El partit més llarg

The journalist who uncovered the Barçagate scandal reveals to us, in this exciting journalistic investigation, everything that happened in Barça's offices on the day of the referendum. Sunday, October 1, 2017. While in Catalonia the Civil Guard and the Spanish police were repressing the self-determination referendum, in the noble area of ??the Camp Nou the telephones were smoking. President Bartomeu and his Board of Directors, aware of the historical and emotional ties that bind the club's destiny to the nation's destiny, must make a decision that lives up to the circumstances: suspend the game unilaterally or play lo. The pressures increase with each passing minute. Barça is more than a club, and what was played that day was not just a simple football match. For the first time, journalist Adrià Soldevila has obtained exclusive statements from the locker room, politicians, executives and members of the Board. These unpublished sources allow us to reconstruct with rigor and seriousness the minute by minute of the day and provide hitherto unknown information on the previous one that determined the decision. A book that puts us in context, that reviews Barça's intimate relationship with Catalonia throughout history and that explains why Barça's position during the years of the Process has an importance that goes beyond the anecdote .