23.1.17

Joan Gamper - Goal Machine


The Joan Gamper we usually see is the bespectacled, avuncular elder statesmen of Barcelona, but when he founded that eminent club he was still a player first and foremost.
In 1901-02 Barcelona enjoyed a glut of goals. They played 26 matches, losing only one, and scored in every game. They scored 146 goals in total, an average of over 5 a game.

Goals scored
Number of games
1
3
2
2
3
3
4
6
5
1
6
1
7
3
8
2
9
1
10
1
12
2
15
1

At the forefront of this goal rush was 24 year old Gamper:

Joan Gamper / Hans Camper
Switzerland
29
Bernat Lassaleta
Spain
24

Lluís d'Ossó
Catalunya
20

Udo Steinberg
Germany
19

Paul Viderkher
Switzerland
6
Joaquín García
Catalunya

George Noble
Catalunya
5
Alfonso Albéniz
Catalunya

John Parsons
Catalunya
4
James Albert Eckes
England
Stanley Harris
England
Josep Llobet
Catalunya

Arthur Leask
Catalunya

3
Henry Morris
England /Basque/Philippines
2
? Chown
?
? Catala
Catalunya
Own Goals


Josep Quirante
Catalunya
1
Josep Vidal
Catalunya
? Conarre
?
? Gener
?


The only team to defeat Barcelona's only defeat came in the final of Copa de la Coronació, beaten 2-1 by Athletic Club Bilbao in the guise of Bizcaya.