Frank Albert Allack (1888 – 1967) was an English

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who played as a

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for Spanish clubs

RCD Espanyol Reial Club Deportiu Espanyol de Barcelona (; "Royal Spanish Sports Club of Barcelona"), commonly known as Espanyol, is a professional sports club based in Barcelona, Spain, that competes in La Liga, the top tier of the Spanish football league sy ...

and

FC Barcelona Futbol Club Barcelona (), commonly referred to as Barcelona and colloquially known as Barça (), is a professional Football team, football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, that competes in La Liga, the top flight of Spanish footb ...

. The highlight of his career was winning the treble with Barcelona in the 1912–13 season ( Catalan championship,

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and

Pyrenees Cup The Pyrenees Cup (), officially Challenge International du Sud de la France, was an international football competition contested by Spanish and French clubs based in the territories of Pyrénées (Catalonia, the Basque Country, Languedoc, Midi-P ...

), netting a goal in the

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of the

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Biography

Born in

Woolwich Woolwich () is a district in southeast London, England, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich. The district's location on the River Thames led to its status as an important naval, military and industrial area; a role that was maintained thro ...

, he began to play football in England for Plumstead FC and then Catford Southend. Allack toured

Catalonia Catalonia (; ca, Catalunya ; Aranese Occitan: ''Catalonha'' ; es, Cataluña ) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a '' nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy. Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the no ...

with the former, and in a match against

on 18 May 1911, he put up a great performance which impressed the Catalan club enough for them to sign him, along with

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and Raine Gibson. He had an immediate impact in Espanyol, quickly becoming one of the club's most important players and playing a pivotal role in helping his side win the 1911–12 Catalan championship, thus interrupting a three-year dominace of

. His great season at Espanyol earned him a move to FC Barcelona in 1912, where he played for two seasons. He again had a great first impact on the team, helping Barça win all the titles at stake in his first season with them (1912–13): The Catalan championship,

and

, and he was one of the most outstanding players in the latter

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, being its shared top scorer (alongside

Alexander Steel Alexander Steel (25 July 1886 – 1954) was a Scottish professional footballer who played for Newmilns, Ayr, Manchester City, Tottenham Hotspur, Barcelona, Kilmarnock, Southend United and Gillingham. In his spell at Barcelona he won two Pyr ...

) with 3 goals, two in a 7–0 win over

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in the quarter-finals and one in the

to help his side to a 7–2 win over Cométe et Simot. He later played for

Català SC 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 Spa ...

before retiring in 1914. His brother, Henry Thomas Allack, was also a footballer and played in Catalonia for Olot Deportiu, Sporting Club Olotí, CE Manresa and

Terrassa FC Terrassa Futbol Club is a Spanish football team based in Terrassa, Barcelona, in the autonomous community of Catalonia. Founded in 1906 it currently plays in Segunda División RFEF – Group 3, holding home matches at ''Estadi Olímpic de Terrass ...

Honours

Club

* Catalan championship: **Champions (1): 1911–12 ;

* Catalan championship: **Champions (1): 1912–13 *

: **Champions (1):

1913 Events January * January 5 – First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos – Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not venture for the rest of the ...

: **Champions (1):

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Allack, Frank 1888 births 1967 deaths English men's footballers Men's association football forwards Catford Southend F.C. players RCD Espanyol footballers FC Barcelona players English expatriate men's footballers English expatriate sportspeople in Spain Expatriate men's footballers in Spain Footballers from Woolwich