Comments on: Opinion: All the new Barcelona fans

By: cruyffish

cruyffish — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 04:43:14 +0000

No problem. You are getting stronger in football as a nation I've heard which is cool too.!

By: Indojood

Indojood — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:09:31 +0000

Give me a couple of days. Kinda busy around the New Year festivities. Two weeks ago I also watched Nr. 14 again, an early 70's documentary around Cruyff. It's striking to see the way Ajax played has been replicated into today's Barça with Pep. If you're interested I will post this one also. It''s entirely Dutch spoken without subs but the images are pure magic.

By: sebi18

sebi18 — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 07:52:18 +0000

Thank you for your prayers and support, cruyffish. It's times like these that put the important things in perspective and (sadly,i should say) makes this beautiful game and this fantastic team that we so love seem trivial.

On the upside though, the Philippines is currently enjoying the beginnings of a football renaissance with the recent success of the Azkals — our NT's nickname is the Filipino slang for a mongrel dog because, well, we don't have a footballing pedigree. So now a lot of Filipinos are already familiar with Paulino Alcantara. Hopefully this could bring in a few more new Barça fans. The more the merrier. Cheers!

By: chief

chief — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 07:35:39 +0000

catch 22!

By: @boatsandpirates

@boatsandpirates — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 07:26:38 +0000

I think it says something about the draw of the club that there are so many fans around the globe. Sure, it's easy to be a culé in Spain – just turn on the TV or pick up your copy of Marca and enjoy. I wake up at 5am to stream the game on my laptop from Sydney, and yes I wear a full kit every match And I know I am not the only one.
Now THAT, my friends, is commitment. (My poor nonbeliever roomies disagree, of course, because they get woken up with cant del barça)

Lets see the bandwagon kids do that.

By: sebi18

sebi18 — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:57:20 +0000

It’s a good read, coolit so i don’t really mind the novel. I’m from the Philippines too and I started out as a Barça bandwagoner. I have always loved football and started playing as a kid barefoot with a small Robertson’s basketball and a pair of sandals as goal markers. My love affair with Barça though started when we bought Maradona in 1982-ish. That was when i started following Barça matches — and by following i mean watching 3-4 month old game videos in Betamax relatives send from elsewhere. Then i started reading about FC Barcelona in whatever literature i could find so that i could learn their history. From then on i religiously followed Barça and only Barça. (You can imagine how i suffered during those lean years when we won nothing and i couldn’t console myself by saying, “It’s okay because my other team won Serie A anyway.”) It actually helped (although this might be misconstrued) that being a Probinsyano from the Visayas (where the legendary Paulino Alcantara is from) i could identify parallelisms between the Catalan vs Castillan rivalry and that old Bisdak dislike for Imperial Manila — every love affair starts somewhere, eh? Visca Barca! Mabuhay ang Pilipinas! Mabuhay si Paulino Alcantara!

By: zen

zen — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:50:41 +0000

Please do!

By: cule.com

cule.com — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:06:03 +0000

study hard dude, its KING KEITA

By: EL BARCA NEGRO redux

EL BARCA NEGRO redux — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:29:18 +0000

INIESTa lol easy

By: Mazi.Izuu

Mazi.Izuu — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:55:33 +0000

Supporting a club outside EPL in my country[Nigeria] is bravery. l started watching FCB after 2002 WC, following ‘Dinho in particular but Iniesta changed me during 2006 UCL finals. Today, any pub around l walked into, they know me as #1 FCB fan. Also, l’ve taking upon myself to defend the philosophy of ‘MORE THAN A CLUB’, many fans of FCB can now have a say. Nov.13[2010] and Dec.10[2011], l won more fans for my club. Truly, l don’t have anything to prove to Rosell and co. to show that there are blue n yellow running with red in my body.

By: David

David — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:53:16 +0000

Your final question, “Why is this great website being hijacked by such morons?” is, in a way, just rephrasing the premise of the original post: all the new fans dilutes the quality of the fanbase.

By: RUTH

RUTH — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:49:24 +0000

And it is culé with an accent not just cule !!!

By: Catalan4ever

Catalan4ever — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:12:36 +0000

Well I am from Pakistan and I started watching football in 1999 when my national cricket team lost the World Cup final. I guess I was so disappointed that I just wanted to watch some new game. Fortunately for me Star Sports used to show weekly highlight of the Spanish league and one afternoon I saw Rivaldo and Figo tormenting the opposition. This made me curious and I waited for the next week highlight. I started following Barca but sparingly.

But the thing which made me fall in love for Barca was the summer of 2001 when Rivaldo produced a moment of pure magic to put Barca back into the champions league with a hatrick and one amazing last minute goal. I am sure the old cules remember that moment and I can bet that every single barca fan would have jumped in joy when that ball went inside the net. From that moment I decided that I will support Barca till I die.

Enjoy the video http://www.boxofficefootball.com/blast-from-the-p…

By: Indojood

Indojood — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:11:35 +0000

Go on and watch "En un Momento Dado". a documentary around Johan Cruyff and his influence on ordinary Catalans. It is mainly in Catalan, Spanish and Dutch but there are English subs. I can upload it onto the net and put a link over here if some of the new (and old) fans want to have it.

By: WesBornCule

WesBornCule — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:42:28 +0000

Only time will tell who among us will end up being the "gloryhunters" and who will be the "true Cule"..
Let us enjoy the present.
Let us enjoy the current ups and downs.
And as time passes, and perhaps history marked.
Hopefully we'll be able to smile and proudly convey the feeling we had/have, to the future generations, that we lived and witnessed the "Footballing Spectacle" that "Historic Team" ever graced us with.