CHAPTER 1: JOAN GAMPER STREET - Our Museum, Our City

Speaker 1 Hi. I'm the Olivine presenter on Varsity be plus and this is our Museum or city. 1% of the history is in Barcelona. If you find it. Interesting come and see the remaining 99% at the Museum buying your ticket at FC, Barcelona.com. Forward slash tour. Speaker 2 Chapter one, Joan, gamper Street, did you know that Joan, gamper, the founder of FC. Barcelona was Swiss and that the club almost disappeared, nine years after it was founded, Joan, gamper, swiss-german arrived in Barcelona in 1998 and quickly integrated as a goblin learning the Catalan. Which before Spanish in fact, his name was not one but hunts, but here he asked to be called Joe on the translation of Hans into Catalan in 1899 a year after his arrival. He founded FC Barcelona. He could not be the first president of barsa because he was not 23 years old yet and legally. At the time he was considered her minor even so drunk a was always at the club's disposal whenever he was needed. In fact he later Her served as president up to five times. The first of these was in 1908, at the time when FC Barcelona was on the verge of Disappearing due to poor results. And he decided to take responsibility and take the club forward when everyone thought it was lost. Got a dead went as far as to visit the members who had left the club house to house in order to convince them to come Speaker 1 back Speaker 2 in Catalunya. Everyone respected and idolized him because he had committed himself to the Limit with the feelings and ideals of the Catalan people. In fact, it was him who linked FC Barcelona with Catalan ISM. One of the essential elements, that makes barsa more than just a club. Unfortunately his last presidential period ended badly in 1925, the military dictatorship in Spain, forced him to resign after the public whistled, the Spanish anthem at the Speaker 1 bar stadium in this court. Speaker 2 Got a it had to go into Exile in Switzerland for a while and when he returned he was completely forbidden to have any connection with FC Barcelona. As for him barsa was his life. This caused him deep depression from which he couldn't recover. He himself used to comment to his friends that without soccer, he fell dead on July 30th. 30. He committed, suicide the day, before his death, in another place in Barcelona. A Swiss friend of gamper named 13 goal had also put an end to his life. The two companions had agreed to carry it out together. Speaker 1 Joan, gamper Street in Barcelona was inaugurated on June 24th, 1934. Speaker 2 The ceremony was attended by the president of the generalitat de Catalunya, Jewish combines with declared. This act shows that we catalans love not those who come to oppress us, but those who come to honor us with their work. In 1939 Franco's dictatorship imposed a street to adopt again its previous name chrysanthemum streets, it was not until June 15th in 1947 when thanks to a certain liberation of the regime, the street could be renamed after join Gambit if today hans-georg one could see what his call to form. A soccer team has become, he would feel nothing but immense Pride. Speaker 1 You have listened to our Museum, our city 1% of bars as history is in the city, come and see the remaining 99% at the Museum.