Carles Bestit

Carles Bestit Martínez, also known as Bestit I (7 March 1908 – 12 July 1972), was a Spanish footballer who played as a midfielder for Barcelona and Girona. He also played one match for the Catalan national team in 1931. thus becoming only the second player to do so after Barça's Josep Samitier in the 1926 Copa del Rey, as well as the author of the fastest hat-trick against Real with just 7 minutes, narrowly ahead of Oviedo's Emilín with 10 minutes in 1944. In total, he scored 10 goals in 18 La Liga matches for Europa.

In the summer of 1929, Bestit signed for Barcelona, with whom he played for five years until 1934, scoring 41 goals in 68 official matches, In total, he scored 38 goals in 63 La Liga matches, which results in a ratio of one goal every two matches; he also got one red card in La Liga. Two years later, in August 1933, he was called up by Catalonia for a match against a Budapest XI, but in the end, coach Josep Torrents did not start him as Catalonia won 3–1.

Later life and death He was the father of Carles Bestit Carcasona, who was head of FC Barcelona medical services from 1973 until he died in 1993;

Bestit died in Barcelona on 12 July 1972, at the age of 64, and he was buried the next day at the .

Honours FC Barcelona Catalan football championship Champions (3): 1929–30, 1930–31, 1931–32