Miguel Samuel Morris Yrisarry, known as Junior Morris or Morris III, was an Anglo-Filipino of British descent who played football as a defender for Spanish club FC Barcelona between 1902 and 1909, being a member of the Barca side that reached the final of the 1902 Copa de la Coronacion.
10 Facts About Miguel Morris
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Miguel Morris closely followed the steps of his older stepbrothers, Samuel and Enrique, playing alongside them in Hispania AC, FC Barcelona, and Star FC.
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Miguel Morris appeared with them in the oldest photo of a football team in Spain in 1893, when he was still a boy of 13.
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Miguel Morris was born on 20 August 1880 in the Philippines, as the son of the English businessman and engineer Samuel James Morris Campbell and Victorina Juliana Yrisarry Errasquin, of Basque origin.
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Together with his brothers, Morris was one of the first pioneers in the amateur beginnings of football in Catalonia, and the three of them appeared in what is regarded to be the oldest photograph of a football team in Spain, which was the two sides of the then existing Barcelona Football Club, taken on 12 March 1893, with Miguel being only a 13-year-old boy at the time.
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In 1899, Miguel Morris moved to London with his father while his two older brothers stayed in Barcelona and began playing for Hispania AC.
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Miguel Morris returned to Barcelona in 1901, and joined Hispania AC where his brothers were already playing.
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Between 1905 and 1908, Miguel Morris probably lived in Madrid since he only played with clubs from the capital, Moncloa FC and Sociedad Gimnastica.
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Miguel Morris then joined Catala FC in 1912, playing with them for two seasons.
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On 17 January 1905, Miguel Morris earned his only cap for the Catalan national team in a match against the Sportsmen's Club at Espanyol's field, the Hospital Clinic, featuring in defense alongside Joaquim Carril as the match finished with an unknown score.