Joan Casals, the legendary 'Avi' of FC Barcelona, dies

The barcelonismo is in mourning this Thursday after knowing the demise of the fan cule Joan Casals, commonly known as 'l'Avi of the Barça'. The own Barcelona club informed of the news through his channels in social networks. The entity explained that the Catalan left to the ninety years of age, remembering that his popularity began in the Trophy Joan Gamper of 1984, moment in which it decided to disguise for the first time and attend to the Camp Nou with a Barcelona T-shirt, a barretina and a flag of the club.

The FC Barcelona vol show the seu condol per the mort of Joan Casals, conegut com l'Avi of the Barça.

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— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona_cat) February 15, 2024

A history like culé that reached the 40 years

From this moment, a lot of fans identified him as 'l'Avi of the Barça', a character of comic created by the cartoonist Valentí Castanys in the years 20, and turned into one of the emblems of the club, being an usual in parties of the first team of football and meetings of crags barcelonistas. With his mythical white beard, Casals, turned into an icon of the barcelonismo and in all a symbol of the history of the club, being probably the most recognised fan of all the Camp Nou, to the one who the cameras were used to to look for and with the one who the people wanted to take out photographies.

Although in those moments of the comic the Barça hardly arrived to his twentieth fifth birthday and now have happened already one hundred years since, the Barcelona entity, in that stage, already was one of the clubs of football more iconic and ancient of Catalonia. Casals, been born in Guardiola of Berguedà, finish giving him life to that figure designed by Castanys a lot of years afterwards.