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Joan Segarra Iracheta (15 November 1927 – 3 September 2008) was a Spanish
footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...
who played as a defender. He spent 16 seasons with
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 ...
between 1950 and 1964, in which he played 299 matches in
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and served as the team's
captain Captain is a title, an appellative for the commanding officer of a military unit; the supreme leader or highest rank officer of a navy ship, merchant ship, aeroplane, spacecraft, or other vessel; or the commander of a port, fire or police depa ...
for multiple years. He is ranked fifth among all players, by number of starts, in the history of Barcelona. After retirement, Segarra stayed on as a youth team coach, eventually becoming first team assistant coach to
Helenio Herrera Helenio Herrera Gavilán (; 10 April 1910 – 9 November 1997) was an Argentina, Argentine and naturalised France, French association football, football player and Manager (association football), manager. He is best remembered for his success ...
.


Honours

;FC Barcelona *
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup The Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, most commonly referred to as the Fairs Cup and sometimes as the European Fairs Cup or Fairs Cities' Cup, was a European football competition played between 1955 and 1971. The Fairs Cup was the idea of FIFA vice-presid ...
: 1955–58, 1958–60 *
Latin Cup The Latin Cup was an international official football tournament for club sides from the Southwest European nations of France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. In 1949, the football federations came together and requested FIFA launch the competition ...
: 1952 * Small Club World Cup: 1957 * Spanish League: 1951–52, 1952–53, 1958–59, 1959–60 * Spanish Cup: 1950–51, 1951–52, 1952–53, 1956–57, 1958–59, 1962–63 * Eva Duarte Cup: 1952, 1953


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National team data
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FC Barcelona profile


* 1927 births 2008 deaths Footballers from Barcelona Spanish men's footballers Men's association football defenders La Liga players FC Barcelona players Spain men's B international footballers Spain men's international footballers 1962 FIFA World Cup players Spanish football managers UE Figueres managers FC Barcelona Atlètic managers Catalonia men's international footballers 20th-century Spanish sportsmen {{Spain-footy-defender-stub