Why Barca Cannot Let the "Birthday Curse" Strike Again
Date: November 29, 2025
Match: FC Barcelona vs Deportivo Alavés
Today, November 29th, marks exactly 126 years since Hans Gamper placed that legendary advertisement in a magazine and founded the club that would define our lives. It should be a day of pure celebration, nostalgia, and pride.
But if you are a Cule reading this, you probably have a knot in your stomach.
Why? Because we have been here before. We all remember the last time the calendar aligned, and we played a match on our birthday. We expected a fiesta; we got a funeral. The candles were blown out not by us, but by the opposition. The cake tasted bitter.
Today against Alavés, history threatens to repeat itself, and frankly, the timing couldn't be more dangerous.
The Shadow of Stamford Bridge
If this birthday match was happening three weeks ago, we would be talking about how many goals Lewandowski would score to celebrate. But the atmosphere has shifted.
Coming off that painful 3-0 battering by Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, the team is fragile. The "high line" is being questioned. The defense is missing its warrior, Ronald Araujo. The confidence that Hansi Flick built so carefully over the last few months has taken its first real hit.
Losing on a normal weekend is bad. Losing on the club’s anniversary, right after a European humiliation? That is a crisis.
Deportivo Alavés are not arriving at the Camp Nou to sing "Happy Birthday." They are coming to crash the party.
As we covered yesterday, their players have already been vocal in the press, claiming they "know Barca’s weakness" and plan to exploit the space behind our defense. They smell blood. They know that if they score first, the Camp Nou crowd—already on edge—might turn anxious.
They want to be the villains in our history book today.
Hansi Flick doesn't need to give a complex tactical speech today. The motivation is written on the calendar.
The players wearing that crest today have a responsibility to the 126 years of history behind them.
- Lamine Yamal and Pau Cubarsí were born into this history; today is their chance to honor it.
- Lewandowski and Raphinha need to lead by example and show that the Chelsea game was an accident, not a trend.
- Pedri, even if he only plays 20 minutes off the bench, represents the style and class that Gamper envisioned in 1899.
A Call to the Cules
We can be angry about the Chelsea match. We can be worried about the high line. But today is different.
Today, the Camp Nou needs to be a fortress. We need to remind the world (and Alavés) why this club has survived and thrived for over a century. We aren't just fighting for three points in the league table; we are fighting to respect the date.
Let’s blow out the candles with a victory. Let’s make sure that when we look back at the 126th anniversary, we remember a goal-fest, not a "Birthday Curse."
Visca el Barça, and Happy Birthday to the greatest club in the world!
Do you have a bad feeling about today, or do you think the birthday energy will push the team to win? Drop your birthday wishes and score predictions in comments section.
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