During Franco's dictatorship between 1939 and 1975 soccer was a bit thing for Spain. It was highly encouraged by the state. The enemy's ranged from communists, Freemasons, and freethinkers to Catalan and Basque nationalists most of their soccer team were rooted to their beliefs. Soccer in that time was just more than a pastime it separated it separated soccer lovers into democrats and fascists.
Spain was reduced to a playground. With an big increasing number of Spanish people migrating from the countryside to the big cities, in particular Madrid and Barcelona, and the spread first of radio and then television, soccer became the most popular pastime over bullfighting. Spanish fury was soon the name that the English gave to the Spanish soccer. This soon changed with Franco which became the name for the army.
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