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Today I leave with Iya Traore, a football showman at work in the bohemian Montmartre district in Paris where they accumulate the street performers. Enjoy the show, well worth it. The best, the end, no doubt.

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The political and economic history of Barça-Madrid

one week left to be played one game more followed worldwide, about 1,000 million TV ratings (see post Real Madrid-Barcelona: a classic macro figures), which this year takes on special connotations when we consider that the club is going through one of the best moments of its history and the Real Madrid seems to emerge with the Mourinho figure. But beyond the sport, why the interest in this game and rivalry between the clubs?

In my book Soccer Phenomenon Phenomena story part of it. Understand the meaning of the "great classic" implies a walk through the personal history of Catalonia and the English state. In the late nineteenth century, Barcelona was an important industrial region with a commercial activity. Only U.S., Britain and France could compete with the Catalan textile production. However, although Catalonia had a significant economic role, political power was concentrated in Madrid, so that the interests of central government and Catalan capitalists collided head-on. For nationalists, Catalonia was a symbol of modernity and progress, while Madrid was a symbol of underdevelopment and backwardness. While the center was struggling to get ahead, the Catalan bourgeoisie opened its doors to foreign influence through trade.

This Catalan supremacy did not like the English State that looked like a separatist region of ideas. For their part, accused the State Catalans insensitivity to social reality. In this historical context emerged the Barcelona Football Club was officially founded on November 29 1899 by Swiss Joan Gamper. A year later, October 28, 1900, at the initiative of Angel Rodriguez, born the English Society of Football, which later would be called the English Football Club, in 1912, awarding the title of "real" by Alfonso XIII, Real English Sports Club. The club Espanyol, composed of Spaniards, born in reaction to the Catalan club, formed mostly by foreigners. Soon, the rivalry between the teams became obvious. The name "English" in the first place, and the title of "real" then did not like the fans of FC Barcelona who saw both symbols a provocation to Catalonia represented. Thus the English RCD became the main rival of FC Barcelona, \u200b\u200b"the specter of centralism in its own" and therefore "the enemy within to fight." Marca collected in its pages: "While the English were a team made up of good patriot and healthy English, Catalan Barcelona was to the bone making propaganda of a regime intolerable."

addition, the club Catalans from the beginning expressed their political sympathies actively participating in numerous events to vindicate the cause Catalan blanquizaul something the club did not do: "English Barcelona and wore a mask too small so they do not immediately guess the true meaning of them. The sport was the mask that covered the political sense. One, the English, led by a touch-known personalities such as English and patriotic and, drawn into the struggle, sought to enlarge his own money to the club and its name, to show to rival what they could a bunch of good English were where they were. Another, Barcelona, \u200b\u200bconstantly engaged in giving within Catalan society to the tone in his correspondence, he went with colored flags to Catalan political acts. "

June 14 1915, Barcelona, \u200b\u200bdisputed in the Jupiter-old Les Corts stadium of FC Barcelona club, a party in honor of the Orfeo Catalan. The band of a British ship docked at the half time advantage to play the English national anthem. The 12,000 attendees present Catalans began to boo. Contempt cost the club a penalty, the stadium was closed 6 months and Gamper was forced into exile.

During the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera (1923-1929) Catalan flag was removed and the official language was abolished. With the two main modes of expression eliminated, many saw in Barcelona a way of expressing his reaction against the regime and a symbol of nationalist resistance, so who joined the club FC Barcelona. Barça flag replaced the senyera in political demonstrations of the era, which served to further strengthen the link between the team and Catalan autonomy: "English football has played some political grandstanding at certain times. Its members and supporters have often served the convening power of the entity to make it flag pin. Some clubs have themselves been the most obvious representation of a political movement at times it has been pursued. "

With the proclamation of the Republic on April 14, 1931, opened a new chapter in the history of Spain. In 1932, recognizing the differential nature of Catalonia at the time the English RCD was stripped of the title of "real." However, the civil war (1936-39), the defeat of the Republic and the arrival of the generalissimo to power marked a new stage. The invention of Barça as "the army without weapons of a nation without a state" or "the sublime epic of the Catalan people in a football team became more evident with Franco in power. To make matters worse, the president of Barcelona, \u200b\u200bJosep Sunyol, had been shot in 1936 near the Sierra de Guadarrama and the Nationalist Coalition: "The ship was the symbol of the political position of the national bourgeoisie and petty bourgeoisie to Catalan civil war, then, was the only form of expression elliptical a set of feelings. The main evidence for this assertion lies in the fact that immigrants are integrated Barça fans, non-integrated, the English. "

With the Leader, the football rivalry with a regional character through the confrontation between parakeets and Catalans, was in second place and moved the clash between Real Madrid-English-symbol and symbol of Barcelona-Catalan. Franco, like Primo de Rivera, attempted to eliminate any outbreak nationalist, but while the latter also reacted overwhelmingly against Barca, the first, more intelligent, saw the club FC Barcelona as a lesser evil to live with and through which the Catalans could vent: "[Franco] tried to erase all the regional rivalries in Spain, except in football. Promoted football as a healthy environment for regions to release tension. As the Catalans were not political parties or regional government or any right to use their language, put all their cultural pride in the club. In a Barca game, people could shout in Catalan and sing traditional songs when I could not do anywhere else. "

Soon, football as a catalyst for regional opposition acquired a greater dimension, "What is very clear in the English football is that sport Balompédica is, in fact, a weekly political confrontation. The Real Madrid is something, and knows Barcelona, \u200b\u200bthe club is another thing too, and so does Real Madrid. " The President Real Madrid, Santiago Bernabeu, referring to the president of RCD English between 1967 and 1969, Juan Vila-Reyes, said: "I admire him for president in Catalonia a club called English. It does have merit. " For the writer Vázquez Montalbán, "Barcelona and Real Madrid are more than a club because they assume political values \u200b\u200badded. Barcelona would be something like the army symbolic disassembly of Catalan nationalism, and Real Madrid, the English state representative, a role that was attributed at the time of Franco. "

During the dictatorship, Barça would be signed in the archives of the Directorate General of Security, as "hostile and dangerous element to the regime." In the case opened the club with the number 29708, was detailed: "The club operates its rivalry with the English to Catalan politics and a passionate public around him, mostly separatist ideas." Vazquez Montalban wrote: "Fourth in the list of organizations to purge, after the Communists, anarchists and separatists, was the Barcelona Football Club."

In 1943, both clubs should be measured in semi-finals of the Copa del General. At that time it had decreed an amnesty that covered the exiles during the war. In the military ship three players who had been fleeing after an American tour with the club. The first leg at Les Corts was resolved in favor of Catalan 3-0. Before the start of the second leg, one of the top security officials went into the locker room and reminded them blaugrana: "Do not forget that some of you are playing you, only, to the generosity of the scheme, have forgotten your lack of patriotism ". The club received a sound thrashing culé: 11-1. Samarach realized the incident in the newspaper La Prensa. The chronicle was the subject of greeting Policy for Barcelona but the audacity earned him an exemplary punishment and had to stop writing. The article said: "Maybe if it had been 4-0 victory to a complaint we would overturn this or that player from Barcelona. But a 11-1 lead are ten goals. Many, too, so they will not find another reason that may explain this result. If the Catalans had played bad, really bad, the score had not reached the astronomical figure. What happens is that they did not play. "

Philosophy culé

Barça philosophy is defined by the slogan coined by Mercè Cirici and Valera in 1975 "more than a club", a phrase that explicitly summarizes the values \u200b\u200bthat the Blaugrana represents: "Rarely has so short a sentence could mean many things. When someone said that FC Barcelona was just a club, was alluding to a surprising phenomenon, and we believe unique in the world, a covered sports institution of such importance. " Another president of the institution, Narcis de Carreras, put it in these terms: "We are what we are and represent what we stand" as the leader Agustí Montal i Costa (1969-1977): "Barça is more than one club. One of the successes of Barcelona is its power as an entity inclusive of people who come to our land and is identified by our club with our way of being. "

One of the most important events in the history of the club as an institution, was the memorable 5-0 at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium the night of February 18, 1974, with Cruyff as orchestra. Some reviews point referred to pejoratively as the transition process towards democracy began in December 1973 with the assassination of Admiral Carrero Blanco, but that night epic: "Barcelona had just defeated their deadly rivals Real Madrid, and virtually all world, young and old, men and women alike, took to the streets to celebrate. That night there was more red and yellow Catalan flag flags Barca Barca, particularly along the Ramblas and Catalunya square, and the crowd sang the song was banned Catalan anthem, Els segadors. " The humiliation was used for some qualify this year as the 1900 zero five. Even today the feat is still celebrated: "There are victories that are so joyously heartfelt plea of \u200b\u200bcelebrations marked anniversaries. For Barca is almost the holy day of the 1974 0-5 at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu. The twentieth anniversary of that feat did not pass unnoticed. Humiliate the other hand, even with ephemera that have had thousands of members, is part of the ongoing conflict. "

With democracy on the march

The December 28, 1975, shortly after the death of Franco, the Real Madrid was playing at the Nou Camp. The Catalans looked forward to the meeting. Many Catalan flags snuck into the stadium. The home team won 2-1. The crowd erupted with joy and celebrated the victory politically flavored sports. Years later and now with more consolidated democracy in a historic final of the Copa del Rey in 1983, Barca are imposed on its rival by 2-1, winning the Socialist mayor of the Catalan city, Pascual Maragall, described thus: "This victory fulfills the wishes of an entire people."

Barça president until 2010, Joan Laporta, also showed his Catalan during his official visit to Bosnia-Herzegovina in 2005. In his speech to the country's authorities said: "The Barça is a club of Barcelona, \u200b\u200bcapital of Spain, Catalunya. We are proud to be Catalan and here we can express those feelings with the same pride that you say that you are Bosnian. " In an interview with El Mundo, the leader said: "The Barça is a multifaceted club promotes values \u200b\u200bthat are universal such as citizenship, sportsmanship and the fact that differential is a Catalan football club is well connected and linked to the Catalan society. Barça For Catalan, the Catalan club is very important. " And also: "The Barca Catalan is a reality. It is understood, understood and accepted all over Barcelona. Our policy is Catalan. The club has historically had a special role to promote the values \u200b\u200bof Catalan. At the political level has also had that role. Since its inception, Hans Gamper, who was Swiss, he had the ability to link long the Catalan club. In the 20's, the entity is positioned in such areas as support for the statute and it was considered to Barcelona as the Catalan club. Now we are more than one club in Catalonia, more than a club in Spain and we are in the framework of a corporate strategy to be more than one club in the world. "

Currently (as always), at Barça Barça wins are celebrated by the partner Barça a "Visca Barça!" Followed by an unconditional "Visca Catalunya!," Ideological symbol of identity of the club with Catalan regionalism.

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"Nicaragua is the absolute ruler of Río San Juan"

Bicycle Diaries Costa Rican police deployed to the border with Nicaragua . Photo: Elpais.cr

Omar García, radio journalist The Primerísima of Managua, spoke with Bicycle Diaries about the conflict between Nicaragua and Costa Rica for the border area of \u200b\u200bSan Juan River.

Earlier this month the government reported to the OAS tico its neighbor to the north by an alleged incursion and dredging the San Juan River in its territory. Nicaragua, however, denies allegations and argues that this is an area that belongs to him, covered by a decision last year to the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

After repeated complaints and a cross-media activity, the issue remains unresolved through diplomatic channels. Journalist Omar Garcia speaks of a government's uncompromising stance Laura Chinchilla from the very beginning of the dispute and have no will to resolve it through dialogue between both countries.

addition, although Costa Rica has no army since 1948, Garcia refers to the deployment of a "special army" of Costa Rican policemen with weapons of war to the area in conflict and possible U.S. involvement in support of this group. 11/11/1910

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About Preciado statements: the school football Speech

Football is money, competititvidad, pressure, Glamour and many other things, but should never forget that it is a sport and its players, clubs and especially , players and coaches, have a significant responsibility to society. The players have been developed to mostly children and teenagers in "benchmarks" and "mirror" those who imitate and follow in their actions. This forces them "morally" spotless behavior to follow, not only within the field, but also outside it. Education demand and require, above all, credibility, and credibility is built (or apart) with the example (or counterexample). It seduces and conquers with concrete acts, coherence between speech and conduct, complicity between theory and practice; twinning between words and deeds. Verba Moventas, exempla trahunt . The words move, drag examples. The German theologian Romano Guardini said: "We educate more for what they are and do what we say. "Inconsistency between what one says and does weaken the solid construction of values. When thinking and behavior do not converge any deterioration in education. We want one thing and get the contrary.

Pope John Paul II, in a speech of May 7, 2000 led to 150 representatives from UEFA to those received in the Vatican, expressed the importance of football as a unifying values. So said the message of the Roman Pontiff:

"Right now, football has become a mass phenomenon that emphasizes the responsibility of those involved in their organization and promote the expansion of the sport at both professional and amateur. They are called never to lose sight of the significant educational opportunities that football can develop. On the other hand, athletes, especially the most famous, should never forget that become models for the world of youth. It is therefore important that, in addition to developing their athletic skills, are careful to cultivate those human and spiritual qualities that will make them true positive examples to the public. I ask that all professional football, from the organizers to their professional communication join efforts to ensure that football never loses its genuine property of sporting activity, which is not submerged by other concerns, especially economic. The Jubilee is an opportunity for football to become a true motive of promoting the greatness and dignity of man. Therefore, the structures that make up the football industry are called to be a land of authentic humanity, in which young people are encouraged to learn the great values \u200b\u200bof life and spread the great virtues that are the basis for a dignified human coexistence such as tolerance, respect for human dignity, peace and brotherhood. "

Players have to be aware of their impact and impact on youth. The most acclaimed player of all time, the "black pearl" in a statement said: "All children in the world who play football want to be like Pele. Therefore, I have a responsibility to show not only how to be a footballer but also a man. " The African Roger Milla on one occasion stated: "The players should work with programs to combat AIDS and against illiteracy, because, unlike other public figures, kids listen." The German Franz Beckenbauer, the "Kaiser" said something like: "A public figure has not only advantages, it also has many duties. You can invest in the cause of football. "

Footballers are often the mirror in which you look younger and, therefore, the guide serves as a compass in their modes of action and behave. This should push them to try to be very scrupulous in their actions and statements as they will be replicated immediately.

Preciado statements calling Mourinho "rogue" in a press conference before the game of Gijón-Madrid does not seem the most appropriate to say things. Everything must be said, not Mourinho sending "fuck" the referee (authority in the field of play) the other day in the match against Murcia seems best for all that we (adults and children) this sport.