FC Barcelona

Barcelona. Wednesday, 08.02.2012 21:00

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Barcelona. Sunday , 19.02.2012 21:30

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After the big two of Barça and Real Madrid, Valencia has the biggest support in Spanish football, and is the only other club to have won more than five European trophies. A massive rivalry has developed between Barça and the ‘Che’, as the 2002 and 2004 Liga champions are popularly known, which has only been strengthened by a series of historic encounters in recent years. These have included Rivaldo’s incredible last-day hat-trick in 2001, Valencia’s amazing comeback from 3-0 down in the 1997 Copa del Rey, and perhaps the most famous meeting of all between the two sides - Valencia’s 5-3 aggregate win in the Champions League semi finals of 1999-2000.

Barcelona. March 03th or 04th 2012

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In the 1986-87 season, Sporting Gijón achieved what is still their biggest ever away win the La Liga, and it was 4-0 away to Barça. That was some night for the Asturians, but the red and whites are far more used to receiving rather than inflicting heavy defeats at the Camp Nou. Sporting are one of the historic teams in Spain, and one of just nine clubs never to have been relegated any lower than the top two divisions. But in 1998, a twenty year run in the top flight came to an end for Sporting, but a decade later they were back – and their third game was a rude awakening when they were thumped 6-1 at home to Barça.

Barcelona. Wednesday, 07.03.2012 20:45

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Barcelona. March 20th, 21st or 22nd 2012

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Barcelona. March 31st or April 1st 2012

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Things don’t come much more historic than FC Barcelona against Athletic Club Bilbao. These are two of just three teams that have never been relegated from the top tier of Spanish football and between them have 47 cup and 27 league titles. And there’s a special bond between the two sides, for if Barça are the symbols of the Catalan separatist identity, then if anything Bilbao are even more so for the Basque Country. But while Barça proudly display their plethora of European, African and Latin American superstars, the ‘Lions’, even in this international day and age, still insist on only using players born or raised in the Basque Country.

Barcelona. April 10th, 11th or 12th 2012

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Barcelona v Getafe will always bring back memories of their famous Copa del Rey semi final in 2007, when a 5-2 triumph for the Catalans included Leo Messi scoring an almost carbon copy of Maradona’s legendary goals against England in 1986. But despite those heroics, there was more to come in the second leg, but this time from little Getafe.

Barcelona. April 21st or 22nd 2012

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There was rivalry between Barcelona and Madrid long before there was football in Spain, and the clásico is just a continuation of the contention between Catalonia and the capital of Spain. When the two giants of Spanish football meet, it’s quite simply one of the biggest football matches in the world. It’s a game drenched in history, when Catalan separatism comes head to head with Spanish centralism, which reached its height when Madrid were associated with a Franco dictatorship, and the Camp Nou was the only place that Catalans, through Barça, could voice their discontent. Franco may have gone, but the fierce rivalry remains.

Barcelona. May 01st, 02nd or 03rd 2012

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Andalusian side Málaga are in town to take on the might of FC Barcelona, and it would take a brave man to bet on the visiting team’s chances here. The last day of the 1971/1972 season did see the blue and whites collect a famous 1-0 win at the Camp Nou, the same year they finished a record seventh in the Liga table, but they have usually been on the receiving end of some serious wallopings. Málaga have had their moments though, and one day they will never forget was their 5-1 drubbing of Barça in 2003. But they were playing at home that day, trips to Catalunya have rarely come anywhere close to those heroics, and they are usually happy just to try and sneak away with a draw.

Barcelona. May 05th or 06th 2012

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Barça against Espanyol, derbies don’t come much more heated than this. Barça like to write Espanyol as an unwanted reminder of the Spanish influence in Catalonia, but Espanyol are fed up with being treated as ‘second class citizens’ and like nothing better than to get one over their detested rival. Barcelona like to consider themselves ‘more than a club’, while one of the Espanyol slogans in response in that ‘Catalonia is more than one club’. So, there is no love lost between these two sides, and over the years some classic encounters have been produced between these two.