Players
See also: List of FC Barcelona playersFC Barcelona's founder, Joan Gamper, was one of the club's first football players and holds the record for most goals in one match, with nine goals scored. Thirteen years after the foundation of Barcelona, Paulino Alcántara joined the club and went on to become one of the player legends in the club, with a record 369 goals in 357 matches, making him the player with most goals scored for Barcelona in all competitions. In the years since Alcántara joined, Barcelona has employed some of the world's most accoladed players that have received a record seven FIFA World Player awards and a record 10 Ballon d'Or/FIFA Ballon d'Or awards.
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“The whole idea of image is so confused. On the one hand, Madison Avenue is worried about the image of the players in a tennis tour. On the other hand, sports events are often sponsored by the makers of junk food, beer, and cigarettes. What’s the message when an athlete who works at keeping her body fit is sponsored by a sugar-filled snack that does more harm than good?”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)
“Yeah, percentage players die broke too, don’t they, Bert?”
—Sydney Carroll, U.S. screenwriter, and Robert Rossen. Eddie Felson (Paul Newman)
“People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)