On 22 October 1899, Joan Gamper put an advertisement in Los
Deportes declaring his wish to form football club; though number of old players
responded to the announcement, and they
held a meeting in Jamenacio Soleil on November 29 of the same year, in the presence
of eleven player are: Walter Wild(the
first director of the club), Luis Dosso, Bartimo Tiradas, Otto Konzzl, Otto
Maier, Enric Ducal, Pere Cabot, Carles Gul, Josep Lopit, John Parsons and
William Parsons, who laid the foundation stone for the club, and so FC
Barcelona football was born.
It was a successful beginning of Barcelona in the local and
national cups; Barcelona participated in Catalonia Champions and Copa Del Rey.
In 1902, the club won its first award, the Makaya Cup, and participated in the
first sessions of the Copa Del Rey, and lost the lead to 1-2 in front of
Bzakaya Club in the final. Gamper took club president in 1908, and the club was
in financial distress after its failure to achieve any new Tournament since its
win the Catalonia Champion in 1905, Gamper has assumed presidency of the club
in five separate occasions between 1908 and 1925, of his
most important achievement is to secure the stadium special club, which make it
achieves a stable income for the first time in its history.
On March 14, 1909, the team moved to Camp Stadium Dell
Andostraa, a large stadium can accommodate eight thousand people. During the
period from 1910 to 1914 Barcelona participated in the Cup-au-Prince, which
included the best teams of Languedoc provinces, Midi, Aquitaine (south of
France), the Basque Country and Catalonia, and that tournament was best open
competitions. during the same period, the club changed his official language
from Castilian into Catalan and his popularity took gradually increasing to be
impossible to symbolize an important role in Catalan identity, it is clearly
illustrated by the fans, as many of them make promoting the club which was
Catalan club represents their nationality and themselves, though they did not
encourage it because of the distinguished way of the play at all.
Gamper’s Achievements was his increase the number of members of the club,
which has had several positive effects, he has launched a campaign to recruit
more members, and by 1922, the club enabled to attract more than 20,000
members, so it could buy a new stadium, and soon was done, which opened in the
same year, and headquarters was moved to it, and the Stadium was Lays Kurz
accommodate twenty-two thousand spectators, it had been expanded later until it
reached its capacity to 60,000 spectators. Jack Greenwell appointed successor
to Juan Gamper, was the first full-time coach, and the club's fortunes began to
improve on the pitch. During the Gamper era, Barcelona won one title in the
Champions League Catalonia, and six in the Spanish King's Cup, four in the Cup
Prince, so that stage considered as a "golden age" for the club.
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