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The Barcelona Complex - Lionel Messi and the Making--and Unmaking--of the World's Greatest Soccer Club (Paperback)
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The Barcelona Complex - Lionel Messi and the Making--and Unmaking--of the World's Greatest Soccer Club (Paperback)
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With rare and unrivaled access, bestselling coauthor of
Soccernomics and longtime Financial Times journalist Simon Kuper
tells the story of how FC Barcelona became the most successful club
in the world-and how that era is now ending FC Barcelona is not
just the world's highest grossing sports club, it is simply one of
the most influential organizations on the planet. At last count, it
had approximately 214 million social media followers, more than any
other sports club except Real Madrid CF-and by one earlier measure,
more than all thirty-two NFL teams combined. It has more in common
with multinational megacompanies like Netflix or small
nation-states than it does with most soccer teams. No wonder its
motto is "More than a club." But it was not always so. In the past
three decades, Barcelona went from a regional team to a global
powerhouse, becoming a model of sustained excellence and beautiful
soccer, and a consistent winner of championships. Simon Kuper
unravels exactly how this transformation took place, paying special
attention to the club's two biggest stars, Johan Cruyff and Lionel
Messi, who is arguably the greatest soccer player of all time.
Messi joined Barca at age thirteen and, more than anyone, has been
the engine and standard-bearer of Barcelona's glory. But his era is
coming to an end-and with it, a once-in-a-lifetime golden run. This
book charts Barca's rise and fall. Like many world-beating
organizations, FC Barcelona closely guards its secrets, granting
few outsiders access to the Camp Nou, its legendary home stadium.
But after decades of writing about the sport and the club, Kuper
was given access to the inner sanctum and the people behind the
scenes who strive daily to keep Barcelona at the top. Erudite,
personal, and capturing all the latest upheavals, his portrait of
this incredible institution goes beyond soccer to understand FC
Barcelona as a unique social, cultural, and political phenomenon.
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