Caring for Barça’s historical memory is an obligation
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BarcelonaSometimes you love your football club so much that you lose your objectivity. More than once I have held debates with Barça fans who defend that the Barça fans are the best in the world. I don’t see it that way. Barça is special for other things. His club model, his values, his style, the paths he has chosen to succeed or the causes he has made his own. But the fans, very faithful, would never put her among the best in the world. A good summary would be the Camp Nou. It is true that the management of the previous directives, the weight of tourism and the pandemic have affected, but the partners also have a lot of responsibility for having changed the way of life in the countryside. Gone is that stage that used to be always filled, with sun or rain, winning or losing. There are many hobbies in the Old Continent that you can learn from.
And nothing happens to accept that you have to learn things from others. Barça’s history has also been like this, learning from Hungarians or Dutch when necessary. It is necessary to face the debate to make the stadium an example, an enclosure that explains the history of the club, putting the fan and not the client in the center. We need to learn how the Germans handle these events, for example. And you have to learn from so many other clubs how historical memory is managed. Barça have won so much lately and live so fast that at times they forget their past. That is why the creation of a committee of the club’s historical memory is excellent news, with names that have been claiming for years that we need to talk more about Barça’s past. Those who do not understand their past will not be able to walk into the future on the right paths.
I have been wandering around stadiums for many years, meeting other clubs. And watching, with envy, how 8-year-olds can recite to you the starting team of the 1967 European Cup final of Glasgow Celtic, how every year the Roma fans mourn their captain Agostino Di Bartolomei, as Bayern has claimed its Jewish president was sent to a concentration camp by the Nazis. Recently, in the Eintracht camp, between beers, they proudly explained to me how the names of the Jewish members of the club who were murdered are being recovered. We will have taken a step forward the day a young Barça fan decides to stamp Ramallets’ name on his shirt, as many fans around the world do with names from the past. Any initiative by this new commission will be a step forward in continuing to make Barça more than just a club.
