";s:4:"text";s:3587:" Additionally, during the second meeting of FC Barcelona board members the player director Arthur Witty allegedly proposed the club colours based on the shirts of the Merchant Taylor’s School rugby team in Liverpool which he represented a few years before. They lasted like this till 1920, when both the shorts and the socks turned blue. That year, the Barcelona sports brand Meyba has been chosen. This is La Senyera – the Catalan flag – which according to legend shows the Four Fingers of Blood (Quatre Dits de Sang) made by King Wilfred the Hairy on a shield before going into battle against the Moors in the 9th century. Indeed, the colors have been iconically, identifiably part … Initially, they were relatively monochrome but in the 90s – when visual design flair took over football fashion – the patterns on the jerseys started getting more and more elaborate. The rest of the uniform however, underwent some changes. The team plays its home games draped in the club colours.
It is from these colours that the club receives its famous nickname – Blaugrana (“blau” means blue in Catalan and “grana” means garnet). That tincture, now steeped in tradition and club culture stayed with the Catalan giants to this day, making them one of the select top football clubs in the world that have always been true to their colours.The colours of FC Barcelona are blue and garnet (deep red). The shirts of those times were almost always long sleeved and often had collars. The current version of the FC Barcelona kit features thin red lines on a blue background, blue shorts and blue socks. Whatever the truth, the fact is that when FC Barcelona players first took the field, they did so in blue and red. These formed the uniforms of Barcelona that we know today and over the years the club placed them like a stamp over various domestic and international trophies. It is from these colours that the club receives its famous nickname – Blaugrana (“blau” means blue in Catalan and “grana” means garnet). The bottom of the crest has the colours of the club and an old, stylized football. The top left features the Saint George Cross (Creu de Sant Jordi in Catalan), which refers to the patron saint of Catalonia. An equally plausible and more accepted theory (especially by FC Barcelona itself) is the fact that earlier that same year the Barcelona Lawn Tennis Club was formed and its colours were adopted instead. The club was founded in 1899 by a Swiss businessman and football player Hans Gamper (aka: Joan Gamper) and some believe that it was his wish to have his new club look exactly like his former team FC Basel that played a role. The coat of arms itself was composed of a crown, the Saint George Cross and the Senyera flag – all symbols of the region. The letters (originally FCB) were changed to CFB in 1941, after the coming to power of Franco, when the club was forced to use the Spanish version of the name.