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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 I began writing my book in 1992, when I walked into the Camp Nou as a twenty-two-year-old. I had never known Barcelona was such a beautiful city. I played bad chess in the sun at Kasparo bar, and decided I wanted to return here one day.
#2 I had always wanted to understand how Messi performed the tricks he did on the field. I began researching Barça, thinking I was going to explain the club’s rise to greatness, but I ended up documenting the club’s decline.
#3 I had visited Barcelona many times as a journalist, and in 2007, I won FC Barcelona’s annual sportswriting prize. The club insisted I come to the awards ceremony and lunch afterward. I realized that Barça regarded me as an alumnus.
#4 I wanted to understand Cruyff and Messi as people, not as demigods. I wanted to study Barça not as a theater of dreams but as a workplace. I used to worry that football was a lower subject than politics, but I no longer do.

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Sport

Sports collectifs

Football

Soccer

Association football

Recreation

Fútbol

Sports

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	05 mai 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9798822502086
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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#1

I began writing my book in 1992, when I walked into the Camp Nou as a twenty-two-year-old. I had never known Barcelona was such a beautiful city. I played bad chess in the sun at Kasparo bar, and decided I wanted to return here one day.

#2

I had always wanted to understand how Messi performed the tricks he did on the field. I began researching Barça, thinking I was going to explain the club’s rise to greatness, but I ended up documenting the club’s decline.

#3

I had visited Barcelona many times as a journalist, and in 2007, I won FC Barcelona’s annual sportswriting prize. The club insisted I come to the awards ceremony and lunch afterward. I realized that Barça regarded me as an alumnus.

#4

I wanted to understand Cruyff and Messi as people, not as demigods. I wanted to study Barça not as a theater of dreams but as a workplace. I used to worry that football was a lower subject than politics, but I no longer do.

#5

I interviewed dozens of mid-ranking club employees, from nutritionists to video analysts to social media experts. They all seemed excited about the chance to explain the thing they spend their lives doing.

#6

The Camp Nou is the house of Barça, and it is inhabited by four overlapping castes: directius, socis, employees, and players. The most prestigious powerbase in Catalonia is the boardroom of FC Barcelona, which emphatically is not a working-class institution.

#7

After the Fascists took Barcelona, they conducted open-air executions at the Camp de la Bota in the Poblenou district. In later decades, fifty-four mass graves containing four thousand corpses would be unearthed in the city.

#8

The relationship between Barcelona and Real Madrid is a mixture of complicity and jealousy. Catalans pour so much love and money into Barça that the second city of a midsize, economically struggling European country is able to boast the world’s highest-grossing sports club.

#9

The burgesia is the class that owns and runs Barcelona. They are cosmopolitans who send their children to foreign-influenced schools, and they aren’t flash guys. They don’t flash their money, but they have it.

#10

The president of Barça is elected every six years, and the board members constantly fight amongst themselves. The job is simply too big for whoever is president at the time.

#11

At Barça, the pressure from the entorno, the surroundings, drives every head coach a little bit crazy. The board members know that no matter how much money they make in a lifetime in business, their name will be made or broken during their few years on the Barça board.

#12

The largest caste within Barça is the 150,000 socis. They elect the directius, and they are overwhelmingly local, conservative, and Catalan. Very few socis are diehards who insist on seeing every second of every game.

#13

The Assemblea, the club parliament, is where the socis’ wishes are taken into account. The Assemblea is skeptical of exciting new commercial schemes. Their priority is cheap season tickets.

#14

The third caste inside the club is made up of the regular, or nonplaying, employees. The club has grown tremendously since 2003, and this has led to overstaffing.

#15

Barça’s rise to the top was not propelled by a brilliant, dynamic front office. The club’s older employees often referred to the club’s newer employees as clusters, a word that connoted high-tech modernity before it became associated with the coronavirus.

#16

The highest-status caste in Can Barça are the athletes in the various sports. They spend most of their working lives just minutes away from the Camp Nou, at the closely guarded Joan Gamper training complex outside of town.

#17

The difference between a great football club and a normal company is the role of the talent. In most normal companies, when a senior executive leaves, a new one comes in, but hardly anyone notices the difference. But top-class footballers who can function within the Barça system are almost irreplaceable.
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