José Berrondo Silva (26 October 1890 – 21 August 1936) was a Spanish

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who played as a defender for

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

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 ...

. He was also a

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and a Basque pelota player.

Club career

José Berrondo was born in

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, but it was in

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where he began to play football, joining his hometown club Hispania FC during the 1911–12 season, before signing for

in the following season. In his only season at Barcelona (1912–13), Berrondo won all the titles at stake: The Catalan championship,

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 ...

and

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 ...

. Barça needed three games to beat

Real Sociedad Real Sociedad de Fútbol, S.A.D., more commonly referred to as Real Sociedad (; ''Royal Society''), La Real in Spanish, Erreala in Basque, is a Spanish professional sports club in the city of San Sebastián, Basque Country, founded on 7 Septem ...

in the Copa del Rey final, and he only featured in the second game as a substitute to the injured

José Irízar José Marcelino Yrízar Urbizu (5 October 1882 - 23 March 1935), better known as José Irízar was a Spanish footballer who played as a defender for Athletic Club and FC Barcelona. Although he always appeared as Irizar in the sports press, on hi ...

, helping his side keep a clean-sheet in a goalless draw. He also played in the Pyrenees Cup final, this time as a starter, netting a own goal in a 7–2 victory over Cométe et Simot. He then moved to

, finishing his career at the end of the 1913–14 season, and he immediately began refereeing matches, a task which he would spend a few years, although he played briefly for Sarrià SC during this period. Eventually, Berrondo reversed his decision to retire and returned to

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five years later, in 1919, to join Valencia CF, featuring alongside the likes of

Eduardo Cubells Eduardo Cubells Ridaura (17 January 1900 – 13 March 1964) was a Spanish football player and manager. Club career Born in Valencia, Cubells began to play football in some of the first teams that have already disappeared in Valencia, such as Dep ...

and Arturo Montesinos. He also had a brief spell with Sporting de Sagunto (1924–25) with whom he retired permanently. He went on to become the honorary president of Sporting de Sagunto.

Death

During the

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, he was shot dead at the gates of the Canet de Berenguer cemetery.

Honours

Club

Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ...

* Catalan Championships: **Winners (1) 1912–13 *

: **Champions (1): 1913 *

: **Champions (1):

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 ...

References

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