Real Madrid - FIFA 'Team of the Century'; 31 League titles; 9 European Cups; a couple of UEFA Cups and World Club Champions titles.

Also, bizarrely, it is a club that has in recent years nurtured the custom of sacking successful managers. Jupp Heynckes went four weeks after winning a Champions League title, Fabio Capello and Bernd Schuster won the league title before one was basically sacked for being too defensive and the other for being too chick here reckless. The prize, though, for what it's worth, goes to Vicente Del Bosque, current manager of the national squad, who was dismissed the day after winning the league in a room at the hotel in which his players were having their celebratory dinner!

Real Madrid originated in 1897 when a number of students and lecturers at the Instituc��on Libre de Ense?anza began playing friendly matches on Sunday mornings. From these humble beginnings, Madrid Football Club emerged in 1902 - gaining its royal fifa 16 kaufen patronage and club name in 1920 from King Alfonso XIII. The club became founder members of the Spanish League in 1929 - when Barca won the inaugural title and El Cl��sico, as the fixture between the two clubs is known in Spain - began in earnest.

From the beginning, the rivalry fifa coins kaufen was intense but it developed significantly during the years after the Civil War. There are, of course, many stories of the way Franco's government promoted the interests of Real Madrid in order to develop his, and Spain's, international prestige. Also, the manner in which Barcelona attempted to maintain a Catalan identity at a time when the language and flag were banned is well recounted. Bar?a became 'More than a Club' and the phrase As�� gana el Madrid - that's how Madrid win - became part of Spanish sporting lore.

There are two of these stories, however, that perhaps shed most light on the situation in those difficult times.