{"id":23430,"date":"2024-02-21T15:07:56","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T14:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/confederaciopenyes.cat\/chapter-2-the-fourth-teams-nova-germanor-and-apatics\/"},"modified":"2024-06-12T15:31:48","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T13:31:48","slug":"chapter-2-the-fourth-teams-nova-germanor-and-apatics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/confederaciopenyes.cat\/en\/chapter-2-the-fourth-teams-nova-germanor-and-apatics\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 2 – The fourth teams. Nova Germanor and Ap\u00e0tics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If we analyse some of the events of the second decade of FC Barcelona’s twentieth century, we could come to the conclusion that there is a certain relationship between the appearance of the supporters\u2019 clubs and the first political division in Barcelona, which has lasted until the present day<\/strong>. And that is when we ask ourselves: what kind of relationship can link a world of unity and consensus, such as that of the supporters\u2019 clubs, with an event that represents such division within the Club as the famous “isms”?<\/p>\n\n

If we go back in time, it all began on 17 July 1910<\/strong>, when FC Barcelona decided to celebrate the achievement of the 1909\/1910 season treble<\/strong> (Catalan Championship, Spanish Championship – now known as Copa del Rey – and the Challenge International du Sud de France or Pyrenees Cup) in its new small stadium in Industria Street. For the first time, this celebration included the performance of the Club’s first anthem<\/strong>, which can also be considered the first anthem of a European football team. Composed by the Galician military man Jos\u00e9 Antonio Lodeiro Pi\u00f1eiroa, this anthem had very combative lyrics and joyful music performed by the band of the Regiment of Alc\u00e1ntara 58 infantry<\/strong>, a military regiment located in Barcelona. Among the members of FC Barcelona, there were military men who shared victories and successes with members of the Catalan bourgeois class, such as General Juan Avil\u00e9s or the Peris de Vargas family<\/strong>, which had many brothers, three of whom came to wear the blaugrana shirt. Enrique Peris<\/strong>, who played 308 games for Bar\u00e7a from the 1906\/1907 to the 1916\/1917 season, is worth mentioning.<\/p>\n\n

Among the Peris brothers, there was one who was not a player, but who has gone down in history as one of the most controversial leaders during his time as president of FC Barcelona, on two occasions, until the summer of 1915. On 29 June 1915, Rafael Llopart<\/strong> became president, and a year later, on 25 June 1916, he was succeeded by the Catalan nationalist politician Gaspar Ros\u00e9s<\/strong>, who clearly won the elections against Peris de Vargas’ man, Josep Preckler. The club calmed down, although externally there were several problems with the federations<\/strong>. But the remedy to everything was always Joan Gamper<\/strong>, and so, in the elections of 17 June 1917, he returned to the presidency for the third time and remained in charge until 19 June 1919, when he was replaced by his colleague Ricard Graells.<\/p>\n

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And what do the Bar\u00e7a supporters\u2019 clubs have to do with all this?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Peris de Vargas or his followers were not quiet during the following years, and whenever there was an obstacle in the successive directives, they appeared to demonstrate their opposition. It is also in 1915 that there is the first reference in FC Barcelona’s fourth teams<\/strong>, where we can see the division between the two political groups within the club: the monarchists and the Catalanists<\/strong>. It is not known exactly when the so-called fourth teams actually appeared or what they consisted of. Some say that they were the children’s teams (because the B and C teams already existed), others think that they were actually more diverse teams or, in other words, supporters’ teams.<\/p>\n\n

In our opinion, always debatable, they were teams of young people without any age range<\/strong> who organised their own tournaments or friendly games. In other words, nothing to do with today’s structure in the grassroots categories of football.<\/p>\n\n

References of the fourth teams<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n