Morbo – The story of Spanish football

Morbo – The story of Spanish football

Morbo is the unique element that gives Spanish football its special flavour. More than mere rivalry, it is the expression in a thousand provocative ways of the feeling between clubs divided by history, language and politics.

While outsiders may think only of the antagonism between Barelona and Real Madrid, the same spirit courses through the uncompromising politics of the Basque Country, hangs over the divided football city of Seville and marks Spain’s attitude towards its national team.

This is the first English language history of the Spanish game and its true governing body – morbo.