Josep Sunyol, Barça’s Martyr President

OTD E0279 — 06 Aug 1936: Josep Sunyol i Garriga, president of FC Barcelona, Catalan republican deputy, founder of La Rambla, and advocate of “sport and citizenship,” is executed without trial by Francoist forces in the Sierra de Guadarrama during the first weeks of the Spanish Civil War. This episode traces Barça under Primo de Rivera, the 1925 Les Corts closure, Joan Gamper’s exile, Sunyol’s political and sporting life, La Rambla and Canaletes, his 1935 Barça presidency, the 1936 Copa final, the fatal journey toward the Guadarrama front, Barça’s wider Civil War catastrophe, the 1938 bombing of the club headquarters, and the late recovery of Barça’s martyr president.Ideas: [email protected]