Rival FC Barcelona - The history of Real Madrid

Real Madrid - FIFA Team of the "Century, 31 league championships, nine European Cups, one UEFA Cup and two World Club Championship title.

Also, oddly, is a club that in recent years has maintained the custom of firing successful managers. Jupp Heynckes has spent four weeks after winning a Champions League title he won Fabio Capello Bernd Schuster and the league before being dismissed on the grounds that he, too defensive and the other as too rash. The price, however,for what it's worth Vicente Del Bosque is the current manager of the national team, which released the day after winning the championship in a room at the hotel in which his players that their festive lunch was had!

Real Madrid emerged in 1897 in which a number of students and teachers of the Institution Libre de Enseñanza morning started playing friendly matches on Sunday. From these humble beginnings arose Madrid Football Club in 1902 - he won his royal patronage and name of the club in 1920 by King Alfonso XIII. The club was a founding member of the Spanish league in 1929 - when Barça won the title and the first El Clásico, such as attachment between the two clubs, Spain is known - began in earnest.

From the beginning the rivalry was intense, but has developed considerably in the years following the Civil War. Of course there are many stories of how the government of Franco promoted the interests of real> Madrid to its development, and Spain's international reputation. The way Barcelona has sought an identity in a time when the Catalan language and flag were banned, they say well maintained. Barça is "more than a club" and the phrase Así gana el Madrid - is to win this, like Madrid - Spain was part of the sporting tradition.

There are two such stories, however, that might shed more light on the situation in thesedifficult times.

now known as the Cope del Rey but then renamed the Copa del Generalísimo - In 1942, Barcelona won the Spanish Cup. The following season they were convincing against Real in a return match in the semifinals and won the first game by three goals to zero, stoned away in spite of their star players, escolar, carrying. The second phase was still just one more thing - incredible 11-1 in Madrid. Not just one finish was the head ofState Security to match the reported visitors check Barça dressing room before telling some of the players in Spain to maintain their right was his, but also the transfer of a player in the first minutes meant that the rest of the team is the right message !

The other classic example of how they feel about Barcelona suffered during the Franco era, perhaps the most famous player to wear the shirt of Real Madrid - Alfredo diStephen, the hierarchy remains a cult figure in Madrid today. In 1953, the Argentine striker, Bobby Charlton as the smartest player he had seen described, signed from Barcelona by his Colombian club Millonarios. According to Di Stefano appeared in a couple of friendly matches, he was involved and after a series of revealing and ambiguous "the negotiations," said the Spanish FA, that the transfer was invalid and the player was triumphantly. Madrid two weeks after he made his debut in a 5-0 victory on Barcelona at the Bernabeu - four goals and begins its journey toward the status of legend.

Moreover, the transfer of Luis Figo in 2000 pales in comparison to the machinations involved in the move of Stephen.

With such a violent and persistent rivalry between the two teams is huge, these are the events in Barcelona's 3-0 victory in 2000 in an even more dramaticPerspective that colors the night was that their supporters Madrid rose to feet and applauded Ronaldinho after perhaps his best performance in club history.