Jorge Barrié

Jorge de Satrústegui Barrié (23 September 1873 – 7 September 1936 ) was a Franco-Spanish industrial engineer, sports leader, and politician. A very active personality in everything related to the prosperity of San Sebastián, he was the founder and first president of the Royal Spanish Tennis Federation.

In his youth, he was also a footballer who played as a midfielder for some of the earliest Catalan clubs in existence such as Barcelona Football Club and Sociedad de Foot-Ball de Barcelona.

Early life Barrié was born in Bayonne on 23 September 1873 as the fourth and last son of Georgina Barrié Labrós (1839–1919) and of Patricio de Satrústegui y Bris, the second Barón de Satrústegui (1823–1888), belonging to one of the most notable families of the Navy Spanish merchant. His older brother Enrique Barrié inherited his father's title, thus becoming the third Barón de Satrústegui.

Sporting career Football career While in Barcelona in the early 1890s, the teenager Barrié met James Reeves, who was recruiting football enthusiasts to create a well-organized football club, and Barrié joined him since he had been impressed by his passionate and entrepreneurial spirit.

Barrié played several training matches (Blues vs Reds) at Can Tunis and a few others at Bonanova between 1892 and 1895, the last of which with Sociedad de Foot-Ball de Barcelona, however, due to the little statistical rigor that the newspapers had at that time, the exact number of matches and goals (if any) he performed is unknown. On 24 March 1895, Barrié played for Barcelona as a midfielder against Torelló Foot-ball Association, which marked the first time that teams from two different cities played against each other in Catalonia, scoring once to help his side to an 8–3 victory. In the return fixture at Torelló, Barrié was replaced by a certain Heater, and without him, Barcelona lost 3–5.

Tennis career On 11 September 1909, together with Luis de Uhagón of Madrid; Satrústegui Barrié and Rich of San Sebastian; Arthur Witty and Manuel Tey of Barcelona; Romero of Zaragoza, and Faulcombridge of Valencia, he founded the Lawn-Tennis Association of Spain, which would become the Royal Spanish Tennis Federation in 1940. but just two months later, at the end of July, he was arrested and tried by the Popular Court of San Sebastián on 5 and 6 August, and was then sentenced to death and shot on that same day in the following month, at the age of 62.