Felipe Ferrer

Felipe Ferrer Carreras (5 April 1890 – 1986) was a Spanish footballer who played as a forward for Mallorca, Levante, and Valencia.^[1][2][3][4]

Born in Palma de Mallorca in 1890, Ferrer was the first player from Alfonso XIII, current RCD Mallorca, who went on to play in the First Division.^[1][5] From the age of 8 to 16, he lived with his family in Argentina, so he trained as a footballer in the vacant lots of the city of Buenos Aires, popularly known as potreros.^[1] Upon his return to the Balearic Islands, he began playing as an inside left player for Alfonso XIII, always appearing in the lineups of the late 1920s like Felipe.^[1]

A player with great technique and a powerful shot, he became champion of Mallorca at only 18 years of age and played in a national championship within the Catalan Group.^[1] In the 1933–34 season, he signed with Levante, where he spent two seasons before going to play in Asturias with Real Oviedo, in the First Division, with whom he played five official matches and scored two goals.^[1] Oviedo, which finished third after Athletic Bilbao and Real Madrid, had a great team, with a forward line made up of Casuco, Gallart, Lángara, Herrerita and Emilín in which it was almost impossible to find a place, but Ferrer still managed to achieve it five times, but he lacked continuity and the arrival of the Spanish Civil War definitively cut his career short.^[1]

After the war, he returned to the island to play for Mallorca, and in 1939 he arrived at a Valencia team that had a dream squad. On some occasions he helped put together a luxury forward line with Epi, Vicente Asensi, Mundo, and Gorostiza, but he did not enjoy real opportunities.^[1] He only played one league game in two seasons.^[1] From Valencia he went on loan only for the Cup matches to Murcia, and later signed with Málaga in the 1941–42 season. After it ended, at the age of thirty, he returned to Mallorca, playing with Atlético Baleares and Poblense. Felipe Ferrer died in Argentina in 1986.^[1]