Enrique Peris de Vargas (27 February 1887 - 17 February 1953) was a Spanish
footballer
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who played as a
left winger
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
. He spent most of his career at
Barcelona
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, with whom he played over 300 matches.
Club career
Born in
Barcelona
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, he began his career in 1903 at
FC Internacional
The Futbol Club Internacional, commonly referred to a was as FC Internacional, was a football team based in Barcelona, Spain. Founded in 1901, FC Internacional had an "impasse" in its activities after the 1905-06 academic year, resuming them in 19 ...
. Together with
Paco Bru and
Charles Wallace, he helped the club achieve three successive runner-up finishes in the
Catalan championship between 1904 and 1906, losing out on the title to a different opponent each time, Club Español (now
RCD Espanyol
Reial Club Deportiu Espanyol de Barcelona (; "Royal Spanish Sports Club of Barcelona"), commonly known as Espanyol, is a professional sports club based in Barcelona, Spain, that competes in La Liga, the top tier of the Spanish football league sy ...
)
FC Barcelona
Futbol Club Barcelona (), commonly referred to as Barcelona and colloquially known as Barça (), is a professional football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, that competes in La Liga, the top flight of Spanish football.
Founded ...
and
X Sporting Club
The X Sporting Club, officially founded as Football Club X, was a football team based in Barcelona, Spain, which existed during the years 1902 and 1908. They won the Catalan championship three times in a row between 1905 and 1908. X Sporting Club ...
respectively. In 1906, the club had to suspend its activities due to a lack of players, and most of the players, including him, joined Barcelona in the 1906-07 season, playing first as a
midfielder
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
and finally as a left-winger.
He played for Barça for more than a decade, becoming the first player to reach 200 official matches with the club. In total, he played 308 matches and scored 34 goals. Peris was an integral piece in Barcelona's first great team, which had the likes of
Alfredo Massana
Alfredo Massana Urgellés (27 July 1891 - 24 March 1924), was a Spanish footballer who played as a midfielder for Espanyol and FC Barcelona. He had a great placement and vision of the game. Known as a great dribbler, he was one of the best Catalan ...
,
Manuel Amechazurra
Manuel Amechazurra was a Philippine-born Spanish footballer who played as a defender. His nickname was Amecha. He is best known for his second spell at FC Barcelona, playing a total of 137 games in the first team and scoring 20 goals.
Amechazur ...
and
Pepe Rodríguez, as well as fellow FC Internacional teammates Bru and Wallace. Together with them, he helped the club win 5 Catalan championships including three successive titles between 1909 and 1911, along with four back-to-back
Pyrenees Cup
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s between 1910 and 1913, and three
Copa del Rey
The Campeonato de España–Copa de Su Majestad el Rey, commonly known as Copa del Rey or simply La Copa and formerly known as Copa del Presidente de la República (1932–36) and Copa del Generalísimo (1939–76), is an annual knockout footbal ...
titles in
1910
Events
January
* January 13 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; live performances of the operas '' Cavalleria rusticana'' and ''Pagliacci'' are sent out over the airwaves, from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York C ...
,
1912
Events January
* January 1 – The Republic of China (1912–49), Republic of China is established.
* January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens.
* January 6 ...
and
1913
Events January
* January 5 – First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos (1913), Battle of Lemnos – Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not ven ...
. In the
latter's final, Barça needed three games to beat
Real Sociedad
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and Peris started in all of them.
International career
Like many other
FC Barcelona
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Founded ...
players at the time, Peris was summoned by the
Catalonia national team for 10 games, one of which was the team's first-ever game recognized by FIFA on 20 February 1912, which ended in a 0-7 loss to
France
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. A few days earlier, on 11 February, he had been one of the eleven players that had faced a weaker side of France, helping Catalonia to a 2-0 win. He also represented the Catalan team in
the first edition of the
Prince of Asturias Cup
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in 1915, an inter-regional competition organized by the
RFEF
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.
Honours
Club
;
Barcelona
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*
Catalan championship:
**Champions (5): 1908–09, 1909–10, 1910–11, 1912–13, 1915–16
*
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 ...
:
**Champions (4): 1910, 1911, 1912 and 1913
*
Copa del Rey
The Campeonato de España–Copa de Su Majestad el Rey, commonly known as Copa del Rey or simply La Copa and formerly known as Copa del Presidente de la República (1932–36) and Copa del Generalísimo (1939–76), is an annual knockout footbal ...
:
**Champions (3):
1910
Events
January
* January 13 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; live performances of the operas '' Cavalleria rusticana'' and ''Pagliacci'' are sent out over the airwaves, from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York C ...
,
1912
Events January
* January 1 – The Republic of China (1912–49), Republic of China is established.
* January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens.
* January 6 ...
and
1913
Events January
* January 5 – First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos (1913), Battle of Lemnos – Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not ven ...
International
;
Catalonia
Catalonia (; ca, Catalunya ; Aranese Occitan: ''Catalonha'' ; es, Cataluña ) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a ''nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy.
Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the north ...
*
Prince of Asturias Cup
The Prince of Asturias Cup (, ) was an inter-regional football competition contested by the regional selections of Spain – selections of players from clubs from the region in question, meaning that players did not need to be native to the region ...
:
**Runner-up (1):
1915
Events
Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix.
January
* January – British physicist Sir Joseph Larmor publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction".
*January 1 ...
References
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1887 births
1953 deaths
Footballers from Barcelona
Spanish footballers
Association football wingers
FC Barcelona players
Catalonia international footballers