Barça, més que un club: le radici del catalanismo blaugrana nel contesto della sportivizzazione spagnola
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Barcelona FC, Catalonia, Nationalism, Fascism, FrancoismAbstract
Barça, més que un club: the Roots of blaugrana’s Catalanism within Spanish growing Sportification
Since its emergence, the Barcelona FC has been bonded with a Catalanist feeling. This article explores the origins of this connection, especially focusing on the Francoist period. The Barça’s leadership supported the Catalonia’s autonomy at the beginning of the twentieth century, while during the dictatorship the blaugrana club entered the collective imagination as an Antifrancoist icon. Nevertheless, the government management of the events linked to this club help us to understand Franco’s ability in handling the internal contradictions of the dictatorship.
The realization of this article was possible thanks to the Fundação para a Ciência and to Tecnologia of the Portuguese government and to the European Social Fund: project no. SFRH / BPD / 107789/2015
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