{"id":5378,"date":"2023-02-02T08:50:09","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T08:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/barcelona-englishman-miles-barron-revealed-as-clubs-first-manager\/"},"modified":"2023-02-02T08:50:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T08:50:11","slug":"barcelona-englishman-miles-barron-revealed-as-clubs-first-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/barcelona-englishman-miles-barron-revealed-as-clubs-first-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona: Englishman Miles Barron revealed as club’s first manager"},"content":{"rendered":"


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It turns out the man called B Barren on Barcelona’s website is Miles Barron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Until now, the identity of Barcelona’s first manager has been shrouded in mystery.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The club’s official records refer to him only as <\/span>‘B. Barren’,<\/span>external-link<\/title><\/svg><\/span><\/a> noting that he was an Englishman who was in charge for a brief period in 1912. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

New research has revealed the truth about this footballing pioneer, with a story that goes back to the coalfields of Durham and the first ‘World Cup’. <\/span><\/p>\n

Here is the tale of Barcelona’s first coach, Miles Coverdale Stocks Barron. <\/span><\/p>\n

Early Barca’s British influence<\/h3>\n

Futbol Club Barcelona was founded in 1899 by Swiss athlete and businessman Hans Gamper, who stayed at the helm for more than two decades and later adapted his first name to the Catalan version, Joan.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gamper was highly ambitious, and he quickly developed Barca into a force on the burgeoning Spanish football scene, winning the Spanish Cup in 1910 and funding the construction of a new stadium.<\/span><\/p>\n

But Gamper realised that his team was still well below the level of leading clubs around the continent and – like many early innovators in Spanish futbol – he turned for inspiration to the source of the modern game: British football. He initially raised standards by recruiting a series of players, including Alex Steel (formerly of Manchester City and Tottenham) and Billy Lambe (ex-Brighton and Hove Albion), with the latter also serving as player\/manager.<\/span><\/p>\n

That, however, was not enough to satisfy Gamper, who was also keen to appoint a full-time manager and administrator to run the team’s affairs off the pitch rather than entrusting those important duties to a player.<\/span><\/p>\n

At this point, most probably through another of his British recruits, Jack Greenwell, Gamper was introduced to Miles ‘Sidney’ Barron.<\/span><\/p>\n

‘World Cup’ winner heads to Barcelona<\/h3>\n

The full story of Barron’s involvement with Barcelona has been researched by Gavin Jamieson of Lapwing Publishing, who told BBC Sport: “Born in 1871, Barron was a surveyor, the son of a colliery manager from Durham. <\/span><\/p>\n

“He was never a footballer but had been a company secretary for a few amateur teams in the north east, and was a very good organiser of European trips.”<\/span><\/p>\n