Frank Albert Allack (25 September 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 RCD Espanyol, is a Spanish professional sports club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The club competes in La Liga, the top tier of Spa ...

and

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

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

Copa del Rey The , commonly known as , or (in English) the Spanish Cup or King's Cup, and formerly known as Copa del Presidente de la República (1932–1936) and Copa del Generalísimo (1939–1976), is an annual knockout football competition in Spanis ...

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-Py ...

), netting a goal in the

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of the

1913 Pyrenees Cup The 1913 Pyrenees Cup was the 4th tournament of the Pyrenees Cup, one of the first international football club competitions. The competition was held on the road between 2 March and 8 June, and it was won by FC Barcelona after easily disposing of ...

Biography

Born in

Woolwich Woolwich () is a town in South London, 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 mainta ...

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

Catalonia Catalonia is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a ''nationalities and regions of Spain, nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia of 2006, Statute of Autonomy. Most of its territory (except the Val d'Aran) is situate ...

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 William Hodge 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) with 3 goals, two in a 7–0 win over

Casual SC The Casual Sport Club, commonly referred to as Casual SC, was a football team based in Barcelona, Spain, which existed from December 1911 until its dissolution in June 1913. It was founded in late 1911 by a group of dissident players from FC Bar ...

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 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 , holding home matches at '' Estadi Olímpic de Terrassa'', with a capacity of 7,500 sp ...

Honours

Club

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

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

: **Champions (1):

1913 Events January * January – Joseph Stalin travels to Vienna to research his ''Marxism and the National Question''. This means that, during this month, Stalin, Hitler, Trotsky and Tito are all living in the city. * January 3 &ndash ...

: **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 the Royal Borough of Greenwich People from Woolwich