The Story Of Biafra Football Club (1969- 1978)

By Bianca Odumegwu Ojukwu

Indeed there was a country... and there was also the Biafra Football Club .

In the dying months of the breakaway Republic of Biafra, a group of idealistic young football lovers gathered together in Valls, Barcelona (Spain) to honour the heroic struggle of The Biafrans .
They created a symbolic pennant and founded the Biafra Football club in order to draw world attention to the plight of Biafra, using one of the most potent methods known to humanity...Football. CF Biafra had about a hundred players from Reus to Pla, from Nulles to Tarragona they settled in El Vilar, within the federated amateur league and rode all the way to the Third Regional League.

Half a century later, the golden anniversary of the Biafra football club was celebrated. Though now extinct, Biafra , to those idealistic young men, was a mirror for their own struggles . In their perception, their own region of Catalunya ( Catalonia) was going through the same situation at the hands of the Spanish government as Biafra was experiencing, at the hands of the Nigerian government.

They found a common bond and affinity with the Biafra struggle through the formation of the Biafra football club in Valls. The club existed until 1978 when its activities were truncated by lack of economic resources.

An exhibition on the history of the Biafra Football Club was held at the Patio de Sant Roc in June 2007.
A delegation from CF Biafra in Barcelona led by Ramon Rovira & Oscar Gasso visited Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu in Enugu to present to him the official jersey and album of the history of CF Biafra.

When the Biafra Hero died, a delegation of CF Biafra also flew into Nigeria and participated fully in the funeral rites of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu in 2012. When they were leaving, they took a stone from Biafra land which they merged onto the commemorative plaque, twinning the Land of the Rising Sun with Valls forever.

On December 29th 2020, This copper plaque was installed on the ground of the square where all the CF Biafra football players met in 1969. It was unveiled by the Mayor of Valls, Dolors Farre , the Administrator of Sports, Enric Garcia in the presence of regional municipal officers, politicians, surviving CF Biafra players and some members of the Igbo community .
To Ramon Rovira of FC Biafra; Biafra Friendship Club.....We, people of the Land of the Rising Sun salute and thank you for all you have been doing to preserve our collective legacy and our sacred memories . May your own shadow never grow dim.

We Remember!

Courtesy: BiafraMemories, Bruce Mayrock Memorial Project.
Bianca Odumegwu Ojukwu
31 Dec. 2020

Give us Biafra and we will give you a Brazil of Africa in 10years

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All hail Biafra!!!
I'm proud of my heritage!!!

The world is waiting for Biafra

Wow, inspiring! Never knew about this.

Nigeria is just scared of what Biafra shall become; in science, technology, sports, education, military etc

UmuEri:
Nigeria is just scared of what Biafra shall become; in science, technology, sports, educative, military etc

Mango maybe you should ask why azikwe refused to include secession clause in our first constitution. Azikwe was the one scared, not Nigeria

Beautiful, I'm sure they were hammering Amala and Ewedu Albion FC on a daily basis.

This really made me emotional. Inasmuch I want a better Nigeria, I can't imagine the Biafra spirit dying because irrespective of my wish, the BIAFRA SPIRIT is eternal and can never die.

Rip to my uncles and other great freedom fighters(I was told about) that died for this spirit. May their spirit live on and guide us aright.

Terrorist football club

Yoruba people oya come and wail

Wow!!
Great piece of history,never heard of this before now.
God bless the team members. God bless Spain

And some haters gathered but God didnt allowed them to succeed.What have become of them today? They thought they are conquering us but alas they were wrong. Armed insurrection is the order of the day with so much blood being spilled on their own land.
I bu ezigbo nwafor Igbo.Greatly proud of my heritage.God continue to bless the land of the rising sun and umu Chineke nile.

OfficialAPCNig:
Yoruba people oya come and wail

wail on top of what? Biafran football club?

ridiculous.

Wowulicious wow!

Playing football with they yam leg

OfficialAPCNig:
Yoruba people oya come and wail

Bro, stop this nonsense.

Biafra fc, I check Google Dem no exist



Me think you guys just bribed some Saturdays guys to wear that jersey for photoshoot?


FT. Nigeria 8 - 2 Biafra.

You can't conquer an ideology.
Biafra is an Igbo ideology that will out live Nigeria and all Igbo haters.

Biafra my motherland, the land of my birth. I promise to serve you and fight for you as far as I draw breath and I promise to pass your torchlight to my descendants both born and unborn.

And so help me Chukwu Okike!

Fvckhypocrite [s:
post=97589114]Playing football with they yam leg[/s]

AFONJA mod wailer

The 20th Century Biafra was the Third World's struggle against it's colonial masters. If Biafra had been a success, the Third World would've seen the light of progress.

Par contre, the 21st Century Biafra is Igbos' struggle against Nigeria. If this struggle becomes successful, Igbos might see the light - not the Third World. This might lead to many third world ethnic groups rising and revolting against their country. This will result to a total "things fall apart" in Africa in particular.

Igbos should be inclusive in their dream of Biafra so that a large number of the oppressed be liberated if their struggle becomes a success. The rest of Nigeria and Africa at large should equally see in Biafra the liberal dream of the oppressed instead of seeing it as the Igbos' struggle.

Pochettino:

AFONJA mod wailer

gosh see painment
Go and play with sand kiddo

Fvckhypocrite:
Playing football with they yam leg

Lol. Who cares about the comment of a fuc.kinghypocrite?
Yam legs are far better than sugarcane legs
Long live Biafra

pazienza:
You can't conquer an ideology.
Biafra is an Igbo ideology that will out live Nigeria and all Igbo haters.

Biafra my motherland, the land of my birth. I promise to serve you and fight for you as far as I draw breath and I promise to pass your torchlight to my descendants both born and unborn.

And so help me Chukwu Okike!

Now you're talking! We move until the flag of the rising sun hovers freely in the Eastern skies.
Viva Biafra.

Yujin:
Lol. Who cares about the comment of a fuc.kinghypocrite? Yam legs are far better than sugarcane legs Long live Biafra

osuamaka
Biafra or death

A great piece of history which captures the beliefs of all right thinking people. Soon our football team will become the newest national team to clinch the AFCON cup. We wish those that will remain trapped inside Nigeria with those vampires good luck.

Fvckhypocrite:
osuamaka

Biafra or death

Almajiri ajoka...hahahahahaha
Arewanistan or death

Yujin:

Almajiri ajoka...hahahahahaha
Arewanistan or death

kapilta come and carry your yamiriflathead blodas from the yeast oo

Fvckhypocrite:
kapilta come and carry your yamiriflathead blodas from the yeast oo

Guy why calleth me to this thread?
Any ipob scapegoat here?

pazienza:
You can't conquer an ideology.
Biafra is an Igbo ideology that will out live Nigeria and all Igbo haters.

Biafra my motherland, the land of my birth. I promise to serve you and fight for you as far as I draw breath and I promise to pass your torchlight to my descendants both born and unborn.

And so help me Chukwu Okike!

Oga u nor dey tire?
This chant wey your great grandfather chant sorry e kpai for war...
Your pman chant till e die, u still dey on am ?
Sorry for your Son na... LMFAO