Francisco Vinyals Bou (10 December 1897 – April 1951) was a Spanish

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who played as a winger with

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for his entire career which spanned 12 years between 1914 and 1926. He was one of the first footballers to play for Barcelona for his entire career, and thus be part of the so-called one-club men group.

Club career

Born and raised in

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, Vinyals began his career at his hometown club

, making his debut on 25 October 1914 against

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in a Catalan championship match. Vinyals played for Barça for more than a decade, being a regular in the starting line-ups from the 1914–15 season until the 1924–25 season. He played a total of 103 official matches (15 in the

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and 88 in the Catalan championship), netting 12 goals. In total, he played 349 unofficial matches. Vinyals was a member of the first golden generation of the club, which was coached by

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, and included

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and

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. Together with them, he helped Barça win 7 Catalan championships, along with five Copa del Rey finals in

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and

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, winning the latter four, but oddly, the final in which Vinyals managed to score a goal was the one which they lost in 1919, ending in a 2–5 loss to

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, courtesy of a

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from

. Vinyals was honored with a tribute match on 14 April 1918, which was held at the

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when he was still an active player. Just over a year before, on 4 February 1917, fellow one-club Barça men

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in the Copa del Rey, and so, on 19 June 1927, he was the subject of another tribute match together with Ramon Bruguera, this time in Les Corts. His brother Josep Vinyals also played for Barça but only in unofficial matches. Along with his brother, he was an outstanding

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Honours

Club

;

Catalan championship: *Champions (7): 1915–16, 1918–19, 1919–20, 1920–21, 1921–22, 1923–24, 1924–25

: *Champions (4):

and

*Runner-up (1):

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Vinyals, Francisco 1897 births 1951 deaths FC Barcelona players Footballers from Barcelona Spanish men's footballers Catalonia men's international footballers Lists of one-club men Men's association football wingers