Sports: FootballFC Barcelona boy Bojan Krkic attacker has signed a new contract on Friday that bind the club until 2013.Bojan, who celebrated his 18th birthday on Thursday, added a further two years on his current deal with the club. It also increased its option to purchase 80 million euros (118 million dollars).
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Thierry Henry has completed his move to FC Barcelona and responded to a longstanding desire. He looks forward to start working on winning the trophy only thing really missing - the Champions League.
Thierry Henry has been officially unveiled as a player Barça Monday evening by the club president Joan Laporta and director of football Txiki Begiristain. A large crowd and the expectation of reporters filled the room Paris in the Camp Nou and the France international was clearly surprised by the reaction to his move. He acknowledged that, even at this early stage, he began to realize just how big the club is really Barça.
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On October 22, 1899 Joan Gamper placed an advertisement in Los Deportes declaring its wish to form a club of football. A positive answer held like consequence a meeting with the plant of the foot of Gimnasio on November 29. Eleven been useful players: Wild Gualteri d’ Ossó, of LluÃs, Bartomeu Terradas, Otto Kunzle, Otto Maier, ducal Enric, Father Pooch, Josep Llobet, pastors of John, and pastors of William. Consequently the Barcelona club of football was born. Several other Spanish clubs of football, Madrid in particular true and sporting Bilbao, also had the British founders, and consequently they have at the adopted beginning of the names of English-model.
The legend A that Gamper chose the legendary colors of club, blaugrana, after FC Basle. However the other Swiss teams Gamper played for, its canton at the house of Zurich and with school of the commercial tailors as Crosby, Merseyside all were credited and/or alleged being the inspiration.
FC Barcelona quickly emerged as a one of the principal clubs of Catalonia and Spain while they competed with in Campionat de Catalunya and Copa del Rey. In 1901 they gained their first trophy when they gained Copa Macaya and in 1902 they also played in the first final of Copa del Rey, losing 2-1 to bludgeon Vizcaya.
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nr. nat. pos. name
1 Spain GK VÃctor Valdés (vice-captain)
2 Brazil DF Juliano Belletti
3 Brazil MF Thiago Motta
4 Mexico DF Rafael Márquez (vice-captain)
5 Spain DF Carles Puyol (captain)
6 Spain MF Xavi Hernández
7 Iceland FW Eiður Guðjohnsen
8 Spain MF Andrés Iniesta
9 Cameroon FW Samuel Eto’o
10 Brazil MF Ronaldinho (vice-captain)
11 Italy DF Gianluca Zambrotta
12 Argentina DF Gabriel Milito
13 Argentina FW Maxi López
14 France FW Thierry Henry
15 Brazil DF EdmÃlson
16 Brazil DF Sylvinho
17 Côte d’Ivoire MF Yaya Touré
18 Spain FW Santiago Ezquerro
19 Argentina FW Lionel Messi
20 Portugal MF Deco
21 France DF Lilian Thuram
22 France DF Éric Abidal
23 Spain DF Oleguer Presas
24 Spain FW Bojan Krkić
25 Spain GK Albert Jorquera
31 Mexico FW Giovani dos Santos
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The 29 of November of 1899, Hans Gamper founded club Barcelona de Futbol, along with eleven other enthusiastic ones of “soccer footballâ€, a game that continued to a great extent being not known in this part of the world. He could never have imagined the magnitude in of which that possible initiative would become. On more than hundreds years of history, FC Barcelona has grown spectacularly in each area and has progressed in something much greater than a mere club of the sports, giving returned to the one “from Barça more than motto of a club†in a reality. Barça has become, for million people everything around the world, a symbol of its identity, and not hardly in a sense that was amused, but also in terms of society, policy and culture.
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