The Barcelona fan

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In the 1920s he burst onto the Barcelona cuplé scene. Mercedes Serós and Ballester (1900-1970), Aragonese of Catalan parents. The Barça of Samitier, Sancho, Alcantara and Piera He was declared champion of Spain in 1925 for the sixth time, winning Sands of Getxo. In homage to the idols, the Zero became the ‘hit’ of the time ‘cuplé’The Barcelona fan‘, which is considered almost an anthem among Barcelona fans.

The family Zero lived at number 84 street Vila and Vilafrom where the hustle and bustle of noisy Paral.lel venues originates. The mother, nicknamed ‘the Viosa‘worked on Eden Concert repairing the clothes of the artists and his younger brother acted as a bellboy: in this context the cost to him was very little. mercedes debut at the age of 16 in the Doré salon of Rambla de Catalunya after getting the first coins by acting Molins de Rei at the end of the week.

“Serós was the most complete variety star of his time because he combined figure, beauty, youth, distinction, a beautiful voice, impeccable mimicry and, in addition, an accomplished dancer (…) With his beautiful face and figure, he combined brilliant those eyes. . blacks who make journalists Angel Zuniga write that she is a ‘porcelain doll’.” This is how he described the singer Alvaro Retanacomposer, lyricist and supreme “pontiff of cuplé”, as the writer explains Javier Barreiro on his blog.

Mercedes sang in 1918 at the party organized by Barcelona on the occasion of the Armistice of the First World War wearing a suit full of bows and ribbons with the colors of the flags of the allied countries, including the Spanish and Catalan.

He is the performer who recorded the most albums during his time on the Gramófono label. His public outburst made the famous couplet player uncomfortable. Rachel Melleralso from Aragon and 12 years older, with whom he competed on stage and in private life. They were years in which eroticism and costumes gave way to praise the voices of artists.

For years on the street there was talk of rivalry between Meller and the Zero. With more tables, Meller He did not allow anyone to conquer him in his reign, so the couplet of Tarazona He acted: he named his little dog Pekingese ‘Merceditas‘, proof of his bad attitude. Also, he rejected a duel of figures and voices that a businessman intended to arrange at the Madrid Cinema in Malasaña. I have more to lose than small and elegant Zero. In front of the newspaper he used the abusive ‘Little shit‘ to record his viperine tongue.

Zero He sang in Catalan and Spanish. In his prime he succeeded in ‘Battalion of dressmakers‘, the jota’justice in Baturra‘and’His mischievous eyes‘, probably his most requested song. He kept his personality a mystery that did not alienate his devotees: apart from singing to allies, he was friends with the brother of Milan Astray and godmother of Legion to which he dedicated in 1926 the song ‘The groom of deathconverted into their anthem. His songs crossed borders to be claimed in 1925 in Le Perroquet and the Paris Olympiawhere he will debut with great success pasodoble ‘Vinteacher’s lens Padilla.

On May 10, 1925 at Seville he Barça won the Cup against Arenas (2-0) with goals from Samitier and Sancho. the cuplé’The Barcelona fan‘with lyrics by the poet and playwright Rossend Llurba and Toast dedicated to the group of ‘golden age’ This caused great anger among the culés. But that general enthusiasm turned into a convulsion a month later.

On June 14, a friendly was played at Les Corts against Júpiter in honor of Orpheus Catala. During the break the band Royal Navy interprets the Royal March which was whistled and blown by the public because of the tension between Catalonia and the central government. The club was mercilessly punished with the stadium closed for six months and Joan Gamper invited to leave. Switzerland.

‘The Barcelona fan‘ reappeared after half a century. Guillermina Mottamuse of ‘cançó’, who saved the cuplé in the 1920s in 1971, with players since then like Rexach, Martial, Eladio, Rife, Sadurni…

Mercedes Seros He left the stage in the 1930s. He had a rocky love life. After an affair with the bullfighter Emilio Mendez and several failed episodes, she married the industrialist in 1950 Pelai Ribert Alegrin. Forgotten, she died childless at 240 Córcega Street.

“My Barcelona fan loves Samitier l’Alcàntara and Platko, who is a great porter! Carulla, Bosch i in Sancho Walter, Piera and Arnau i in Plana i in Sagi Barba Barba and salau”

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Roller hockey wins in white
Barça’s first European Cup

The first European Cup won by FC Barcelona was in the 1972-73 season. The honor of winning Europe’s highest trophy for the continent’s largest multidisciplinary club went to the roller hockey team. Twelve years after the painful defeat of Enrique Orizaola’s Barça in the final in Berne against Benfica, Josep Lorente’s renewed team managed to break the European barrier by defeating Benfica on wheels, another representative club of multidisciplinary sport. The Barça team eliminated the Swiss Rolls Sport in the semifinals on aggregate 19-8 and in the final they faced the Portuguese, winners of the mighty Reus Deportiu, who have accumulated eight Spanish League and six consecutive European Cups. On July 1, Barça beat its rivals 5-3, winning 0-2 in an impressive Palau. In the second leg the Catalans managed to tie the game in white with seven goals. That glorious team consisted of great players like Chércoles, Riera, Pons, Villacorta, Villa, Brasal, Centell and Caicedo. Barça currently leads the discipline’s European Cup with 22 titles, followed by Reus with eight.