Joan Soler i Lluch

Joan Soler Lluch (23 March 1881 – 4 April 1961) was a Spanish author and footballer who played as a goalkeeper for FC Barcelona between 1903 and 1907.

Biography Born in Barcelona on 23 March 1881, Soler began his football career in his hometown club FC Barcelona in 1903, aged 22, He stayed loyal to the club for four years, from 1903 to 1907, playing a total of 17 official matches for Barça, all of which in the Catalan championship.

His brother Manuel also played for Barça from 1903 to 1906, but only in unofficial matches. In an interview from the Philippines in 1946, former player Manuel Amechazurra remembered a player from 1903 to 1904 named Soler "from the Tibidabo hotel", and in fact, Joan was also the owner of the Tibidabo restaurant years later. On 17 January 1905, he earned his second and last cap for Catalonia against the Sportsmen's Club at Espanyol's field, the Hospital Clínic; the match finished with an unknown score.

In 1927, Soler was described as "a convinced sportsman for having practiced countless of them", He was also president of the Association of Sport Fishermen. Some historians have argued that Joan and Josep Soler, the infamous faceless president of FC Barcelona, were actually the same person, but the club's Studies Center has dismissed this hypothesis.

Death Soler died in Barcelona on 4 April 1961, at the age of 80.

Honours FC Barcelona Catalan championship Champions (1): 1904–05

Works La Pesca Deportiva (The Sport Fishing) Didáctica Cinegética tratado de Caza Menor (Didactics of Hunting Treatise on Small Game), which had 175 pages and was distributed by in Barcelona.