El Classic nowadays and a controversy is not only football, just equal! The conflict, dude, between Real Madrid and Barcelona has long been beyond its athletic dimension. It is no coincidence that elections for club presidencies are heavily politicized. That they get out of football. Writer Phil Boll in his talk about Spanish football says that "They hate each other with intensity that can really shock the stranger"!
More than one club
It is not in the years of Franco, as is wrongly believed in Greece, that the "star" of Barça rises politically. As early as the 1930s, Barcelona "had developed a reputation for being a symbol of Catalan identity, as opposed to Madrid's centralist tendencies". But, really, in 1936 when Franco started the coup, the president of Barça, Josep Suniol, a member of the Republican Left of Catalonia, was arrested and executed without trial! Not for his football I believe, of course, but despite that and because of his left ideological attitude.
Barça was at the top of the list of organizations (not sports only of course) that had to be cleared of communists, anarchists and independents. The result; Expected. During the Franco dictatorship, most of Barcelona's citizens were in stark contrast to the fascist regime. Not only for the behavior in the club itself, of course, but mainly because during the dictatorships (Rivera and Franco) all regional languages and identities in Spain were unbearably suppressed, to the point of abolition. then came the slogan "Més que un club" (trans .: More than one club) to describe Barça.
A coin always has two sides
But since a coin always has two sides, let them stop sucking on the frozen Barca candy from Franco. True to the above socio-political and ethnic backgrounds, it is also true that during the Franco regime, Barca as a purely footballing entity gained profits because of its good relationship with the dictator at the administration level! Planter; Yes. Catalan management though! And we also awarded two awards to Franco at the Mes Que Un Club.
'Regime club'
Real Madrid, however, was seen as a "regime club" despite the fact that its president, Rafa Sanchez Guerra, suffered at the hands of Franco's supporters in the Spanish Civil War, as well as the executed Sunniol.
The image we have of both clubs is exaggerated. There are doses of truth in what is considered data, but it is not all truth It is not the far right and the revolutionary. No.
For many, Barcelona is still considered the "revolutionary club", the alternative pole to "Madrid conservatism". According to polls published by the Spanish Center for Sociological Research, Real Madrid is the favorite team of most Spaniards, while Barcelona is in second place. In Catalonia, in particular, the forces of the whole socio-political spectrum are overwhelmingly in favor of Barça obviously, although nuclei of support for the club exist far beyond the narrow region of Catalonia, mainly among politically left-wing ideological masses, while Real prefers political the… night owls that we would also say in Greece…
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