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Analysis Of Performance And Strategy Analysis: FC Barcelona

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FC Barcelona: Performance and Strategy Analysis in relation with management learnings: Club Performance FC Barcelona: Futbol Club Barcelona known as Barcelona and referred by fans as "Barça", is a professional Soccer club, based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain founded in 1899 by a group of Swiss, English and Catalan footballers. It is the second most valuable sports team on the globe just after Real Madrid FC. It also has largest fan base among all sports teams on all major social networks. Barca is worth $3.2 billion, and the world's second-richest football club in terms of revenue, with an annual turnover of $613 million.( "The World's 50 Most Valuable Sports Teams 2014". Forbes.com ; "Deloitte Football Money League 2013". Deloitte UK. Retrieved 30 January 2013). Barcelona is the most successful club in Spain, in terms of overall official titles won (81).The Club was ranked first in the 'All-Time Club World Ranking' by International Federation of Football History & Statistics, on 31 December 2009. Titles Won: Country level Titles Number of Titles won Primera Division 22 Copa del Rey 26 Supercopa de España 15 Copa Eva Duarte 3 …show more content…

There have been previous studies of pass networks in football, but these have tended to concentrate on things like the passes between specific pairs of players. Luis Enrique(Manager, FC Barcelona) and colleagues have looked more deeply into the nature of the networks, searching for what they call “flow motifs” which refer to extended sequences of consecutive passes between specific players. The same concept of characterising different network structures using motifs/patterns of interconnection was developed previously by scientists to study natural systems such as networks of neurons ,genes, and organisms in food

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