F.C. Barcelona’s slogan for the last few years has been “Més que un club” which is Catalan for “More than (just) a club”. Although F.C. Barcelona was founded by a Swiss gentleman (Joan Gamper) in 1899 and uses the English words Football Club, it has become a symbol of Catalan identity and a business card for Catalonia to the world. There are many reasons why the club gained such a status but one of the main reasons is that during the Franco years, the Camp Nou...

Football is the world’s biggest sport and more books and articles have been written about this game than any other. When living in Spain, you realize just how much football is ingrained in its culture. When F.C. Barcelona won the league last Sunday, the largest “serious” newspaper in Cataluña dedicated its first 8 pages of the Monday edition to this event. Unthinkable in other countries. Let’s have a look as to why this could be. For the casual observer, Spain as an...

€ 46.000.000: Smile! Barcelonas alla fotbolls fanatiker jublar inför nyheten att Zlatan Ibrahimovic har accepterat erbjudandet från Barcelonas fotbollslag, Barça. Detta är andra gången under 2000-talet Barcelona har en svensk spelare med i truppen efter Henrik ”Henke” Larsson som spelade för Barça under de två säsongerna 2004 – 2006. Zlatan Ibrahimovic är rankad som en av världens bästa fotbollsspelare tillsammans med Cristiano Ronaldo och Ricardo Kaká som just nu spelar...