Felipe Ferrer Carreras (5 April 1890 – 1986) was a Spanish footballer who played as a

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for

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, Levante, and Valencia.

Playing career

Born in Palma de Mallorca in 1890, Ferrer was the first player from Alfonso XIII, current RCD Mallorca, who went on to play in the First Division. From the age of 8 to 16, he lived with his family in Argentina, so he trained as a footballer in the vacant lots of the city of Buenos Aires, popularly known as ''potreros''. Upon his return to the

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, he began playing as an inside left player for Alfonso XIII, always appearing in the lineups of the late 1920s like Felipe. A player with great technique and a powerful shot, he became champion of Mallorca at only 18 years of age and played in a national championship within the Catalan Group. In the 1933–34 season, he signed with Levante, where he spent two seasons before going to play in Asturias with

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, in the First Division, with whom he played five official matches and scored two goals. Oviedo, which finished third after Athletic Bilbao and Real Madrid, had a great team, with a forward line made up of Casuco, Gallart, Lángara, Herrerita and Emilín in which it was almost impossible to find a place, but Ferrer still managed to achieve it five times, but he lacked continuity and the arrival of the Spanish Civil War definitively cut his career short. After the war, he returned to the island to play for Mallorca, and in 1939 he arrived at a Valencia team that had a dream squad. On some occasions he helped put together a luxury forward line with Epi,

Vicente Asensi Vicente Asensi Albentosa (28 January 1919 – 2 September 2000) was a football player who spent all his career at Valencia CF where he played 308 games and scored 33 goals. Together with Epi, Amadeo, Mundo and Gorostiza they made up one of the ...

, Mundo, and Gorostiza, but he did not enjoy real opportunities. He only played one league game in two seasons. From Valencia he went on loan only for the Cup matches to Murcia, and later signed with Málaga in the 1941–42 season. After it ended, at the age of thirty, he returned to Mallorca, playing with Atlético Baleares and Poblense. Felipe Ferrer died in Argentina in 1986.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ferrer, Felipe 1910 births 1986 deaths Footballers from Palma de Mallorca Spanish men's footballers Men's association football forwards FC Barcelona players RCD Mallorca players Real Murcia CF players Valencia CF players