...Futbol Club Barcelona (Catalan pronunciation: [fubˈbɔɫ ˈkɫub bərsəˈɫonə] ( listen)), also known as Barcelona and familiarly as Barça,[1]is a professional football club, based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Founded in 1899 by a group of Swiss, English and Catalan footballers led by Joan Gamper, the club has become a symbol of Catalan culture and Catalanism, hence the motto "Més que un club" (More than a club). Unlike many other football clubs, the supporters own and operate Barcelona. It is the world's second-richest football club in terms of revenue, with an annual turnover of $613 million and thethird most valuable, worth $2.6 billion.[2][3] The official Barcelona anthem is the "Cant del Barça", written by Jaume Picas and Josep Maria Espinàs.[4] Barcelona are the most successful club in Spain, in terms of overall official titles won (83). They are the current Spanish football champions and have won 22 La Liga, 26 Copa del Rey, 11 Supercopa de España, 3 Copa Eva Duarte[5] and 2 Copa de la Liga trophies, as well as being the record holder for the latter four competitions. In international club football, Barcelona have won four UEFA Champions League, a record four UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, four UEFA Super Cup, a record three Inter-Cities Fairs Cup[6] and a record two FIFA Club World Cup trophies.[7] The club has a long-standing rivalry with Real Madrid; matches between the two teams are referred to as "El Clásico". Barcelona is one of the most supported teams in the world, and...
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...ENSAYO DEL LIBRO “CREAR O MORIR” DE ANDRÉS OPPENHEIMER CAPITULO 1 EL MUNDO QUE SE VIENE El autor hace un viaje de investigación a la ciudad de Silicon Valley al norte de California la cua es el conocida como uno de los mayores centros de innovación a nivel mundial puesto que ahí se encuentran varias compañías con grandes avances en el campo de la tecnología e innovación. El motivo del viaje era descubrir el secreto del porque ese lugar estaba a la vanguardia en materia de innovación. Por lo que se citó con Wadhwae, vicepresidente de innovación e investigación de Singularity University, para entrevistarlo sobre estos temas. Wadhwa en la entrevista afirmaba que el secreto del éxito “la gente” ya que las personas que habitaban ese lugar era personas con una gran capacidad creativa que llegaron a ese lugar porque se sentían con una gran libertad crea además de que contribuía la diversidad étnica, cultural y sexual. La gente que habita esta ciudad se siente atraída por la innovación y explotan su potencial con ayuda de instituciones como la Universidad de Stanford además de que el lugar se muestra propicio para su desarrollo ya que las calles cuentan con librerías, laptops y jóvenes que se apoyan entre sí para lograr desarrollar sus proyectos y metas. Se puede deducir que un factor importante para el desarrollo de la innovación y tecnología es el entorno y los sistemas educativos que respalden a la gente además de una ciudad que tenga menos burocracia al momento de que las...
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...team, leading them to glory in Euro 2008. It was near-perfected by Pep Guardiola, conquering all that stood in his way during his four year stint at the Nou Camp. Vicente del Bosque utilised it extremely well, guiding Spain to the World Cup title in 2010 and Euro 2012. Today we know it as “Tiki Taka”. Spanish presenter Andrés Montes used the phrase Tiki Taka for the first time during his television commentary of the Spain versus Tunisia match at the 2006 World Cup. (Hawkey 2009) Montes described Spain's precise, elegant passing style, "Estamos tocando tiki-taka tiki-taka” which literally translated to “We’re playing tiki taka”. (Eva Lavric 2008, p.354) It was an onomatopoeic phrase that hinted to the quick, short passing of the ball between players which made the “tick” sound. Tiki-taka’s seeds were planted by Johan Cruyff during his reign as manager of Barcelona from 1988 to 1996. The playing style evolved under Dutch managers Louis van Gaal and Frank Rijkaard. They made it a point to promote upcoming players from La Masia, Barcelona’s youth academy. La Masia has produced a number of technically talented, often small in stature. Players like Xavi, Andrés Iniesta, Cesc Fàbregas, and Lionel Messi have all graduated from this famed academy. (Marcotti 2013) These are players with an excellent first touch, amazing vision, crisp passing and the ability to maintain possession of the ball. (FourFourTwo 2008) Pep Guardiola took over from Frank Rijkaard in 2008 and under his stewardship...
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...Soccer and Money A paper submitted to Webber International University in partial fulfillment for the Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration By: Vicente Munoz Date: April 15, 2014 Course: English Composition II Semester: Spring 2014 Instructor: Dr. Nancy Davis 1. Introduction: My paper topic is money involved in soccer. I want to make everyone realize how big soccer is. How much money it moves and the most interesting is why the club pays that much money for a player. It involves hundreds of years of history and honor on a soccer pitch. I want to explain the basics of soccer, the different competitions and where it is play. Every summer are transferring players to other teams for a crazy amount of money. Why is this team paying that much money? I would like to explain why the club is paying, what he will make with that player and how much revenue the club will make. All this apart for the trophies, victories, new idols and icon on the city. 2. FIFA ( Federation International Football Association) FIFA was founded on May twenty first on 1904, in Paris with the purpose of have an organization of the world biggest sport, football (soccer). One of the biggest purposes is to expand the sport and to increase the popularity on an international environment. The FIFA headquarters are established in Zurich, Switzerland. The...
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...Branding in Soccer Light and Shadow Branding in Soccer Light and Shadow Introduction “Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.” (Gloves, S. 2012) This much quoted comment of the former, British football manager Bill Shankly describes exactly my view of football. I am a big fan of the most popular sport in the world. Sure I know that this comment is exaggerated, but football becomes more and more important. Not only for the fans and the sportsmen, also for the global economy. (Hamil, S. and Chadwick, S. 2010) In professional football the success goes hand in hand with money. Today it is almost impossible to win a big trophy like the UEFA Championsleague without investing lots of money. The FC Barcelona is ranked as the best team in the world and invested in the last five years an average of 40 Million Euros per annum in new players. (Transfermarkt 2011) But where does all that money come from? According to Uli Hoeneß, the president of German football club FC Bayern Munich, only 15% of the twelve million DMs (6.1 Million Euros) revenue were out of broadcasting, marketing and sponsoring when he began in 1979 his career as a manager. (RP online 2011) His aim was to make his club independent from earnings from the spectators. As you can see in the following diagram he achieved his aim. In the year 2010 Bayern’s matchday earnings were only 21% of the total revenue. The biggest part is now coming from the commercial...
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...Analyzing the Beautiful Game Sports analytics, no matter the field’s renegade posturing, has now been around long enough to have its own pieces of conventional wisdom. Baseball’s cognoscenti know all about the primacy of on-base percentage over batting average, and they have also come to realize once-treasured strategies like bunting and stealing bases are best used sparingly. In basketball, the mid-range jump shot is slowly being phased out as an inefficient relic of antiquity. Spreadsheets are shaming football coaches into rolling the dice more often on fourth downs. But for many American fans tuning into the World Cup, soccer’s nuggets of analytic insight remain as foreign as the game itself. There are set pieces to orchestrate, attacking strategies to plan, areas of the defense to exploit — and it isn’t always apparent which tactics are best. But analytics has clear advice on how to do some things right. Soccer analytics is very much viewed as a discipline in its infancy. And the sport itself is often described as especially resistant to the pull of number-crunching, whether due to its fluid nature, its sportocratic establishment culture, or a fear that the un-sentimentality of data will rob the Beautiful Game of its celebrated elegance. There’s not much truth to that. Off and on, people have been tracking relatively detailed soccer data in some form for more than six decades, up to and including the modern companies that exhaustively log every event on the pitch. (2) ...
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...`WHAT MAKES A GREAT SPORT LEADER? Page 1 GENUINE EFFECTIVE SPORT LEADERS OR JUST LAZY, INEXPERIENCE SCUMS! The good Sports leaders must have four essential Qualities in order to be effective in what they do, if a Sport Leader does not have these skills, this automatically means they are FAKE shams of an effective sports leader. Having only some of these skill qualities result in ineffective Sport Leaders, who are too lazy to acknowledge these advance skills to succeed. Sports leaders who don’t have these skills should not have honour to have LEADER in their profession. The First quality that is vital in being effective in sports leadership is the Knowledge of Sports Skills, so in this case meaning the Sports Leader must have a good knowledge of the participant’s skill development, technical ability and technical demands in order to carry out the session correctly and successful. This will thus help the sports leader make a decision on what specific, simple skill is require to help the participant succeed in the activity and enjoy it at the same time. This will then make the sessions fun and not too difficult. Moreover, these factors are very important to know. For example, one of my close friends was a former sports leader, and I came along to one of his session to watch him performs in his sports leadership sessions; he did a football session with the kids. I watched the session and he turned a difficult football session into a fun one for the children...
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...adidas AG (German pronunciation: [ˈadiˌdas]) is a German multinational corporation that designs and manufactures sports clothing and accessories based in Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, Germany. It is the holding company for the Adidas Group, which consists of the Reebok sportswear company, TaylorMade-Adidas golf company (including Ashworth), Rockport, and 9.1% of FC Bayern Munich. Besides sports footwear, Adidas also produces other products such as bags, shirts, watches, eyewear, and other sports- and clothing-related goods. Adidas is the largest sportswear manufacturer in Germany and Europe and the second biggest sportswear manufacturer in the world.[3] Adidas was founded in 1948 by Adolf Dassler, following the split of Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik between him and his older brother Rudolf. Rudolf later established Puma, which was the early rival of Adidas. Registered in 1949, Adidas is currently based in Herzogenaurach, Germany. Puma is also based in Herzogenaurach. The company's clothing and shoe designs typically feature three parallel bars, and the same motif is incorporated into Adidas's current official logo.[4][5] The company revenue for 2012 was listed at €14.48 billion.[2] Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik Christoph Von Wilhelm Dassler was a worker in a shoe factory, while his wife Pauline ran a small laundry in the Bavarian town of Herzogenaurach, 20 km (12.4 mi) from the city of Nuremberg. After leaving school, their son, Rudolf "Rudi" Dassler, joined his father at the shoe...
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