10 Things You Didn’t Know About
FC Barcelona Football Clubs (Part 2)
Barcelona Football Club things maybe did not know
6. Their greatest victory across all
competitions was to win 18 points over
Tarragona’s nil score during the
Macaya Cup in 1901.
7. FC Barcelona’s founder, Joan
Gamper, was Swiss. He held the role
of president five times, starting out
nine years after founding the  club.
Until then and during the interim periods,
he focused on playing the game as the
team’s captain.
8. FC Barcelona beat long-time rivals
Real Madrid 3–0 during the first
leg of the Copa del Ray semifinals.
However, in the second leg, they lost
to the Castillian Real Madrid team,
which had accepted Franco’s fascist
regime, scoring a mediocre score 11–1.
The source of the loss is attributed
to a locker room visit by Franco’s
director of state security who announced
that the Catalan FC Barcelona team,
which proudly fought against the regime,
was only playing due to the “generosity
of the regime.”
9. Barcelona fans supported the trams’ strike
of 1951 by choosing to walk home in
the pouring rain after witnessing their
team beat Santander 2–1 rather
than catching a tram. This took the
Francoist authorities by surprise and
is in keeping with the revolutionary
spirit of the Barcelona team and its
supporters.
10. FC Barcelona was recorded as the
third richest club in the world with
a revenue of over 290 Million Euros
during the 2006–07 season. Learn
more about football in Barcelona.
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