Antonio Alcázar

Born in Murcia, but when he was barely a year old his parents moved to Barcelona. He started playing football as a child with his friends in a neighborhood team called Neptuno. His virtues did not go unnoticed by the scouts of the time, and therefore, he was already competing against the best teams in Catalonia at 16-17. He spent all of his career with CE Europa, a team from Catalonia, which in the 1920s rivaled FC Barcelona for the supremacy of Catalan football,[2] and in fact, both teams finished tied on 17 points in the 1922-23 Catalan Championship, which meant that the title had to be decided in a playoff match that was held on 21 March 1923 at the Girona stadium, and the game was decided by a lonely goal from Alcázar. Europa’s victory over Barcelona was an extraordinary event that exceeded all expectations.[3] Together with Mauricio, Pellicer and Cros, he formed the great attacking front of the CE Europa side that won the Catalan Championship in 1923 and then reached the 1923 Copa del Rey Final, where they were beaten by Athletic Bilbao 0-1.

Being a CE Europa, he was eligible to play for the Catalan national team, receiving 7 caps, but failing to score a single goal. Alcázar also earned two caps for the Spain national team,[4] which made him the first footballer born in Murcia to reach the national team as well as the first footballer from CE Europa. He made his debut on 1 June 1925 against Switzerland, helping his side to a 3-0 win, and in his second and last cap for Spain two weeks later, on 14 June, he contributed to a 1-0 victory over Italy at the Mestalla Stadium in Valencia.[5] Coincidence or not, all of those 4 goals were scored by the same player Juan Errazquin.