Joan Gamper

Chapter 15 – The penya Gol de Baix and the death of Gamper

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Joan Gamper, founder and five-time president of FC Barcelona, committed suicide in his apartment in Barcelona, located in Girona Street, on July 30, 1930. Ruined by Wall Street Crash of 1929 and suffering from depression since he was turned away from the Club, Gamper had suffered a deterioration of his health in the previous five … Read more

Chapter 8 – Penya Gol de Baix: the penya of Joan Gamper

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As we have seen in previous chapters, Barça supporters’ clubs already existed and were very active in the 1920s. A very illustrative example of this can be found in 1927 with the Penya Gol de Baix, which organised this peculiar “friendly game” on the morning of the same day that a match was played in … Read more