Barca (eBook)

Founded in 1898, FC Barcelona or Bara, is the world's biggest and best-loved football club. Bara has more than 500 local fan clubs spread across the world, while its championship matches attract a global TV audience. Former players include such legendary figures as Kubala, Maradona, Cruyff, Ronaldo, Rivaldo and Lineker, and Bara has been managed by greats such as Helenio Herrera, Cesar Menotti and Bobby Robson. The club's honorary members include Pope John Paul II and opera star Jos Carreras. To unravel the background to the Bara phenomenon, Jimmy Burns has unearthed police files and long-forgotten newspaper reports. He has travelled with supporters and has talked to people intimately linked to the club, from managers and players to groundsmen and doctors, whilst also gaining access to those who have conspired to gain political and financial control.

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The story of FC Barcelona, written by the author of the internationally acclaimed Hand of God: The Life of Diego Maradona and updated with a new preface'Burns' examination of the club's fates and fortunes always goes well beyond the game itself Burns is a brilliant journalist Unmissable' Total Football'Anyone who really wants to know Barcelona should read Burns. A cracker part sports book, part travelogue' Daily MirrorBar a is m s que un club: more than a club. It is a social and political phenomenon, successful on the football field and emblematic of the proud region of Catalonia off it.Founded in 1898, FC Barcelona is today the world's biggest football club. To unravel the background to the Bar a phenomenon, Jimmy Burns has travelled with supporters, talked to people intimately linked to the club, unearthed police files and long-forgotten newspaper reports.Bar a: A People's Passion is much more than a book about football it is a story of more than a hundred years of obsessive national pride and has now been brought right up to date.