Do you know about the soccer team
named Barcelona? Well if you are a soccer player you might have heard
of it, but if you didn’t Barcelona is a professional soccer club, based
in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The club was found in 1899 by a group
called the “Swiss English and Catalan footballers” and they were led by
a man named Joan Gamper, the club became so popular that they were able
to make a motto and it is “ Més que un club” (More than a club). The
club is also the second most valuable sports team in the world, worth
$3.2 billion, and the world’s second most richest soccer club, with 613
million. Barcelona has a really big stadium it is called the “Camp
Nou”, and the capacity is 99,786. Barcelona is the joint most
successful club in Spain, in terms of overall official titles won (80).
It has won 22 La Liga, 26 Copa De Rey 11 Supercopa de España, 2 Copa
Eva Duarte and 2 Copa de la Liga trophies, as well as being the record
holder for the latter four competitions. In International Football
Club, Barcelona has won four UEFA Champions League, a record four UEFA
Cup’s Winners’ Cup , four UEFA Super Cup, a record three Inter-Cities
Fairs Cup, and a record two FIFA Club World Cup trophies. Barcelona is
sponsored by Nike.
Barcelona has 23 players and here they are
#1 Marc-André Ter Stegen
#2 Martin Montoya Torralbo
#3 Gerard Pique Bernabeu
#4 Ivan Rakitic
#5 Sergio Busquets Burgos
#6Xavier Hernández Crues
#7 Pedro Rodríguez Ledesma
#8 Andres Iniesta Luján
#9 Luis Alberto Suárez Díaz
#10 Lionel Andres Messi
#11 Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior
#12 Rafael Alcántara do Nascimento
#13 Claudio Bravo
#14 Javier Alejandro Mascherano
#15 Marc Bartra Aregall
#16 Douglas Pereira dos Santos
# 18 Jordi Alba Ramos
#20 Sergi Roberto Carnicer
#21 Adriano Correia Claro
#22 Daniel Alves da Silva
#23Thomas Vermaelen
#24 Jérémy Mathieu
#25 Jordi Maspi López
and the coach Luis Enrique Martinez.