David Mauchan
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | David Mauchan | ||
| Date of birth | 1895 | ||
| Place of birth | Nottingham, England | ||
| Date of death | Unknown | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1912–1915 | CE Júpiter | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
David Mauchan (1895 – Unknown) was an English-born Scottish footballer who founded the Catalan club CE Júpiter in 1909.[1][2] His older brother Peter played for FC Barcelona at the turn of the century, when David was still a child, but due to a mistake that has persisted through time, David is often wrongly credited with being the one who played for Barça.[1][2][3][4]
David Mauchan was born in Nottingham in 1895, as the son of William Mauchan, a football referee from Glasgow who had moved to Nottingham due to his textile profession, and Elizabeth Stewart.[1][2] He was the fifth of six children, including four older siblings, Peter (1882–1943), Archibaldo (1884–1937), Elizabeth (1887–1921), and John (1889–1976), and one younger brother, William (1897–1976).[1][2]
His father was one of many workers at lace manufacturers Johnston, Shields & Co in Newmilns sent over to work in the company's newly opened factory in Sant Martí de Provençals (known as La Escocesa), a neighborhood in Barcelona, and thus, the family moved to Sant Martí.[1][2] Thanks to his father, Mauchan became an employee of Johnston, Shields & Co in the late 1900s, and eventually, he began working alongside his older brother John at Fabra i Coats, one of the textile factories in the neighborhood of Poblenou.[5][6]