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He is Barcelona's longest serving manager, having coached the club for ten consecutive seasons (initially as player-coach, then as manager), [2] later returning to coach for two more seasons in the 1930s.
May 6, 2016 · Jack Greenwell went from being a miner in County Durham to coaching Barcelona. Now, more than 100 years after he swapped Crook for Catalonia, a memorial is being planned for his hometown.
Dec 10, 2023 · More than a century ago John Richard Greenwell, known as Jack, left County Durham for a successful playing and coaching career in Europe and South America. The miner's son who changed the game of...
May 12, 2015 · Though often forgotten at home, Jack Greenwell was a man who won 17 trophies in a career that took him from Crook to Barcelona, Peru, Colombia and Turkey
This English coach had two spells in charge of the Barça first team, from 1913 to 1923 and from 1931 to 1933. After the departure of Jack Alderson, the youngest coach in the Barça's history,...
A year after joining Barca, Greenwell arranged a series of games with his former club with Crook winning one and drawing the other two matches. As a player he helped Barcelona win two Campionat de Catalunya titles but it was as the clubs first ‘official’ coach that Jack Greenwell made his name.
JACK GREENWELL (FIRST ENGLISH STAR FC BARCELONA) (1923) (Biography) Illustrated biography of the first British FC Barcelona legend. He made his debut as player for Barcelona on 29 September 1912 in a 4–2 win over FC Espanya de Barcelona.
