Barça recalls the 1992 Barcelona Olympics

On July 25, it was 30 years since the inauguration of the Barcelona Olympic Games, which promoted and revealed its ambition for an open and cosmopolitan city. Although the most important competitions took place in the Olympic Stadium and in the Palau Sant Jordithe FC Barcelona it also made some of its facilities available to the organization. That is why the Camp Nou was the main stage of the football competition and the Palau Blaugrana It was the headquarters of roller hockey and martial arts.

In addition, up to 15 Blaugrana athletes participated in the competition in five different modalities. Albert Ferrer y Joseph Guardiola played for the Spanish soccer team, in addition to Antonio Pinillawho was in the middle of two transfers, in Mallorca and in Albacete; Joseph Benito y John Carlosin roller hockey; David Barrufet, Enric Masip, Ángel Hermida, Iñaki Urdangarin y Lorenzo Ricoin handball, and Juan Antonio San Epifanio ‘Epi’ y Andres Jimenezin basketball, in addition, Jose Rafael ‘Piculin’ Ortiz He played for the Puerto Rico basketball team. In the field of athletics, the long-distance runner James Barroso and the hanger Daniel Martinalso athletes of the Barça.

The new Barça kits, inspired by the 1992 Olympic Games

The city of Barcelonaas a result of the organization of the Olympic Games, experienced a transformation towards modernity and became known to the world. In that same year, the Barça won his first european cup in Wembley with the Dream Team of Johan Cruyffwhich marked a before and after in the history of FC Barcelona and he is still remembered by the majority of Barcelona fans.

This Olympic spirit of change, renewal and transformation experienced by the city of Barcelona in 1992 was the inspiration for the new kits of the Barça for this 2022/23 season, both for the men’s and women’s first teams. The first t-shirt, with an innovative design and under the motto ‘The flame is still alive’, was inspired by the evolution that Barcelona in the Olympic Games, which the Blaugrana team is also expected to experience in this new season that is about to begin. For its part, the second shirt, in gold, refers to Olympic gold and the values ​​of effort, ambition and constant improvement in the world of sport.

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