We are the resistance

Gràcia has been my home for more than fifteen years. So I owe something to those streets that house the strangest and most impossible businesses. Know that if you can't find something in this Barcelona neighborhood, it's because it doesn't exist. Do you want to learn multi-orgasm techniques through the continuous ingestion of thyme soup? Buy non-alcoholic wine in a wine cellar that only serves such broths? A dog café? Everything new, alternative, and healthy meets in Gràcia, the urban kingdom of Bach flowers. Even the Gestalt headquarters is there. Which would definitively certify that the neighborhood is also the holy grail for those who are lost and long to find themselves.

Gràcia has other characteristics of a more supernatural and inexplicable nature. For example, there have been cases of individuals who have wandered through its street directory as omnivores and, upon leaving only a few hours later, were convinced vegans. Others dressed in suits, ties, and loafers, and, without knowing how, have returned home with a Che Guevara T-shirt, worn-out Bermuda shorts, and flip-flops.

Gràcia is so unique that some even pray to the pagan gods to grant him the gift of nearsightedness so he can wear glasses and appear more intelligent when discussing Verdi's art-house films in a café where everything served is certified as fair trade.

Club Esportiu Europa is a true galvanizer of community feeling

So far, what comes and goes, what exists and then disappears in the wake of fashion and trends. But in Gràcia, there is also the old, the classic, the traditional, the old-fashioned, if you will. And the jewel in the crown of this timeless neighborhood, planting its roots in the humus of the immanent, is the Club Esportiu Europa. A true galvanizer of the sense of community and a reservoir of the essence of the Gràcia character.

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Starting next season, Europa will play in the Primera Federación, the third tier of Spanish football , following an unexpected promotion. And to address the upcoming increase in expenses, the club has launched a fundraising campaign with the slogan "We are the resistance." A successful move by the board of directors, it seeks to position the club as a dwarf capable of taking on the giants of globalization that have turned football into a financial machine. Small contributions are sought to balance the currently unbalanced balance sheet with contributions from members alone. A neighborhood club that wants to remain a neighborhood club and a club for the people of the neighborhood. The football that is dying and that fights to keep its heartbeat heard in the city center with the same cadence as always. We must lend a hand. It's not worth crying like children over what we haven't been able to defend as adults. For football and for the Vila de Gràcia of always.