Football club Barcelona

also known as Barça (Spanish and cat. Barça) is a Catalan professional football club from the same city, one of the most renowned clubs in Spain and in the world. Founded in 1899 by group of Swiss, British, Spanish and Catalan footballers led by joana the Gamper. The club became one of the symbols of Catalonia, hence the motto — Més que un club — "More than a club"

Més que un club.

into three quartely. In the top two reproduced flag of the city of Barcelona (that is the Cross of St. George and the flag of Catalonia). At the bottom is a leather ball of the sample first half of XX century on the background of blue and maroon stripes — the colors of the club. In the center of the shield on a gold strip that separates the upper and lower part of the coat of arms, displayed the initials of the name of the club FCB (Football Club Barcelona).Throughout the club's history there have been several variations of the emblem of the club, but almost always with the same design — basically, the case involved a cosmetic innovations. So since its inception, the club used the arms of the city of Barcelona as its own, thus demonstrating a close connection with his native city, and only in 1910 the leadership raised the question about creating your own logo. A competition was held, which was won by Carles Commala. During the reign of Francisco Franco abbreviation FCB were replaced by CFB (Club de Futbol Barcelona), four red sticks were replaced by government order for two with the intention that it was not the Catalan flag.

Nou" (Camp Nou in Spanish). Official opening of the stadium took place on September 24, 1957[25]. Since its opening in 1957, the stadium belonged to the Catalan football club was initially called Estadi del FC Barcelona (Stadium of FC "Barcelona"), however even then it was called camp Nou. Officially its current name it received in 2000[26]. Camp Nou — the largest stadium capacity, not only in Spain but throughout Europe: it holds 99 354 spectators.The camp Nou has been rebuilt several times. The first time was in 1981 the stadium was expanded to carrying out on it of matches of the world Cup 1982 held in Spain; the capacity of the camp Nou were increased to 120 000 spectators. The second restructuring was carried out in 1998 in connection with the introduction of UEFA's new rules requiring that all seats must be equipped with seats. In order to see the stadium preserved as much as possible, I had to lower the level of the lawn. At the moment the capacity of the stadium is 99,354 spectators. The size of a football field is 105x68 metres. Camp Nou is one of the few European stadiums that UEFA estimates of five stars

of FC Barcelona, the office of management and Museum of the football club, which is the most frequently visited Museum in Catalonia. In addition, the camp Nou is the main part of the complex, which also includes the "Mini Estadi" (Spanish Mini estadi) — twenty-thousand stadium, where we train a team sports school club, "La Masia" (Spanish La Masía) — the building where live the young pupils of the club, and "Blue garnet Palace" (app. Palau Blaugrana) — building for 8 000 spectators, where they played basketball, handball, hockey and mini-soccer team of the club.

me this club is more than just a club, every match I'm worried as if it were your last. I'm a fan of Barcelona for 7 years, during that time there were UPS and downs, but I always remained faithful to the club and I will continue to believe in him now. Favorite players, favorite coach, favorite TEAM IS BARCELONA