2013/03/13

Video: Long Live Barça! Long Live Catalonia! Freedom!


Passions run high in Barcelona when thousands come out onto the streets to support their beloved football team, known as Barça.

But increasingly the crowds supporting the team have also come to represent the support for Catalonia’s independence from Spain.


David O’Shea looks at the region’s long intertwined relationship between sport and politics, and why there are such strong passions over the area becoming an independent country.

David is there as an historic agreement is signed to hold a referendum on independence next year, but what will it mean for Spain, its troubled economy and national identity?

WATCH - Click to see David's report.
INTERVIEW WITH DAVID - Listen to David O'Shea being interviewed in Spanish for SBS Radio about his story.

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