William MacAndrews
William McAndrews, sometimes misspelled as William MacAndrews, was a Scottish football pioneer who played as a midfielder for some of the earliest Catalan clubs in existence such as Barcelona Cricket Club and Barcelona Football Club.
Playing career
Born in Scotland, McAndrews moved to Barcelona in the late 1880s due to work reasons, and like so many other Britons who moved to the Catalan capital, he soon joined the British Club of Barcelona on La Rambla dels Capuchins, where he practiced several sports. In 1891, together with Henry Wood, and the Morris at Can Tunis and a few others at Bonanova between 1892 and 1895, the last of which with Torelló Foot-ball Association, however, due to the little statistical rigor that the newspapers had at that time, the exact number of matches and goals he performed is unknown. In 1895, he played as a defender for Torelló in two matches against Sociedad de Foot-Ball de Barcelona, which marked the first time that teams from two different cities played against each other in Catalonia.Later life
McAndrews married Alice Mary McAndrews, who was born in Greater London. The couple had three children, William Edwin Roderick Goldthorp in 1901, Esther Alice McAndrews in 1905, and Grace Lillian McAndrews in 1910.McAndrews died in 1944, at the age of either 71 or 72.