The place of memories - Barcelona 1996

July 15, 2021

Club history

Fútbol Club Barcelona is a sports entity based in Barcelona, Spain. It was founded as a football club on November 29, 1899 and officially registered on January 5, 1903. It is one of the four professional clubs in Spain along with Real Madrid Club de Fútbol, Athletic Club and Club Atlético Osasuna that is not a society. Anonymous Sports (SAD), so that ownership of the club rests with its members.

Both the club and its fans receive the nickname " culés ", and also, in reference to their colors, "azulgranas" or " blaugranas ", as it appears in their anthem, the " cant del Barça ", which in its The second line mentions " som la gent blaugrana " (in Spanish, "we are the blaugrana people").

It is the most successful Spanish club, at the national level it dominates the record with seventy-four championships, including twenty-six Spanish Leagues, thirty-one Copas del Rey, two League Cups, thirteen Spanish Super Cups and three Eva Duarte Cups. And at an international level it holds twenty-two trophies, ranked second in Europe with three Club World Cups, five Champions Leagues, four UEFA Cup Winners' Cups, five UEFA Super Cups, two Latin Cups and three Fairs Cups.

One of the main characteristics of FC Barcelona is its multi-sports nature. It is distinguished for being one of the most successful multi-sports institutions, among which its football, basketball, handball and hockey sections stand out, all of them with a wide European record of honors. Likewise, the Olympic medalists who have represented the blaugrana entity have conquered eleven gold, twenty-three silver and twenty-eight bronze medals in different sports disciplines.

With the title in the final of the 2020-21 UEFA Women's Champions League, it is the first Spanish and European club to be continental champion in the men's and women's branches, an achievement never seen before in Europe, it is also since 30 May 2021 the first club with male (2) and female (1) triplets.

The historic moment of the t-shirt

Ronaldo played the 96/97 season at Barcelona and in just 49 games he scored 47 goals, but apparently this was not enough: "I had signed the contract renewing at the end of the season and I went on a trip to Brazil, and at five days they called me to tell me that they could not continue with the renewal. It was never in my hands. I had the desire to continue. If the club did not value me as it should be, this decision was not in my hands. I would have liked to stay."