According to Forbes, FC Barcelona is the third most valuable football team in the world at $5.5 billion, just behind Real Madrid and Manchester United. That’s amazing when you consider it’s owned by the members, whereas Manchester United, for example, along with the many American sports franchises that make the most valuable sports teams list, are owned by individual billionaires.
Barcelona’s value has grown exponentially over the past few decades as it expanded its reach internationally. Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images Socios span the globe. As Dr.
Heron Rodriguez explains it, there’s a reason why you can go to any airport, in any country, and find someone walking around with a Barcelona jersey. And that’s something we should all appreciate as we look for hope going into next season, and beyond. Barcelona is a footballing institution.
And football continues to be, and likely will be ad infinitum, the number one sport in the world. There is a way out of the forest, and back to the promised land for the Blaugrana. In the first two articles of this series, Culers Talking, we stayed local, and looked back at the early history of the club.
Fortià Viñas and Ferran Carreras , both lifelong fans dating back to the 1950s when the Camp Nou was inaugurated, illustrated what makes Barcelona more than a club by explaining how its ups and downs mirror the political history of Spain itself. It’s important to appreciate the heritage of Barcelona, and the people and the eve.
