Barca players call for end to war

Players from Spanish soccer giant Barcelona donned anti-war T-shirts and displayed a banner calling for peace, minutes before kicking off in front of 100,000 fans today

Players from Spanish soccer giant Barcelona donned anti-war T-shirts and displayed a banner calling for peace, minutes before kicking off in front of 100,000 fans today

Many of the spectators packing the Camp Nou stadium stood and applauded as the players walked around the centre of the pitch holding up the banner which read: Barca for peace.

The gesture came a day after more than a million people demonstrated throughout Spain calling for an end to the war in Iraq.

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