• Assembly: Barça ratifies the withdrawal of the medals to Franco

Francisco Franco did not like football but he liked Athletic Bilbao, Barcelona and Atlético de Madrid, which was then called Atlético Aviacion. The first admired the Basque character, which in his general opinion embodied the quintessence of the Spanish, the racial support of that rancid concept of Spanish fury that was set in the Olympic Games in Antwerp. "Until next year," Gainza joked with the dictator when he picked up the Generalissimo Cup in Chamartín in 1958. Of the Barça squad, the leader of the Caudillo was Samitier , whom Sami had called since the skilled midfielder sent him a letter confessing his fervent falangism to forgive yesterday's Catalanism. These moves are very human and Franco, of course, understood them well; in fact it provoked them. And then there was the Atleti, of course: the national side team, led by the commanders of the rebel aviation. I still remember my grandfather, aviator and the JONS, encouraging Baltazar on a dusty television in the late 80s. As for Real Madrid, Franco used it for propaganda purposes as he used Marcelino's goal against the USSR, but he didn't there was no choice but to respect the autonomy of Bernabéu , who did not stop until he threw the histrionic Millán-Astray out of the box. The founder of the Legion came to challenge Bernabéu to duel, but the truth is that he did not come back. And it was also from Atleti.

It is important to remember these things when the deferred anti-Francoists of the Barça assembly vote heroically in 2019 the withdrawal of the three medals - three - with which in their day they thanked Franco for the unstoppable services he provided to the club that is more than a club, the unarmed army of Catalonia according to Vázquez Montalbán , the cradle of neo-football that thrills the Qatari sheikhs. Perhaps they believe that by removing the dictator the gold and the brilliant with which they decorated him will erase the Francoist re-qualification of Les Corts that saved Barça from bankruptcy. Perhaps it is that they have finally ascertained that Franco has died, that what they are going to exhume is only their mummy and therefore they do not fear reprisals for their intrepid gesture. Or maybe they plan to reuse the badges to wear to Torra , Puigdemont and Junqueras . Total, the medals will not notice the difference between these breasts and that of the other. They were not designed to reward Democrats.

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