Society and sport. Sports policies of the Barcelona City Council and the so-called sport initiation schools (1979-1987)

Society and sport, is a book that tries to collaborate with the exercise of writing what happened during the years of the first democratic city councils of Barcelona between 1979 and 1990 regarding the sport policies implemented at that moment.

“Society and sport, is a book that tries to collaborate with the exercise of writing what happened during the years of the first democratic city councils of Barcelona between 1979 and 1990 regarding the sport policies implemented at that moment.

Juli, colleague and friend, leaves us this lived legacy rigorously elaborated. A document that allows us to clarify stories, remember names, date personal memories and above all, it provides us an indispensable material to interpret what happened in our city during such a significative period of time and to understand the tasks that we have today at hand”

Marta Carranza.

Sports Commissioner of the City Council of Barcelona and President of the Barcelona Olympic Foundation