[2] During his youth, the Welton brothers practiced rowing and regattas with their friend and neighbor Isaias White, who had also been born in Seville to English parents,[1][3] so despite being Spanish by birth, they all received a typically English education, thus being familiarized with the practice of football, so much so that in the late 1880s, they decided to create a football team made up of Seville residents.
[1][5] Unlike his brother Carlos, Enrique was one of the eleven footballers who started in Sevilla's first serious match, a friendly against a Recreation Club 80 miles away based in Huelva, the so-called Recreativo de Huelva, on 8 March 1890, at the Hipódromo de Tablada in Seville, helping his side to a historic 2–0 victory; this is now considered the first official football match in Spain.
[11][12] Some sources state that it was Enrique,[12] others that it was Carlos,[1] but all agree that their mother, Josefa Niño, "upset with a blow they had given to his son, rushed onto the pitch chasing Garci with a fan in an attempt to hit him", which means that Huelva was also the birthplace of the first picturesque known assault on a football field.
[1][11][12] In the absence of rivals, Welton and White would play other sports, such as rowing, but the lack of opponents was such that Sevilla eventually faded away.
[3] It was not until 1905, that the club was reactivated by José Luis Gallegos, who was helped to do so by White and Welton brothers, who were among the few of the original group who participated in the creation of both teams.