[5] They lived their childhood and adolescence in Switzerland, where they studied, and the country in which Alfonso learned about football and joined the ranks of Etica (Ethics) club in the city of Zürich, where he also practiced other sports such as tennis and skating.
Almasqué made his official competitive debut for Barça in the 1901–02 Copa Macaya on 1 January, in the thrashing of Club Universitari (8–0) at Horta, where the surface was clay, which was common at the time.
[6] His younger brother Alberto made his official competitive debut for Barça in the 1902–03 Copa Macaya on 30 November, at the age of 13 years, 11 months and 6 days, thus becoming the youngest footballer to debut with the first team in any official competition;[3] however, some historians and sources remain doubtful about the veracity of this, suggesting that Alfonso, who is five years older, could have been the one who played this match.
[6][7] At the beginning of the 20th century, many families had several footballers in the Barça first team, such as the English Witty (Arthur and Ernest), Parsons (John and William), and the Saint Nobles (George and Royston), as well as the Filipinos Morris (Samuel, Enrique, and Miguel), but only the Almasqués have gone down in history as the first Catalan brothers of the entity.
[1] The former occasion was Barça's first-ever match in the Basque Country, which ended in a resounding 1–10 loss to Athletic Bilbao at the Hippodrome of Lamiako on 15 April 1906, a humiliating result that was chronicled in Mundo Deportivo by Almasqué himself, who attributed this historic defeat to an "unprecedented misfortune".
[9] On 29 May 1904, Almasqué earned his only cap for the Catalan national team in a match against RCD Espanyol, the then Copa Macaya champions, which ended in a 1–4 loss.