Soccer Barcelona Club was founded the 29 of November of 1899 by a group of twelve fans to soccer, summoned by Swiss Hans Gamper by means of an announcement published in the magazine the Sports the 22 of October of the same year. Between the twelve founders of the club there were six Spaniards, three English, two Swiss and a German. The selected original name was “Football Barcelona Club”, in English, and it was designated to English Walter Wild like first president of the club for being the person of more age among the presents. At the end of his first decade secured his first titles, a Glass of Spain and a Glass of the Pyrenees. During years 1910 the club gave a great jump, sport as as much social: it gained two Glasses of Spain and three Glasses of the Pyrenees, and arrived already at the 3,000 associates, becoming one of the most popular societies of Catalonia. In those years it was when the name of “culés” became popular referring to the fans of the club. The equipment played its parties in a field located in the street Industry of Barcelona, that filled massively when Barcelona played, and from the street it was seen how they were seated, of backs, the fans located in the highest part of graderío. The image from the street was the one of a great amount of buttocks (asses), for this reason, to the fans of Barcelona was begun to them to call “culés”. Of that decade also it is possible to write down that, in 1914, the club created his first polideportiva section, the one of athletics. Figure of Gamper in the museum of F.C. Barcelona. Years 1920 passed to history like the first time sea bream of the club. One went of 3,000 to 11,000 partners and, in 1922, the first great stage of the club, the Camp of Them Corts was released, with capacity for 30,000 spectators. They were years in which the club gained four Glasses of Spain and, in 1929, first Spanish Liga of history. Also it is possible to write down the incidents happened in 1925 when the government of the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera closed the stage of Them Corts during six months and forced to resign to president Hans Gamper because of the whistles with which the Barcelonist liking received the interpretation of the Real March in the prolegómenos of an encounter. Of that decade it is possible to emphasize that the club advanced in the line to extend its polideportivo character, and created the hockey sections grass, basketball and rugby. Years 1930 were of great crisis for the club. The decade with the suicide of Hans Gamper began, probably due to the catastrophic economic situation in which it was sunk after the collapse of stock-market of Wall s$street in 1929. [10] Josep Samitier. Later, with the coming of the Second Republic a reduction of the number of partners took place that worsened with the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. That year, in addition, the president of the club Josep Sunyol, who was politician of Republican Esquerra of Catalonia, was streamlining by the pro-Franco troops in the mountain range of Guadarrama. [11] the club finished the decade with only 2,500 partners. During years 1940 the club was surpassing its social and sport crisis little by little. The club was taken by the authorities of the new pro-Franco regime that, in future and until 1953, they would directly designate to the president of the club. The new directors made spanish all the estates of the club, eliminating any catalanista or British connotation. In 1940 the club happened to denominate “Club of Barcelona Soccer” instead of “Football Barcelona Club”, and the shield modified: the four were suppressed I sweep of the Catalan flag to place in their place the Spanish flag, although in 1949, on the occasion of the golden wedding of the club, the government authorized the reintroduction of the Catalan flag. In the sport plane the equipment recomposed after the crisis of the war and they were ended up conquering three Spanish leagues, a Glass of Spain and two Glasses Eva Duarte. In addition, in years 1940 new polideportivas sections were created between which they emphasized those of handball and hockey on skates. All this contributed to that, when finalizing the decade, agreeing with the golden wedding of the club, the 25,000 partners would surpass themselves. Years 1950 were one of the best decades of the history of the club, as much in the sport plane as social. The signing of Ladislao Kubala, in 1950, was the angular stone on which an equipment was constructed that, in that decade, obtained 3 Ligas Spanish, 5 Glasses of the Generalissimo, 4 Glasses Eva Duarte, 3 Glass Duward, 1 Latin Glass, 2 Martini& Glass; Rossi and 1 Small Glass of the World of Clubs. The social mass grew until the 38,000 partners who left the field of Them Corts small, so that a new stage was constructed, the Camp Nou, inaugurated in September of 1957. Other outstanding facts of that decade were the celebration of the first democratic elections to the presidency of the club in 1953, although the partners only voted men. That same year took place contentious with Real Madrid by the signing of Alfredo Di Stefano. It is possible to say that during almost the 40 years of the dictatorship of Francisco Franco in Spain, when the Catalan political institutions were prohibited and repressed, the club became one of the symbols of the antifrancoist fight in Catalonia and the resistance against the centralism that represented the pro-Franco regime. The stage of F.C. Barcelona became one of the few scenes public where the fans expressed themselves freely, and the club became the best ambassador of Catalonia in the outside. It was in those years when expression pronounced by president Narcís de Carreras in its speech of taking of possession in 1968 was said that, by its symbolism, Barcelona was “than a club more”. [12] After the successes of years 1950 the crisis arrived from the years 1960, in which the football team gained 2 Glasses of the Generalissimo and 2 Glasses of Fairs. These titles, nevertheless, did not manage to compensate the defeat in the end of the Glass of Europe of 1961 nor the social crisis generated by the marches of Helenio Herrera and Luis Suárez to the Inter of Milan, with which the Italian set would gain two Glasses of Europe. In spite of everything, the number of partners increased from the 39,000 to the 55,000 during that decade. During years 1970 it continued the unstoppable increase of partners of the club: one went from the 55,000 to the 80.000. They were the years in which Spanish soccer abrió to the doors to the foreign players and the club fichó to international like Johan Cruyff, Johan Neeskens, Hugo Sotil, Hansi Krankl and Allan Simonsen. The football team conquered in that decade Spanish Liga, 2 Glasses of the King, 1 Glass of champions of Fairs and 1 Recopa of Europe. In 1978 Josep Lluís Núñez arrived at the presidency, who would direct to the club the following two decades. The Glass of Europe obtained by the club in 1992. Years 1980 were of great investments in the star signing great like Maradona, Schuster or Lineker, but the football team only could gain in Spain a league, three Glasses of the King, Supercopa and two Glasses of Liga. At European level two gained Recopas, but it became to lose a end of the Glass of Europe, the disputed one in Seville in 1986. After one it burdens sport and social crisis, in 1988 the club contracted Johan Cruyff like trainer, a fact that would mark the destiny of the club during the following decade. Most positive of years 1980 it was the extension of the Camp Nou, the increase of partners, whom the number of the 100,000 surpassed, the economic revitalisation of the club and the successes of the basketball sections, handball and hockey on skates, that conquered important Spanish and European titles. The decade of years 1990 was the best decade of the history of Soccer Barcelona Club. They were ten years of successes for the club in all the orders, as much in the soccer land as in the sport sections. The football team, trained by Johan Cruyff, and with players like four Koeman, Guardiola, Stoichkov, Romário, Laudrup, Zubizarreta or consecutive Bakero gained Ligas between 1991 and 1994, and the 20 of May of 1992 conquered the appraised title more of the club: the Glass of Europe, in the stage of Wembley, before the Italian Sampdoria. During these years, the equipment carried out a great game and was known popularly with the name Dream Team, imitating the terminology that was used with the Selection of basketball of the United States in the Olympic Games of Barcelona 1992. After the defeat in the end of the Glass of Europe of 1994 against A.C. Milan by 4-0 in the Olympic Stage of Athens, one occurred by closed the era of the Dream Team and the sport situation of the equipment was deteriorated until the point of a deep social division between those in favor of the trainer, Johan Cruyff and those in favor of president, Josep Lluís Núñez. The traumatic goodbye of Cruyff created a great social crisis in the club, that did not disappear in spite of the titles secured by Bobby Robson and Louis van Gaal, and ended up ending at the resignation of Josep Lluís Núñez in the year 2000. Years 1990 were also a great decade for the sport sections. The basketball equipment consolidated in the elite of the Spanish and European basketball, although it was not able to gain the Glass of Europe, whose end disputed in four occasions in that decade. The handball equipment became the best equipment of handball of the world: it gained all the titles, between which they emphasize six Glasses of Europe. Image in center of the field of the commemorative plaque of the 100 years of Soccer Barcelona Club (1899-1999). Years 2000 can be divided clearly in two stages. After the resignation of Núñez in the year 2000, president Joan Gaspart was chosen.