El Clasico

This weekend one of the biggest sports rivalries in the world happened, and almost no one in our school knew about it. Im talking about the long rivalry between F.C Barcelona and Real Madrid C.F, an always exciting game which this year was one by defending Spain champions, Barcelona 1-0. This game brings up the old argument of whether it is fair to buy all your players for millions of dollars, such as the case with Real Madrid. As many of you may know they spent a record amount of money this summer to buy the majority of their starting line up. Whereas Barcelona has developed many of their players since they were young in their youth systems. Players such as their captain Carles Puyol and others have been through their entire careers with Barcelona and have not costed them millions of dollars, but rather were completely developed by the Barcelona coaching staff. The idea of "buying" championships has been a controversy throughout sports with teams such as the New York Yankees spending obscene amounts of money to bring back a world series title to New York. But is this fair to everyone else who cannot pay that much money? Does that not ruin the fun of the game where developing your own players is better then going out and buying them for lots of money?