Tuesday, 10 June 2014

Final Project



Barcelona club


 


History


In 1899 Joan Gamper, a Swiss man, chose to acquaint football with Barcelona by setting up a group. The club was authoritatively established on 29th November 1899. It developed from quality to quality, winning titles, for example, the Macaya Cup in 1902, the Pyrenees Cup in 1910 – 1912 (Martin Comin, 2009). Barcelona FC fabricated their first stadium in 1909 with a limit of 6,000 individuals. Throughout the 1920's the group's notoriety and achievement developed. They won the first Championship League in the 1928 - 1929 seasons. With the club's new notoriety it was important to construct another stadium (McFarland, 2012). In 1922 the 'Les Corts' stadium was fabricated, with a limit of 22,000 individuals (Martin Comin, 2009). It is paramount to recall that Barcelona FC has survived a Civil War. In 1936 Franco's troops shot the club president, Josep Sunyol because of his enrollment of a left wing gathering. All Barcelona FC fans are pleased with what is known as the 'Five Cups' Season. This was the period between 1951 - 1952 when Barcelona FC won the Cup, the League, the Latin Cup, the Martini Rosso and the Eva Duarte. In 1957 Camp Nou was assembled, with an introductory limit of 90,000 individuals (McFarland, 2012).


How football spared in Spain and especially in Catalonia.


The most seasoned football club in Spain is Recreativo de Huelva, structured on December 23, 1889 by Dr. William Alexander Mackay and British specialists utilized by the Rio Tinto Company. Albeit Gimnàstic de Tarragona was framed in 1886 and Sevilla FC in 1890, the clubs did not structure a genuine football group until 1914 and 1905, separately. The primary authority football amusement played in Spain occurred in Seville on March 8, 1890 at the Tablada Hippodrome (Gay Escodaet, al, 2011). Recreativo de Huelva played against Sevilla FC, a group made up of laborers from the Seville Water Works. Except for two Spanish players on the Huelva group, all the players on both groups were British. This is the motivation behind why the group is called Sevilla FC (football club) and not Sevilla CF ('club de fútbol' in Spanish). The Seville group won 2-0 (McFarland, 2012).


The most seasoned club in Catalonia is Palamós Foot-Ball Club established in 1898. Albeit Gimnàstic de Tarragona was shaped in 1886, the club did not structure a genuine football group until 1914. Català SC and Foot-Ball Club Barcelona were both established in 1899. A few clubs likewise developed with a reference to Spain in their title (Martin Comin, 2009). These included Hispania AC and Sociedad Española de Football, both shaped in 1900, and FC Espanya de Barcelona. On November 11, 1900 the Federació Catalana de Futbol was shaped as the Football Associació de Catalunya. It was the first football acquaintanceship established in Spain. The primary president was Eduard Alesson and the first parts included FC Barcelona, Sociedad Española de Football, Català SC and Hisp A.C (Martin Comin, 2009).


How the Barcelona and real Madrid became rivals.


Genuine Madrid and Barcelona's competition is a standout amongst the most impactful representations of focused soccer, not just for the fights they persevere on the field, yet for reasons that dig deeper underneath the surface of what we see on our screens as well. It has been that path since the exact starting, a period when legislative issues manufactured the soccer warfare that we see today. The shaping of the two clubs corresponded with a standout amongst the most turbulent times of history that Spain has encountered (Gay Escodaet, al, 2011). General Franco's rebellion against the Second Spanish Republic saw FC Barcelona put to the highest priority on the arrangement of associations to be cleansed by the National Faction, whilst Madrid's 'incorporating inclinations' were restricted energetically by their opponents. It is a history that still dwells through the lanes of Spain's two biggest urban areas (Martin Comin, 2009).


The meaning of the football for the fans in Catalonia.


FC Barcelona is a Catalan club situated in Barcelona, structured in 1899 by a gathering of Swiss, English and neighborhood players headed by Joan Gamper. It has been a piece of the Spanish top-flight, La Liga, since the group's initiation in 1928 and has won La Liga 22 times, alongside 26 Copas del Rey and 4 UEFA Champions League triumphs (Mota, nd). The supporters of Barcelona have had imperative impact in the arrangement of the club's Catalan personality throughout the club's 113-year presence. From the tyrant standard of Spain under Miguel Primo de Rivera in 1923, which later finished with the rightist principle of Franco, different manifestations of social mistreatment were authorized against Catalonia and FC Barcelona specifically, bringing on the club to turn into an image of resistance (Mota, nd). After Spain's move to vote based system in 1978, few help supportive networks of FC Barcelona advanced, most eminently the Boixos Nois, who later blended their backing of the club with an interest of severance from Spain (Gay Escodaet, al, 2011).


 


 


 


References


 


Gay Escoda, C., Pereira, D. M. V. D., Ardèvol, J., Pruna, R., Fernandez, J., & Valmaseda Castellón, E. (2011). Study of the effect of oral health on physical condition of professional soccer players of the Football Club Barcelona.Medicina Oral, Patología Oral y Cirugia Bucal, 2011, vol. 16, num. 3, p. 436-439. http://diposit.ub.edu/dspace/handle/2445/48472


McFarland, A. (2012). Sport’s growth in Barcelona and Catalonia from the 1890s to 1920: a case study. Soccer & Society, 13(4), 584-598. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14660970.2012.677230#.U5Stl3KSzfI


Martin Comin, J. (2009). Welcome to Barcelona. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, 36, 145-146. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00259-009-1227-5?LI=true


Mota, F. Universitat de Barcelona. unpublished work. http://www.math.uni-muenster.de/logik/YS09/ResearchStatements/Mota.pdf


 


Tuesday, 3 June 2014


Manarat Al Saadiyat Overview

                   

Manarat Al Saadiyat means ‘the place of Enlightenment’. It is a 15,400 square metre arts and culture centre, designed to bring the vision of the island to life through The Saadiyat Story. The venue also features four gallery spaces.

Located on Saadiyat, this artistic venue houses TDIC exhibitions with international collections from around the world, including three major galleries, a central events gallery, sales centre, 250-seat theatre, and restaurant.




Open daily from 10am – 8pm

Entrance is complimentary.



 

Louvre Abu Dhabi overview           

 

Louvre Abu Dhabi will be the first universal museum in the Arab world. Born of an agreement between the governments of Abu Dhabi and France, the Louvre Abu Dhabi will display art, manuscripts and objects of historical, cultural and sociological significance. Spanning millennia, the items on display will originate from societies and cultures all over the world, but universal themes and common influences will be highlighted to illustrate similarities arising from shared human experience transcending geography, nationality and history.



The museum is due to open in 2015.

 

Zayed Museum Overview

 

At the heart of the Saadiyat Cultural District is the Zayed National Museum, the centerpiece of the island. Fittingly elevated above the rest of the cultural district at its highest point, the museum tells the story of the region’s history and the unification of the United Arab Emirates through the life and person of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, father of the nation.

For further information about the Zayed National Museum visit
zayednationalmuseum.ae, the institution’s dedicated website.

Also, visit our
project update section to view construction progress of the museum.

The museum is due to open in 2016.

The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Overview

 

The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi will be a pre-eminent platform for global contemporary art and culture that will present the most important artistic achievements of our time. Through its permanent collection, exhibitions, scholarly publications and educational programs, the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi will promote a truly transnational perspective on art history.

The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi will move beyond a definition of global art premised on geography by focusing on the interconnected dynamics of local, regional, and international art centers as well as their diverse historical contexts and sources of creative inspiration. In realizing this endeavor, the museum will acknowledge and celebrate the specific identity derived from the cultural traditions of Abu Dhabi and the United Arab Emirates, as well as other countries comprising the Middle East, even as it pioneers a novel, visionary model that will redefine the art-historical canon.

The museum is due to open in 2017.