do with Catalonia don't usually keep the same energy to criticize the dictatorship itself and how it intervened every aspect of life, crushing dissidence and national minorities in everything, even their hobbies, nor to make the same criticisms of Real Madrid, because it's not just about Barça but a way to attack Catalan society.
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death-by-mercury · 5 months ago
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VIVA ESPAÑA!!! 🇪🇸 🇪🇸🇪🇸 the vibes are perfect with We Are The Champions playing in the background!! Outstanding win, they deserved it! Such a good team 💪✨
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sunshine304 · 6 months ago
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So many own goals! I'm living for it (yes, even though Germany alos had one in their first game - at least it wasn'r really relevant there).
Also, really good vibes in general, the atmosphere is great, the fans are awesome, and most games have been exciting so far (except when England is playing, come on, WTF are you doing?!).
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seven7arts · 4 months ago
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SUPERCOPE OF EUROPE CHAMPIONSHIP!
HALA MADRID 🤍
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copperbadge · 2 years ago
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Jose Mourinho is a Tumblr mood.
[ID: three photos of Serie A coach Jose Mourinho, alternately facepalming and looking resigned. If you know this feeling, you know.]
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