A football club as a resistance group, a football club as an aid worker – the club’s own foundation supports children in developing countries as well as UNICEF – and a football club with 170,000 members. This is why the 57 million supporters of Barcelona believe that they are not only better fans, but arguably also better people. The appearance of the triumph of a rather socialist form of football over a more conservative style is always in evidence when Barcelona meet Madrid. (via The World’s Best Soccer Team: Using Math to Crack the Barca Code – SPIEGEL ONLINE – News – International)
