Josep Soler was elected as the fifth President of FC Barcelona on 6 October 1905, in an assembly, something common in the club at the beginning of the 20th century, thus replacing Arthur Witty.
[2][4][5] Furthermore, at the time, the Catalan Football Federation was extremely unsupportive of FC Barcelona, which in the 1905–06 season led to a major scandal.
[4] On 16 October 1906, he was replaced by Juli Marial, who was elected as the sixth President of FC Barcelona by the members' assembly, and just like Soler, he ultimately failed to successfully steer the club through these difficult times in both social and sporting terms.
[2][5] In June 2011, the Documentation and Studies Center of FC Barcelona detected an error with Soler's photograph in the image gallery of the presidents of the club, as the man in the image was actually identified as a photograph of Manuel Solé, the director of the gym that bore his name where FC Barcelona had been founded in 1899.
[3] Carles Santacana, the director of the Documentation and Studies Center of FC Barcelona, recognized a "documentation gap" in the club's archives, and therefore, on 24 June 2011, the club launched a public appeal to obtain a photo of President Soler, because he is the only one who does not have one, thus earning him the nickname of "the faceless President".