barcelona fc

Is a sports institution in the city of Barcelona (Spain). It was founded as a football club on November 29, 1899 by twelve young amateur footballers, led by the Swiss Hans Gamper. The FC Barcelona is popularly known as Barça (pronounced [ 'bar.s ə]), shortening of the pronunciation of "Barcelona", in Catalan central pronounced (Barsalona) and his followers as "culés" (pronunciation culers Catalan). One of the main features of FC Barcelona is its sports. In addition to its main section, soccer, the club has four other sections professionals: basketball, handball, hockey skates and futsal. Among the five sections professional FC Barcelona sum 27 European Champions League. In addition to these five sections professionals, the club features sections amateurs in other sports: hockey, athletics, skating, ice hockey, baseball, volleyball, rugby and cycling. The 10 disciplines of senior male team sports have brought the club 78 national leagues and 106 glasses of Spain. Another of his deeds distinctive is its huge mass social partners and fans. The club broke the 150,000 members in 2006, making it the second football club with more partners in the world (the first is Benfica), followed by Bayern Munich German. [1] In addition, there are more than 1,800 rocks barcelonistas around the world. It is worth noting that the FC Barcelona is one of only four professional clubs in Spain (with Real Madrid, Athletic Bilbao and Osasuna), which is not a corporation, so that ownership of the club lies with its partners.