| Barcelona is a city long in love with sports, especially | | | | The Barcelona team has qualified every year for the |
| the Barcelona Soccer Team. | | | | European competition since it was founded in 1955. |
| In addition to hosting the 1992 Summer Olympics, | | | | The club motto is "Més que un club" and they |
| Barcelona hosted parts of the 1982 Football World | | | | refer to their stadium as "Camp Nou." In English these |
| Cup and has hosted the X FINA World Championship | | | | are "More than a club" and "Our Ground." Despite a |
| and Eurobasket. The city has two UEFA 5-star rated | | | | slump at the turn of the century, FC Barcelona has |
| football stadiums: FC Barcelona's Nou Camp and the | | | | assembled a talented team and once again resumed |
| Estadi OlÃmpic LluÃs Companys. | | | | winning ways. The club currently has a five-year deal |
| FC Barcelona's soccer team is almost a way of life in | | | | with UNICEF, wearing the emblem on their jerseys |
| Barcelona. The rivalry with Madrid rises almost to the | | | | and paying $1.9 million a year for the privilege. |
| point where Barcelona can be considered the | | | | Among the many claims to fame of the Barca team |
| Catalonia national team. FC Barca was founded on 29 | | | | are that it has more victories than any other |
| November 1899 by Joan Gamper, who created the | | | | Association Football team in the world. They also |
| team colors of blue and claret from the Swiss canton | | | | have more wins in the Copa del Rey, the Spanish |
| in which he lived. Barcelona lost its first ever match | | | | tournament, than any other team with 24 victories. |
| with some English expatriates 0-1, but within ten | | | | There are 18 La Liga Championships, 7 Supercopa de |
| years began a string of Catalan and Spanish | | | | Espana, 2 EUFA Champions League, 4 EUFA Winner's |
| championships lasting decades. FC Barcelona went | | | | Cups, 3 Inter-Cities Fairs Cups, 1 Inter-City Fairs Cup |
| though tough times in the rise to the Spanish Civil | | | | Trophy Play-off, 2 European Super Cups, 2 Copa |
| War and its aftermath, but was able to recover and | | | | Latina, 4 Copa de Oro Argentina, 22 Catalan |
| by the mid 1940s resumed its championship ways. | | | | Championships, 2 Copa Martina Rossi, 4 Coupe de |
| FC Barcelona is a sports club containing basketball, | | | | Pyrenees, 1 Mediteranean League, 2 Copa de Ligua, 1 |
| handball, hockey, ice-hockey, figure skating, indoor | | | | Copa Barcelona, 1 Lligua Catalana, 5 Copa Catalana |
| football, rugby, baseball, volleyball and women's | | | | and one Little World Cup. It is little wonder Barcelona |
| football, but the jewel in the crown has always been | | | | has embraced the Barcelona Soccer Team and |
| association football, or the Barcelona Soccer Team. | | | | reveres it as a symbol of Catalonia. |