Julius García Alonso

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Julius García Alonso (born September 7, 1905 in Luanco , Asturias , Spain , † January 24, 1988 ) was an American football player , coach , referee and official. Among other things, he acted as a league secretary, treasurer and archivist. In 1972 he was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in the "Builder" category .

Life

Julius García Alonso was born on September 7, 1905 as the son of José and Dionisia García in the northern Spanish city of Luanco in the province of Asturias and had the siblings Marcellino, José, Hyneo, Luz, Tomasa and Raymond. He and his family immigrated to the United States in 1906 when he was nine months old . While he arrived in New York on June 8, 1906 with his mother and the two brothers José “Joe” and Hyneo, the father had already traveled to the new home with the other children in order to prepare everything for the arrival of the rest of the family . The family settled in Anmoore in the US state of West Virginia , where he also began his career as a football player in later years and grew up in the village of Grasselli, which was inhabited by Spanish exiles. In their new home, the parents had another son, who, however, died very young. Like most of the Spanish immigrants at that time, his father also worked in a zinc factory, in which Julius García Alonso also helped from the age of twelve. In 1919 Alonso returned to his native country, where he attended the Instituto del Santísimo Cristo del Socorro , a school for trade, and played for a local football club called Marino FC .

In 1922 he moved to the capital club Madrid FC , which is now known as Real Madrid . His engagement there lasted about two years before he returned to the United States in 1924. In the following years he and his brother founded various soccer teams, such as the Canton Sporting Club in Ohio or the Donora Spanish Football Club in Pennsylvania . In addition, he studied electrical engineering from 1927 at the Bliss Electrical School in Takoma Park , Maryland , not far from the city limits of Washington, DC During his studies there, he played for two local soccer teams: the Blick's Acadians and Juvendud Gallega . Since he had already decided at this point not to continue working in a zinc factory, he received an offer from Consolidated Edison shortly after graduating and took a job there in New York . He then worked for the Consolidated Edison Company for 42 years, parallel to his various activities in football.

In 1936 he became manager of the State Football Club with game operations in the Brooklyn League in New York and later worked as referee secretary of the Brooklyn Hispano franchise in the American Soccer League . His military service during the Second World War made Alonso, among others, for 18 months at The Aluminum Company of America , and later came to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory to Oak Ridge in the State of Tennessee , where he worked for the United States Department of War on Manhattan Project collaborated . He was responsible for all electricity in the plant and was also employed here for a period of 18 months. Although he received praise from then Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson for his work and was offered a long-term permanent position at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Alonso declined and returned to Brooklyn Hispano and his employer Consolidated Edison after the war ended in 1945 back.

Two years later he began his decades-long commitment to the American Soccer League, where he held various positions and functions in the decades that followed. Thus, the Spanish-born than was vice president , secretary, manager and from the year 1967 (even as a first conductive Secretary Engl. : First executive secretary ) operates. Because of his experience, he was nicknamed “Mr. American Soccer League ". When the league decided to bring some games from England and Scotland to the United States in the 1950s , Alonso acted as scout and road manager . Alonso also brought teams like Manchester United or Celtic Glasgow to the United States for a few weeks a year. Later he also served on the United States Olympic Committee and the National Open Challenge Cup Committee . In 1972 he was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in the "Builder" category .

On January 24, 1988, Alonso died at the age of 82 after a brief illness, after dedicating his life to football for around 70 years. He was buried in Holy Sepulcher Cemetery in Coram , New York. His wife Angeline, born in 1912 and with whom he had been married since 1934, survived him by around 27 years and died in 2015 at the age of 102 and 103 respectively. She was buried at his side.

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SURNAME Alonso, Julius García
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American football player, coach, referee and official
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Luanco , Asturias , Spain
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1988