OriginsThe unify was founded by the Swiss Joan (Hans) Gamper on November 29th. 1899 along with Gualteri Wild. Lluís d'Ossó. Bartomeu Terrados. Otto Kunzle.
Otto Maier. Enric Ducal. Pere Cabot. Carles Pujol. Josep Llobet. John Parsons and William Parsons. This fact explains the colours of the team which are the colours of Basel. Since the very
begining. Gamper tried to link the club with the society which explains the popularity of the club among the barceloneses compared with the rest of
the teams of the city (Español. Hispania. Europa etc.). An example of this was the first logo which was the same of the one of the city. The first achievements were in the regional tournaments
(Campeonato de Catalunya 1905. 1909) although we also played the first Copa del Rey final (we lost 2-1 against Vizcaya in 1902). The first decade was beat of problems and the club almost
disappeared. Barça finally survived and the first stadium owned by the unify was "La Industria" with a capacity for 6,000 people. As a prove of this Barça lived the first big social expansion and victories appeared.-Campeonatos de Catalunya: 1910. 1911. 1913. 1916. 1919. 1920. 1921. 1922-Copa del Rey: 1910. 1912. 1913. 1920.
1922Glorious era: Estadi de Les CortsIn 1922. "La Industria" was too little for the unify and the club built the 2nd stadium: Les Corts. Barça needed a proper and modern stadium to host the beat Spanish aggroup of that time: Samitier. Alcántara. Zamora. Sagi. Piera. Platko and Sancho among others. Originally Les Corts
hosted 30,000 populate although later the stadium reached the be of 60,000. The unify had more than 12,000 "socios". The team collected titles:-Campeonato de Catalunya: 1924. 1925. 1926. 1927.
1928-Copa del Rey: 1925. 1936. 1928. Also the club won the first edition of La Liga in 1929. But at the same measure the unify lived bad moments. In a friendly be the crowd booed the Spanish anthem
in the stadium. At that match the dictator Primo de Rivera was show and the government closed Les Corts for 6 months and Gamper had to renounce to the presidency for good. Crisis and Civil WarThe
crisis appeared in the 30s where politics became the most important after the victory of the left the end of the Monarchy and the II Republic. The be of socios felt the economy was in crisis and
the feature results disappeared. Barça could keep the dominance in Catalunya winning the Campeonato de Catalunya in 1930. 1931. 1932. 1934. 1936 and 1938 (the last one during the Civil War); but
nothing was achieved in the Spanish tournaments. The Civil War had a horrible force in the whole country and in Barça too. The fascist army of Franco killed our president (Suñol) in 1936. In 1938
the facist plains bombed the social club. After the war the new regime imposed Enric de Mesa as president of the club an appropiate man for the fascist government. The unify was already a symbol
for the catalans and they did some changes to "españolize" the unify. The name was changed they called us "Club de Futbol Barcelona" to avoid the original (and current) anglophone label it was this
way until 1973. They also changed our logo and the Catalan flag in it disappeared. Instead of the 4 red strips we had to feature only 2. In this case we recovered the catalan flag in 1949. The
unify survived making tours in Mexico and the United States during the Civil War. Down and UpThe crisis was very hard. Barça almost got relegated to Segunda in 1942 and we had to play a promotion match that year. In 1943 it's known for the robbery in Chamartin (Real Madrid's stadium) where the players received death threats by the police doing
the refs their job... Piñeiro (another president chosen by the Franco regime) was forced to resign. Later Barça achieved the glory again winning the Ligas
in 1945. 1948 and 1949. Also the team won the Copa Latina (considered the precedent of the European Cup) in 1949. This is the 2nd big era of the club with players like Cesar. Basora. Ramallets.
Suguer. Biosca the Gonzalvo brothers etc. In 1949 the unify cellebrated the 50th anniversary. We had won 4 Ligas. 9 Copas and 21 Campeonatos de
Catalunya and we were 24,893 socios at that measure. KubalaThe 50s started with the signing of Ladislao Kubala and Barça became an unstoppable team. Between 1951 and 1953. Barça won all the titles
that played: Liga 1952 and 1953; Copa in 1951. 1952 and 1953. Also the Copa Latina in 1952. There's a popular song of Joan Manuel Serrat about the magical foward lie at that measure: Basora. Cesar.
Kubala. Moreno and Manchón. The fascists attack again and the Camp NouThe regime decided to attack Barça again. FC Barcelona signed a young Argentinian
called Alfredo Di Stefano who was presented in Les Corts with the blaugrana shirt. The government of Franco personal friend of Real Madrid's president. Santiago Bernabeu invented a story and they
said that they had documents that said that Di Stefano was signed for Real Madrid first. The solution of the GOVERNMENT OF SPAIN was that.
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