20% project

After thinking about my topic on the whole class, I finally decided to do my project about FC Barcelona and its epic football players :). I'd learn about their past, their achievements, the youth academy and their staff. Of course, they also have many other things to learn about, because Barcelona FC is a huge club, but I will only learn about the most important things, because the other wouldn't fit in the time given for this project.

El Clasico

In this class, on a tuesday afternoon, I started researching about FC Barcelona. The first thing I'm going to look at is the club's past. FC Barcelona has a very massive and unforgettable past, so I will cover this topic in many blogposts.
But the first thing I'm gonna talk about is the El Clasico. These are the biggest matches of the world with the two best teams, whom are also great rivals. The two teams are FC Barcelona and Real Madrid. Not just the teams, their nations are also rivals. Two big parts of the united Spain were Catalonia and Castile. Barcelona is the capital of Catalonia and Madrid is the capital of Castile.

Hungarian Player of Barcelona

Today I'm going to search about the most famous hungarian player of Barcelona. His name was Laszlo Kubala. His mother, Anna Stecz, was a factory worker with roots of Polish, Slovak, and Hungarian. His father, Pal Kubala Kurjas, was a bricklayer from Slovak minority. He started his career in a team called Granz TE. At the age of eighteen he signed for Ferencvaros. At those times Ferencvaros even represented hungary in champions league. After communism took over Hungary, he fled the country and moved first to Italy then to Barcelona in 1950. In 1963 he signed for the city rival, Espanol. He retired in 1967.

Youth Academy

Today, I'm going to research about FC Barcelona's youth academies. Many people state, that Barcelona is the best football team in the world only because they most valued players are started training in the team as children, and the club raised them to be a professional. They don't really believe in 'buying the best players', because those will never have the ability to fit in the team perfectly. Except for Alexis Sánchez :D. This is not the only thing why they are the best, I think, but it has a key role.
Barca has many academies around the world, but the most famous one is La Masia, the one in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It holds more than 300 youth players. They train next to Camp Nou, in the Les Corts district of Barcelona. In 2010, La Masia achieved a record breaking honour becoming the first youth academy to have trained all three finalists for the Ballon d'Or in one same year, with Andrés Iniesta, Lionel Messi and Xavi Hernández. This is proof of the quality of the youth academy of FC Barcelona.

The Crest Of Barcelona

The story of the crest of Barcelona leads back to the beginning of the city. The club's original crest was a quartered diamond-shaped crest topped by the Crown of Aragon and the bat of King James, and surrounded by two branches, one of a laurel the and the other of a palm.
Then in 1910 came a major change of the crest. The crest was design by Carles Comamala, and it slightly differs from the crest of today's Barcelona. It's a bowl-shaped design, in which the two upper quarters maintain the St George cross and the red and yellow bars of the original, which are the most representative symbols of Barcelona and Catalonia. The club initials, FCB,  appear on a strip across the center, and below are the Barca colors and a ball.
The present crest is based on an adaptation made by designer Claret Serrahima, in 2002, in which the lines are a little more stylized, the dots between the letters have been taken away, the name has been made smaller, and there are fewer pointed edges. It's easy to reproduce in all kind of format.

The Jersey of Barcelona

Today I researched about the Jersey of Barcelona. Since the founding of the club, Barcelona has never worn corporate advertisements on their shirt. In 2006, Barcelona announced a five year agreement with UNICEF, which includes wearing the Unicef logo on their shirt. In 2011, Barcelona signed a 150 euro contract with Qatar Foundations. Since then, the Qatar Foundations logo is on the front of the shirt, and the UNICEF logo is at the back.
The colors of Barcelona is blue and red. This was always and will be always the first set of colors for Barcelona.

Lionel Messi - Early Life and Career

Many people consider Lionel Messi as the best football player ever lived. He's go 3 Ballon d'Or-s and he basically set every record playing in Barcelona. And he's only 24.

Lionel Messi was born in 24 June 1987. He was born in Rosario, Santa Fe Province, to parents Jorge Horacio Messi, Celia Maria Cuccittini, a part-time cleaner. His origins go back to Italy. In 1883, Angelo Messi immigrated to Argentina. He has two older brothers, Rodrigo and Matias, and a sister, Maria Sol.
When he turned 5, Messi joined the local team Grandoli. After that in 1995, he switched to Newell's Old Boys. When he was 11, he was diagnosed with a growth hormone deficiency. Many teams were interested in Messi, but they couldn't afford the 900$ medical bill for his medicines. The sporting coach of Barcelona offered him a contract; it stated that the club will pay the bill, but Messi and his family must move to Barcelona. He signed it, so a week later he and his father moved to Barcelona and Messi enrolled into the club's youth academy.

This is a video of him playing in Newell's Old Boys team.