Antonio Solé
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Birth name | Antoni Solé | ||
| Place of birth | Catalonia, Spain | ||
| Position(s) | Defender and Midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1900–1901 | Sociedad Española | ||
| 1901–1904 | RCD Espanyol B | ||
| 1904–1910 | RCD Espanyol | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Antonio Solé,[1][2] sometimes misspelled as Antoni Soler,[3][4][a] was a Spanish footballer who played as a defender and midfielder for RCD Espanyol in the 1910s,[3][4] winning the Copa Macaya in 1903.[2]
Biography
[edit]Very little is known about his life; Solé was one of the first players of Sociedad Española, now known as RCD Espanyol, being a member of the club's very first team.[2][4] On 25 November 1900, Solé played as a defender for Sociedad Española in a "morning session" against Hispania AC, which ended in a 4–4 draw.[9] Together with Ángel Ponz, Luciano Lizárraga, Joaquim Carril, and club founders Octavi Aballí and Rodríguez, he represented Espanyol in the 1900–01 Copa Macaya, which was the first football competition played on the Iberian Peninsula.[1] He played in only one match,[4][1] which ended in a 2–0 win over Tarragona on 10 February 1901; Espanyol finished in third-place behind FC Barcelona and the winners Hispania AC.[1]
Between 1900 and 1903, this was the only official match that Solé played for Espanyol's first team, spending most of his career with the club's reserve/second team, but despite his lack of playing time, he remained loyal to Espanyol.[4] He was a member of the Espanyol second team that participated in the 1902 Medalla del Ayuntamiento, a tournament organized by the Spanish Gymnastics Federation and which was contested by the second teams of the clubs that played in the Copa Macaya and by the first teams of newly created clubs.[10] On 2 March, he started as a forward alongside Josep Maria Soler, and they both scored once in a 5–1 win over Catalònia.[11] Two weeks later, on 16 March, he scored a goal to help his side to a 5–2 win over Irish FC.[12][13] However, they finished the tournament in fourth place.
In 1903, Solé won the Copa Macaya;[2] however, he had little to no contribution to this triumph.[4] In the 1904–05 season, Solé, after nearly five years with the club, finally achieved his breakthrough to the first team, playing a total of four matches in the Catalan championship,[3][4] forming a strong defensive partnership with Joaquim Carril.[14] Following a hiatus, he returned to Espanyol to play two more seasons from 1908 to 1910.[2]
Honours
[edit]RCD Espanyol
- Copa Macaya:
- Champions: 1902–03
Notes
[edit]- ^ At the turn of the century, Catalan football had several players with the surname Solé or Soler, such as Joan Soler of Barça,[5] Josep Maria Soler of Espanyol;[6] S. Soler of Hispania AC and V. Soler of SD Santanach;[1] and then R. Soler of Universitary SC, Solé of Irish FC, and (Antoni) Solé of Espanyol,[7] and this naturally resulted in a lot of headaches and misspellings by the football historian who researched these players. Furthermore, there was also a certain Antonio Soler, the vice secretary of "Velo Club", a cycling club headquartered at the Nuevo Velódromo de Barcelona, which was the football pitch of Hispania.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "Primera edición de la Copa Macaya Enero-Abril 1901" [First edition of the Macaya Cup January–April 1901] (in Spanish). CIHEFE. 1 June 2014. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
- ^ a b c d e "ONCE IDEAL" [IDEAL ELEVEN]. hallofameperico.com (in Spanish). 30 December 2016. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
- ^ a b c "Soler, Antoni Soler - Footballer". www.bdfutbol.com. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Antoni Soler". www.periquito.cat. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
- ^ "Joan Soler (1900-01) stats". players.fcbarcelona.com. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
- ^ "Soler, Josep Maria Soler - Footballer". www.bdfutbol.com. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
- ^ "3º Barcelona contra 2º Español [...] 2º Irish contra 2º Iberia [...] 2° Barcelona contra 1º Universitari". arca.bnc.cat (in Catalan). Los Deportes. 26 January 1902. pp. 9–10. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
- ^ "Unión Velocipédica Española" [Spanish Velocipedic Union]. arca.bnc.cat (in Catalan). Los Deportes. 12 January 1902. p. 8. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
- ^ "Sociedad Española 4–4 Hispania AC". hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com (in Spanish). La Vanguardia. 26 November 1900. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
- ^ "Un aplauso á la Federación G. Española" [A round of applause for the Spanish G. Federation]. arca.bnc.cat (in Catalan). Los Deportes. 12 January 1902. p. 9. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
- ^ "2º Español contra 1º Catalònia". arca.bnc.cat (in Catalan). Los Deportes. 9 March 1902. p. 9. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
- ^ "1º Irish contra 2º Español" ["Irish" (1) against "Español"]. arca.bnc.cat (in Catalan). Los Deportes. 23 March 1902. p. 10. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
- ^ "Notas de sport" [Sports notes]. hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com (in Spanish). La Vanguardia. 20 March 1902. p. 3. Archived from the original on 20 March 2024. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
- ^ "Squad of Club Español de Foot-ball 1904-05 Campionat de Catalunya". www.bdfutbol.com. Retrieved 30 December 2024.