Jorge Barrié

picture info	Jorge Barrié Jorge de Satrústegui Barrié (23 September 1873 – 7 September 1936) was a Franco-Spanish industrial engineer, sports leader, and politician. A very active personality in everything related to the prosperity of San Sebastián, he was the founder and first president of the Royal Spanish Tennis Federation. In his youth, he was also a footballer who played as a midfielder for some of the earliest Catalan clubs in existence such as ''Barcelona Football Club'' and ''Sociedad de Foot-Ball de Barcelona''. Early life Barrié was born in Bayonne on 23 September 1873 as the fourth and last son of Georgina Barrié Labrós (1839–1919) and of Patricio de Satrústegui y Bris, the second Barón de Satrústegui (1823–1888), belonging to one of the most notable families of the Navy Spanish merchant. His older brother Enrique Barrié inherited his father's title, thus becoming the third Barón de Satrústegui. Sporting career Football career While in Barcelona in the early 1890s, the teena ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Royal Spanish Tennis Federation The Royal Spanish Tennis Federation (Spanish: ''Real Federación Española de Tenis'', RFET) is the national governing body of tennis in Spain. As of 2020, the federation has 1,128 registered clubs and 70,151 federated tennis players. The Royal Spanish Tennis Federation is a member of the regional association Tennis Europe and the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The organisation is responsible for the Spanish Davis Cup team and the Spanish Fed Cup team. Federation headquarters is in Barcelona, at the emblematic building of the old restaurant of the ''Font del Gat'', created by the architect Puig i Cadafalch in 1918. In 2008, the Spanish postal service, Correos, released a postage stamp commemorating the centennial of the RFET. References Spain Tennis in Spain Tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	1893 Blues V Reds Football Match On 12 March 1893, one of the first football matches in Catalonia took place at the Hippodrome of Can Tunis, Barcelona. The match was contested by the members of the ''Barcelona Football Club'', who were divided into two teams: one dressed in blue and the other one in red. The game was won by the Blues 2–1 with goals from the Catalans Figueras and Barrié, while the red's consolation was netted by the Englishmen Mr. Reeves, but most important than the result and its goalscorers, was its historical significance, given that this match was the subject of the first proper chronicle of the dispute of a football match in Spain, which appeared in La Dinastía on 16 March, written by Enrique Font Valencia, who detailed the aspects of the game, including lineups, the color of the clothes, the name of the referee, the result and the goalscorers. Moreover, the photograph of these two sides just before the match is widely regarded as the oldest photo of a football team in Spain. According ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Valencia Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is also the capital of the province of the same name. The wider urban area also comprising the neighbouring municipalities has a population of around 1.6 million, constituting one of the major urban areas on the European side of the Mediterranean Sea. It is located on the banks of the Turia, on the east coast of the Iberian Peninsula, at the Gulf of Valencia, north of the Albufera lagoon. Valencia was founded as a Roman colony in 138 BC. Islamic rule and acculturation ensued in the 8th century, together with the introduction of new irrigation systems and crops. Aragonese Christian conquest took place in 1238, and so the city became the capital of the Kingdom of Valencia. The city's population thrived in the 15th century, owing to trade with the rest of the Iberian Peninsula, Italian ports and other loca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Zaragoza Zaragoza, also known in English as Saragossa,''Encyclopædia Britannica'"Zaragoza (conventional Saragossa)" is the capital city of the Zaragoza Province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It lies by the Ebro river and its tributaries, the Huerva and the Gállego, roughly in the center of both Aragon and the Ebro basin. On 1 January 2021 the population of the municipality of Zaragoza was 675,301, (the fifth most populated in Spain) on a land area of . The population of the metropolitan area was estimated in 2006 at 783,763 inhabitants. The municipality is home to more than 50 percent of the Aragonese population. The city lies at an elevation of about above sea level. Zaragoza hosted Expo 2008 in the summer of 2008, a world's fair on water and sustainable development. It was also a candidate for the European Capital of Culture in 2012. The city is famous for its folklore, local cuisine, and landmarks such as the Basílica del Pilar, La Seo Cathedral an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Manuel Tey Manuel may refer to: People * Manuel (name) * Manuel (Fawlty Towers), a fictional character from the sitcom ''Fawlty Towers'' * Charlie Manuel, manager of the Philadelphia Phillies * Manuel I Komnenos, emperor of the Byzantine Empire * Manuel I of Portugal, king of Portugal Places Manuel, Valencia, a municipality in the province of Valencia, Spain Manuel Junction, railway station near Falkirk, Scotland Other * Manuel (American horse), a thoroughbred racehorse * Manuel (Australian horse), a thoroughbred racehorse Manuel and The Music of The Mountains, a musical ensemble ''Manuel'' (album), music album by Dalida, 1974 See also Manny Manny is a common nickname for people with the given name Manuel, Emanuele, Immanuel, Emmanuel, Herman, or Manfred. People Manny Acosta (born 1981), Panamanian pitcher in the Mexican Baseball League * Manny Acta (born 1969), Dominican Maj ... , a common nickname for those named Manuel {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Arthur Witty Arthur Whitty Cotton, also known as Don Arturo, was a footballer, club president and businessman. Whitty played for FC Barcelona in the first Copa del Rey final and later served as club president between 1903 and 1905. He was also a successful trader and his family company, the Witty Group, continues to operate today. He is the older brother of Ernest Whitty. Biography Early years Witty was the son of Frederick Witty, a British entrepreneur, who settled in Barcelona. Frederick, who belonged to a Yorkshire family, initially intended to emigrate to Argentina but was persuaded to go to Spain by friends. In 1873 he founded his own shipping agency under the name of F. Witty, subsequently establishing business links between Spain and the United Kingdom. Arthur and his brother, Ernest, were educated at Merchant Taylors' School in Merseyside, where sport was regarded as a major part of a young man's development. While at Merchant Taylors, Arthur played as a forward for the local r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Luis De Uhagón Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic in Portugal, but common in Brazil. Origins The Germanic name (and its variants) is usually said to be composed of the words for "fame" () and "warrior" () and hence may be translated to ''famous warrior'' or "famous in battle". According to Dutch onomatologists however, it is more likely that the first stem was , meaning fame, which would give the meaning 'warrior for the gods' (or: 'warrior who captured stability') for the full name.J. van der Schaar, ''Woordenboek van voornamen'' (Prisma Voornamenboek), 4e druk 1990; see also thLodewijs in the Dutch given names database Modern forms of the name are the German name Ludwig and the Dutch form Lodewijk. and the other Iberian forms more closely resemble the French name Louis, a derivat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]