British coaches in the Copa

The development of Spanish Football was always heavily influenced by Britons. As was so often the case they founded the earliest clubs and spread the enthusiasm for the Association game among the locals.
English players (and officials) were very much in evidence in the formative years of the game in Spain. In the 1910s, when the game was more solidly established and less and less English names appeared on the teamsheets, Englishmen showed their influence in another sphere- appearing as coaches at the leading Spanish clubs.
Looking at the teams competing in the Copa del Rey (and later the Copa del Presidente de la República) shows us the following coaches from the United Kingdom.

1916
Athletic Club (Bilbao) defeated Madrid FC (later Real Madrid) 4-0 in the final. Both teams were led by Englishmen.

Barnes

Billy Barnes was at the helm for Athletic. Born in London in 1879 Barnes played for Thames Ironworks, Sheffield United, West Ham United, Luton Town, Queen's Park Rangers and Southend United.
He scored the winning goal for Sheffield United in the replay of the 1902 FA Cup Final.
He managed Athletic from 1914 to 1916 and again from 1920-21.

Johnson

The man in charge of Madrid FC was Arthur Johnson. He was Madrid's first full time coach. Appointed in 1910, he served until 1920. He had also been a player with the club, appearing in their first ever fixture and played in 4 winning Copa del Rey teams. Johnson, who was also born in 1879, later managed Athletic Club.

1917
Madrid beat Arenas Club de Guecho in extra time of the replayed final, giving Arthur Johnson a Copa win as a coach to add to his 4 as a player.

1918
Johnson led Madrid to a third successive Copa final, but they lost 2-0 to Real Unión.

Greenwell

1919
Barcelona were beaten 5-2 in the final by Arenas Club de Guecho. 
The manager  of Barcelona was the former Crook Town wing half Jack Greenwell.  Greenwell had also played in the West Aukland team that won the Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy in 1909. 
He joined Barcelona as a player in 1912, became coach in 1917.six Catalan titles and two Copa del Rey victories.
As well as 2 spells at Barcelona Greenwell coached Unió Esportiva Sants, Club Deportivo Castellón,  Español, R.C.D Mallorca, Valencia, and Real Sporting de Gijón. He then moved on to Peru. 

1920
Greenwell and Barnes were the adversaries as Barcelona beat Athletic Club 2-0 in the final. 

1921
Barnes was in charge of Athletic Club , who ran out 4-0 winners against Atlético Madrid. Some sources mistakenly identify the manager of the Madrid side as former Manchester United defender Vince Hayes However, Hayes was engaged at Preston North End until 1923. 

1922
Another win for Greenwell- Barcelona beating Real Union 5-1.

1923
Athletic Club won their ninth  Copa, beating Barcelona's Club Deportivo Europe 1-0. Both sides were led by Englishmen.
Fred Pentland won 5 England caps in 1909 (including 3 on a tour of Austria-Hungary) and played most of his  League football for Blackburn Rovers and Middlesbrough. he was interned at Ruhleben during the war, having gone to Germany to coach the national side. After the war his managerial career resumed, following a rather strange trajectory- he led France in the 1920 Olympics and retired as manager of Barrow 20 years later. in the interim he had spells coaching Racing  Santander, Athletic Club Bilbao (2 ), Atlético Madrid (3) and Real Oviedo. 

In charge of  Club Deportivo Europe was Conyers 'Ralph' Kirby, a winger who made 1 league appearance for Birmingham. He later joined Barcelona. 


1924
Real Unión Club (Irun) beat Real Madrid 1-0 in the final.Real Unión Club was coached by Steve Bloomer, the legendary Derby County and England goalscorer. 

Steve Bloomer

1926
Barcelona beat Atlético Madrid 3-2 in the final, which featured the same managers as 1923- Kirby leading Barcelona and Pentland Atlético.

1932
Spain was now a Republic, and the national cup competition was rebranded as Copa del Presidente de la República. A final between Athletic Club (who won their 12th Copa with a 1-0 win) and Barcelona saw 2 by now familiar faces in charge. Pentland (Athletic Club) and Greenwell (Barca). 

Football at Ruhleben 1914-18

Ruhleben was a civilian detention camp at a racecourse in the Spandau district of Berlin.
During the 1914-18 war the camp contained between 4,000 and 5,500 civilian prisoners. A complex society evolved in the camp- newspapers were printed and drama and music groups were formed. Football was a popular distraction, and there were several noteworthy former professional footballers and coaches among the inmates.

Spiksley's name is spelled incorrectly here.

Fred Spiksley-  44 year old Spikesley had won 7 England caps between 1893 and 1898, and played most of his first class matches for The Wednesday 

(with whom he won the FA Cup in 1896). 

At the outbreak of the war he was a coach in Germany. 

He had moved there in 1913 and worked with TSV 1860 München and 1. FC Nuremberg.

There has been some debate as to whether Fred Spiksley was at Ruhleben. 

Modern biographers claim that he wasn't.  However he is mentioned as having being interred there 

in Samuel Wolstenholme's memoirs, and there is also a photograph of him at the camp.

 Fred Pentland - after a ten year professional career (Middlesbrough being his main team)  31 year old Pentland had gone to Germany in 1914 to coach the German Olympic team.  Pentland had won 5 England caps in 1909.

Sam Wolstenholme- the 36 year old former Everton, Blackburn Rovers and Norwich defender had gone to Germany in 1914 as team coach/manager of the Norddeutscher Fußball-Verband (North German Football Association)  representative XI. He was capped 3 times by England in 1904-05.

Steve Bloomer- the legendary Derby County, Middlesbrough and England goalscorer only arrived in Germany 3 weeks before the war broke out. The 40 year old had been appointed manager of  Britannia Berlin 92, having played his final game for Derby the previous January.

John Cameron- the 42 year old former FA Cup winning Tottenham player manager and Scotland international was in Germany as coach of Dresdner SC when the war started. 

Edwin Dutton- nobody seems to know where Dutton was born. He had English parents but grew up in Poland and Germany. His teams as a player included Britannia Berlin 92, BFC Preussen and Newcastle United. He was capped by Germany in a match against Hungary in 1909. He was 24 at the start of the war.

Jack Brearley- 38 year old Liverpudlian Brearley was coach of Viktoria 89 Berlin in 1914. As a player he had represented Millwall Athletic, Notts County, Middlesbrough, Everton, Tottenham Hotspur and Crystal Palace. 

England v The Rest of the World, 1915

 The Ruhleben Football Association was formed with Pentland as chairman and Cameron as secretary and cup and league competitions were organised with games attracting crowds of up to 1,000.

In November 1914, Bloomer captained a Tottenham Hotspur XI to victory in a cup final against an Oldham Athletic XI.

On May 2nd 1915 an England XI featuring Pentland, Wolstenholme, Brearley and Bloomer played a World XI captained by Cameron.

Pentland and Cameron produced a souvenir booklet of the 1915  season.

March 3rd 1916: John Cameron's XI defeated Steve Bloomer's XI.

October 7th 1916: Cameron's XI 4 Brearley's XI 2.

In 1918 Coupe de Allies, a triangular tournament featuring a British XI, a French XI and a Belgium XI, was organized. 

Association Football and How to Play It- John Cameron (1908)

Association
Football

AND HOW TO PLAY IT

BY

JOHN CAMERON

(Late Queen's Park, Everton, and Player-Manager, Tottenham Hotspur F.C.)

 PASSING WITH THE INSTEP

 SHOOTING WITH THE INSTEP.

 SAVING A "HIGH FLYER"

 HEADING THE BALL

 READY FOR THE KICK-OFF

 CENTERING FROM THE RIGHT WING

CENTERING FROM THE LEFT WING

John Cameron played for Queen's Park, Everton and Tottenham Hotspur. he was capped once by Scotland.
In 1898 he became the first secretary of the Association Footballers' Union.
 Shortly after joining Tottenham in 1898 he became player- manager. Under his leadership Tottenham won the Southern League and the FA Cup, Cameron scoring a goal in the relayed final.
After leaving Tottenham in 1907 Cameron went to Germany to coach Dresdner SC. He was interred during the 1914-18 War with the Central Powers and was secretary of the Ruhleben Football Association, leading the World XI against England.
After the war Cameron spent a brief spell in charge of Ayr United (he had started his career with their predecessors, Ayr Parkhouse) before concentrating on journalism.


You can read the book here:
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