Jim Bellamy

James Francis "Jim" Bellamy ( born September 11, 1881 in Bethnal Green, London, † June 1969 in Chadwell Heath, Greater London ) was an English football player and coach.

With FC Barcelona he won in 1929 as the first coach discharged Spanish championship.

Career

As a player, he was active for several Football League clubs as a winger, among other things, Woolwich Arsenal ( 1903-1907 ), for Burnley ( 1912-1913 ) and Fulham (1914 ).

After he later as a coach first clubs in Germany and Italy, Brescia Calcio coaching, he came in March 1929 FC Barcelona. There, a new club management had just ousted the incumbent coach Romà Forns, Bellamy took over his position and Forns became his assistant coach. The FC Barcelona, ​​he led in 1929 to win the first Spanish championship. He also won the Catalan Championship in 1930 and 1931. After the National disappointing running season 1930 /31, in the Barça already eliminated in the second round of the Spanish Cup and only fourth in the league was, Bellamy was after the end of this season replaced by Jack Greenwell. In Bellamy's tenure also Barça's highest league defeat falls: on February 8, 1931, they lost at Athletic Bilbao 1:12.

Achievements

Coach:

  • Spanish Cup: 1929
  • Catalan Championships: 1930, 1931
England Reading F.C. Portsmouth F.C. Motherwell F.C. Fulham F.C. Southend United F.C.
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