Áureo Comamala López-Del Pan was a Spanish

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and

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who played as a defender for

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in the 1910s. His brothers Carles and Arsenio also played football for FC Barcelona, and he was the least successful of the three.

Biography

Comamala was born in

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as the son of Alfonso Comamala and Maria de la Concepcion López del Pan. He began his football career in 1909 with his hometown club, FC Barcelona, and although he played three seasons for them, he only played one official competitive match, in the 1910–11 Catalan championship. By playing in this match, Sagi was part of the squad that then won the 1911 title. Later he played briefly at Casual SC in 1912, before joining Universitari SC, where he retired in 1917. Comamala married Albina Malo de Silva Braganza (1895–1933) in July 1919, in the in a ceremony at which his brother Carles also married, this one with Leonor Victoria de Lacea y Mazarredo (1890–1936). Comamala then moved to live in

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, where he ran his pharmacy and pharmaceutical laboratory. He then adventured himself into politics, becoming a councilor in Gerona for the Patriotic Union party, founded by the dictator

Miguel Primo de Rivera Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, 2nd Marquis of Estella, Grandee, GE (8 January 1870 – 16 March 1930), was a Spanish dictator and military officer who ruled as prime minister of Spain from 1923 to 1930 during the last years of the Resto ...

. Comamala was murdered in the first days of the

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, in a mass killing in Urtx, in a place known as ''Correc del Gavatx'', in which 21 people died, many of whom, like Comamala, had belonged to the Patriotic Union, among them a former mayor, , and several former councilors of the city council.

Honours

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* Catalan championship: **Champions (1): 1910–11

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Comamala, Áureo Year of birth missing 1951 deaths Footballers from Barcelona Spanish men's footballers Men's association football defenders FC Barcelona players Spanish casualties of the Spanish Civil War