Jack Greenwell, ex-coach and ex-footballer of the Club, is inducted into the National Football Museum's Hall of Fame.

On Tuesday 16 April at St. Marys College, University of Durham (England), Jack Greenwell (1884-1942) was inducted into the National Football Museum's Hall of Fame. The former English player and coach was a pioneer at FC Barcelona, introducing passing football to get into the opposition's half. He is currently the third most decorated coach in the Club's history, second only to Josep Guardiola and Johan Cruyff. Former Blaugrana player Steve Archibald represented the FC Barcelona Players' Association and the Club during the event by means of an institutional video.

Greenwell left school at the age of 17 to start working as a miner. He combined his work with his passion: he was part of the squad of his hometown team, Crook Town. In 1909, he was invited to play in Italy with West Auckland Town in the Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy; for many historians, considered the first World Cup in history. They were the winners.

At that time, Barça took notice of him. Greenwell wanted to impose the idea of attacking from defence with the aim of passing the ball between players to reach the rival area. In England, the idea did not work, so Barça signed him as a player-coach in 1913. A fruitful relationship that lasted a decade, leaving behind a spectacular list of achievements: three Spanish championships (1912/13, 1919/20 and 1921/22), five Catalan championships (1915/16, 1918/19, 1918/19, 1919/20, 1920/21, 1921/22) and a Pyrenees Cup (1912/13). After his time with teams such as UE Sants and RCD Mallorca, he returned to the position, now only as a coach. It was two more seasons (1931/33) when he added a Catalan Championship to the museum's display cases.

Six years after leaving the post, he crossed the Atlantic to coach Universitario de Deportes de Lima and, just one year later, he won the Copa America as Peru's national coach. His methodology boosted the level of football across the continent and also laid the foundation stone for what, years later, would become FC Barcelona's style of possession football that is recognised around the world.