Summary
THEY did not call him El Tel. The British papers christened him that when the brightest young head on the English coaching block went to Barcelona. The Barca players called him 'Meester', a term of endearment for the Englishman in their midst. But not to begin with - - they called Terry Venables several less flattering names than that when he first arrived at the Nou Camp.
'You've got to laugh,' he said at the time. Never was his renowned Cockney humour of greater value to him. More than a football club? FC Barcelona is the flagship for the Catalan people, the monument to their Civil War against oppression by Generalissimo Franco's fascists, the symbol of their political opposition to Spanish rule from Madrid.See the full content of this document
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How Meester Tel Began Rebirth of Barca [Eire Region]
As such, they expect the commander of their football team to come garlanded in honours from the battle-fronts of the European game.
Venables came from QPR. Que? Perversely it was a German, their imported galactico Bernd Schuster, who led the pr...See the full content of this document
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