Santiago Massana
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Santiago Massana Urgellés | ||
| Date of birth | 5 July 1889 | ||
| Place of birth | Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain | ||
| Date of death | Unknown | ||
| Place of death | Catalonia, Spain | ||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1903–1904 | Ibèric FC | ||
| 1904–1909 | X Sporting Club | ||
| 1909–1915 | Espanyol | ||
| 1915–1917 | Barcelona | ||
| 1915–1916 | Terrassa FC | ||
| 1916–1917 | Universitary SC | ||
| 1917–1918 | Espanyol | ||
| International career | |||
| 1910–1916 | Catalonia | 6 | (0) |
Medal record | |||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Santiago Massana Urgellés (5 June 1889 – Unknown), nicknamed Tiago, was a Spanish footballer who played as a defender.[1] He was best known for his height, which he imposed on his opponents. His brother, Alfredo Massana, was also a footballer.
Club career
[edit]Born in Barcelona, he joined the first team of Ibèric FC during the 1903-04 season, forming a great defensive partnership with the club's goalkeeper, Pedro Gibert, who also were teammates at X Sporting Club and Club Español de Fútbol. For the form, they played a pivotal role in the club's three back-to-back Catalan championships between 1906 and 1908, the latter two with the added help of his younger brother, Alfredo. In 1909, the club was effectively relaunched as the Club Deportivo Español, the name which still stands today.[2]
Easily identifiable on the pitch due to height, Tiago was a tough and forceful defender, dwarfing his rivals and he also enjoyed a strong shot that he often used to clear the balls from his area, but in a match against Español de Madrid, he broke a leg, which endangered his football life, needing more than a year to recover.[3] After 5 season with Espanyol, winning two Catalan Championships in 1911-12 and 1914–15, he signed for FC Barcelona in the 1915-16 season (his brother Alfredo had been in Barcelona since 1912), with whom he won that season's Catalan Championship. He and his brother left Barcelona at the end of that season to play with Terrassa FC for the 1916-17 season, but then, while Alfredo returned to Espanyol, he joined Universitary SC in 1917,[4] where he played alongside former Espanyol teammate Turró, and at the end of the season both he and Turró returned to Espanyol in 1918, for whom they both played until retiring in 1922.
In 1922 he left Barcelona for the Amazon basin, where he bought an island in the state of Pará and settled there.[3]
International career
[edit]Like many other FC Barcelona players of that time, he played several matches for the Catalan national team between 1912 and 1916. In May 1915, he was a member of the team that participated in the first edition of the Prince of Asturias Cup in 1915, an inter-regional competition organized by the RFEF.[5]
Legacy
[edit]Llucià Oslé made a sculptural reproduction in bronze of Tiago, called "El Campió" which was housed in the Olympic Stadium for the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition, as part of a pair of sports-themed pieces.[citation needed]
Honours
[edit]Club
[edit]- Catalan Championships:
- Winners (3) 1905-06, 1906–07 and 1907–08
- Catalan Championships:
- Winners (2) 1911-12 and 1914–15
- Catalan Championships:
- Winners (1) 1915-16
International
[edit]- Prince of Asturias Cup:
- Runner-up (1): 1915
References
[edit]- ^ "Santiago Massana Urgellès - Footballer". www.bdfutbol.com. Archived from the original on 28 April 2021. Retrieved 29 June 2022.
- ^ "Edición del Thursday 31 December de 1908, Página 4" [Thursday, 31 December 1908 Edition, Page 4]. hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.com (in Spanish). 31 December 1908. Archived from the original on 13 April 2021. Retrieved 29 June 2022.
- ^ a b "Santiago MASSANA". hallofameperico.com (in Spanish). 20 April 2009. Archived from the original on 12 June 2021. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
- ^ "…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.
- ^ "Squad of Cataluña 1915 Copa del Príncipe de Asturias". www.bdfutbol.com. Archived from the original on 29 June 2022. Retrieved 29 June 2022.