David Mauchan

David Mauchan (1895 – Unknown) was an English-born Scottish footballer who founded the Catalan club CE Júpiter in 1909. His older brother Peter played for FC Barcelona at the turn of the century, when David was still a child, but due to a mistake that has persisted through time, David is often wrongly credited with being the one who played for Barça.

Early life David Mauchan was born in Nottingham in 1895, as the son of William Mauchan, a football referee from Glasgow who had moved to Nottingham due to his textile profession, and Elizabeth Stewart.

Football career On 12 May 1909, the 14-year-old David and his older brother John founded CE Júpiter at the Cebrián brewery, in the heart of the working-class Poblenou.

Almost as soon as it was founded, Júpiter became a club fully identified with the working-class of its neighborhood and, therefore, it quickly gathered in its ranks workers linked to anarchist trade unionism, who devoted part of their free time to playing football in the field of the Camp de la Bota, which hosted the first matches of Júpiter.

Later and personal life His older brother Peter was the first to return to the United Kingdom (before 1909), while the rest of the family only returned to the UK at the beginning of the First World War in 1914, except for John. David enlisted in the Royal Army in 1914, going into combat in France on 17 January 1915.

Mauchan married Phyllis Mary Cooke in 1942, but the couple had no children.