hi! saw your tags on a reblog about the real/barça video and wanted to explain the history for you, i’ll try to keep it as short as i can, but know that the history is extensive.
of course the main reason behind the conflict between the clubs is who they represent. historically barça has represented catalonia and real madrid has represented spain, spanish royalty, and the francoist regime.
franco was dictator in spain and sought to destroy all semblance of catalan culture, language, and political movements. the catalan language was banned under his regime and barça was made to remove the catalan flag from its crest after the spanish civil war (in which franco’s fascist side won). leftist political organizations were eliminated and franco responded with violence to any uprising that demanded democracy and independence for catalonia, bombing their cities multiple times.
probably the most damning thing for franco’s action against barça was when the president of fc barcelona was assassinated by his troops. suñol (barça pres.) was vocal about his support of left-wing politics and anti-fascism, and was unjustly killed one year after becoming president of barça.
it is beyond football. as neutral as the clubs try to be it has always been more than just football. so i hope you can understand how horrible that video is. to claim that franco was in favor of barça and that barça is the “regime club” is appalling after all that barcelona and catalonia had been through during the francoist dictatorship, and what they still continue to experience to this day.
hi anon! thank you for answering my call, and i really appreciate you taking your time to explain this to me quite comprehensively. i was initially so confused - as to why such a video was even posted in the first place, and why people were getting mad about it. thanks to your elaboration, i now understand the context, and why that video is a pretty fucked up thing to put out there. although i have been watching the spanish league from a young age, i was genuinely not aware of such deep political issues transcending the sport of football itself. i tried to do some reading on the matter, but it's quite obvious that some materials out there are biased and the stories kinda differ from one another.
so thank you, once again, for the insight! as you said, the history is extensive, so i'll definitely try to read up on this!
i immediately felt compelled to give them the nine dollars i had in my purse and say 'you are the best looking person i have ever seen so i think you deserve it and i was going to buy my lunch with this but whatever' but decided against it. and then i started crying. i seriously cried for an hour. i ran to the bathroom and came out later and i was even more tired before. i was overtired and btw i am a girl. i dont know why i cried because of that and he was better looking than all the models i'd seen ever!
José Calvo Sotelo, but he was murdered cause he was a communist. Barça, Bilbao and other clubs had people killed or arrested/tortured because they were communists AND separatists
ah i see, thanks for the prompt response to my inquiry! i'll look this up 🔍
this was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week to be a culé, but the silver lining on it was that real madrid feminino b got promoted to the primera federación.
that means next season we will have lots of mini clàssic to watch our barça b babies absolutely thrash the real madrid babies. and i can't wait! 🤗