Henry Morris

Enrique Ramón Morris de Olea, also known as Henry Morris or Morris II (16 June 1876 – Unknown), was an Anglo-Filipino football pioneer and a prominent forward for FC Barcelona. His brothers, Samuel and Miguel, also played football, and together with them, he was one of the first pioneers of football in Catalonia, participating in some of the first football matches of the city and playing for several experimental teams in the 1890s such as the Sociedad de Foot-Ball de Barcelona.

In the early 1900s, he was a member of the Hispania AC side that won the 1900–01 Copa Macaya, which was the very first football competition played on the Iberian Peninsula, and a member of the Barça side that reached the final of the 1902 Copa de la Coronación.

Early life Enrique Morris was born in 1874 in Manila, when the Philippines was a Spanish province, as the third child of a marriage formed by two emigrants, the English businessman and engineer Samuel James Morris Campbell (1842–1909) and María del Socorro de Olea y Marabea (1852–1877), a teenager of Basque origin.

Playing career Barcelona Cricket Club Together with his older brother, Samuel, he was one of the first pioneers of football in Catalonia, being part of the first known club to have played football in the city, the Barcelona Cricket Club, which his father and Samuel, among other Britons, had founded in 1891, since at the time it was common to play cricket in the summer and then football in the winter. Samuel and his father then helped founding the Barcelona Football Club in late 1892, which held the first known football match in the city at Hippodrome of Can Tunis on 25 December 1892.

Sociedad de Foot-Ball de Barcelona In late 1894, Morris joined the Barcelona Football Club, which had now changed its name to Sociedad de Foot-Ball de Barcelona. He also played against teams from Sant Martí and Torelló, scoring once against the latter on 24 March 1895, thus helping his side to an 8–3 victory.

Following the departure of James Reeves, the club's captain and leader, the Barcelona Football Society declined and disappeared around 1896. The city then went through a period of lack of interest in football, and for this reason, no Briton played football in Spain (that we know of) in 1897 and 1898. and the second in May of 1902, when they reinforced FC Barcelona during its participation in the Copa de la Coronación (predecessor of Copa del Rey). In doing so, they became the first-ever Filipinos to play for FC Barcelona, ahead of the likes of Manuel Amechazurra and Paulino Alcántara. In total, he played 4 official matches for Barcelona and scored two goals in the 1904–05 season.

Later, in the 1909–10 season, he participated in the First Category Championship of Catalonia with the modest Star FC, becoming its captain and later being joined by Miguel.

Death Morris fought in the First World War as a pilot in the British Royal Air Corps, being shot down and wounded in the abdomen while strafing German positions, although he survived and returned to Spain. The date of his death is unknown.

Honours Hispania AC Copa Macaya: Champions: 1900–01

FC Barcelona Catalan championship Champions: 1904–05

Copa de la Coronación: Runner-up: 1902