José Pablo García Castany (30 August 1948 – 16 June 2022), known as just García Castany, was a Spanish football player and coach. He played

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for

CD Condal Club Deportivo Condal was a Spanish football club based in Barcelona, in the autonomous community of Catalonia. Founded in 1934 and dissolved in 1970, it held home games at ''Camp de Les Corts'', with a capacity of 25,000 spectators. History ...

FC Barcelona Futbol Club Barcelona (), commonly known as FC Barcelona and colloquially as Barça (), is a professional Football club (association football), football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, that competes in La Liga, the top flight of ...

, and

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. With Barcelona, he won the

Copa del Rey The , commonly known as , or (in English) the Spanish Cup or King's Cup, and formerly known as Copa del Presidente de la República (1932–1936) and Copa del Generalísimo (1939–1976), is an annual knockout football competition in Spanis ...

in 1971. He married Immaculada Cabecerán i Soler, then-captain of the Barcelona women's team, and they had two daughters. García Castany coached his daughters' football teams. He died of dementia in 2022.

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