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Juan López (footballer, born 1892)

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Juan López
Personal information
Full name Juan López Turró
Date of birth (1892-05-09)9 May 1892
Place of birth Barcelona, Spain
Date of death Unknown
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
1905–1919 Espanyol
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1909–1917 Espanyol
1917–1918 Universitary SC
1918–1922 Espanyol
1922 FC Santboià
International career
1915–1918 Catalonia 8 (0)
Medal record
 Catalonia
Prince of Asturias Cup
Gold medal – first place 1916 Prince of Asturias Cup Team[1]
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Juan López Turró (9 May 1892 in Barcelona – unknown) was a Spanish footballer who played as a forward.[2] Short and thin, he stood out for his effective play, having little formality to put the ball in the back of the net. His best years were in the second half of the 1910s, where he was an undisputed starter at Espanyol and a regular with the Catalan national team.

Club career

Born in Barcelona, he began to play football at the youth ranks of Espanyol in 1905, reaching the first team in 1909, where he played for 8 seasons, featuring alongside Ricardo Zamora in his last season at the club, and being pivotal in helping Espanyol reach the 1915 Copa del Rey Final, which they lost 0-5 to Athletic Bilbao.[3] He then joined Universitary SC in 1917,[4] with whom he played for just one year, returning to Espanyol at the end of the season in 1918, for whom he played until 1922.[2]

He rarely went to the playing field unless there was a game, meaning he almost never trained, which wasn't uncommon in those times, but despite that, he became one of the most emblematic players of his time.[2]

International career

Being a Espanyol player, he was summoned to play for the Catalonia national team several times, and in May 1916, he was a member of the Catalan team that won the second edition of the Prince of Asturias Cup in 1916, an inter-regional competition organized by the RFEF.[5]

Honours

Club

Espanyol

Copa del Rey:

International

Catalonia

Prince of Asturias Cup:

References

  1. ^ Vicente Martínez Calatrava (17 August 2009). "La Copa Príncipe de Asturias" [The Prince of Asturias Cup] (in Spanish). CIHEFE. Archived from the original on 14 April 2019. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
  2. ^ a b c "Juan LÓPEZ Turró". periquito.cat (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 31 August 2021. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
  3. ^ "Spain - Cup 1915". RSSSF. 20 January 2000. Archived from the original on 7 December 2017. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
  4. ^ "…valiosos refuerzos de Santiago Massana, Ventura, López (Turró), Arribas y algún otro…" […valuable reinforcements of Santiago Massana, Ventura, López (Turró), Arribas and some others…]. hemerotecadigital.bne.es (in Spanish). 3 January 1918. Archived from the original on 31 August 2021. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
  5. ^ "Squad of Cataluña 1916 Copa del Príncipe de Asturias". www.bdfutbol.com. Archived from the original on 27 June 2022. Retrieved 28 June 2022.