Billy Barnes (footballer)

Billy Barnes (1907)

William Edwin Barnes ( born May 20, 1879 in London, † 1962) was an English football player and coach.

After his playing career, during which he played as a striker for Sheffield United, among others, West Ham United and Queens Park Rangers in 1902 and won the FA Cup, Barnes was a successful coach of Athletic Bilbao in Spain.

Career

As a player

Barnes was born in May 1879 in London. His father was a dockworker, his mother ran a coffee shop. His brother, Alfred Barnes, was a politician of the Labour Party and Prime Minister Clement Attlee from 1945 to 1951 as a British Minister of Transport operates.

Barnes ' football career began at Thames Ironworks, the predecessor club West Ham United. In 1896 he achieved at the age of 17 years the winning goal in the final of the West Ham Charity Cup. In 1899 he moved to Sheffield United. There were among players like Willie Foulke and Alf Common to his teammates. In 1902 he moved with the club to the final of the FA Cup and won this against FC Southampton. He scored in the replay - the first encounter was 1:1 assumed - the decisive 2-1 victory. Then Barnes played two years for West Ham United, and three years on the side of Robert Hawkes for Luton Town in the Southern Football League. In 1907 he was engaged by the Queens Park Rangers. With the Rangers, he won with teammate Fred Pentland 1908 and 1912, the Southern Football League and then took part in the finals to the FA Charity Shield, which, however, or the Blackburn Rovers lost against Manchester United. In 1913 he left the club after 234 competitive games and played from then on for Southend United.

As a coach

In 1914, Barnes went to Spain and became coach of Athletic Bilbao. Club coaches were at that time in Spain still a rarity. In Bilbao, the training was conducted until 1910 by the captain of the team. 1911 had been committed to an Englishman named Shepherd the first time a trainer who only less than a month long performed his job. On the club side Athletic Bilbao Barnes is therefore called the first real coach of the club. Barnes introduced a Scottish way of playing long balls and frequent wing change at the Basques in the sequence. With players like Pichichi then he won in 1915 and 1916, the Copa del Rey and the Basque Regional Championship. 1916 had to leave the club abruptly Barnes: He was drafted by the British Army to serve in World War II. Athletic withdrew its hiring of a new coach. After the war, Barnes returned to Bilbao and took over in 1920, the vacant coaching positions. At the end of the season he won with Athletic again the Copa del Rey and the Basque Regional Championship. After fulfilling his one-year contract, he left the club. During his three years in Bilbao he had won all the titles there was to win.

Achievements

As a player:

  • FA Cup: 1902
  • Southern Football League: 1908, 1912
  • FA Charity Shield runners-up: 1908, 1912

As a coach:

  • Copa del Rey: 1915, 1916, 1921
  • Campeonato de Vizcaya in 1915, 1916, 1921
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