29.04.2010 13:48
Historic turnout from the fans
www.fcbarcelona.cat
Despite losing the Champions League semi final, the response from the fans throughout this week will be remembered as one of the most remarkable moments in recent FC Barcelona history.
96,214 spectators gave everything for their team. Outside of the stadium thousands of fans got
behind the team all week: on social networks, in the street, at work, in the media … the bond
between the fans and the club has set example for joint endeavour and has once against demonstrated
the extraordinary vitality of FCB’s fan base, which was graphically represented in the form
of the majestic mosaic created at the start of the match.
Before the game, this support was evident from the way the players were accompanied from
hotel to stadium. A horde of motorbikes accompanied them as they made their way to the Camp Nou in
one of the most effervescent pre-match match build-ups ever.
Mass support
The message
“we will give everything”
sums up to perfection the way the fans responded to the club’s different
promotions. As requested, almost everybody was wearing a Barça shirt, and the constant roar of
support right up until the final whistle provided a host of memories to be cherished, despite the
adverse result.
Combination of initiatives
The club organised a number of spontaneous initiatives given the importance of the match. On
Tuesday, for example, the organisers of the www.remuntada.cat website presented the club with a
collection of the comments received via the Twitter and facebook social networks. Other media, who
had also asked for comments via SMS, e-mail and so on, received similarly enormous responses.
Successful promotions
The
club also asked fans to join their facebook page, and no fewer than 47,000 users heeded the call.
Also, a number of videos were posted from Saturday night on the Barça Youtube site (
www.youtube.com/fcbarcelona
) and by Thursday, these had been viewed by as many as 630,000 visitors.