Miguel Morris

Miguel Samuel Morris Yrisarry, also known as Junior Morris or Morris III (20 August 1880 – 16 July 1951 ), was an Anglo-Filipino of British descent who played football as a defender for Spanish club FC Barcelona between 1902 and 1909, being a member of the Barça side that reached the final of the 1902 Copa de la Coronación.

He closely followed the steps of his older stepbrothers, Samuel and Enrique, playing alongside them in Hispania AC, FC Barcelona, and Star FC. He also appeared with them in the oldest photo of a football team in Spain in 1893, when he was still a boy of 13.

Playing career Early career Together with his brothers, Morris was one of the first pioneers in the amateur beginnings of football in Catalonia, and the three of them appeared in what is regarded to be the oldest photograph of a football team in Spain, which was the two sides of the then existing Barcelona Football Club, taken on 12 March 1893, with Miguel being only a 13-year-old boy at the time.

Hispania AC and FC Barcelona In 1899, Morris moved to London with his father while his two older brothers stayed in Barcelona and began playing for Hispania AC. He returned to Barcelona in 1901, and joined Hispania AC where his brothers were already playing. and the second in May of 1902, when they reinforced Barça during its participation in the Copa de la Coronacion, the first national championship disputed in Spain and the forerunner for the Copa del Rey.

Miguel played alongside Enrique in the semifinals against Real Madrid CF (then known as Madrid FC), which was the very first El Clásico in history, and then all three of them played in the final, where Barça was beaten 2–1 by Club Vizcaya (a combination of players from Athletic Club and Bilbao Football Club). In doing so, they became the first-ever Filipinos to play for FC Barcelona, ahead of the likes of Manuel Amechazurra and Paulino Alcántara.

On 17 January 1905, Morris earned his only cap for the Catalan national team in a match against the Sportsmen's Club at Espanyol's field, the Hospital Clínic, featuring in defense alongside Joaquim Carril as the match finished with an unknown score.

On 8 December 1912, Morris played for a Selection of foreigners who played in Spain (which had the likes of Jack Greenwell, Walter Rositzky, and Alex Steel) in an eventual 2–5 loss to the Catalan national team at the Camp de la Indústria, on the occasion of a benefit match for the Union of Journalists.

Honours FC Barcelona Copa de la Coronación: Runner-up: 1902 Catalan championship Champions (2): 1904–05 and 1908–09