Why are you a Barcelona fan?
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Egert
Estonian Culé
Well I started watching football 2008, but then I just watched EU 2008 games. Then I took 2 year break and started watching the WC 2010 with my friends. After that I started looking for a club. I followed a lot of clubs back then: ManU,Milan,Barca and Chelsea. I chose ManU as my first club, but I supported them only for 4 months or so. In 2011 or 2010 I started watching Barca games from UCL, then I realised how amazing football is and I started supporting Barca and here I am now, following every day of Barca life.
I started watching games regularly from the end of 11-12 season tho.
I started watching games regularly from the end of 11-12 season tho.
Hellsangel
Member
Since somewhere around the turn of the century. I always liked Rivaldo and Figo (don't shoot me) but I think it was this game that made me a Barça fan. Figo and Rivaldo being unplayable was great to watch. Rivaldo taking and scoring a second penalty after he missed his first attempt, what courage! Generally an awesome game.
Back then, as an 11 year old, the only means of following Barça for me were watching the occasional CL game on the telly or by reading results and standings in the newspaper. When games were played at Sunday night, it was too late for the newspaper to print the results and I had to wait another week before finding out what Barça did by looking at the points total
Later on, with the rise of the internet, I could check scores and highlights. I had to wait until October 2008 for a fast enough internet connection to watch games live by streaming them.. just in time to watch the beginning of a great era.
Back then, as an 11 year old, the only means of following Barça for me were watching the occasional CL game on the telly or by reading results and standings in the newspaper. When games were played at Sunday night, it was too late for the newspaper to print the results and I had to wait another week before finding out what Barça did by looking at the points total
Later on, with the rise of the internet, I could check scores and highlights. I had to wait until October 2008 for a fast enough internet connection to watch games live by streaming them.. just in time to watch the beginning of a great era.
John Antonio Bilboa
Howard Roark laughed
I was born this way, a cule.
ManusXavi
New member
I was part of a culture that said "Football is for girls". I was so overwhelmed by the rugby culture. As a child we would always watch rugby and play rugby at schools (Tackle when the teachers were not watching, though they always knew because of the mud).
I never explored a taste of what football was apart from the occasional English premier league highlight on the news, but I still had the 'football is for girls' attitude until my early teens so I pretty much had a blind eye.
Football never really impressed me until the age of 14 (2004) when I stated to watch highlights because Ronaldinho was appearing. He was unlike anything I had seen before.
It was rare for me to see any football other than English premier league highlights unless it was special.
I really don't think I would have become a Barcelona fan if I had been properly introduced to football before 2004. It would have almost definitely have been an English club.
Rather fortunate the way things turned out.
I never explored a taste of what football was apart from the occasional English premier league highlight on the news, but I still had the 'football is for girls' attitude until my early teens so I pretty much had a blind eye.
Football never really impressed me until the age of 14 (2004) when I stated to watch highlights because Ronaldinho was appearing. He was unlike anything I had seen before.
It was rare for me to see any football other than English premier league highlights unless it was special.
I really don't think I would have become a Barcelona fan if I had been properly introduced to football before 2004. It would have almost definitely have been an English club.
Rather fortunate the way things turned out.
KyletheMuslim
Guardiolista
When I was younger my mom was really trying to get me into football, I hated going to practice because I was never very good and I had to sit down and watch all my friends make the school team whilst I never even made the bench. I occasionally watched football on TV during those days and I saw Ronaldinho play, I fell in love.
There was a elegant beauty, a swagger, a romance about the way he played, it was like poetry in motion. Needless to say I was a ronaldinho fan, I still didn't ally myself to barcelona as a team but rather dinho as a player, however I still didn't watch football regularly.
Fast foward to 2008, my second year in highschool. I began to observe a new player, the heir to ronaldinho in my heart, Cristiano Ronaldo(I Know guys, I know). I still wasn't watching football regularly, but I watched video highlights of him playing week in, week out, I was very impressed with the skillfullnesses of his play. Slowly but surely I grew to love football, I began to enjoy playing it regularly after-school and during PE class.
The 2009 Champions League final came around, and we had an exam that day at school, one of the more passionate barca fans in my class actually skipped school to watch the match, he even called his friend after Eto'o scored to tell him barca had taken the lead(This was in the middle of our test XD). I came home to see the celebrations, I felt a little sad seeing Puyol lift the trophy, Not sad because barca won, but because ronaldo lost. Later that summer I heard that Real Madrid had bought both Ronaldo and Kaka and I decided that I was going to watch la liga this season because it's got to be exciting.
It wasn't until October that year I watched Barcelona in a full game for the first and I was once in again in love, it wasn't because of a player this time, it was because of the team, it was because of the beauty of the style of play.
Tiki Taka put me in a trance and I immediately became a cule(my friends may accuse me of bandwagoning, because barca had won the treble the year before that, but tell you truth I didn't even know, It wasn't the success it was the style of play). A close friend of mind that I had been going to school with for years was also a cule and he showed me all the in and outs of being a barca fan.
My first season as a cule was not exactly ideal, I witnessed our elimination from the Champions league at the hands of Inter Milan, our elimination from the copa del rey at the hands of the sevilla, but we won a thrilling la liga title race on the last day, beating a very good Real Madrid side. When the world cup came around, I supported spain and after Iniesta's goal in the world cup final he became my new favorite player. The 2010/2011 season was something special, I saw(to this day) the best football I have ever seen played by any team, anywhere, I saw barca overcome a savage Real Madrid coached by the heinous Jose Mourinho to win 2 of the 3 major competitions. I witnessed Eric Abidal overcoming cancer and Lionel Messi emerge as the greatest of all time.
2011/12 was a very sad season in many aspects, The semi-final loss to chelsea made me cry many tears and the la liga title defeat to Real madrid caused me great anger(mostly because of the shoddy refereeing), but I witnessed the absolute peak of Lionel Messi, It when I came home from school to watch him score five goals past Bayer Leverkusen did I then realize that I witnessing the greatest football player of all time. Summer made me happy again as my precious Spain went on to win Euro 2012 with my favorite player claiming the Best player Award
2012/13 was horrible, I literally lost it when we were defeated by Bayern 4-0, it was then I realized the barca I fell in love with, the best team in the world, was gone. We still won la liga, and Real Madrid lost the copa final to Atletico with Ronaldo and Mourinho getting red cards, It was a sweet end to an otherwise bitter season.
Last season was just really really bad, no positives at all, But the future is bright, visca Barca Y Visca Catalunya !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There was a elegant beauty, a swagger, a romance about the way he played, it was like poetry in motion. Needless to say I was a ronaldinho fan, I still didn't ally myself to barcelona as a team but rather dinho as a player, however I still didn't watch football regularly.
Fast foward to 2008, my second year in highschool. I began to observe a new player, the heir to ronaldinho in my heart, Cristiano Ronaldo(I Know guys, I know). I still wasn't watching football regularly, but I watched video highlights of him playing week in, week out, I was very impressed with the skillfullnesses of his play. Slowly but surely I grew to love football, I began to enjoy playing it regularly after-school and during PE class.
The 2009 Champions League final came around, and we had an exam that day at school, one of the more passionate barca fans in my class actually skipped school to watch the match, he even called his friend after Eto'o scored to tell him barca had taken the lead(This was in the middle of our test XD). I came home to see the celebrations, I felt a little sad seeing Puyol lift the trophy, Not sad because barca won, but because ronaldo lost. Later that summer I heard that Real Madrid had bought both Ronaldo and Kaka and I decided that I was going to watch la liga this season because it's got to be exciting.
It wasn't until October that year I watched Barcelona in a full game for the first and I was once in again in love, it wasn't because of a player this time, it was because of the team, it was because of the beauty of the style of play.
Tiki Taka put me in a trance and I immediately became a cule(my friends may accuse me of bandwagoning, because barca had won the treble the year before that, but tell you truth I didn't even know, It wasn't the success it was the style of play). A close friend of mind that I had been going to school with for years was also a cule and he showed me all the in and outs of being a barca fan.
My first season as a cule was not exactly ideal, I witnessed our elimination from the Champions league at the hands of Inter Milan, our elimination from the copa del rey at the hands of the sevilla, but we won a thrilling la liga title race on the last day, beating a very good Real Madrid side. When the world cup came around, I supported spain and after Iniesta's goal in the world cup final he became my new favorite player. The 2010/2011 season was something special, I saw(to this day) the best football I have ever seen played by any team, anywhere, I saw barca overcome a savage Real Madrid coached by the heinous Jose Mourinho to win 2 of the 3 major competitions. I witnessed Eric Abidal overcoming cancer and Lionel Messi emerge as the greatest of all time.
2011/12 was a very sad season in many aspects, The semi-final loss to chelsea made me cry many tears and the la liga title defeat to Real madrid caused me great anger(mostly because of the shoddy refereeing), but I witnessed the absolute peak of Lionel Messi, It when I came home from school to watch him score five goals past Bayer Leverkusen did I then realize that I witnessing the greatest football player of all time. Summer made me happy again as my precious Spain went on to win Euro 2012 with my favorite player claiming the Best player Award
2012/13 was horrible, I literally lost it when we were defeated by Bayern 4-0, it was then I realized the barca I fell in love with, the best team in the world, was gone. We still won la liga, and Real Madrid lost the copa final to Atletico with Ronaldo and Mourinho getting red cards, It was a sweet end to an otherwise bitter season.
Last season was just really really bad, no positives at all, But the future is bright, visca Barca Y Visca Catalunya !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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dakt
Active member
Style of football. It's very similar how I like to play in real life (especially midfield)...and was always fascinated by la masia and it's extraordinary generation of players that eventually became one of the
greatest football teams in the history of football. I also admired the humility and great talents of Xavi and Iniesta...well the whole team in general looked like a bunch of kids that just likes to play.
Then the meaningness of FCB to Catalunya...it's somewhat similar to situation here in Croatia where the war for freedom practically started on the pitch.
greatest football teams in the history of football. I also admired the humility and great talents of Xavi and Iniesta...well the whole team in general looked like a bunch of kids that just likes to play.
Then the meaningness of FCB to Catalunya...it's somewhat similar to situation here in Croatia where the war for freedom practically started on the pitch.
I don't remember exactly why I started to be a fan, but it was sometime around the 2006 World Cup. I think I was really lucky to happen upon supporting them because once I learned more about them, I realized they were the epitome of everything I loved and believed in in football in terms of how it should be played.
I can't imagine being a fan of any other team to this degree. No one could have captured my heart like Barca did 
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Wins, losses, draws, relegation, nothing will change how I feel about them.
I can't imagine being a fan of any other team to this degree
. No one could have captured my heart like Barca did .Wins, losses, draws, relegation, nothing will change how I feel about them.
BerkeleyBernie
Senior Member
The same for me. I started playing football right after the 1999 Women's World Cup, just a bunch of fellow 'mericans kicking the ball around, and realized it was the perfect sport for me, same way I had fallen in love with tap dancing, same way I'd fallen in love with capoeira- fluid, physical improvisation and creativity. I didn't watch much, only when the world cups rolled around, but I had a gut feeling about how the game should feel and be played. Somehow, my first foray into club football, I started watching Barça online, sometime in Ibra's year I think, and immediately recognized they were doing what I had imagined football should feel like, and became a student, learning everything I could from each player. I saw them play a friendly in San Francisco in 2009, which was even more revealing, had great seats to watch the Xavi-Messi-Alves triangles (the thing that stuck with me most was how much Xavi ran *backwards* to make himself available for a pass).
Though there have been a few other teams that I've enjoyed watching, the precision and fluidity of Pep's Barça will always be the standard of beautiful football for me, a team built around constant movement of players and the ball, especially the midfield. Of course, you need finishers to win, but for me it was always about the elegant, rhythmic and deadly build-up play.
macleod
Member
First match who I watch was in 1997,but I'm Barca fan since 1999.I love the club,city,everything.I love this football style,I love all causes of the club.I watch not only football team,I watch Barca B,basket team,somethimes handball,futsal and roller hockey teams.I don't miss match of first team since 7-8 years-included Cup matches,friendless at night,Copa Catalunya.....And my love is the same when we play bad and don't win any titles.
I always watched Barcelona matches in the Champions League since the Ronaldinho era. Not because of some player, just because they played attractive football. Didn't really follow Barça heavily but I became an instant fan of Messi when I saw him playing. Especially when I saw the vid of his highlights in WC for youth where they became world champion. From then on, I was only interested in Messi and kept seeing Barcelona UCL games. From the 09-10 season when I was aware from what Leo had become I started following more heavily and since the 10-11 season I try to watch as much matches as possible and succeeding quite good in it. Mostly because I realized I probably would never ever see such a dreamteam and such a genius (Messi) again but when I dug deeper I started to learn the values the club and the players stand for. So even after Messi retires and the rest of this team, I'll stay because of the Barça philosophy.
BarcaBarcaBarca
New member
My story is a very unique story. It all started many years before I was born with this victory over a Barcelona team that included Zubizaretta, Hughes and Lineker - [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXb7VG9o-u0[/youtube]
Then, in in the return leg at Camp Nou - [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MPGq9hJG2U[/youtube]
*Note this meant my team Dundee United had gone 4 games unbeaten against barca after having played the, twice before.
That makes us the only team in the world to have a 100% record against Barcelona. More recently, based on a good relationship between the two clubs, Barca often came to train at United's training ground in St. Andrews. There's a good story of Ronaldinho basically giving the security guards a day off by inviting the United fans to meet some of the players of Barcelona. And whilst in Scotland, there have been several friendlies. The first, Barcelona winning 1-0 through an Henry penalty - his first goal for the club. This was in the final minute and moments after United had a disallowed goal!! And the next visit from Barcelona featured a Messi hattrick, where the whole stadium were up on their feet chanting "Messsi Messsssi!"
My first visit to Camp Nou was extra special. I was almost reduced to tears sitting in a stadium where I've known my club have come twice and won twice.
Then, in in the return leg at Camp Nou - [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MPGq9hJG2U[/youtube]
*Note this meant my team Dundee United had gone 4 games unbeaten against barca after having played the, twice before.
That makes us the only team in the world to have a 100% record against Barcelona. More recently, based on a good relationship between the two clubs, Barca often came to train at United's training ground in St. Andrews. There's a good story of Ronaldinho basically giving the security guards a day off by inviting the United fans to meet some of the players of Barcelona. And whilst in Scotland, there have been several friendlies. The first, Barcelona winning 1-0 through an Henry penalty - his first goal for the club. This was in the final minute and moments after United had a disallowed goal!! And the next visit from Barcelona featured a Messi hattrick, where the whole stadium were up on their feet chanting "Messsi Messsssi!"
My first visit to Camp Nou was extra special. I was almost reduced to tears sitting in a stadium where I've known my club have come twice and won twice.
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Gasgas
Guest
My story is the strangest.
I started out as a neutral but used to see plenty chelsea matches and Portugal matches and i loved those teams especially Drogba and CR7
When i moved to a boarding high school they would show the EPL and i started supporting Chelsea
Then there was a time Chelsea played Man utd and got eliminated from the UCL i got mad and started hating Man Utd because of that and also because there were way too many Man Utd fans at school.
Then i saw Barcelona vs Man Utd,, and. Barcelona beat Man Utd 3-1 and right there i fell in lve with the team for beating the team which beat the team i supported and since barca played good footie i stayed with barca
I started out as a neutral but used to see plenty chelsea matches and Portugal matches and i loved those teams especially Drogba and CR7
When i moved to a boarding high school they would show the EPL and i started supporting Chelsea
Then there was a time Chelsea played Man utd and got eliminated from the UCL i got mad and started hating Man Utd because of that and also because there were way too many Man Utd fans at school.
Then i saw Barcelona vs Man Utd,, and. Barcelona beat Man Utd 3-1 and right there i fell in lve with the team for beating the team which beat the team i supported and since barca played good footie i stayed with barca
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