Vicente Pastor Alfosea

Vicente Pastor de la Llosa Alfosea, better known as El Chepa (1902 – 19 June 1939), was a Spanish pharmacist and sports leader who was the fundamental head behind the foundation of Hércules CF in 1914, serving the club as its first president from 1914 until 1921.

Early life Vicente Pastor Alfosea was born in 1902 in Alicante, as the youngest of five siblings from the marriage formed by Vicente Pastor Doméñez and Francisca Alfonsea, a humble family who ran a winery in Plaza del Carmen, right next to the Toledo Street, where they lived. His mother died when he was still a child, so he was raised by his maternal uncles on Sagasta Street. He soon developed a deep interest for this sport, which he began promotion among his group of friends, and despite his physichal defect, he was able to establish himself as the captain of this group; shortly after, in 1914, the 12-year-old Pastor decided to form his own football team with his friends, naming it Hércules FC, a reference to the legendary Greek hero Hercules, who was a strong and invincible man, two characteristics that Pastor wanted to see reproduced in his team. In its first years, Hércules played informal matches at the Plaza de la Reina Victoria (now Calvo Sotelo), and later he and his friends moved to the pavement of Paseo de Gómiz, using makeshift goals made of backpacks and rag balls. At the end of the decisive match against Celta, players and fans lifted Vicente onto their shoulders and carried him around the club's stadium Estadio Bardín, inaugurated a few years earlier. In the club's 80th anniversary in 2002, Hércules held a commemorative event in the municipal cemetery of Alicante, where Pastor's grave was visited, and five years later, in 2007, the bonfire Armando Serra made a of Vicente Pastor for the Benito Pérez Galdós Bonfire, at the Bonfires of San Juan in Alicante.

In October 2019, the Herculano Association published an illustrated children's book about the life of Pastor. In October 1922, on the 100th anniversary of Hércules, Luis S. Taza Hernández, the grandson-nephew of El Chepa, published a book titled "Breve historia de Vicente Pastor Alfosea".

Honours Hércules CF Copa Excelsior: Champions (1): 1919