The FC Barcelona and the Catalan campaign... What do?

As it affirms the journalist Santi Giménez in 'ACE', the FC Barcelona has seen immersed in the Catalan campaign where debate by the independence of Catalonia. Although Bartomeu has affirmed that the club keeps neutral his last acts do not indicate it like this

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The FC Barcelona is a very important entity no longer only in the world of the football but in the own society. It is thus that in the elections of 27 September a lot of have wanted to use it to take out political benefit. In front of this and as it affirms his president Josep Maria Bartomeu the club has kept neutral and will respect what the Catalans decide in the urns this weekend. Although, also it has left clear that in case of independence what the Barça would want to is to keep on being integrande the League of Professional Football.

In spite of these words, the acts of Bartomeu do not leave neither indifferent to anybody and can not say that they are for nothing neutral. First, when it does a year the board of the club representing to the FC Barcelona added to the Pacte National pel Dret to Decide ("National Pact by the Right to Decide"), in front of to decide it in the Assembly of Compromisarios; and later when before the elections to the Barcelona presidency Bartomeu and the others candidates photographed and signed together with Omnium Cultural and the ANC a document in favour of the sportive Catalan selections.

But the most curious of the case is that the majority of the managerial board of the FC Barcelona is not independentista. This is a big difference regarding the one of Joan Laporta, the one who himself used the club to claim his catalanidad and the independence of the territory. In spite of all this and that a lot of have affirmed not being in favour of the secession, the acts made by the current president before the elections in research of more votes do him now prisoner of the elections.

From a lot of sectors knows that there is a big majority of fans that are in favour of the secession of Catalonia, as it remains showed from does a pair of years in the graderías of the Camp Nou each minute 17.14 with the cries of independence. But also it has to answer to the innumerable interested that the club has far of Catalonia or in the own territory that do not support this political decision. It is thus that the current directors ask , what have to do in front of this historical event? Many are the voices that affirm that keep truly neutral is the way, and by here go the shots.

Cardinal and Thebes also do political

In statements carried out in the conference 'Economy and sport: balance and challenges of future' celebrated in the headquarters of the School of Economists of Catalonia, Miguel Cardinal has not had objections in ensuring that, in the context of an independent Catalonia of Spain, probably the FC Barcelona would not have sufficient economic resources as to make an able competitive team to exceed the eighth or quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League, happening to seem more to the Ajax of Amsterdam or to the Standard of Lieja.

"Nowadays the finances of the teams come marked by the income of television", has begun the president of the Upper Council of Sports, adding that "in a country of some eight million inhabitants will be able to become a team of quarry like the Ajax, the Celtic, the Standard... And arrive as very far to the eighth, quarter-finals of the Champions". The director, besides, has defended his posture ensuring that "it is not the speech of the fear".

By his part, in some statements carried out through a message written in his official account of Twitter, Javier Thebes, president of LaLiga, ensured this past Sunday that FC Barcelona and Espanyol could not play the League BBVA and the Spanish competitions in the case that Catalonia independizara of Spain. "If it breaks Spain, breaks the League. We expect not arriving never to this absurd", went the words of Thebes, putting the fear in the body to some fans.