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Busquets is a Catalan surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Carles Busquets, Spanish footballer (Barcelona), father of Sergio Busquets * Florencia Busquets, Argentine volleyball player * Guillem Busquets, Spanish architect ( :es:Guillem Busquets) * Jaume Busquets, Spanish sculptor and painter * Joan Busquets Grau, Spanish architect and urban planner * Joan Busquets i Jané, Spanish interior decorator ( :es:Joan Busquets i Jané) *Joan Busquets Queralt, Spanish trade unionist and political activist ( :es:Joan Busquets Queralt) *Joaquín Busquets Joaquín or Joaquin is a male given name, the Spanish version of Joachim. Given name * Joaquín (footballer, born 1956), Spanish football midfielder * Joaquín (footballer, born 1981), Spanish football winger * Joaquín (footballer, born 1982) ..., Mexican actor, father of Narciso Busquets ( :es:Joaquín Busquets) * Julio Busquets, Spanish soldier and legislator ( :es:Julio Busquets) * Miguel Busquets, Chilean footballer * ...
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Sergio Busquets
Sergio Busquets Burgos (, ; born 16 July 1988) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for La Liga club Barcelona, where he is captain. He is considered to be a deep-lying playmaker capable of directing gameplay — through short and calm passes, exceptional positioning, and his singular reading of the game — and is widely regarded as one of the best defensive midfielders of all time. A one-club man, he arrived in Barcelona's first team in July 2008. Since then he has made over 600 total appearances for the club and has won 30 trophies, including 8 La Liga titles, 7 Copa del Rey titles and 3 UEFA Champions Leagues. He was part of their squads that won a continental treble of La Liga, Copa del Rey and the UEFA Champions League in 2008–09 and 2014–15. Busquets made his senior international debut for Spain in April 2009, and has since made 143 appearances for the national side. He helped the country win the 2010 World Cup and Euro 2012 tour ...
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Carles Busquets
Carles Busquets Barroso (; born 19 July 1967) is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper, mostly for Barcelona. Club career Born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Busquets was a FC Barcelona graduate who joined from neighbouring CD Ciutat Badia and possessed very good technical skills for a player in his position, and he made his La Liga debut for the first team on 7 November 1993 in a 2–1 home win over Racing de Santander, going on to appear in the following two games. However, he was mostly back-up for Spanish international Andoni Zubizarreta during his first years; he did manage to feature in the 1990–91 European Cup Winners' Cup final in a 1–2 loss against Manchester United, with two goals from Mark Hughes. Busquets totalled 69 league matches in two seasons after Zubizarreta left for Valencia CF, and was also on goal in the 4–0 thrashing of Manchester United in the group stage of 1994–95's UEFA Champions League, but during this period ''Barça' ...
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Oriol Busquets
Oriol Busquets Mas (born 20 January 1999) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Primeira Liga club F.C. Arouca. Club career Barcelona Born in Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Girona, Catalonia, Busquets joined FC Barcelona's youth setup in 2007 at age 8, after a successful trial. After progressing through the ranks, he made his senior debut with the reserves on 29 April 2017, while still a youth, coming on as a late substitute for Alberto Perea in a 2–0 Segunda División B home win against AE Prat. Busquets played his first game as a professional on 19 August 2017, starting in a 2–1 away victory over Real Valladolid in the Segunda División. His maiden appearance for the first team came on 29 November, when he started and played 62 minutes in the 5–0 defeat of Real Murcia in the round of 32 of the Copa del Rey. On 9 February 2018, Busquets sustained a serious knee injury in a training session, tearing the meniscus in a fashion similar to ...
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Joan Busquets
Joan Busquets i Grau (born 26 July 1946 in El Prat de Llobregat) is a Spanish architect, urban planner, and educator. Busquets is the Martin Bucksbaum Professor in Practice of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He is founder of the architecture firm, BAU Barcelona. Busquets was awarded the 2011 Erasmus Prize, an annual award for exceptional contributions to European culture and society, "...in appreciation of his impressive and multifaceted oeuvre in the field of city planning." Career Born in El Prat de Llobregat, a suburb of Barcelona, Busquets graduated from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in 1969. He was Professor of Town Planning at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia from 1979 until 2002. Since 2002, he is the first Martin Bucksbaum Professor in Practice of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He was a visiting professor at Harvard from 1989-1993 and in 1997. Busquets headed the ...
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Jaume Busquets
Jaume Busquets i Mollera (Girona, 1903 – Barcelona, 1968) was a Spanish sculptor and painter of the ''noucentisme'' generation from Catalonia. He was the youngest son of a family of four artist brothers from Girona, Catalonia, Spain. Busquets was a disciple of Antoni Gaudí. He designed and sculpted the Holy Family ensemble on the Nativity façade of Gaudí's Sagrada Familia Basilica Shrine in Barcelona. Busquets also designed and sculpted the statue of the Blessed Virgin with Child on the façade of the Girona Cathedral. Career A precocious boy, Busquets went to work, at the age of fifteen, in the Barcelona studio of Darius Vilas Darius may refer to: Persian royalty ;Kings of the Achaemenid Empire * Darius I (the Great, 550 to 487 BC) * Darius II (423 to 404 BC) * Darius III (Codomannus, 380 to 330 BC) ;Crown princes * Darius (son of Xerxes I), crown prince of Persia, ma .... In his final years, Busquets devoted his energies exclusively to sculpture, producing his mast ...
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Florencia Busquets
Florencia Natasha Busquets Reyes (born 27 June 1989) is an Argentinean volleyball player who participated with the Argentina national team at the Pan-American Volleyball Cup (in 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016), the FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix (in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016), the 2011 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup in Japan, the 2014 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship in Italy, the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil. At club level she played for Talleres de Remedios de Escalada, Instituto Municipal del Deporte (IMDEP) de Lomas de Zamora, Ferro Carril Oeste, River Plate, Club Atlético y Biblioteca Bell, Deportivo Géminis, Sporting Cristal, Boca Juniors, CS Volei Alba-Blaj and Club Atlético Villa Dora and Franches-Montagnes. Clubs * Talleres de Remedios de Escalada (junior) * IMDEP (2004–2005) * Club Ferro Carril Oeste (2006–2008) * River Plate (2008–2010) * Bell Vóley (2 ...
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Miguel Busquets
Miguel Busquéts Terrazas (15 October 1920 – 24 December 2002) was a Chilean football midfielder who played for the Chile national football team in the 1950 FIFA World Cup. Career Busquets began his career with Unión Española in 1939. The next year, he switched to Universidad de Chile The University of Chile ( es, Universidad de Chile) is a public research university in Santiago, Chile. It was founded on November 19, 1842, and inaugurated on September 17, 1843.
, staying with them until 1952, having made two hundred appearances and scored fifteen goals. His last club was Universidad Católica in 1953. Subsequently to leave Universidad de Chile as a player, he led them as an interim coach. ...
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Ricardo Busquets
Ricardo J. ("Ricky") Busquets Healy (born October 3, 1974 in Ponce, Puerto Rico) is a former freestyle swimmer from Puerto Rico Puerto Rico (; abbreviated PR; tnq, Boriken, ''Borinquen''), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ( es, link=yes, Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, lit=Free Associated State of Puerto Rico), is a Caribbean island and Unincorporated .... He is now an orthodontist who works in the Bay Area of California. References Profile 1974 births Living people Puerto Rican male freestyle swimmers Puerto Rican male swimmers Puerto Rican people of Catalan descent Puerto Rican people of Irish descent Swimmers at the 1991 Pan American Games Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 1995 Pan American Games Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 1999 Pan American Games Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2003 Pan American Games Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic swimmers of Puert ...
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Narciso Busquets
Narciso Busquets Zárate (8 September 1931 – 14 December 1988) was a Mexican actor of theater, film, television, radio and voice-over. He also directed a film, ''Sin fortuna'', in 1980. He began his acting career in 1937, as a child actor, and appeared as one of Cantinflas' sons in ''Ahí está el detalle''. He dubbed the voice of Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune in Spanish in the film '' Ánimas Trujano'', which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Among his other contributions in film are ''El gallo de oro'' with Ignacio López Tarso and Lucha Villa, ''Los cuatro Juanes'' with Luis Aguilar, ''Pedro Páramo'' with John Gavin, ''La soldadera'' with Silvia Pinal, ''Jesús, nuestro Señor'' with Claudio Brook and ''Valente Quintero'' with Antonio Aguilar and Saby Kamalich. On television, Busquets had his debut in 1961 and continued to stay steady until 1988. He portrayed José María Morelos in the historical telenovela ''Los caudillos'' in 1968. Se ...
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Julio Busquets
Julio is the Spanish equivalent of the month July and may refer to: *Julio (given name) *Julio (surname) *Júlio de Castilhos, a municipality of the western part of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil * ''Julio'' (album), a 1983 compilation album by Julio Iglesias *Julio, a character in ''Romiette and Julio'' by Sharon M. Draper Other *Don Julio, a brand of tequila produced in Mexico * Hurricane Julio, a list of storms named Julio * Jules * ''Julie-O'', musical work for solo cello by Mark Summer *Julio 204 or JULIO 204, one of the first graffiti writers in New York City *Julio-Claudian dynasty, the first five Roman Emperors: Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula (also known as Gaius), Claudius, and Nero * Julius (other) The gens Julia (''gēns Iūlia'', ) was one of the most prominent patrician families in ancient Rome. Members of the gens attained the highest dignities of the state in the earliest times of the Republic. The first of the family to obtain the ...
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Catalan Language
Catalan (; autonym: , ), known in the Valencian Community and Carche as '' Valencian'' ( autonym: ), is a Western Romance language. It is the official language of Andorra, and an official language of three autonomous communities in eastern Spain: Catalonia, the Valencian Community, and the Balearic Islands. It also has semi-official status in the Italian comune of Alghero. It is also spoken in the Pyrénées-Orientales department of France and in two further areas in eastern Spain: the eastern strip of Aragon and the Carche area in the Region of Murcia. The Catalan-speaking territories are often called the or "Catalan Countries". The language evolved from Vulgar Latin in the Middle Ages around the eastern Pyrenees. Nineteenth-century Spain saw a Catalan literary revival, culminating in the early 1900s. Etymology and pronunciation The word ''Catalan'' is derived from the territorial name of Catalonia, itself of disputed etymology. The main theory suggests ...
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