Joaquim Rifé Climent (born 4 February 1942 in

Barcelona Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of 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 c ...

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) was a Spanish

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who played as a midfielder and captained

, playing a total of 548 matches for the club. He played in the Barcelona first team for 12 seasons, between 1964 and 1976. Following his retirement as a player, he became one of the team trainers; at the end of the 1978–79 season, he took charge of the team along with Torres. This duo helped the team to attain The Recopa of Basilea. He ranks ninth among players, by number of starts, in the history of Barcelona. His brother Llorenç was also a footballer.

Honours

Player

Barcelona * 1

La Liga The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Primera División, commonly known as the Primera División or La Liga, and officially known as LaLiga EA Sports for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Spain and the highest ...

: 1973–74. * 2

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 ...

: 1967–68, 1970–71. * 2

Inter-Cities Fairs Cup The Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, most commonly referred to as the Fairs Cup and sometimes as the European Fairs Cup or Fairs Cities' Cup, was a European football competition played between 1955 and 1971. The Fairs Cup was the idea of FIFA vice-presid ...

: 1965–66,

1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (Solar eclipse of February 25, 1971, February 25, Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971, July 22 and Solar eclipse of August 20, 1971, August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 1971 lunar eclip ...

Trophy Play-Off

Manager

Barcelona * 1

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was a European association football, football club competition contested annually by the winners of domestic cup competitions. The competition's official name was originally the European Cup Winners' Cup; it was renam ...

: 1978–79.

References

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Joaquim Rifé at FCBarcelona.comStats at LFPSpain footballer statsWhere do Arsenal need Strengthening?
La Liga players FC Barcelona players Spanish men's footballers Spain men's international footballers FC Barcelona managers Levante UD managers 1942 births Living people Men's association football midfielders Catalonia men's international footballers Footballers from Barcelona Spanish football managers 20th-century Spanish sportsmen {{Spain-footy-midfielder-stub