[1][2] As a pioneer of sports journalism, he was the founder of Los Deportes, El Mundo Deportivo and "Stadium" magazines, a correspondent for the French publication L'Auto[3] and an editor of La Vanguardia for 17 years, from 1912 to 1929.

[5] From the various journalistic forums that he founded or directed, he had a decisive influence on the dissemination and institutionalization process of multiple sports modalities, from gymnastics to football, passing through motor racing, swimming, athletics, and cycling.

[1][8] Masferrer married Esperanza Navarro in Madrid in July 1891, at the age of 24, and both he and his very young wife suffered from tuberculosis, a disease that wreaked havoc at that time.

[6] As an employee of the Deutsch Compañía de Petróleos y Derivados, his bosses decided to send him to the company's Seville branch in hopes that the change of scenery would benefit his precarious health.

[6] Having narrowly survived tuberculosis, he now wanted to fully take advantage of the second chance that life gave him, and thus, after mourning his wife, he threw himself into a hectic informative and associative activity.

[1] It was most likely due to his own health problems, caused by tuberculosis, and the premature death of his wife, as well as his concern over the well-being of his children, that influenced his obsession with healthy living and the regeneration of the Spanish people.

[1] In 1897, the 30-year-old Masferrer founded the Catalan Gymnastics Association and the fortnightly magazine Los Deportes, directing the latter from the Solé Gymnasium on Montjuïc del Carme street.

This campaign reached its peak with a meeting at the restaurant Ca l'Anguilero in Llobregat, convened by Los Deportes on 9 April "to seal the union that exists among all", which was attended by more than 240 cyclists.

[6] Despite his best efforts, however, Masferrer was unable to prevent the aforementioned debacle of the UVE (May 1899), which resulted in the annulment of their meeting and the resignation of the Madrid committee from the Spanish union.

[6] This entire situation gave Masferrer a triumphant entry into the unionist movement, profiling himself as the true savior of the UVE through his efforts and his journalistic campaigns.

[1][11][8] Masferrer helped Gamper and Wild to consolidate FC Barcelona because he and his closest collaborators from the Gymnastic Federation considered football as the sport that had the best chance of hatching among that generation of Barcelona gymnasts, reaching that conclusion after doing different tests and trials with other outdoor sports such as gouret (the current hockey) or riscat (current children's rescue game).

[5][3] Four years later, in 1906, he founded and directed El Mundo Deportivo, becoming its first director,[5][12] and in its first editorial, published on 1 February, Masferrer pointed out the conduct that needed to be followed by the newspaper, which did not differ at all from his own: "We do not come to criticize anyone, we come to applaud and encourage everyone".

[8] In 1929 he resigned from his job as sports editor of the newspaper La Vanguardia to dedicate himself to the organization of the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition,[4] promoting and leading the initiative of building the Montjuïc Olympic Stadium.

[3][8] In 1919 he will also be appointed general secretary of the Automobile Show and will preside over all the Saló de Barcelona that were held in the now-defunct Pavilion of Fine Arts between 1919 and 1935, being stopped due to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.

[6] However, those who were going to arrest him recognized Masferrer as the leader of the Spanish sports movement, and more specifically as the maximum promoter of cycling, and thus they ended up sparing his life in his capacity as "president of the bicycles".

The construction of Palau dels Esports de Barcelona in 1955 caused José Sabater Rosich to write in an article entitled "Moment opportune to repair an oblivion", published on 12 July, in which he advocated giving this street the name of a forgotten leader and sports journalist: Narciso Masferrer.