Joaquim Escardó

Joaquim Escardó Salazar (2 January 1882 – 22 December 1957) was a Spanish Sports journalist and footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Club Español (now known as RCD Espanyol).

[1] As a player, he won the 1903–04 Catalan Championship, but he found greater professional success through his journalist work, being a match press reporter for newspapers such as Los Deportes, for whom he published what is now regarded as the oldest photo of a football team in Spain.

[4] In the 1903–04 season, Escardó helped the B side win the second category, known as Copa Moritz, where he also performed as a striker.

[7] Escardó did not date it exactly (“The two sides of the then-existing Barcelona Football Club formed around the years from 1892 to 1895…”), but the coincidence of the players and referee in the photo with the line-ups of the chronicle of the game suggests that this engraving corresponds to the match played on 12 March.

[6][7] In addition to the Morris brothers, other notable figures in the photo include the omnipresent James Reeves and the first Catalans known to play football such as Alberto Serra, Tuñí, Chofre, Barrié, and Figueras (members of Club Regats).