Romà Solà Brunet (27 November 1886 – 1 March 1927) was a Spanish footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Espanyol and FC Barcelona.
[2] He was an integral piece in Barcelona's first great team in the early 1910s, which had the likes of the Wallace brothers (Charles and Percy), Paco Bru, Alfredo Massana, and Manuel Amechazurra, with whom he won a three-peat of Catalan championships between 1909 and 1911, along with back-to-back Pyrenees Cups in 1910 and 1911, and the Copa del Rey in 1910 (FEF), starting in the latter final, which ended in a 3–2 win over Español de Madrid.
[2][4] He also started in the final of the 1910 Pyrenees Cup, which ended in a 2–1 win over Real Sociedad 2–1, thus contributing in the club's first piece of international silverware.
[5][6] In October 1911, Barça president Joan Gamper expelled several "rebel" players from the club following a controversy with brown amateurism, and this group of dissident players from Barça, which was made up of the likes of Solà, Bru, José Quirante, the Wallace brothers, and the Comamala brothers (Carles and Arsenio), decided to found Casual SC in 1912.
[11] – Solà died in Barcelona on 1 March 1927, at the age of 40, and his obituary mentioned the grieving siblings, Aurelia, Amparo, Miguel and Julio, sister-in-law Dolores Meya.