Shockwaves has hit Barcelona during the 2023-24 season. Former legend and current coach Xavi resigned from his post, just one season after leading the club to a La Liga Title, only to recount and assume his job back, only to be fired by the end of the season. Well, Barca's 2024-25 coach is former German national team coach Hansi Flick.
It is too early to establish Barcelona's style of play under Flick, or the players the German will bring as enforcement. The club's dire financial situation is so bad, that it surely will have to sell in order to buy. The club will continue with home matches playing in Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys, as Camp Nou is undergoing extensive renovation work.
FC Barcelona had humble beginnings. In October 1889, a young Swiss named Hans (Joan) Gamper who was residing in Barcelona, placed an advert in the Los Deportes magazine in order to find players that would be interested in forming a football club. A bunch of Swiss, English and local young men came and built the squad. This is how FC Barcelona was born. Joan Gamper himself was a dominant figure in the club for its first 30 years, first as a player and later as a president. He also brought the idea of having the blue and red stripes as the club's jersey. This beginning had marked one of Barcelona's characteristic features of having a blend of foreign and local players and also having foreigners in the leading positions.
Barcelona won its first national title, the Copa Del Rey, in 1912 and has won it 31 times in total so far, more than any other club in Spain. It has 26 La Liga championships attached to its name, first one gained in 1929, which was the very first year in which La Liga was inaugurated.
FC Barcelona has always been more than a football club for its fans. It has been a national symbol for the Catalan people. As a consequence, it took a toll due to political realities in Spain during the 20th century. It is one of the reasons why the club fluctuated between periods in which it had dominance over the Spanish football (like the early 1920’s and mid 1940’s until mid-1950’s) and periods in which it gained very few titles or any at all, for more than a decade (like the 1930’s and the 1960’s).
Since the 1970's FC Barcelona is pretty much committed to the Total Football style. This style in its modern version was introduced to the world by Dutch coach Rinus Michels and his team captain in Ajax Amsterdam and in the Netherlands national team Joan Cruyff. It is characterized by an offensive way of playing with agile players that move all around the pitch playing in all positions in order to cover other players as they go for the attack. In the early 1970’s FC Barcelona adopted the Total Football style by signing Rinus Michels as the head coach and a couple of years later by signing the best football player of his time and one of the greatest in history, Johan Cruyff himself. This style, has been taught and practiced in the club's academy (the famous La Masia) and has been mastered and perfected at the club ever since. In the late 1980’s and early 1990’s Cruyff put his name permanently in the club's hall of fame by leading the 'Dream Team' as a manager to 4 consecutive championships and 7 more titles including the first European cup for the club in 1992 -the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1989.
Pep Guardiola, one of the 'Dream Team's players became club manager in 2008. He further elaborated Barcelona's style to what became known as the 'Tiki-Taka' style in which Barcelona dominates the game by an endless amount of short passes among its players and constant pressure and attacks on the rival's goal. In four seasons under Guardiola's the club won an amazing number of trophies (14) including 2 Champions League titles, 3 consecutive La Liga championships, 2 Copa Del Rey, 3 consecutive Spanish Super Cups, 2 UEFA Super Cups and 2 FIFA Club World Cups. This team is considered by many to be the best in the history of the club. Many would argue that it was the best team to ever play football with the best player that has ever played the game.
Barca’ biggest rivalrs are of course Real Madrid (The match between the two is called El Clasico) and the adjacent club of Español (This match is called Derby Barceloni)
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