Board Member and Head of Social Media, FC Barcelona Official Fan Club of India
Founder of Instagram handle @barcaxglobal
In July 2018, I founded the Instagram handle @barcaxglobal, as a simple fan page for my favourite club in world football, FC Barcelona. What started as simply fan service turned into a compounding growth of followers, as I grew to over 17 thousand followers in the span of six months. I posted original content, using Photoshop to edit my pictures, using both English and other languages to cater to worldwide audiences. To this day, the page is now at 23,500 followers, and is host to over 1300 posts, which have received over 35,000 likes on various posts.
Board Member, FC Barcelona Official Fan Club of India.
After 6 months of growing my fan page, @barcaxglobal, to over 17,000 active Instagram followers, I caught the attention of Mr. Vishwas Makhijia, the President of the FC Barcelona Official Fan Club of India. He contacted me, asking me to help his fan club with promotions via my social media for various match day screenings, meet-and-greets, as well as other events. After a few weeks of talking, we got along very well and Mr. Makhijia offered to make a Board Member of the Official Fan Club as well as Head of Media and Event Promotions.
Promoted and Organised meet up and football session with former UEFA Champions League player of the year and FC Barcelona Star, Luis Garcia
To inaugurate the Barca Academy Cup - Asia Pacific, we got in touch with the former UEFA Champions League Player of The Year and FC Barcelona/Liverpool star, Luis Garcia. We got in touch with his associates and invited him down to India to have a meet and greet with the fans, a football session and to cut the ribbon at the Barca Academy Cup - Asia Pacific. We promoted the event on my Instagram fan page, @barcaxglobal, and had a fantastic turnout of more than 300 fans who showed up to support and meet their idol. It was a fantastic event and we had our heads held high for the future of FC Barcelona fandom in India.
Sourced photos for our social media handles from celebrity photographer and Head of Photography at FC Barcelona, Miguel Ruiz.
After getting in touch with Miguel Ruiz, who is a celebrity photographer with over 1 million followers on Instagram, and the official Head Photographer at FC Barcelona, in Spain, I put him in touch with the FC Barcelona Official Fan Club of India, and we came to a mutual agreement that we would source photos for our social media handles from his lens directly. He had a pitch-side view of every single FC Barcelona game, and sent us photos via email and Google Drive links every single match day for the entire season; we had exclusive images for our fan club that no one else had, and felt quite proud of it!
Met with FC Barcelona Chairman and Board Member Mr. Pau Vilanova
Met with FC Barcelona Chairman and Board Member Mr. Pau Vilanova to discuss future possibilities for Indian FC Barcelona fans, funding for FC Barcelona Official Fan Club of India, as well as future meet-and-greets with FC Barcelona Star players.