El siguiente artículo fue publicado por el periódico escocés The Northern Scot el 31 de mayo de 2013. A continuación, se ofrece la transcripción literal del mismo, con la intención de publicar su traducción en un próximo post.
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A Moray museum is officially recognising the remarkable link between an Elgin man and one of Spain’s top football clubs.
‘The Northern Scot’ reported last December that historians at Sevilla Football Club had pinpointed the team’s founder as being Edward Farquharson Johnston, of Newmill, Elgin.
Newspapers reports that were unearthed, from 1890, also confirmed Sevilla as being Spain’s oldest football club.
Elgin Museum has now captured the previously long-forgotten fact with a special display, encased in glass, that will be open to the public throughout the season.
‘The Northern Scot’ reported last December that historians at Sevilla Football Club had pinpointed the team’s founder as being Edward Farquharson Johnston, of Newmill, Elgin.
Newspapers reports that were unearthed, from 1890, also confirmed Sevilla as being Spain’s oldest football club.
Elgin Museum has now captured the previously long-forgotten fact with a special display, encased in glass, that will be open to the public throughout the season.
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| The Northern Scot. May 31, 2013 |
Volunteer Mary Shand said the museum was keen to acknowledge the link between Elgin and Sevilla.
Staff from the museum have also been in further contact with the Spanish club, she pointed out, and have been told that Sevilla has now set up a new annual award –in the name of Mr Johnston- which recognises organizations which represent the club best internationally.
“We obviously want to keep the connection there, and keep people interested in the connection”, she said.
“The Scots seem to have got everywhere and introduced football everywhere! I understand that it was Scots who introduced football to Brazil”.
Javier Terenti, a historian with Sevilla FC, explained: “The prize will be awarded every year to a person or institution for international cooperation, since Edward Johnston was characterized by this in helping the development of many projects between Spain and the UK”.
“In that sense, he was a key figure here in Seville developing areas such as sports, culture, business through the shipping company MacAndrew & Co, public works; and also for his help and charity during the terrible floods that Seville suffered at that time.”
Researchers in Spain have found that Mr Johnston, the club’s first president, was born in Newmill on October, 14 1854.
Also known as Ned, he was the son of James Johnston and Margaret Miller Farquharson.
According to Mr Johnston’s obituary, he was educated first at Weston House –once a noted seminary in Elgin, which at the same time taught Alexander Graham Bell- and afterwards at Mill Hill, the famous English Public School near London.
On completing his education, Mr Johnston entered into a business house that was connected to his mother, and had extensive business connections in Spain and Asia.
Through his work, he was sent to Seville in the 1870s. He established a life with his family, and on January, 23 1879, was appointed as British vice-consul in Seville until his retirement on October 5, 1906.
On January 25, 1890, a group of young residents of British origin in Seville met at a café and formed the current Sevilla FC.
Mr Johnston was elected as president, while Glasgow man Hugh Maccoll became first captain.
A few weeks after founding the club, its members wrote a letter to a recreation club in Huelva asking them if they could form an 11 and come to Seville to play a match.
The game took place on March 8 1890, the match being the first one ever on Spanish soil, and Sevilla won 2-0. At the turn of the century, members of Sevilla Football Club sourced striped red and white strips to play in – the colours in which the team still plays today.
It is thought that they may have wanted to use the same colours as Sunderland AFC, since Sevilla’s first captain, Hugh Maccoll, lived there at that time.
The club’s fascinating link to Moray went undiscovered for many decades.
It was only recently when the club founded a history department, under the leadership of current club president Jose Maria del Nido, that its origins became clearer.
Published by The Northern Scot
Joe Millican
May 31, 2013
“We obviously want to keep the connection there, and keep people interested in the connection”, she said.
“The Scots seem to have got everywhere and introduced football everywhere! I understand that it was Scots who introduced football to Brazil”.
Javier Terenti, a historian with Sevilla FC, explained: “The prize will be awarded every year to a person or institution for international cooperation, since Edward Johnston was characterized by this in helping the development of many projects between Spain and the UK”.
“In that sense, he was a key figure here in Seville developing areas such as sports, culture, business through the shipping company MacAndrew & Co, public works; and also for his help and charity during the terrible floods that Seville suffered at that time.”
Researchers in Spain have found that Mr Johnston, the club’s first president, was born in Newmill on October, 14 1854.
Also known as Ned, he was the son of James Johnston and Margaret Miller Farquharson.
According to Mr Johnston’s obituary, he was educated first at Weston House –once a noted seminary in Elgin, which at the same time taught Alexander Graham Bell- and afterwards at Mill Hill, the famous English Public School near London.
On completing his education, Mr Johnston entered into a business house that was connected to his mother, and had extensive business connections in Spain and Asia.
Through his work, he was sent to Seville in the 1870s. He established a life with his family, and on January, 23 1879, was appointed as British vice-consul in Seville until his retirement on October 5, 1906.
On January 25, 1890, a group of young residents of British origin in Seville met at a café and formed the current Sevilla FC.
Mr Johnston was elected as president, while Glasgow man Hugh Maccoll became first captain.
A few weeks after founding the club, its members wrote a letter to a recreation club in Huelva asking them if they could form an 11 and come to Seville to play a match.
The game took place on March 8 1890, the match being the first one ever on Spanish soil, and Sevilla won 2-0. At the turn of the century, members of Sevilla Football Club sourced striped red and white strips to play in – the colours in which the team still plays today.
It is thought that they may have wanted to use the same colours as Sunderland AFC, since Sevilla’s first captain, Hugh Maccoll, lived there at that time.
The club’s fascinating link to Moray went undiscovered for many decades.
It was only recently when the club founded a history department, under the leadership of current club president Jose Maria del Nido, that its origins became clearer.
Published by The Northern Scot
Joe Millican
May 31, 2013
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