Rafael Llopart i Vidaud

Rafael Llopart Vidaud (7 October 1875 – 23 June 1951 ) was a Spanish industrialist and sports leader of Cuban origin. He was the 13th president of football club FC Barcelona between 1915 and 1916.

Early and personal life Rafael Llopart was born on 7 October 1875 in Cuba, which at the time was a colony of Spain, as the son of Rafael Llopart Ferret, an Indian from Sitges who later returned to Catalonia to invest his fortune in the textile industry.

Llopart married Ana de Arnal Amell, and the couple had three children, Rafaél, Matilde, and Juan Llopart Arnal. His appointment marked the beginning of a period of peace and consensus at the heart of the club and the new Board saw that it was necessary to renovate everything, which they did with efficiency and without any upset. After this result, Llopart and his Board resigned on 25 June 1916, although the members unsuccessfully asked them to stay on; He was also a member of the Vedado Rally Prat, which organized the first pigeon shooting competition, and where in May 1912, he won a shooting competition. In the late 1920s, Llopart donated a magnificent cup to the winners of a tournament between Spartacus, Rapits, Nuria, Cornella, Aguilas, Catalonia Barcino, and Stadium. All the matches were held in Sitges, and it was comfortably won by the local team, which guaranteed the great trophy without losing a single match. In the 1960s it went from bad to worse and was acquired by Hilaturas Gossypium.

A fan of floriculture, Llopart owned large greenhouses in Sitges and was the official flower supplier to Queen Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg. In 1919, he created the Floreal, an extensive flower plant on the outskirts of the town, which by 1924 occupied 0.8 hectares of land. He was also a promoter of the National Carnation Exhibition and the Sitges Corpus Christi flower carpet competition.

Death Llopart died in Barcelona on 23 June 1951, at the age of 75.