Matías Colmenares Errea

Matias Colmenares Errea (27 February 1887 – 17 February 1953) was a Spanish footballer who played as a forward, as well as a referee, architect, journalist, and politician. After finishing his degree in architecture in Barcelona, he played for Barcelona FC and RCD Espanyol, and later became president of the National College of Referees. After hanging up his boots, and his whistle, he designed the Sarrià Stadium in Barcelona for Espanyol in 1923.

Club career Born in Estella, Navarre, he moved to Barcelona to study architecture in 1902, at the age of 18, and he obtained his degree in 1910. In 1906, the club had to suspend its activities due to a lack of players, so most of the players, including him, joined Barcelona in the 1906–07 season. He was thus the very first Navarrese to play for Barça. and designed a brilliant and necessary boulevard, still in the approval process a century later. He also designed the Féculas-Navarra station, which was part of the Lodosa starch factory, inaugurated in 1912 and dedicated to the manufacture of starch from potatoes.

In Estella, he created the weekly La Merindad Estellesa and La Teatral Estellesa, and was the founder of the Gazeta Estellesa.