Carles Bestit Carcasona (8 May 1936 – 9 September 1993) was a Spanish doctor who served as one of the highest authorities in Sports Medicine at an international level in the 1970s and 1980s.
[1] Back in Barcelona in 1966, Bestit joined the Internal Medicine Service of Professor Máximo Soriano's Hospital Clínic, while also working as an assistant physician at the Joaquín Blume Residence in Barcelona and the Santa Madrona Institute of the Caixa de Pensions until 1971, the year in which he returned to Germany as chief physician of the Berlin Sports Medicine Center directed by Mellerowicz.
[1][4] In 1971, Doctor Bestit founded the FC Barcelona Medical Services in order to take care of the club's athletes, mainly the footballers (male and female), including diagnosis and treatments, not only to achieve their best performance through healthy means, but also to anticipate preventive measures to reduce injuries or other health issues.
[5] In August 1972, Barcelona hired him as the head of the club's Medical Services, when Agustí Montal was president and Rinus Michels was the manager.
[1] Bestit was the author of multiple works on Medicine and Sports; for instance, he was the supervisor of the three volumes of Medicina y Deporte, published in 1975, when he was the head of the medical services of FC Barcelona.