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Futbol Club Barcelona ( Catalan pronunciation: [fubˈbɔl ˈklub bəɾsəˈlonə] ⓘ ), commonly known as Barcelona and familiarly as Barça ( [ˈbaɾsə] ), is a professional football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, that competes in La Liga, the top flight of Spanish football . Founded in 1899 by a group of Swiss, Catalan, German ...
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The FC Barcelona players association is the association of ex FC Barcelona players. Since 1959, our mission has been to look after the club's players after their careers end, helping and...
- Jack Greenwell
- Roma Forns
- Franz Platko
- Josep Planas
- Ramon Guzman
- Joan Josep Nogues
- Josep Samitier
- Enrique Fernandez
- Ramon Llorens
- Domenec Balmanya
As Player: 1912 -1916 As Coach: 1913 - 1923, 1931 - 193 Englishman Jack Greenwell is recognised as the first full-time Barcelona coach in the club’s history, having first become a player-coach in 1913. He retired from playing in 1916 and remained in charge until 1923, before returning for a second spell from 1931 to 1933. The club won two Copa del ...
As Player: 1903 -1913 As Coach: 1927 – 1929 Barcelona had always been managed by foreigners – an Austrian, a Hungarian and several Englishmen – until city native Roma Forns tooks the reins in the late 1920s. Forns had been one of Barça’s earliest players, joining in 1903, while his two-year stint as coach, which had been a request from the squad, y...
As Player: 1923 -1930 As Coach:1934 - 1935, 1955 - 1956 Hungarian import Franz Platko played for Barcelona during Forns’ successful and was part of the side that won La Liga and three Copa del Rey trophies. Platko, a goalkeeper as a player, returned as coach himself in the 1930s. He won a Catalan Championship in that spell, but his second in the 19...
As Player:1921 -1927 As Coach: 1939 - 1941 Barcelona turned to another former player from the 1920s when Josep Planas was chosen to lead the team in 1939. He was considered an innovator when it came to training and is credited as the first Barça coach to actively changing training methods. Overall, Planas’ managerial career spanned over 30 years un...
As Player: 1928 -1935 As Coach: 1941 - 1942 Ramon Guzman was a league champion with Barcelona as a player in the late 1920s and stayed until midway through the following decade, before getting the call to return as coach in 1941. Guzman’s time in charge was less successful than his spell as a player and he was sacked after only half a season. He la...
As Player: 1930 -1936, 1939 - 1941 As Coach: 1941 - 1944 Joan Josep Nogues played for Barcelona both before and after the Spanish Civil War and was initially asked to take over as player-manager when he was appointed head coach. Under Nogues’ leadership, Barça won the Copa del Rey but were also almost relegated. He later had a long association with...
As Player: 1919 -1932 As Coach: 1944 - 1947 Josep Samitier was a key member of Barcelona’s first golden side of the 1920s, which the team’s 2020/21 home kit pays tribute to. He won Barça’s first La Liga as a player during that period and later delivered only the club’s second Spanish title when he returned as coach. Samitier’s spell in charge kicks...
As Player: 1935 -1936 As Coach:1947 - 1950 Building on the foundations laid by predecessor Samitier, Enrique Fernandez won back-to-back La Liga titles as Barcelona coach in 1947/48 and 1948/49, the first Barça to win two league trophies. A former Uruguay international who played for the club in mid-1930s, Fernandez was also the first South American...
As Player: 1928 -1936 As Coach: 1950 Despite a limited career as second choice goalkeeper behind the aforementioned Nogues and only a short stint as coach, Ramon Llorens is celebrated in Barcelona history. Besides playing and managing, Llorens also served the club as a trainer and scout. He was also the sixth successive Barça boss between 1940 and ...
As Player:1935 -1937, 1941 - 1944 As Coach: 1956 - 1958 Domenec Balmanya was a Copa del Rey winner as a Barça player in the early 1940s, his second spell with the club, and was tasked with managing the team just over a decade later. Balmanya repeated his achievement as a player and delivered the Copa del Rey as coach.
All the information, biographies etc on the former FC Barcelona players who form part of the Barça Legends squad.
Jul 8, 2014 · Six former Barça players are now at the Club as coaches, and three more in a technical capacity. Luis Enrique, first team coach, Eusebio with Barça B, and Vinyals, U18 A coach, are the main...
—Xavi on learning the team ethos of Barcelona while at the club's youth system, La Masia. Born in Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain, Xavi is a product of FC Barcelona's La Masia youth system, which he joined at the age of 11 from UFB Jàbac Terrassa and Terrassa FC. His father, Joaquim, was a former player for Sabadell in the first division. His older brother, Óscar, is a former player and manager ...
