Juan José Nogués

Juan José Nogués Portalatín ( born March 28, 1909 in Zaragoza, † 1998) was a Spanish football goalkeeper and coach.

Playing career

Nogués ' first professional stop was Real Zaragoza CD 1928 until 1930., He made his first top-flight December 28, 1930 for FC Barcelona in a 1-1 draw against Racing Santander. In his twelve years at FC Barcelona - with a break of three years because of the civil war in Spain - he won the Catalan Championship five times.

Between 1932 and 1941 denied Nogués 10 games for the Catalan football team. Among other things, he also worked at the international match against Spain, which was preparing just for the World Cup in 1934 and ultimately lost this game 2-0, with. This brought Nogués the nomination in the Spanish squad for the World Cup 1934. In this World Cup, he played his only full international for Spain. Due to the injury to regular keeper Ricardo Zamora in the first quarterfinal match against Italy and the fact that that game was not decided in a 1-1 after extra time and thus had to be repeated the next day, Nogués came in the replay against Italy for use. Italy won 1-0.

Coaching career

Nogués 1942 became coach of FC Barcelona. In his first season he nearly relegated with Barcelona, ​​but ultimately they won the relegation matches against Real Murcia. Nevertheless, you could win the Spanish Cup after a 4-3 victory in extra time over Athletic Bilbao in the same season. In his second season 1942/43, he was with Barça third in the league and was eliminated in the Spanish Cup in the semi-finals. Barcelona still had won the Cup semi-final first leg against Real Madrid 3-0, but lost the return match with 1:11. This defeat was very controversial: supposedly Franco in the half-time break some of his men sent into the cabin of Barcelona, ​​which threatened the Barcelona players with death, they should not lose the game. The FC Barcelona, ​​as a representative of Catalonia, Franco was a thorn in the eye, because Barcelona was one of the few places at this time, where Catalan is spoken yet, since Franco Castilian Spanish declared the only official language. The Spanish federation has already removed the game from its records.

Later Nogués trained yet Gimnàstic de Tarragona, Espanyol, Sporting Gijón and UE Lleida.

Achievements

Players:

• Catalan Championships: 1930, 1931, 1932, 1935, 1936
• Copa de S. E. El Generalísimo: 1942
• FIFA World Cup 1934 ( 1 Application )

Coach:

• Copa de S. E. El Generalísimo: 1942