Barcelona Files Complaint Over "Mingorrubio Balompié" Team

Barcelona Takes "Mingorrubio Balompié" Team to Prosecutor's Office

The Barcelona City Council has "unequivocally" condemned the "exaltation of fascism" by a team competing in a local league under the name Mingorrubio Balompié and antiestéticaturing the slogan "Bayern of the fallen" on its crest. The Councilor for Sports, David Escudé, announced a complaint to the Prosecutor's Office specialized in Human Rights and Democratic Memory and sent a letter to the manager of the Velódromo de Horta, a municipal facility, urging them to take "all necessary actions" to prevent the team's participation. This is the official account.

"It's a joke": the argument of the jest

Some participants in the forum dismiss the matter with a shrug: the "fallen," they imply, could refer to anything, and the joke is the best catalyst to bury the past. Laughter as historical therapy, in other words.

Conversely, others argue that the name and slogan are not coincidental and that humor, when directed in a certain way, ceases to be humor. The jest is selective: it works in one direction but becomes an official record in the other.

What the council stands to gain from the complaint

The City Council is not acting against the team itself, but against the facility: the competition takes place on municipal grounds, and the request is directed at its manager. This is an administrative route, not a penalty, and it has not yet been determined whether the team's participation will be prevented.

Some add to the narrative the public television documentary that unearths remains from almost a century ago, with hired forensic experts and police procedural equipment. Symmetry, they say, is only demanded in one direction.

The case remains open and unresolved. Whether Mingorrubio Balompié will be allowed to play at the Velódromo de Horta is, as of today, a question without an answer.