Som L´Espanyol: We are Espanyol 1.1

Mes que un club, sorry to say it but I laugh every-time I hear the blasted phrase. Sure, they say that the club is a Catalan club, but will we argue who is more Catalan if they live there much as we do? More than a club. A slogan of Catalan independence and identity and yet they forget that we exist. We commit. Real Club Deportiú Espanyol of Barcelona, the first local club of local men in Barcelona and yet we´re the foreigners. Because we carry the King´s seal and we don´t buy their rhetoric.

They wanted to be a global brand. More than a brand that allows foreign culés raised in the folds of FC Barcelona, who have never even stepped foot on the Nou Camp soil to call themselves more than your average supporters, and now their new President wants to circle the wagons and protect that identity, the Catalan nature of the club, and eliminate the foreign influence, the multicultural-multinational identity of Barsa? Rosell wants to freeze foreign memberships to FC Barcelona and reassess the club´s need to continue that process? That and his campaign promise to open-up slots for more Catalan kids into Barca´s youth team structure by limiting foreigners. Does he know the can of worms he´s opening?

Admit it. This is the exposed underbelly of FC Barcelona. It is a very tight-knit community of Catalans who would rather service their own than allow you access. They would rather do as others have in the past and keep you from supporting them if you do not speak their language or trace your lineage to the early supporters who founded the club. Ignore that they were Swiss, that´s not the issue, they don´t want you. The old-money culés like Sandro Rosell want the club for themselves. You´ll never be equal in their eyes. So stop. Reassess.
Live a life that´s free. Love Barcelona, it´s a beautiful city, but learn to see it through blue-and-white sunglasses like I do. We won´t turn you down.

Embrace the parakeet...

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