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FC Barcelona Anthem – El Cant del Barca
What is that song that FC Barcelona play every after game at the Camp Nou?
Answer
The song is called El Himne or Cant del Barça and here’s the first verse in Catalan followed by the translation in English.
Tot el camp
es un clam
som la gent Blau Grana
Tan se val d’on venim
Si del sud o del nord
ara estem d’acord
estem d’acord
una bandera ens agermana.
Blau Grana al vent
un crit valent
tenim un nom
el sap tothom
Barça!, Barça!, Baaaarça!!!!
Jugadors
Seguidors
tots unit fem força
son molts d’anys plens d’afanys
son molts gols que hem cridat
i s’ha demostrat
s’ha demostrat
que mai ningú no ens podrà tòrcer
Blau Grana al vent
un crit valent
tenim un nom
el sap tothom
Barça!, Barça!, Baaaarça!!!!
In English
The whole stadium
Makes a noise
We are the blaugrana people
It doesn’t matter where we come
Whether it’s from north or south
All of us are in agreement
A flag makes us brothers
Blaugrana to the wind
A valiant shout
We’ve got a name that everyone knows
Barça! Barça! BAAAAAAAAAARÇA!
OK. I know the translation isn’t brilliant but you get the general idea. It’s really rousing stuff and we all love singing at Camp Nou or even in the bar whilst we’re watching the game. Needless to say, we sang it a lot last season.
Anyway, here’s a video of the song. Feel free to sing along.
Round Two – Pellegrini’s Got His Work Cut Out
Although I hope that Barça win La Liga for the second year on the trot, what I really want to see is a well-fought competition – and that means more than just competition from Real Madrid.
For La Liga to fulfill its potential as The Best League in the World – with the permission of the EPL – we need to see Sevilla, Atlético, Villarreal and Valencia fighting for more than just Champions and Europa League places. However, after only one game, it looks like this season’s Liga will follow a similar pattern to last year.
Sevilla lost in Mestalla and Atlético got thrashed by Málaga, so I won’t be surprised if Barça and Madrid are ten points clear at the top of the table come December. Let’s hope this doesn’t happen because it’d be very bad news for Spanish Football.
This week we’ll get a better idea of whether La Liga is going to be a two horse race or not. Espanyol-Madrid and Getafe-Barça are two interesting tests for the favourites - debuting in their new stadium and with the memory of Jarque still very present, Espanyol have got a lot of reasons to put up a fight and an unpredictable Getafe are a very tough nut to crack on a good day.
I think most of us agree that Barça start La Liga with a slight advantage over Pellegrini’s Real Madrid because they
Pellegrini has a tough job ahead of him
already play as a team, whereas the Bernabéu boys are as yet a group that relies on flashes of brilliance from individual players. The big question is whether the undeniable quality of Kaká, Cristiano Ronaldo and Benzema will be enough to follow the pace that Barça has already set by winning the two Super Cups.
Comparisons between the two squads are inevitable, and I must admit that I glance down the list of names that make up this Real Madrid side and some of my culé bravado fades. However, it remains to be seen whether this group of superstars will actually work well together as a block.
Barça have signed fewer players, but the three signings are players that were definitely on Guardiola’s Wish List. Chygrynskiy will be key in the centre of the defence, while with Maxwell on one flank and Alves on the other, the backs will be coming up to join the attack even more often than they did last season.
Guardiola ready for the season ahead
Having watched quite a few videos now, there’s no doubt in my mind that Ibrahimovic is a potentially great player but his role in the side will be very different from Samuel Eto’o. He’s more classy and stylish but I doubt whether he’ll score as many goals and he’s still got his work cut out to get himself in the right position for when Messi, Xavi and Iniesta, in particular, start to work their magic.
But the fact remains that Barça only have to adapt their game for one player whilst not even Pellegrini could predict Madrid’s starting line-up in a month’s time. And what’s more the ‘cantera’ factor means that Barça’s theoretical substitutes know the 4-3-3 philosophy like the back of their hands and both they themselves and the fans are confident that should anything go awry, they’ll slot into the first team just like veterans.
Anyway here are this week’s games . . .
12 Sep 2009
18:00 CET Atletico Madrid v Racing Santander
18:00 CET Getafe v Barcelona
20:00 CET Espanyol v Real Madrid
22:00 CET Sevilla v Zaragoza
13 Sep 2009
17:00 CET Deportivo v Malaga
17:00 CET Sporting Gijon v Almeria
17:00 CET Tenerife v Osasuna
17:00 CET Villarreal v Mallorca
19:00 CET Valladolid v Valencia
21:00 CET Xerez v Athletic Bilbao
SPANISH FOOTBALL (SOCCER): LA LIGA SEASON 2009-2010
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SPANISH FOOTBALL (SOCCER): LA LIGA SEASON 2009-2010
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Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s First Goal For FC Barcelona – Sporting Gijon 3-0
Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s First Goal For FC Barcelona came against Sporting de Gijon.
Alves crosses, Sporting defender Gregory brushes the ball with his head, Zlatan heads it in Barça’s third goal of the evening.
You don’t see it on the video but his celebration was pretty serious – it’s obvious that he was relieved to get his first goal for Barça.
Duration : 0:1:3
2009-10 Champions League Group Stage Tickets Now On Sale
Well Tickets for the Champions League Group Stage are now on sale. At the moment you can book tickets for:
- FC Zurich v Real Madrid September 15
- Atletico de Madrid v Apoel Nicosia Sep 15
- Sevilla FC v Unirea Urzizeni Sep 16
- FC Barcelona v Dynamo Kiev Sep 29
- Real Madrid v Olympique Marseille Sep 30
- FC Barcelona v Rubin Kazan Oct 20
- Chelsea v Atletico de Madrid Oct 21
- Real Madrid v AC Milan Oct 21
- AC Milan v Real Madrid Nov 3
- Atletico de Madrid v Chelsea Nov 3
- Sevilla FC v Stuttgart FC Nov 4
- Sevilla FC v Glasgow Rangers Nov 24
- FC Barcelona v Inter Milan Nov 24
- Real Madrid v FC Zurich Nov 25
- Olympique Marseille v Real Madrid Dec 8
- Atletico de Madrid v FC Porto Dec 8
As you can see we’ve got tickets for almost all the games involving Spanish teams – although securing seats for the away games is a lot more tricky.
I’ll be keeping you up to date as more tickets become available. These might include some of the Premier League clubs as well.
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FC Barcelona vs Athletic Bilbao 3-0 Spanish Super Cup 23-8-09
This was a pretty comfortable win for Barça -Messi 2 goals and Bojan 1 goal. They’d won the first leg 2-1 and Athletic had to play in the qualifying rounds of the Europa League against Tromso.
Caparrós knew where his priorities lay and gave his big guns a night off. All merit to Barça though and Athletic qualified, by the way.
FC Barcelona vs Athletic Bilbao 3-0 Spanish Super Cup 23/8-09
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Champions League Anthem
This is a great little video of all the Champions League Winners up until 2006. So Barça are the last winners to be crowned Kings of Europe both in the video (2006) and in real time (2009).
It also shows the full lyrics of the Champions League Anthem, where the choir sings in a mixture of English, German and French.
That’s why we Spaniards and our Italian cousins didn’t understand the words. I think we should have a Champions League Anthem in Spanish and Italian – after all, we win it a lot more often than the French and the Germans!!!!
Duration : 0:3:3
FC Barcelona vs Manchester City 0-1 Joan Gamper 19-08-09
The highlights of Manchester City’s 0-1 victory over Barcelona in the club’s Joan Gamper pre-season trophy.
It wasn’t a fantastic game because Barça were much less worried about winning than city were. The Blaugrana had already competed in the Spanish SuperCup and were thinking ahead to the European one and the start of La Liga, so Pep continued with his experiments and used a lot of the reserve and youth players. Most of the theoretical first team had a bit of a run about and Zlatan Ibrahimovic made his debut without much luck. Barça still played like Barça and the result was of little importance.
For City, however, after investing so much money, beating the reigning European Champions gave them a definite moral boost and I’m sure Mark Hughes smiled to himself when he thought of his unsuccessful period at Camp Nou under Terry Venables back in the late 1980s.
Duration : 0:3:41
Gladiator – Barça’s Champions League Motivation Video
This is a pretty cool video – especially if you support Barça AND understand Catalan.
It tells the story of how Pep Guardiola commissioned the Catalan TV station to prepare a motivation video to be shown to the players just before the the 2009 Champions League Final against Manchester United.
As the Final was in Rome, the film Pep chose for the raw material was Gladiator. TV3 cut, spliced and mixed footage of the Barça players with images of Russell Crowe.
If you can get through the first couple of minutes of Catalan, you get to see the complete video. You really see why some of the players ran onto the pitch with tears in their eyes!
Duration : 0:8:23