A mosaic of Catalonia at the old Camp Nou before a Barça match.
20/07/2025
Periodista
1 min

"If you have the ball, the other guy doesn't have it," you said one day. "Yes, and you still play with a ball, right?" And the crowd burst into laughter. opening the lineup and Basora, César, Vila, Moreno and Manchón closing it. 1877… We wouldn't finish.

On the occasion of Barça's 125th anniversary, the Esport 3 channel is rebroadcasting these days all the programs that TV3 offered between 1998 and 1999, when Barça's centenary, and that with Xavier Bosch and Eduard Boet we called This year, one hundred!We dedicate a program to the Les Corts stadium and Camp Nou, with never-before-seen color images from 1954 of the laying of the foundation stone, and we imagine what 21st-century stadiums would look like: multipurpose, sustainable, with grass and retractable roofs and all the futuristic elements that the 3D era allowed us to dream of.

Now, Camp Nou won't be able to partially reopen for Gamper Stadium, just as the club had announced days ago with great fanfare and TikTok. This is the third delay. It will come, and when it arrives, it will be a celebration, regardless of which president you vote for. Because if that televised Barça story makes anything clear, it's that no one owns the heritage of the Barcelona sentiment, that the club is the sum of "many years full of effort." of many different people, and that the usual state of the Barça debates was already defined more than a century ago, when someone said that the still current shape of the crest was appropriate for Barça, because the club was "a pot of cabbages."

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